Galaxys Edge "camping out"

[GlacierGlacier]

Side note on Pandora's opening day, since I was there - we got to the Park's front gate around 6:00, and had very few people ahead of us. Just a few minutes later, however, there were many, many people behind us. The vast majority of guests were not there at 3:00am, as I'd seen someone say earlier in this thread.

SWL is going to be people lining up at midnight regardless.

 

[biggy H]

IF they do allow people to queue early hopefully they will have 2 lines, 1 for those offsite and 1 for those staying on site. There would be nothing worse (well maybe..) than getting stuck behind a huge line of off site guest who cannot get in early any way if you are staying on site. I'm just trying to decide whether to take Disney transport or the car on check out day.

 

[Lensman]

I haven't been following the Disneyland Galaxy's Edge thread. Was there any camping out?

 

[Tick Tock]

What crowds? Looks like the admission policy will be to only admit 50-75 good looking Millennials at a time.



All joking aside, the place is spectacular looking.

Um, right. The "guests" don't look staged at all.

 

[nickys]

I haven't been following the Disneyland Galaxy's Edge thread. Was there any camping out?

The camping out will start when the reservations stop. Right now, there’s little point, you have a reservation time or you won’t be getting in period.

When it becomes a virtual queue system, first ones there get the early slots, then it becomes “worth it” to camp out.

 

[larryz]

The camping out will start when the reservations stop. Right now, there’s little point, you have a reservation time or you won’t be getting in period.

When it becomes a virtual queue system, first ones there get the early slots, then it becomes “worth it” to camp out.

WDW, take the hint...

 

[Lensman]

The camping out will start when the reservations stop. Right now, there’s little point, you have a reservation time or you won’t be getting in period.

When it becomes a virtual queue system, first ones there get the early slots, then it becomes “worth it” to camp out.

Are there people camped out at Star Wars for movie theaters even when they have advance ticket sales and reserved seating? I thought it had become more of a social event?

Maybe too few extreme Star Wars fans got the advance reservations for a particular day for there to be a critical mass? So the whole thing got defused. Or in this case, defused by being diffused. Lol

I was wondering earlier if there wouldn't be DHS camping because all the hardcore campers would have gone to Anaheim in the intervening 3 months. Plus there's the detail of the fact that if you're staying onsite, you're "camping out" and not staying in your overpriced hotel room and you're probably unlikely to camp out more than a day in advance due to the fact that you'd have to skip your previous day's park visit. If you're not staying onsite, then you're effectively camping out but seeing thousands of people enter before you during the EMH period - and if they're doing virtual queueing, are really just camping out in order to get into the virtual queue? If it were me my strategy would be to virtually camp out, whatever that means. Lol. I think that might mean hanging out in this fine thread!

 

[chimchimcheree]

I was at DL for SW:GE opening (I got in June 1) and everything was orderly and under control. The people with the opening-day reservations were in line to get into the park fairly early but no one was camping out. To be quite honest, most people just hung around Disneyland or DCA until it was time for their reservation. People are given four-hour blocks to go to GE per the reservation and you must have a wristband, which we picked up and had scanned at Launch Bay. The biggest crowds are about 10-15 minutes before the next reservation period starts, when people were massing outside Critter Country, but DL staff started letting people trickle in to keep the crowd from becoming too thick.

The virtual queue is like Disneyland's MaxPass, which doesn't activate until you are in the park and the park has opened. (Unlikely that fastpasses will be available during this period, but that's a guess.) It's just the reservation system, but day-of instead of pre-booked.

Now, when the virtual queue is phased out, it will become a madhouse.

 

[danlb_2000]

I was at DL for SW:GE opening (I got in June 1) and everything was orderly and under control. The people with the opening-day reservations were in line to get into the park fairly early but no one was camping out. To be quite honest, most people just hung around Disneyland or DCA until it was time for their reservation. People are given four-hour blocks to go to GE per the reservation and you must have a wristband, which we picked up and had scanned at Launch Bay. The biggest crowds are about 10-15 minutes before the next reservation period starts, when people were massing outside Critter Country, but DL staff started letting people trickle in to keep the crowd from becoming too thick.

