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Another round of Fastpass+ testing has begun and thanks to Gary Hall of the WDWKingdomcast Podcast I’ve been able to play around on the site. In this round, the newest option is that Hollywood Studios is now available as a Fastpass+ park in addition to the Magic Kingdom.

Their Fastpass+ day was for today, December 15th. At approximately 10:30, the following day of attractions were unavailable through Fastpass+:

• Main Street Electrical Parade
• Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade
• Toy Story Mania (this appeared and re-appeared when I logged in and logged out)

New Fantasyland has opened since the last test so the split of attractions in the Magic Kingdom has been modified. Guests are able to select two Fastpass+ experiences in either of the two groups:

Group 1 (Choose 2):

• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
• Disney Princesses at Town Square Theater
• Enchanted Tales with Belle
• Main Street Electrical Parade
• Mickey Mouse at Town Square Theater
• Peter Pan’s Flight
• Space Mountain
• Splash Mountain
• Wishes Nighttime Spectacular

Group 2 (Choose 2):

• Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant
• Haunted Mansion
• Jungle Cruise
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic
• Monster’s Inc Laugh Floor
• The Barnstormer
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid

Surprising omissions are as follows:

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• it’s a small world
• Tomorrowland Speedway

Over at Hollywood Studios, guests can chose one experience from Group 1, and two experiences from Group 2. The distribution for Hollywood Studios is as follows:

Group 1 (Choose 1):

• Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
• Toy Story Midway Mania

Group 2 (Choose 2):

• Disney Junior – Live on Stage!
• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
• Muppet*Vision 3-D
• Star Tours
• The American Idol Experience
• The Great Movie Ride
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Voyage of the Little Mermaid

Surprising omissions are as follows:

• Beauty and the Beast – Live on Stage
• Studio Backlot Tour
• The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow
• Fantasmic!

I selected the Magic Kingdom and the following attractions:

• Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid
• Enchanted Tales with Belle
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Wishes Nighttime Spectacular

At this point the website gives you four different distribution of times, the most preferred distribution also removed Wishes Nighttime Spectacular and replaced it with Disney Princesses at Town Square Theater. The distribution was as follows:

• Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid (12:20 PM – 1:20 PM)
• Enchanted Tales with Belle (1:30 PM – 2:30 PM)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (2:40 PM – 3:40 PM)
• Disney Princesses at Town Square Theater (4:35 PM – 4:35 PM)

The good:

• The first three attractions have a pretty tight cluster of time.
• I was able to choose attractions close to one another
• There was plenty of availability even day of

The bad:

• The experiences don’t take a full hour to complete so unless I start at around 1:10 at Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid there is still going to be down time between every attraction
• I didn’t have the option to include Wishes with my early afternoon cluster of attractions
• I was unable to hand pick specific times for specific attractions. I was only given an option of all attractions at once.

You have the option to change out individual attractions, and that option was available for every attraction in that group except for Disney Princesses at Town Square Theater, the one attraction I didn’t select. The way this change of attraction should work is that you can select another option in that group, but it’s really inconvenient that I couldn’t replace the single attraction I didn’t chose.

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