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Magic Kingdom to open for 24 hours on Memorial Day Weekend to kick off a Monstrous Summer
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rodserling27
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I tuned in to the 24 hour live stream for Wishes and the 1am showing of MSEP on the stream last night (while playing music for both on my computer of course). SO cool to watch them both live from my living room! 
Looks like it was not just a MASSIVE crowd but everyone seemed to be having a good time, smiling, waving, bopping around to music, not pushing angrily. Wish I could have been there!
Looks like it was not just a MASSIVE crowd but everyone seemed to be having a good time, smiling, waving, bopping around to music, not pushing angrily. Wish I could have been there!
benji
Member
I will never ever visit Magic Kingdom again during a major event like this. It took me hours to get to Tomorrowland. It was a very very very unsafe situation. In the 2 hour wait on Main Street my Disney app said 90 minute wait for Space Mountain. That's when I turned around to leave when I saw the people movie queue way way passed astro orbiter. Unsafe Disney, the amount of guest let into this park needs to be lowered. Disney is all greed. Banking on about $100 a ticket to give there guest a bad experience. I goodness I have an annual pass. I did waist my money on my hotel room which was also a ripoff being that I stayed one night just for this event when I left after under 3 hours and didn't see anything. NEVER AGAIN!!
mm52200
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Disney does have a limit on the number of people in park, the parks will usually close to certain guests during busy times such as Christmas. If you made a point to come down for the event, what time did you actually get to the park? Sounds like you should have maybe gotten there earlier in the day so you could have gotten some other things done. Also, what were you expecting, the park to be empty during a heavily marketed event that falls on Memorial Day weekend? Also how did it take you hours to get to Tomorrowland? I never read or saw anything about any of the actual lands being closed, but I could have missed that.
PhotoDave219
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I'd agree with that. I left at 145. I'd had enough.
Different vibe than the last time. Last time was more of a social event. This wasn't.
Park ops did a horrific job with crowd control post wishes. Really good job with everything else. Plaza restaurant was the gem at 1am, shorter wait than the ice cream parlor.
It didn't make it to my phase 2-3 prediction but it was busy. Not quite Christmas/Easter busy but busier than middle of summer.
I'd call it a success & I'm gonna predict that Disney does this every Memorial Day wknd.
PhotoDave219
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Crowd was a total different vibe than leap year. Instead of it being a social thing, it was day guests being busy.
jcldtrek
Active Member
When I finally got to magic kingdom around 10:50pm it was heavily crowded on Main Street but you were able to get through the people with no big problems. Epcot was a disaster with the parking overflow. They held the monorails to add a third on and the line for the monorail was insane. Took almost 50 min to get out of there from where I was in line. I didn't find the wait times for the rides that bad. Space mountain is a popular ride , I can understand that. The people mover line was just hilariously long and put poor stitch escape to shame . No one was going on that lol. Main Street was the most active area and by the castle due to celebrate the magic showings and electrical parade and dance party . There's also alot of high school kids here celebrating graduations. It was def a busy night. Overall though never saw people complaining etc. everyone having a good time. One thing to remember , this was open to everyone to go too. I'll have pics posted once I get home. Flying out today
Clyde Birdbrain
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We spent the day at Hollywood Studios for Star Wars Weekends and headed to Magic Kingdom after the Hyperspace Hoopla. Getting into Magic Kingdom we were told that the parking lot was full and were given the following card and told to turn around and park at Epcot.
At Epcot there was a huge line for the monorail and another huge line to get onto the bus to TTC. We walked over to the Polynesian/Grand Floridian bus, where there were not many people, and got on pretty quickly. As our bus drove by the Magic Kingdom parking we could see that they had opened up again, so I think it was only a short time that they were directing cars to park at Epcot. At Grand Floridian we got on the resort monorail which was not very crowded.
I didn't find the crowds inside the park too bad. We were there from about 10:30pm to 3:30am and were able to do quite some rides. Some wait times for the popular attractions were long at first, but we just avoided those rides. After midnight we saw just 20 minute wait times for such attractions as Big Thunder Mountain. We had no problem at all with the crowds and never felt unsafe.
