Magic Kingdom to open for 24 hours on Memorial Day Weekend to kick off a Monstrous Summer

[wdwmagic]

Magic Kingdom parking lot at capacity

 

[DizFiz]

Wow!... I didn't think the crowds were that bad on the stream but it might thin out a bunch who came for the fireworks.

 

[jcldtrek]

Currently stuck at Epcot cause magic kingdom parking is full and the monorail line goes all the way out to where the tram drops off . They got 3 trains on the line and its jammed here

 

[WDWBryan]

Hmm I highly doubt they will keep the monorail running all night to epcot. so i guess monorail over to mk and a bus back

 

[wdwmagic]

MK parking is back open

 

[jcldtrek]

Their doing buses and monorails at Epcot now

 

[MasonDuo]

Just left Epcot the line for the monorail went completely down the ramp to the turnstiles to get in to Epcot never have seen that in my life. We had take a different route back to our hotel (contemporary) took around 40 Minutes with a couple of transfers

 

[disney4life2008]

It is absolute pandemonium at the mk. There is about a 2 hour wait just to get pass the castle. All lands are blocked off due to the crowds. There are alot if Florida residents here who got the 3 day pass special. It is beyond packed. At this point all i want is my Casey's and dole whip. Foot traffic is in a dead heat outside Casey's. Absolutely ridiculously crazy and im loving every minute of it.

 

[jcldtrek]

The Epcot monorail station is crazy. , ticket and transportation center is empty magic kingdom lot is almost full again

 

[jcldtrek]

They got security with dogs checking the express monorails before they load the trains

 

[MasonDuo]

There now using the contemporary as a TTC bus drop off that way people can walk over to mk (person walking told me they dropped them off there instead of the ttc). Loads of people getting dropped off from Epcot there just walked by a steady line of people from the crosswalk to the main lobby. Wowser for every person leaving there's another one coming

 

[tissandtully]

Crowd is getting bigger... This whole "black out the cast ids" might have been a good idea after all

You mean CMs weren't allowed in if they weren't working?

 

[PhotoDave219]

You mean CMs weren't allowed in if they weren't working?

They had to use Comp tickets to get in.

It's busy. Like 3pm in July busy.

 

[EvilQueen-T]

and i thought it was crazy when i was there for the 24hours celebrating leap year. i cannot imagine how packed it is with this time it being on a holiday weekend...goodness.

 

[disney4life2008]

230am. Much of the crowd has dispersed. Average wait times are about 30 or less. And its managable. The worse was 830pm to 1am!

 

[jcldtrek]

There was so many people there tonight , you swear it was during the day on a very busy day. The people mover had a huge line going out to the monsters movie showing area. I've never ever seen a line for the people mover lol. The castle dance party was blasting away and looked awesome. Left the park finally at 3am and they still had a decent crowd in there. People were def leaving at that time though more than before. Was a great night, can't wait to read the news on how well they did.

 

[openendedsky]

I don't know if I just got ridiculously lucky, or just have been patient, but I haven't had a bad experience with the crowds. I probably just managed to have really good timing. Though the line for the TTA around 1130 was absolutely insane.

 

[wdwmagic]

VIDEO - New summer edition of Celebrate the Magic debuts at the Magic Kingdom

 

[Tim_4]

It is absolute pandemonium at the mk. There is about a 2 hour wait just to get pass the castle. All lands are blocked off due to the crowds. There are alot if Florida residents here who got the 3 day pass special. It is beyond packed. At this point all i want is my Casey's and dole whip. Foot traffic is in a dead heat outside Casey's. Absolutely ridiculously crazy and im loving every minute of it.

I was going in the opposite direction. Complete gridlock before, during, and after Wishes. All bridges out of Adventureland were blocked. They can usually get you to the Crystal Palace and out a release valve into Casey's and through the Emporium but not last night. The cast members gave up on the "stay to the right" spiel because people were stopped in every walkway. Two different groups of guests almost came to blows over a stroller incident. It was scary. Guests on the East side were being led backstage but the West side had no such luck. I started to leave at 9:30 and didn't get out the gates until 11:00.

 

[Next Big Thing]

I was there all day and tbh, I didn't have a problem with the crowds at all. There was a MASSIVE gridlock around 11 with many people leaving/coming in/going to the mickey & Minnie M&G (Which had a 90 minute wait at one point, possibly higher). Things were bad for awhile, but overall, it was a great experience!