After exiting, when began our, uh, aggressive walk across the park to get back to Space Mountain by 7:25 pm. So we presented ourselves at Thunder precisely at 6:55 pm, waiting in a 10-minute standby line for our ride. But I'm still going make it to both rides on time. When I showed the tickets to my family, I expected them to share my disappointment, but their blank expressions simply said, "what's the big deal?" That's when I realized, sure, I've got Fastpasses with a 30-minute return window, for two different attractions, on opposite sides of the park. Only after asking for help in French could he be bothered to push himself up off the machine, and override the machine to give me my two other tickets, which he did with an audible sigh and an eye roll before returning to lean over the back of the machine. But at Space Mountain, the cast member stood slumped over the machine I was trying to use, watching me struggle to get the machine to read my ticket. At Thunder Mountain earlier, the attractions cast member took quick pity upon me and the other guests in the same predicament, and used his secret key to crank out my return tickets. So instead of inserting your card into the machine, you futilely wave the barcode printed on the bottom of the page in front of an infrared beam thingie on the somewhat dilapidated-looking Fastpass machines, hoping that it will spit out your return tickets. But in Paris, you keep the page you printed at home and use it as your ticket throughout your visit, including at Fastpass machines.
At the US theme parks, you exchange your print at home ticket, upon your initial pass through the turnstiles, for a "traditional" magnetic stripe Disney admission ticket. Actually, it's a frustration with its handling of print at home tickets. One of my frustrations with Disneyland Paris was its handling of Fastpass.
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