Star Wars Land announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[TJJohn12]

I waited 45 minutes when the line said 105. And then I've seen the line say 150 when the line of people stretched almost to africa!! I find with most popular queues ya gotta eyeball it!

And you’ve got to know where the queue ends too. Where will the red “Ive been chosen” tags be scanned? Best example I can think of is HM, where they’re scanned at load... meaning a 15 or 20 minute queue really means true “walk on” because the ERs are considered part of the wait.

Alcatraz is going to make it interesting to see where they consider the queue “ending” - is it at shuttle load? Vehicle load? The blending of queue and experience is a fun and fascinating conundrum.

 

[FigmentForver96]

I can imagine Disney hyper-inflating the wait times for both rides, like they've done with Flight of Passage.

They likely won't need to. That's the thing about this land. Hollywood Studios is going to be slammed regardless of what the wait times are for the new rides and regardless of how many rides the park has. Many people will come to see the new land and will wait hours if needed to ride. Luckily they will have opened some new rides to help but once the ball starts rolling it won't stop for a long while.

 

[Sped2424]

They likely won't need to. That's the thing about this land. Hollywood Studios is going to be slammed regardless of what the wait times are for the new rides and regardless of how many rides the park has. Many people will come to see the new land and will wait hours if needed to ride. Luckily they will have opened some new rides to help but once the ball starts rolling it won't stop for a long while.

I think they are gonna have to do return times to visit the land for the first few months. Not to ride but simply enter Potter did it at it's height of popularity.

 

[FigmentForver96]

I think they are gonna have to do return times to visit the land for the first few months. Not to ride but simply enter Potter did it at it's height of popularity.

Oh absolutely. It's going to be nuts

 

[Musicman20]

I wouldn’t risk the December.

Cheers - I think you are right. I'll be coming from the UK, so I think it's best I plan this visit very carefully in terms of timing. Maybe wait until late Spring 2020....

 

[marni1971]

Cheers - I think you are right. I'll be coming from the UK, so I think it's best I plan this visit very carefully in terms of timing. Maybe wait until late Spring 2020....

Same here and probably for the best (though I’ll possibly be seeing the west coast version first)

 

[jaxonp]

i think the best thing going for capacity for DHS is the land in DL. This will help tremendously. im looking for a 30% jump for DHS

also Pandora has 1 E ticket must see attraction where as SWGE has 2

Pandora has 1 E and 1 C... It's a mess in there. How will two E tickets be any better? May the patience be with us.

 

[jaxonp]

FoP also opens and closes parts of it's queue pretty extensively. For example, first thing in the morning, you bypass the queue altogether and they simply move you straight into the "numbered line" room right away for the first hour+
So it could stretch to Africa, but you're still on the ride in 30-40 mins because there is no queue, just a straight line.


I'm letting my AP expire December of this year (2018). I would normally get my next AP in December of 2019. I'm not getting one until December 2020. I'll be in Japan in 2019 instead.
That's how much I don't want to be anywhere near WDW when Star Wars opens.

Tokyo Disney? The best.

 

[jaxonp]

Same here and probably for the best (though I’ll possibly be seeing the west coast version first)

I can't wait to here people compare and pick apart the two lands. I'm calling it now... everyone will say Disneyland SWL is better.

 

[drod1985]

Pandora has 1 E and 1 C... It's a mess in there. How will two E tickets be any better?

Because right now there is a disparity in reputation, and thus interest, in FOP and RJ. Both attractions in GE should be equally attractive, which means the crowds will be more evenly disbursed between the GE rides as opposed to FOP and RJ.

 

[yeti]

i think the best thing going for capacity for DHS is the land in DL. This will help tremendously. im looking for a 30% jump for DHS

also Pandora has 1 E ticket must see attraction where as SWGE has 2

Not to mention Runaway Railway is practically a 3rd.

 

[SuperStretccch]

I waited 45 minutes when the line said 105. And then I've seen the line say 150 when the line of people stretched almost to africa!! I find with most popular queues ya gotta eyeball it!

I've seen the wait times over-inflated too. I went in recently just before morning EMH, and the wait said 60 minutes, but I only waited about 20. I walked right into the RDA industrial building and was actually able to get on twice within an hour.

I might try to do the same for SWGE, but I have a feeling I'm probably going to avoid DHS for a long while after it opens, regardless of how much I want to go. They need more than Mickey and TSL to absorb the massive crowds that will be coming in. They should have things like the Indy ride going there and not in DAK.

 

[RSoxNo1]

For the first year of SWL, if I don't have a FP (or paying extra for a reduced crowd event), I ain't stepping into it because of how crazy it will be.

Even rope drop will be crazy because everyone will be doing rope drop.

This is why DHS/WDW bit the bullet and did MMRR and TSL all at once: To absorb all the overflow of people who can't literally squeeze into SWL. Too bad it seems too late to add even more stuff before SWL opens. At the very least, I hope they get the shows updated.

They still messed up though. They removed too much capacity in the process. Mickey and Minnie's should have gone elsewhere and The Great Movie Ride should have closed for a major refurbishment on July 1, 2018.

 

[Kamikaze]

I can't wait to here people compare and pick apart the two lands. I'm calling it now... everyone will say Disneyland SWL is better.

It will be. If we're being reasonable - which of the two will see cuts in things like labor and entertainment first? The answer is WDW.

I will visit both next year, and will go to pre-open at DLR, and maybe WDW.

But I can tell you right now that DLR's version is going to be superior in the long and short term.

 

[Timothy_Q]

Because right now there is a disparity in reputation, and thus interest, in FOP and RJ. Both attractions in GE should be equally attractive, which means the crowds will be more evenly disbursed between the GE rides as opposed to FOP and RJ.

so instead of 5h and 3h lines, they'll get 4h and 4h

 

[britain]

Pandora has 1 E and 1 C... It's a mess in there. How will two E tickets be any better? May the patience be with us.

By the high you'll have when getting off of both attractions rather than one.

The 'E' stands for 'Endorphins'.

 

[GoofGoof]

Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this, but do the new restrictions on Disneyland APs tip us off as to when they plan to open their version of SW Land? Starting June 1 next year all but the top tier of DL APs will be restricted from parks on certain days. They will have to check the calendar to see if they can go to DL or DCA each day. Remember that they put restrictions on certain WDW tickets starting right before Pandora opened. I know they said summer 2019, but this may mean closer to June than August.

 

[Sped2424]

Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this, but do the new restrictions on Disneyland APs tip us off as to when they plan to open their version of SW Land? Starting June 1 next year all but the top tier of DL APs will be restricted from parks on certain days. They will have to check the calendar to see if they can go to DL or DCA each day. Remember that they put restrictions on certain WDW tickets starting right before Pandora opened. I know they said summer 2019, but this may mean closer to June than August.

Last week of June is what I saw for most of the blackouts! So perhaps late June early July??

 

[FigmentForver96]

It will be. If we're being reasonable - which of the two will see cuts in things like labor and entertainment first? The answer is WDW.

I will visit both next year, and will go to pre-open at DLR, and maybe WDW.

But I can tell you right now that DLR's version is going to be superior in the long and short term.

No way to really prove that but ok. And Disneyland cuts too...let's not pretend Orlando is the only money hungry part of the company. It is at DCA they are charging $299 a pop to see Pixar Pier days before everyone else.

 

[MisterPenguin]

so instead of 5h and 3h lines, they'll get 4h and 4h

SWL will restore balance to the wait-for's.