Fastpass combined with Early arrival

[SamJYung]

We plan on arriving early at all the parks each day we visit. Queues for rides would be significantly quiet at park opening times right? I was thinking of doing the ‘big’ rides first thing, so that I can choose my fast passes for other attractions later. Is this a good method of doing things? Or do you recommend booking fast pass for the ‘big’ attractions regardless? I didn’t want to double up, for example, we ride 7 dwarves mine train, and then say I had a fastpass booked for it an hour later. (Unless we really liked the ride to do twice).

Which rides would you say are fastpass MUSTS (for each park)?

 

[ratherbeinwdw]

I would fastpass 7dwarfs, Toy Story, Peter Pan, and Frozen or Soarin no matter what time you plan to get there.

 

[belledream]

Park opening will have short lines compared to say, 2 in the afternoon, but pretty much everyone around you is also heading to the big rides as well. We like to double up on rides but would still book a FP for the headliners because you never know what could happen. Rides could be down, you could be stuck in behind a tour group, etc. Plus, a lot of less popular rides and "tier 2" rides really don't need a FP.