It won't be a half day park soon, You will have to spend an entire day waiting in line to do half the park.
In less than 8 months, the number of rides in the park will just explode by 50% more!!!
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In less than 8 months, the number of rides in the park will just explode by 50% more!!!
Movielover
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In all seriousness I'll probably be spending an entire day in Star Wars Land, they are going to have to drag me outta there!
deWild
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Do you do stand up? I’d pay to see you. Honest.
They should include a disclaimer in their future advertisements: **50% was calculated using 4 rides as a baseline metric**
Now if MK grew by 50% more, whoa baby we’ve got a two-day Park!
Next Big Thing
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And this is the park with 4 rides. Attendance must be HORRIBLE right now.
Sam Magic
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It's the old trick constantly used in politics. Let something less than perfect hang on long enough for all the potential replacements to crash and burn so that nothing ever changes.
matt9112
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In all seriousness I'll probably be spending an entire day in Star Wars Land, they are going to have to drag me outta there!
you and the other masses of people it's going to be so gross for a while (crowd wise)
I was there first week in September and it was pretty busy. But, yes, around 8 PM, TSMM becomes a walk-on because there's two night shows about to begin.
matt9112
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as an aside ever since third track opened and the hype has died (lets call it what it is) its so easy to snag a FP and lines arent insane anymore.
Goofyernmost
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Imagine what it was like when there were only two. GMR and Backlot Tram Ride.
doctornick
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Yeah, all the rides have their wait times dip considerably when the nighttime shows are going on.
No Name
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Imagine what it was like when there was 80 or so minutes of ride time, instead of the generous 15 it has now.
Of course ride time isn't everything. Neither is ride count.
bhg469
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The backlot tour was really impressive when it opened though. I can't remember how long it took to go through the whole thing but it seemed like a very long attraction.
Goofyernmost
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I agree, but, everyone is concentrating on RIDE. The Back lot tour was mostly a walking tour and the ride part was not a whole lot longer then it was at the end. A little yes, but, after Residential Street was removed, there wasn't all that much change to that part. Also, if I remember you didn't have to do the whole tour and there were a couple of places were you could just walk out and do something else. It seemed to me, and I could be wrong, that the ride part was pretty much the end of the tour. Don't really remember the sequence.
Goofyernmost
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I don't remember the exact amount of time for the entire tour, but, the ride part was never all that long. I used to always walk slowly through the areas where we were looking down through the big windows and seeing the sound stages below. Pretty much were TSMM is today.Imagine what it was like when there was 80 or so minutes of ride time, instead of the generous 15 it has now.
Of course ride time isn't everything. Neither is ride count.
THE Monorail Lime
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I think like 2 hours?
Magic Feather
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Disney's Pint-Sized Park: Walk all around the park, Finish a pint.
(This sounded better in my head)
(This sounded better in my head)
The Empress Lilly
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I loved this park so much. Even last year it rivalled EPCOT and the MK for me.
But the closing of GMR is the breaking point. The soul is gone. The back half of the park was already gone. But the front half of the park is now dead too. Almost unnoticed references to classic and non-Disney Hollywood have been stripped, from Sid Cahuenga to the AFI showcase to music played to tv Hall of Fame to the absense of the studio back half, which lessens the theme of the front half too. The front half feels like an empty shell now. The way FW still sorta looks like EPCOT but you feel something is not right and is gone.
I got in, did the four rides, did a show and was out in three hours. Quite devastated.
Phicinfan
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Sorry you feel that way, but I have to disagree.I loved this park so much. Even last year it rivalled EPCOT and the MK for me.
But the closing of GMR is the breaking point. The soul is gone. The back half of the park was already gone. But the front half of the park is now dead too. Almost unnoticed references to classic and non-Disney Hollywood have been stripped, from Sid Cahuenga to the AFI showcase to music played to tv Hall of Fame to the absense of the studio back half, which lessens the theme of the front half too. The front half feels like an empty shell now. The way FW still sorta looks like EPCOT but you feel something is not right and is gone.
I got in, did the four rides, did a show and was out in three hours. Quite devastated.
First, DHS was and is my favorite park. I love the atmosphere, and I love the focus not just on rides but on shows as well. I am hoping beyond hope that with SW:GE the experience of just walking through the land is as exciting as the rides, especially as they tie in how you did on the rides (my youngest and I have already decide we will just fly into a planet on Falcon ride just to see the reaction we get outside.....). I also am not as big a critic of the TSL as some here. It isn't as much as it could have been, but I love some of the adds it gave us for almost no loss of rides.
As for GMR, I am one of its biggest fans, and will really miss that ride. But...I am tickled at what I have seen stated by @Magic Feather and can't wait for it to open and see a truly dedicated ride to Mickey.
Honestly, one of my biggest losses is the drawing academy. My Daughter and I loved to do that every visit. I can't draw worth a lick, but she can and is in college for Art - and this made it possible for me to learn to draw those figures...it was great!!! Really hope it comes back in some form or fashion at some point.
But overall, I will still love this park and what it offers, just love the idea of being in the films.
Last year, for the Epcot Arts Festival, they had Art Academy running (for free!). This year, Art Festival will be daily and not just weekends. So, good chance you'll have two months of Art Academy running daily at Epcot in 2018.