Not only that, but they've actually expanded to offer Extra Magic Hours every single day for months at a time to support the openings of Avatar and Toy Story Land. There was a stretch when Animal Kingdom was offering morning and evening EMH on a daily basis.
$79 is 13% of my FL gold pass. If I get 7 days in, that's a day's worth. I don't know if I could ride 7DMT or PPF enough to make up for a full day. I understand who would buy it. It's like buying the express pass at Universal.
I had a friend & his family do one day at Universal. Got their peak price 2-park ticket + express pass. He only has 2 kids, so it was probably over $1200. They had one day and wanted to make the most out of it. He said they loved it, and while there was sticker shock, he got over it.
So they are paying 70 dollars for an extra hour in the park and breakfast? It's nice that they send all those people who bought it right to breakfast as the rest of us plebs file in, nice and out of our way.
Exactly, I remember a decade ago, the park was open later all the time, even on weekends, now you best have some sort of event ticket to make it happen.
Families like mine...My teenage son and I would rope drop and stay until close...She who must be obeyed prefers to meander in around 2 and leave for dinner and pool time at 7...my son and I have gotten used to our 5 hour park days!!!!
The big advantage of this new offering is that it moves the rope. Under the existing system the early morning magic people are held at park opening near to Winnie the Pooh and have a similar walk to Space Mountain as those waiting by the castle. This new offering moves the invisible rope for early morning magic people to Cosmic Rays which is half the distance to travel compared to the normal entry people. Anyone doing EMM will be able to be first in line at Space mountain, then head off to do Buzz Lightyear while waits are still at 5 minutes and still have 30 minutes to double back to Starlight Ray's for breakfast.
