The have only been about 25 pages of this discussion, but I have a question. Why do people need FFP with express? If you have a FFP and can go every night, why do you need express?
To me, it absolutely felt like a cheat code. This is going to be a benefit for those of us that only get 1-2 nights a year to experience the event. Which, I have a feeling, is probably a bigger percentage of the customer base than those that have FFP with express.
I mean, I think I covered this before, but it’s not really a need as much as it is a hot commodity for the price point.
I’m not a big steak guy but if you offered me a $200 steak for like 20 bucks, I’d probably buy the steak. Because of the price it was being offered at, it felt like a really good deal. If you tripled the price, even people who can afford it aren’t going to necessarily buy it because the value just isn’t there. I just don’t see a lot of multi night ticket holders buying even single night express because it’s very similar to what you said, express is really meant for people who may have a night or two there. The value of it comes from the fact that it comes with the pass for a really reasonable price. But if I have multi night and I’m going 18 to 20 nights, I’m just not gonna fork over $500 for two of those nights to have express and just get a slightly different experience when I could’ve just waited in line and planned a little differently for that night.
Some will argue that they just don’t like standing in lines and that’s why it is needed. Some of my best memories were made waiting in lines at horror nights, I just don’t really care that much. Universal offers disability services for people who truly cannot stand in line for disability reasons, and I highly doubt that would change anytime soon. Perception is truly the ruler of your life, and I’m just getting to the age where I refuse to let anything make me upset for any reason especially when in reality I’m spending money to go on a vacation at my favorite place with my favorite people during my favorite time of year. I think I would be more upset if they dropped pumpkin beer from returning then then they dropping express with FF lol.
Even with the express passes in the past, I typically never did Alton houses more than like a night or two. Very rarely do I even like all of them enough to do them that many times. This year‘s lineup is honestly really rock solid for me, and I’m sure even then I will maybe only do one of the unannounced ones as of yet probably once during premium scream night, unless it just turns out to be phenomenal for some reason.
I’m honestly in favor of them just dropping express across the board for horror nights, but that’ll never happen lol. If you really wanna talk about an interesting impact a wait times, that would do it. But it’s such a money driver. That’ll never happen.