jt04
Well-Known Member
The biggest queues this weekend will be for online reservations for hotels. The advantage of wdw is if there are widespread outages, wdw would get a high priority for restoration even if it lost power. Which is not likely imo.
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The biggest queues this weekend will be for online reservations for hotels. The advantage of wdw is if there are widespread outages, wdw would get a high priority for restoration even if it lost power. Which is not likely imo.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
While I agree with you about a push yesterday...
It was not a successful opening from what I saw.
They had 6 hour lines for radiator springs and consistently long waits for a long time after it opened. 4+ hours for flight of passage.
They had a 4 hours wait for the Elsa meet and greet in Epcot
Again...we can’t make full judgements for awhile...including still with Disneyland.
But this is not a good launch for Disney any way you slice it. I guarantee they are not happy. It’s just about the reasons now...
DryerLintFan
Premium Member
While I agree with you about a push yesterday...
It was not a successful opening from what I saw.
They had 6 hour lines for radiator springs and consistently long waits for a long time after it opened. 4+ hours for flight of passage.
They had a 4 hours wait for the Elsa meet and greet in Epcot
Again...we can’t make full judgements for awhile...including still with Disneyland.
But this is not a good launch for Disney any way you slice it. I guarantee they are not happy. It’s just about the reasons now...
There aren't a lot of sister pairs (either 2 or 4 IIRC) and each meet takes forever. Not a fair comparison, imo.
Clyde Birdbrain
Unknown Member
Some photos from yesterday afternoon.
Can't wait for this to open:
Beautifully themed shade:
Love all the theming in this area and the shops:
Dramatic reveal of the Millennium Falcon ... slightly obscured by the parasols:
No line at Docking Bay 7 around 4pm:
The raised viewing area on the left was for PhotoPass only. You couldn't walk up to the railing to take your own pictures. There were two photographers and the line was short in the afternoon.
There are two lines going on in the picture below. On the right is the line for Oga's Cantina, and on the left is the line for MFSR:
Oga's Cantina is a lot of fun. Amazing theming inside:
Line for MFSR ... almost inside:
Poor Star Tours was empty (2:30pm). Listed time was 20 minutes, but it was much shorter.
Can't wait for this to open:
Beautifully themed shade:
Love all the theming in this area and the shops:
Dramatic reveal of the Millennium Falcon ... slightly obscured by the parasols:
No line at Docking Bay 7 around 4pm:
The raised viewing area on the left was for PhotoPass only. You couldn't walk up to the railing to take your own pictures. There were two photographers and the line was short in the afternoon.
There are two lines going on in the picture below. On the right is the line for Oga's Cantina, and on the left is the line for MFSR:
Oga's Cantina is a lot of fun. Amazing theming inside:
Line for MFSR ... almost inside:
Poor Star Tours was empty (2:30pm). Listed time was 20 minutes, but it was much shorter.
mikejs78
Premium Member
Honestly I don't think you can compare those.While I agree with you about a push yesterday...
It was not a successful opening from what I saw.
They had 6 hour lines for radiator springs and consistently long waits for a long time after it opened. 4+ hours for flight of passage.
They had a 4 hours wait for the Elsa meet and greet in Epcot
Again...we can’t make full judgements for awhile...including still with Disneyland.
But this is not a good launch for Disney any way you slice it. I guarantee they are not happy. It’s just about the reasons now...
* Park opened yesterday at 6 AM. That has not happened before for an opening. Pandora opened at 8. This spread out the crowds across more hours.
* Wasn't FoP reduced to 50% capacity the first day? I remember at least one of the simulators being down most of the day.
* M&Gs are hardly an indicator. They have notoriously low capacity.
* Smugglers Run had effectively 4-5 hour waits from 6 AM to 3 PM when they stopped using the land queue with no FP. FoP had 4 hour waits with FP from 8 Am until about 5 PM when it dropped.
So, I would disagree that this wasn't a successful launch.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
How about 90+ standbys for slinky dog all day last year?
They have a problem...to which extent is still TBD.
This is where we should drop the prosecution of the case in the interests of progress...however the “Disney didn’t screw up...cause they never have” undertone has to go too.
Something ain’t right.
Clyde Birdbrain
Unknown Member
These new signs are awesome. I hope they add these to all the parks. Nice it shows the status of the land with the boarding group information.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
See: ABOVE
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
That’s funny...because they started to scorn the tipboards when Rubber Bandy + rolled out...
If it ain’t broke
mikejs78
Premium Member
Disney screwed up in several ways with this land. But there's a middle ground between "it's a disaster" and "it's perfect".
tirian
Well-Known Member
I don’t think it’s intentional, but I do appreciate that the fence around the Falcon looks like a film strip when it’s lit up at night.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Agreed
Judging from the crowds yesterday and this morning its looking like GE is probably a failure, unequivocally worse than Disneylands opening. I can't imagine Iger is going to be very happy when the numbers hit his desk given that the opening week and labor day weekend is a complete write off for the entire resort now. But the fact of the matter is opening day didn't even use their fancy boarding pass tech after noon and this was before the hurricane was a real threat... If you spend 1 billion dollars in a single land and don't get resort wide attendance boosts then its a disaster.
Ismael Flores
Well-Known Member
i never said the crowds are not there because of that and im sorry to tell you but not everyone walks around glued to the app or staring at a map.
how many years has there been a parade running at the park and people still ask what time or where they can see the parade?
you would even be surprise to know how many people still have nonidea that they do a nightly show called fantasmic on the rivers edge.
The crowds are low overall in the whole resort not just the land and i never said they were not but the land does have that issue in Anaheim.
tirian
Well-Known Member
Differing opinions don’t automatically define “bash.”
tirian
Well-Known Member
That hurricane has been hyped for a week, and now it’s here. That’s definitely having an impact.
I disagree with half the creative decisions in SWGE, yet now I sound like I’m a flag-waving fanboy.
Just trying to be realistic about everything.
Lirael
Well-Known Member
Speaking of which, at what time is the 3 o'clock parade?
DryerLintFan
Premium Member
Anyone know the total attendance estimate from yesterday? Can we pair that up with same day/week attendance from last year?
StarWarsGirl
Well-Known Member
Sure thing!
It works the same as any other DAS, but you do have to be in the land to enter. Once you have your DAS, though, you can leave and get back in.
You'll go in through the FP line that's not open yet; they're only using it for DAS. You'll watch the preshow with Hondo and then be assigned groups. They randomly assign you and then stick single riders with you. You can switch with others in your party to get a different assignment. Since there's three of you, you'd likely have two pilots and one Gunner. There's six to a capsule. They were just sticking single riders in instead of searching for groups, so I believe you'd have three singles with you.
You'll wait in the Falcon for a bit (hang out, take pics) and then they call your color and you enter.
I can say my brother didn't do as well up at pilot. He would have done better as Gunner. Pilots have to steer whereas gunners and engineers have to press buttons. Next time we're making sure he gets a Gunner role. If you wanted to allow a single riders to switch and be a pilot while you sit next to your son at Gunner, I'm sure they'd be happy to swap.
SirWillow
Well-Known Member
You very obviously have never dealt with guests at a Disney CM. I discovered that they can find more ways to be lost and not see what is right in front of them. yes, guests need big signs to tell them how to get to what should be obvious. But even then they don't see them.
Which is why I was asked how to get the castle at Studios and Epcot, which way to Harry Potter World at several of the Disney parks, and watched a guest walk around Spaceship Earth multiple times before asking where the rest of the park was... I could go on. and on. and on. and.....
Never assume that guests have a clue where they are, what they are doing, or where they are going.