Originally Posted By indysoarin19 DL's Fastpass system has been great since they reduced the number of FP rides. I think the balance can be made by making FP available to a very select number of rides in a park. For example: EPCOT Soarin' Mission: Space Test Track (maybe) The general idea being no more than five FP-capable rides in one park. Like in DL's case, having FP on Pirates was ridiculous.
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic FP may or may not be for everyone. I personally have never used it and honestly I don't know how it even works. It sounds like it would be good for the really big rides like TT, Soarin, etc.
Originally Posted By danyoung >If Disney was to get rid of fastpass, would that mean we can go back to nice hard plastic annual passes instead of the cheap paper ones?< Whether FP is in use or not has nothing to do with the media that they print the AP's on. And the AP's are not cheap paper - they're a thin plastic laminate that, for me anyway, has held up very well. I much prefer it to another thick plastic credit card.
Originally Posted By schoolsinger I never had an AP. So I never tried to stick one in a fastpass machine. I just assumed they switched the APs to make them fit inside the fastpass machines.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I'm pretty sure WDW's APs are paper. At least they were when I had one. Of couse that was back in 2000 so things may have changed. ) ~Beth
Originally Posted By danyoung I'm holding mine in my hands now, and it is plastic, not paper. True, it's thinner than a credit card, but I like it that way. And it seems to me to be plenty sturdy - should at least last a year.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Funny cause I am looking at mine right now and it's paper! WDW AP = paper. I called the DVC and they said it all depends on WHERE you get it. We renewed at the gate to the park and therefore our's is paper. I was told that had we renewed by mail or at the resort hotel it would be plastic.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I pick up my AP at the Ocala center on drive down, and it is paper -- but I think it's the paper that has like the nylon weave through it...it is not just paper paper, if that makes sense
Originally Posted By Disneybrad "WDW AP = paper" Like the previous poster siad, what some peopel think is cheap thin paper, is actually a very strong plastic laminate. They swtich to this ticket stock at least pre-1997, the newer hard pl;astic tiucklets acctualy dotn last as long and have more problems, than the thinner passes that most people think are cheap
