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Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World
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Purduevian
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So... why are they making people get up at 7am to book this? Why not just allow you to make your first LL at park opening?
I think they probably want to have one consistent time to make it less complicated with early access, park opening being different depending on park and date, etc. It will be less confusing for people if it's the same time no matter what day it is or what park you're going to. 7 am is the time for virtual queues as well, so maybe they feel like that's the earliest reasonable time that people might want to start planning their days. Everyone is going to have different preferences for timing and I bet they would get complaints from a lot of rope droppers if they couldn't have their first LL of the day planned out on their way to the parks.
runnsally
Well-Known Member
Since there is apparently no stacking, no need to get up at 7am if you plan on going to the park later unless you want to book an IAS.
Jeff4272
Well-Known Member
Agree......this makes no sense then........7am is a joke
Rickcat96
Well-Known Member
Getting up early "improves" the Guest experience
Chi84
Premium Member
Won't that depend on the times you are given for a particular ride? For example, if you want SDD and everyone else is also trying to book it, isn't it possible the time you'll be given is around 1 or 2pm?
Jeff4272
Well-Known Member
Yes but then why make people get up at 7am and make it at park opening? Its an arbitrary time if you cannot stack so the time doesnt matter as long as everyone has the same opportunity
Meaning if you get up at 7am and get 2pm SDD return then why not let people sleep in and do it at 9am?
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
It does for Disney. They are good at training people to do what Disney wants. First they made everyone become spreadsheet planners. Now they are working on training everyone to be rope droppers.
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
No one is making you get up at 7am.
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
Which is understandable. I don't think they really want people stacking much. Less stacking means more availability for everyone.
Purduevian
Well-Known Member
But there is a disadvantage to not getting up at 7am and Disney apparently picked that time for no good reason. I'm thinking of the old TSMM issue where FP was sold out for the whole day within the first hour or so. Imagine if SDD sells out for the entire day by 7:15am. Even worse, if this happens on Test Track where the park doesn't even open for 3 more hours.
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
I don't think rides will sellout much. Unlike when FP was around and everyone had it, I think 50% of people at best will buy this everyday.
Jeff4272
Well-Known Member
Ok....you're that guy.....
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
Yep. I absolutely hated FP+. I hated all the planning ahead and that everyone had it. This works much better as a lot of people won't buy it. Less people buying means I will be able to get on the majority of rides faster.
Jeff4272
Well-Known Member
good for you
MuppetNation
New Member
Now I'm not being cynical at all but if you're up at 7 then you might as well go and do a breakfast at one of the restaurants. Just a thought.
runnsally
Well-Known Member
Yes - once there is a precedent for how quickly times are booked, you’ll have to plan approximately what time you need to be in the system to book a particular ride at a particular time. But this doesn’t mean being up at 7a on the dot if you don’t plan on getting to the park until 11…
Purduevian
Well-Known Member
Why do you think that? Lets just look at SDD with it's ride capacity of ~2000pph. This means in a 12 hour day 24,000 people can ride this ride. Assuming 50% LL capacity, there are 12,000 SDD LL available each day. In 2019 (the last "normal" year) ~11.5 million people visited Hollywood studios or an average of ~31,500 people a day. If "50% at best" buy Genie plus on an average day 15,750 people will have it.
Not difficult to see how the 15,750 people could take all 12,000 SDD LL for the day. Remember this is an average day, assuming 50% ride capacity to LL.