Viking’s Revenge Flume Ride Removal

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I'm always conflicted with Disney Fast Passes as I like see see the queue theming but I don't like to be in the queue.  Do you still get to experience the queue's theming with the Fast Pass.

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What we held wasn't a fast pass as such, just essentially a free entry pass, so no timed entry to the land was required, and we didn't need specific timeslots to experience the ride, so we could ride whenever, and repeatedly. I've seen some videos of people explaining how to do it for free, and you can, but we were happy to not have to stress about it, and consider our pass to be well worth it.

Most ride queues in FS hovered around 5-15 minutes most of the day because the return timeslots were staggered for those who obtained or purchased an entry, so you do get to experience the queues (and many people stopped to take photos of the queues) but you aren't stuck in a queue room for 20-30 minutes at a go, and can practically walk on in most cases if that's what you want to do.

The exception to this is the Tinkerbell buggies which did not have a split standby \ priority queue. Anyone could ride this at any time simply by lining up, so it frequently held at around 30 minutes, which was most of the queue races and occasionally spilled out onto the street. We found if it was too long, we'd go and ride either Frozen or Peter Pan (the two nearest) and when you came back the line had shrunk again. The Tinkerbell queue is mostly outdoor and very highly detailed with the 'you're shrunk to the size of a fairy, this queue pole is actually a sewing needle and this giant bench is a hair comb' kind of theming, so it was engaging the entire time. (Much of the frozen, pan and tangled queues were fairly plain, "themed" walls with a few props laid about, but not really something that you'd continue to find more and more details the longer you stood there. photo ops abounded, but not really 'engaging' queues.

(ETA: I should add that the rest of the resort's attractions, where 40th passes or DPA applied, in most cases you were merged back into the GA line a small distance from the front, and most queues paralleled each other. I believe Beauty and the Beast standby queue has quite a bit of well themed queue inside the castle, but there was no way we were losing 2+ hours in standby to see it, so our package bookings and DPA were sufficient.)