Oh, absolutely. I was an AP from late 2014 to 2018, and then again for a few months right up to the pandemic only because I had two friends coming on two separate weeks in late 2019 that each wanted to go and it was cheaper to just get the Select than buy two separate park hopper tickets. Even during those first years, my view was: As long as I go three or four times in the year, especially as a way to spend time with visiting friends, I’m good, and always during a weekday. Meanwhile I know people who were going every single week, if not twice a week or more.
In my 2019/‘20 AP period (I got the refund option) I never got to ride Rise of the Resistance a single time. I wanted to, but logistically getting there at the crack of dawn in the off CHANCE to get a boarding pass seemed utterly illogical to me. I just want to ride the ride, not have to fight for the opportunity with a high potential of still losing.
Meanwhile, again, those same people I know, or other APs on social media, were all bragging that they’ve been on it seven or eight times, going each and every morning they can, and all I can see in that is selfishness. They know how difficult it is for people to ride it, yet they’re there snatching up boarding passes from APs whose schedules mean they can never get there in time or even worse - in my opinion - robbing, say, the opportunity of riding it from some excited family who may be on their one Disneyland trip for years.
That social club membership description is spot-on, and that’s definitely the type of AP I was describing, too, because there’s a strange entitlement that blinds them to how their collective, perpetual presence en masse affects others.
Anyway, this concludes my TED talk.