I wonder if the value or lack of value for the early entry might depend on how much individual attraction LL costs.
Yep. And hopping on 7DMT and then getting into the Space Mtn. queue before the 9 am crowd arrives is a significant benefit.
I have to disagree that it's nothing, especially now with Genie + entering the picture.
You can arrive 30 minute early and jump in a line to either not have to pay for it (obvious Rat and ROTR not included) later, or jump in lines and be able to ride without a long wait and again later with lighting lane if you so choose.
And since it's all parks, every day, there won't be as many people as past early entry where it was only one park.
We will see of course, but I think it will end up being an advantage to those who participate.
( or for people like me, I can get in line before the masses to grab my Refresher at Starbucks)
It’s the same rides as they used to open for MEMH. It is exceedingly unlikely that there will be more guests at any of the 7 early entry mornings than there was during the 1 MEMH. Given the choice of 7 days to make the MK park reservation with no perceived benefit to any single day (it was widely understood that Thursday was MEMH day at MK and people planned for this) people will naturally disperse. We seem hell-bent on making this out to be a bad thing. I’m not paying any more for my hotel or tickets than I expected and yet, when compared to September, I’ll get more time in the parks next month, two new fireworks shows, and a new ride. If I were so jaded as to be complaining in advance about that, I would just go somewhere else.
Yep, forgot that part.
Yes, that would be move I’d make.
People don’t change behaviors like that. The people who will be there now were always there for park open. The majority who roll into the park an hour later will continue to do that. People won’t suddenly get their lives together and become punctual just because WDW turned 50, and the same majority who missed out on this benefit of their All Star Movies stay will continue to do so.
Absolutely curious too. And I agree with whomever was surprised that it starts 10/1. Risky choice. I would have done 9/27 to work out the kinks. But they didn’t ask me…
Really wish they'd just open Epcot at 9am. Right now, you wake up on your Epcot morning and need to find a way to kill three hours.
But the MEMH people now have four parks to choose from each day, not just one. It remains to be seen how much you can do in 30 minutes at Hollywood Studios when the EMH people have all four parks to choose from versus a full hour when *every* EMH person was in the same park on the same days.
My kids wake up at 6. I can manage 2/3 of those and still rope drop MK from Animal Kingdom Lodge.
But of those who did use it the numbers should be lower.
No…if you take an average resort stay, most guests go to EVERY park. While it is true that just about no one SKIPS MK while some will skip one of the others, that does not mean on a given day that most are going to MK. A quick look at yearly attendance proves this. The total attendance at the other three parks (and this only counts your first park visit if the day, a good approximation of early entry attendance) is much higher than attendance at MK. MK gets roughly 35% of first-park-attendance. And, not surprisingly, MK has more rides open for early entry than the others. Even that 35% over-estimates (but gives us a rough idea) because the percentage of MK guests who are not Resort guests is higher than the other 3 parka. It’s almost as though Disney is adept at crowd control.
