Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History

I have not been to almost no theme parks — in the mid-1950’s, I did go with my family to Knott’s Berry Farm and the first Disneyland. But even then I did not much like the walking and waiting. I’ve been to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk a few times, but that is a pale imitation (and requires less walking and less waiting and has other benefits (fewer people, quicker to enter and to leave, and in a town interesting in itself).

That being said, I found this full-length documentary fascinating, in part because it shows me an alien world — one that I have negative desire to visit, but still find interesting in terms of its operation and the kinds of problems it must solve. 

I imagine that this documentary might be even more interesting to someone who has been subjected to the systems described.