OK, here's how it went: (This is also mentioned in my "two broke guys" pre-TR, but I'll go into more detail here.)
I logged in just to log in, about 5 minutes early. Now, there are different links that basically all get you to the same FP+ page. But here's the thing:
I started at 6:59. It kept telling me (as expected) that there was a problem (because it wasn't 7AM yet.)
So I just kept clicking "start over" and selecting both people in my party and trying again. When the clock ticked to 7AM, I thought I would stop getting the problem message. I didn't. It was 7:01 before I started to panic and clicked out of that loop and then got back into it. (I
didn't sign out and back in.) I have no idea if that was what made it work, or if Disney's clock is different than mine. Just mentioning all this in case it helps someone else to not panic. On my last try, instead of clicking "start over," I clicked back to the MDE home page and followed links again to get to the FP page. And that worked. Could be a coincidence.
Anyway, after all that - I had 3 main goals: 2 different pandora (days 1 and 2) and frozen (day 3.) (It's a 4 night stay.) (And I felt like everyone else was a whole minute ahead of me LOL.)
No problem getting Na'vi River ride. Those were available well into the morning. I booked that for day 1. Check! Nothing was available for FoP that day.
Day 2: No FoP available. Day 3: No FoP available. Day 4: FoP available kind of late in the day (4:30PM.) I'll take it, but it could conflict with something else. (Thank goodness, that was our last park day!)
Day 3, Frozen, no problem (that's a switch!) That's my Epcot Food & Wine evening. Perfect.
So I got everything, but FOP at 4:30 in the afternoon on the last day was a bit of a wrench thrown into the works. We are staying at AKL days 1 and 2, GF days 3 & 4. V&A dinner on day 4 at 6:30PM. So...we'd have to get over to AK at some point for FOP (I'm told by a reliable source it's a 30 minute commitment even with FP
@Tuvalu ) and rush back to GF for V&A for our 10 year wedding anniversary dinner. One of the main reasons for booking GF was to leisurely stroll to dinner at V&A in our suits in air conditioning. But if it's the only way to see FOP...
Well, it wasn't.
Randomly, this afternoon, I checked for Wednesday for FoP. Nothing. Tried again. Nothing in morning/afternoon/evening. Tried going by time - 9PM, nothing. 8PM, suddenly there was a FP for FoP at 2:30PM.
Grabbed it!!
Woo hoo! I kept double checking myself - am I on the right day? Is it really Na'vi again?
Nope. It had nothing to do with being on line right at 7AM. It was several hours later. Totally random.
Also, anyone waiting for the Disney email to remind you to make your 60 day fast passes, that didn't show up until around 9AM, two hours after that window opened up.
But now everything is perfect. Days one and two, stay at AKL, do Na'vi and FoP. Day 3, Frozen plus F&W. HS will be squeezed in there somewhere either day 2 or 3. MK day 4 - and now I can make some FP for MK, and go back and fill in some incidental ones on the other days at other parks.
Make it happen, my friends!!