My last thought on this is that Disney gives out too many FP. They have a good idea of riders per hour, and I think they are giving out too high of a percentage of FP tickets for some attractions. If the FP line is longer than 15 minutes, then too many FP were given out.
I do think they should go back to shutting down FP distribution when a ride is down.
For me, if a FP line is over 10 minutes, it's not fast. That's the way FP used to be 15 years ago (at least at WDW). The new MaxPass has really screwed things up. Used to, a FP on Splash Mt would mean about a 5 minute wait, where you would hit the end of the line about where the loading overlook is. Now it wraps way out. They should go ahead and call it FasterPass now. Because on our last trip, it was rarely fast.
It really varies. The older rides at DL often have merge points that are far back, like Indy and Space Mountain. That means even with a FP it's always going to take longer than -- for example -- Big Thunder or Splash Mountain, which merge you practically on the loading dock.
Slightly off topic but I wish they would add FP to some other rides like they did at WDW-Peter Pan sure needs it
I would love it if Peter Pan had FP, but at the same time I can see it being a bit of a nightmare. But then again, maybe not. Perhaps the standby line would be just as many minutes, but have less people in it. Has anyone noticed that since FP was added the standby queue for Toy Story can look almost empty but have a 50 minute wait? This is another example of how it seems they are giving out too many FP. It's great because you can FP Toy Story and get on almost immediately. However, it's silly that the standby line looks so short yet is almost an hour. It's almost like they want guests to solely use FP for certain attraction.
I think FP has worked well for TSMM.
I agree though that the number given out can be too high