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News Passholder Benefits Shifting
- Thread starter Magic Feather
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zengoth
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Exactly my point. But we do get a magnet, so there’s that.
disneygeek90
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Anyone know where the Epcot magnet giveaway is? I’m at the area now where they gave away the F&G ones near club cool and no one is here.
drod1985
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“Annual Passholders can now pickup a complimentary passholder magnet at Mouse Gear in Epcot's Future World.” - WDWMagic article from 3 days ago.
monykalyn
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Rode FoP 2 weeks ago Sunday with 87 minute wait -in line around 900 pm. Did EMH on Friday a week ago and got on FoP in 55 minutes. We were no where near the first peeps in for EMH and the line was to the bathrooms by FotLK. There are strategies to getting on FoP in less than 2 hours- end of night seems to work best for us.
These last 2 weeks the parks did seem lighter yet lines were long at many places. MK was crazy a few nights, although walkways seemed less congested the ride lines were long. 45-60 minute wait for Small World? Still managed to get SD late evening FP for space, pp and HM as extra FP for the day.
Universal OTOH- go at opening til about 1, break, go back around five and be stategic (single rider, last shows) and wait times drop for everything but Hulk it seemed. Had issues with our new AP so when we went to get it fixed we were gifted one time ride EP for every day we went. The GS guy was an old school DCP like us though
. Love Universal EP system.
disneygeek90
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Thanks! Just grabbed mine and I didn’t see the original article.“Annual Passholders can now pickup a complimentary passholder magnet at Mouse Gear in Epcot's Future World.” - WDWMagic article from 3 days ago.
LSLS
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Ok. Should be interesting to see how this early to mid june stacks up when the numbers come out. Thanks for the info.
I'll let you know when I see it. I dont have any reason to cheer one way or the other. I'll tell you exactly what they're saying, good or bad.
spectromagic04
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I was at Epcot today and I would say it was pretty dead. Animal Kingdom on the other hand was packed today until around 9pm when it started to really empty out.
drod1985
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Silver pass members who decided to take advantage of the lifted blackout dates. We're Florida natives, so we usually know better than to brave WDW during the summer months. But we wanted to try and make it up for our son to see Disney Jr. Live before it closes.
Big mistake. Magic Kingdom was miserably packed. Epcot was relatively crowded as well. Those crowds combined with the heat made us cut our trip short. It just wasn't worth it compared to the quieter trips we've taken in the last few months.
Big mistake. Magic Kingdom was miserably packed. Epcot was relatively crowded as well. Those crowds combined with the heat made us cut our trip short. It just wasn't worth it compared to the quieter trips we've taken in the last few months.
ToTBellHop
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Was this over the weekend? MK is always packed anymore, especially on weekends but also on every day that ends in 'y'.
drod1985
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Yeah, it was. Usually I try to avoid MK on the weekends, but my three prior MK trips were all on Saturdays and none were as brutal as this.
tissandtully
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Attendance at Epcot has been noticeably dead. No wonder they are freaking out.
Disney Dad 3000
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I don't have any scientific data to share, merely my experience and what I saw, but I unfortunately didn't experience any light crowds on my visit 14-24th. HS might be the one I could say maybe there was a slight difference but I think that's been common with all the closures. I was able to shift around FP for TOT and RNR somewhat easily. I did pop back over to catch MM after it reopened and got on a few times. A few empty rows at fantasmic.
MK was it's normal self my 3 weekdays there. Took hour plus for wait/ride small world, most attractions that weren't a mountain or mine cart with waits 45-60 min. Pathways pretty busy.
AK pretty busy until late at night.
Epcot seemed normal. Waits were normal if not higher on some attractions like JII. Gran Fiesta was a 10-15 min wait which wouldn't be much for most anything but that has almost aways been walk on or 3-5 min tops.
MK was it's normal self my 3 weekdays there. Took hour plus for wait/ride small world, most attractions that weren't a mountain or mine cart with waits 45-60 min. Pathways pretty busy.
AK pretty busy until late at night.
Epcot seemed normal. Waits were normal if not higher on some attractions like JII. Gran Fiesta was a 10-15 min wait which wouldn't be much for most anything but that has almost aways been walk on or 3-5 min tops.
I think word-of-mouth is affecting Epcot these days, and still affecting DHS to a lesser extent. Whenever I read about someone asking which parks to visit (particularly with kids), it's always MK and AK which are recommended, and Epcot and DHS are "avoids". I don't see how Rat and GotG are going to fix that for Epcot, and sadly a lot of families are going to still skip DHS even after SW:GE opens due to the crowds it will inevitably attract for a while. 
deeevo
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Glad I keep those Gold Passes for the summer access..... Voldemort is reporting the Summer Add-on Pass will include access on all days (including weekends for those Week Day Select Passholders who purchase the add-on). The price of the ticket is $89.00 plus tax and it includes the ability to park hop between the 3 parks.
Patcheslee
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This right here. DH has said multiple times we won't go for a couple years after SW opens because he doesn't want to deal with "those kind of crowds". This year we didn't cause of $$$. Considering out of state pass rates there's no way we would buy, don't have enough vacation days to break even on those. I've convinced him to go next June since SW won't open till Fall, but then it'll be a long wait.
slappy magoo
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My 2 cents which will never happen - include park hopping with every ticket, or at least a smaller fee for a one time only hop ($15-20). It will improve attendance at the parks people consider a half day park if they know they didnt "waste " a ticket for a whole day there, and if one park is unexpectedly busy, gives them an option to split to another park