At 3:30am we were too tired and left as there was a huge dance party going on in front of the castle. We took the monorail back to Epcot and saw a lot of clean-up crews and cars around Future World as we swung around Spaceship Earth. We had a great day.
At Epcot there was a huge line for the monorail and another huge line to get onto the bus to TTC. We walked over to the Polynesian/Grand Floridian bus, where there were not many people, and got on pretty quickly. As our bus drove by the Magic Kingdom parking we could see that they had opened up again, so I think it was only a short time that they were directing cars to park at Epcot. At Grand Floridian we got on the resort monorail which was not very crowded.
I didn't find the crowds inside the park too bad. We were there from about 10:30pm to 3:30am and were able to do quite some rides. Some wait times for the popular attractions were long at first, but we just avoided those rides. After midnight we saw just 20 minute wait times for such attractions as Big Thunder Mountain. We had no problem at all with the crowds and never felt unsafe.
At 3:30am we were too tired and left as there was a huge dance party going on in front of the castle. We took the monorail back to Epcot and saw a lot of clean-up crews and cars around Future World as we swung around Spaceship Earth. We had a great day.
Sketch105
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Man I feel like I went to a totally different event.
I lucked out with parking and arrived at 830...crowds were decent but not horrible. The worst was after Wishes trying to get out of the hub..just wall to wall people. After that the park had plenty of walking/breathing room and only space, thunder and Splash had atrocious waits.
I lucked out with parking and arrived at 830...crowds were decent but not horrible. The worst was after Wishes trying to get out of the hub..just wall to wall people. After that the park had plenty of walking/breathing room and only space, thunder and Splash had atrocious waits.
Crazydisneyfanluke
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I enjoyed every minute being there. I arrived at 1030 AM and we got into the parking lot without a hitch. we had to wait about 15mins for the boats because the monorail was packed. When we entered the park, every ride was about 30-45mins. I guess we miss the crowds, after got off BTM all the lines in frontier land was about 45-60mins. Space mountain had a wait of 60 mins about 1pm. after the fireworks we went back and had a wait of 160min. we had got FP again for this ride. The crowds where horrible after wishes and MSEP, me being a bigger guy, pushed through the crowds, everyone wasnt going the same way, i found it very out of control. i wish they had more CMs there directing people, but the CMs were focusing on putting down more tape.
I found the night to be very entertaining. I also noticed that MISICI was alot shorter and was called the New MISICI. anyone know why?
I found the night to be very entertaining. I also noticed that MISICI was alot shorter and was called the New MISICI. anyone know why?
asianway
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It also sounded like park ops at DL learned from last year and tightened things up and improved. Odd
Cody5242
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I got to TTC at 7 and then walked over to Poly for some drinks and nachos and then we arrived at the MK at about 830. It was hell on Main Street and remained that until about 20 min after wishes. Me and my Dad ended up staying till 6 and we had a great time! The only rides we didnt do were Splash and Space
Sped2424
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same I got there around 1 in the morning and we were let right into the parking lot got in and made it straight into the park no problem. Even got to ride thunder mountain and play the new pirates game which I think is no longer in its testing phase.
Figments Friend
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Nice photos there, Jakester.
Pretty surreal seeing the sky light up as the dawn approached.
Reminded me of the wee hours of pre-opening on EPCOTs 25th....
Pretty surreal seeing the sky light up as the dawn approached.
Reminded me of the wee hours of pre-opening on EPCOTs 25th....
Things seemed to flow smoothly at MK, I personally wouldn't mind a 24hour event annually. They understand how to operate, and they have 2proven times that people will show up if they are open all night.
Figments Friend
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So the fun question is...
When would be a good time for the *next time*...?
Halloween would be pretty epic.
Maybe a New Years Eve all-nighter?
When would be a good time for the *next time*...?
Halloween would be pretty epic.
Maybe a New Years Eve all-nighter?