3 Disneyland Rides to Get Fastpass

A Walt Disney World system to avoid long queues won high praise during a tryout at Space Mountain in Disneyland, which plans to install it permanently at that roller coaster and the Splash Mountain and Indiana Jones Adventure rides in early 2000, an official at the Anaheim theme park said Monday.

Fastpass, also known as virtual queuing, doesn’t do away with old-fashioned lines but gives riders an option of making an appointment to return later to a separate line with a wait of five to 10 minutes. Users feed park admission tickets or passes into a machine outside the ride that spits out a ticket with a one-hour window of time to return for the short line.

“The guests loved it,” Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato said of the four-day test that ended Sunday. He said data from the park and customer response forms are being analyzed to determine exactly what customers did when they weren’t standing in the Space Mountain line and “what we could have done better.”

The system proved so popular in previous Florida testing that Disney installed it on high-demand rides at three of its four theme parks there: Magic Kingdom, Disney-MGM Studios and Animal Kingdom.