Disney’s UPDATED Paid Lightning Lane - How Does it Stack Up?

CORRECTIONS: Once you've used ONE Lightning Lane Multi Pass, you can book another. I said after three you can book another. Also, the Tier 1 graphic at 22:58 should say Hollywood Studios on the right column, not Animal Kingdom. Finally, at 39:36 I say we could rip out the Standby Line, when of course I mean RIP OUT THAT DANG SKIP-THE-LINE! Enjoy the video! 😁 ~Brayde

1. It shouldn’t require a PHD in Event Planning to go to a theme park. 2. Nobody wants to frantically be on their phone all day on vacation. Nobody.

Imagine your grandma taking their grandkids to a park and having to deal with this. It’s terrible.

Appreciate you hammering home the “this used to be free” every chance you get. Don’t stop.

We bought LL our last trip. An added $25-40 per person per day. I can tell you, I bought almost nothing from the shops as a result. They may be gaining money with the LL sales but losing on food and souvenir sales.

You make the best Disney videos because you're not afraid to call out the bullshit, unlike the shills. Also, I think that your demeanor and dress in your videos shows that you respect the audience because you have self-respect. Keep up the high-energy analysis.

😢 Starting off by going into detail with the history of fastpass / lightning lane was appropriate to remind us all how much more difficult Disney has made it for guests to have an enjoyable experience with each change. Yes, the new system has some pros but continuing to make it this difficult is a big drawback. Always appreciate the work of you Brayden and the Mickey Views team.

"If you really really hate money" I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard this!

I miss the days when Disney operated the rides the way they were designed and intended for. Everybody got on the rides in adequate time and it was fair for everyone with absolutely zero confusion and extra charges - imagine that!!

Going to Disney used to be like entering another world that made your cares fall away. Now it does the exact opposite. I have no desire to enter the corporate greed world of NEO Disney. The rides are always breaking down, they barely clean the parks, they don't do maintenance and when they do a ride goes down for months and comes back more broken than it was and then it goes down again, they gladly nickle and dime guests to death. The biggest factor is the rides are old, tame and lame compared to other parks. If Disney no longer cares about giving guests value and a 'magical' experience, what good are they compared to other parks? It's really not worth it anymore.

If it requires hardcore pre-planning, it's no longer a vacation. No lightning lanes at the beach or swimming pool.

Thank you, Braden, for addressing the "loading ratio" issue. It is a HUGE part of the problem. I wish more was said about this!!! We were in a standby line that was hours long and realized (when we got close to the loading station) that the cast member had been holding back the standby line waiting for the COMPLETELY EMPTY lightning lane to produce guests to join the loading station. The loading area could have been filled several times over in the time that the cast member waited for a lightning laner to come along. It was infuriating. We have always been aware that Disney can, and does, manipulate the wait times for their attractions (to encourage the purchase of fast pass/lightning lane/genie plus and to control the guest experience ?) but wow! We had never seen such a blatant, ridiculous display of strategy. Disney made a very small handful of high-paying guests happy, but they created hundreds of resentful, tired, trapped guests that were unable to spend money/time on other means of revenue in the park.

As a loyal, hard core Disney goer, majority of everyone feels the same way as you. I don’t know anyone who isn’t getting more turned off by Disney and the decisions they are making each time they announce something. It’s so incredibly sad.

I can't even keep up with all the Genie BS anymore. I don't even want to go back. It's too confusing, and uncalled for. Disney now requires planning with military precision. More hassle than it's worth. 😞

I feel like i need to hire a lawyer to setup my fast pass.

Brayden coming unhinged is my spirit animal, lol. He's the Disney people's You Tuber. I used to watch many other Disney You Tubers but I simply got tired of all the smoke they were blowing up my a$$ with never calling Disney out on their BS sales tactics. Simply because they get sponsored and special benefits/privileges from Disney and they don't want to lose them if they speak badly. I've pretty much stopped watching them all and only watch Brayden now. He speaks the dang truth, doesn't sugar coat anything and says what we're basically all thinking already in such a great and professional way. I can only hope that someone with pull in the company sees these videos and the way he explains everything, it's perfect. Keep doing what you do, man. You're killin' it!!

Rumor is Iger is looking for a new CEO. Look no further Bob this is the guy right here ! Imagine if we got a CEO that actually cared about the parks and the guest’s experience

There must be a psychological effect on guests now where they start to dislike the rides because of all the grief Disney makes you go through just to get on in the first place. It has to create resentment for things you used to love. It all just becomes a strictly scheduled checklist that turns a vacation into a part time job. You aren’t living in the moment, you’re constantly planning and in the back of your mind you’re just thinking about how much money you are spending and soon you’ll be back at work with more bills waiting for you.

The biggest problem with all of these systems has been the number of people that are admitted before stand-by guests are allowed to enter. I have been standing in line with nobody even in the FP line and we just stood there because they were still counting how many people still needed to pass before they would allow one family in standby to enter. Complete lunacy!

The one thing that nobody talks about is if you’re in a different time zone you have to wake up prior to seven. I live in central time zone, so therefore, I have to get up at six to make these bookings ahead. The people who live in California have to do this at 4am.