Weather_Lady
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WDW recently scheduled "early morning magic" (the costs-extra offering, not to be confused with EMH) on our HS day. Naturally, we had no forewarning when we made our ADRs and planned which parks to visit on which days, so this is throwing a bit of a wrench in our touring plan for HS, which had us splitting up at rope drop, half of the group heading straight to RnR and the other [weaker
] half straight to TSMM. (We have another TSMM FP+ for later in the day, exhausting our Tier 1 allotment. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't change that to an RnR FP+ if possible, and try our luck at TSMM in standby instead...)
What kind of crowds and wait times should we expect at TSMM and at RnR, at the 9am rope drop, with EMM starting at 7:45am? (I don't think RnR is technically part of the EMM lineup, but that means that there will be a few hundred people already inside the park at ropedrop who've already gotten their TSMM fix and will be headed down Sunset Boulevard far ahead of us to line up -- I imagine they'll be adding to our wait times there, while the EMMers still at TSMM will be clogging up the lines there -- a "double whammy" for sure.) I had read that "early morning magic" was fairly unpopular, especially at HS, but it doesn't take a big crowd to create an untenable wait, especially at RnR.
If you've visited HS at rope drop an an EMM day, I'd really appreciate your observations. Will the EMM folks have driven wait times way up before we even cross the park's threshold, or will the effect on our wait times be negligible?
] half straight to TSMM. (We have another TSMM FP+ for later in the day, exhausting our Tier 1 allotment. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't change that to an RnR FP+ if possible, and try our luck at TSMM in standby instead...)What kind of crowds and wait times should we expect at TSMM and at RnR, at the 9am rope drop, with EMM starting at 7:45am? (I don't think RnR is technically part of the EMM lineup, but that means that there will be a few hundred people already inside the park at ropedrop who've already gotten their TSMM fix and will be headed down Sunset Boulevard far ahead of us to line up -- I imagine they'll be adding to our wait times there, while the EMMers still at TSMM will be clogging up the lines there -- a "double whammy" for sure.) I had read that "early morning magic" was fairly unpopular, especially at HS, but it doesn't take a big crowd to create an untenable wait, especially at RnR.
If you've visited HS at rope drop an an EMM day, I'd really appreciate your observations. Will the EMM folks have driven wait times way up before we even cross the park's threshold, or will the effect on our wait times be negligible?
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