FastPass is a system that was created by The Walt Disney Company and was first introduced in 1999. This system allows guests to skip the long lines at its theme parks. At the rides that offer FastPass, guests can use their park admission pass to get a FastPass ticket with a return time later that day (an hour-long window) printed on it. If the guest comes back to the attraction during the specified return times, the guest can wait in a shorter line and be on the attraction within only ten minutes, and sometimes even much more quickly than that. Keep in mind that the FastPass system only allows a certain number of guest per hour so during the busy seasons you will need to take advantage of this perk early on at the Parks that offer it.

FastPass works like this. Tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them (several machines are usually functioning at once). A guest inserts their park pass and a FastPass ticket is printed with the time slot that they can return to the ride and skip to the front. There is always a cast member on hand in case of any difficulties when going through this process. When first developed, a guest could only hold a single FastPass at a time. In other words, if a guest tried to insert a park pass into another FastPass dispenser before the time shown on their previous FastPass, the dispenser would generate a ticket with a message printed on it stating that it was not yet time to obtain another FastPass. Since the initial launch of FastPass, the rules have been modified a bit, and now additional FastPasses can be had sooner after one another, but still only one per attraction per park pass.

Epcot’s Mission: SPACE was the first attraction that was actually built with FastPass in mind, with a specific queue area built for it. Older attractions were given FastPass by rerouting the queue area to allow a shorter line near the boarding area.

FastPass is primarily used on the most popular park attractions that generate much more traffic. Three examples of this type of attaction would be: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, Space Mountain and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The rides that offer FastPass system will constantly change over time as new attractions are installed and as the needs of each ride change. Smaller attractions have no need to utilize the FastPass system due to short or fast-moving lines.

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FastPass is a system that was created by The Walt Disney Company and was first introduced in 1999. This system allows guests to skip the long lines at its theme parks. At the rides that offer FastPass, guests can use their park admission pass to get a FastPass ticket with a return time later that day (an hour-long window) printed on it. If the guest comes back to the attraction during the specified return times, the guest can wait in a shorter line and be on the attraction within only ten minutes, and sometimes even much more quickly than that. Keep in mind that the FastPass system only allows a certain number of guest per hour so during the busy seasons you will need to take advantage of this perk early on at the Parks that offer it.

FastPass works like this. Tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them (several machines are usually functioning at once). A guest inserts their park pass and a FastPass ticket is printed with the time slot that they can return to the ride and skip to the front. There is always a cast member on hand in case of any difficulties when going through this process. When first developed, a guest could only hold a single FastPass at a time. In other words, if a guest tried to insert a park pass into another FastPass dispenser before the time shown on their previous FastPass, the dispenser would generate a ticket with a message printed on it stating that it was not yet time to obtain another FastPass. Since the initial launch of FastPass, the rules have been modified a bit, and now additional FastPasses can be had sooner after one another, but still only one per attraction per park pass.

Epcot’s Mission: SPACE was the first attraction that was actually built with FastPass in mind, with a specific queue area built for it. Older attractions were given FastPass by rerouting the queue area to allow a shorter line near the boarding area.

FastPass is primarily used on the most popular park attractions that generate much more traffic. Three examples of this type of attaction would be: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, Space Mountain and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The rides that offer FastPass system will constantly change over time as new attractions are installed and as the needs of each ride change. Smaller attractions have no need to utilize the FastPass system due to short or fast-moving lines.

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