The virtual queue is like Disneyland's MaxPass, which doesn't activate until you are in the park and the park has opened. (Unlikely that fastpasses will be available during this period, but that's a guess.) It's just the reservation system, but day-of instead of pre-booked.

Now, when the virtual queue is phased out, it will become a madhouse.

Did they make any attempt to remove people once their four hours were done?

 

[chimchimcheree]

Did they make any attempt to remove people once their four hours were done?

Anyone in GE could be identified by their wristband (i.e. mine was blue and was the Kessel block of time), which was required to be visible at all times. If you were still in the park after time was up, cast members dressed as First Order stormtroopers would march you out. (I didn't see it happen as I'd left before 4 pm, though.)

 

[TiggerDad]

If you were still in the park after time was up, cast members dressed as First Order stormtroopers would march you out.

Am I the only one who thinks that would totally be worth it? We need to stay past our time for this.

 

[Lensman]

Anyone in GE could be identified by their wristband (i.e. mine was blue and was the Kessel block of time), which was required to be visible at all times. If you were still in the park after time was up, cast members dressed as First Order stormtroopers would march you out. (I didn't see it happen as I'd left before 4 pm, though.)

You should have tried out your powers with, "These aren't the wristbands you're looking for."

 

[Kamikaze]

They stopped doing it, I think. We overstayed by more than an hour and didn't get tossed.

They never did it.

 

[danlb_2000]

They never did it.

So you are saying that op was lying about people be escorted out?

 

[chimchimcheree]

So you are saying that op was lying about people be escorted out?

That's what I was told as part of the check-in process, at least, during opening weekend when DL was anticipating huge crowds. (I doubt it happened.) I wouldn't be surprised if DL never actually did it, though - you could easily clock through all of GE in half the time, and most people were gone before their time was up. (Smuggler's Run wait times went down to max 15 minutes at certain times).

 

[Kamikaze]

So you are saying that op was lying about people be escorted out?

Correct. They did not escort people out of Batuu when their reservations were up. You were just unable to get back into the line for the Falcon or enter Savi's or Oga's. You could hang out the entire day and shop and eat if you chose to.

 

[Kamikaze]

That's what I was told as part of the check-in process, at least, during opening weekend when DL was anticipating huge crowds. (I doubt it happened.) I wouldn't be surprised if DL never actually did it, though - you could easily clock through all of GE in half the time, and most people were gone before their time was up. (Smuggler's Run wait times went down to max 15 minutes at certain times).

You were meant to take that as a joke. It was a prepared line the CMs were told to tell guests if they asked.

 

[chimchimcheree]

You were meant to take that as a joke. It was a prepared line the CMs were told to tell guests if they asked.

It made sense at the time because, you know, soft opening and theming. Like I said, I *never saw it happen*, but I was just told that there were cast members dressed as stormtroopers who would enforce the time limit. When I was at GE I had a sweatshirt on and I was told to keep the wristband visible at all times by a cast member at the Smuggler's Run queue. So sue me if I didn't connect the dots, but lol, yeah, ~lying~.

 

[Kamikaze]

It made sense at the time because, you know, soft opening and theming. Like I said, I *never saw it happen*, but I was just told that there were cast members dressed as stormtroopers who would enforce the time limit. When I was at GE I had a sweatshirt on and I was told to keep the wristband visible at all times by a cast member at the Smuggler's Run queue. So sue me if I didn't connect the dots, but lol, yeah, ~lying~.

I never said that you were lying. Just that it didn't happen. Dan used that word.

 

[DisneyDefenders]

Is the report on the home page about reservations for Passholder Previews of Galaxy's Edge already being open true? No email has been received by anyone in our family who have Platinum Passes.