WDW Galaxy Edge - gotta get this off my chest!

[voodoo321]

So a house with three doors is always larger than a house with two doors?
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My house has three doors and is bigger than the house across the street with two. Many insiders over at the Disneyland forum have confirmed that WDW is getting the smaller version of Star Wars Land.

 

[Tinker218]

I just returned from DLR and was one of the “lucky “ guests staying at a Disney resort that had a reservation to get into GE. I could have cared less about it, but we traveled with my son and his family and they were looking forward to going. We had the early morning time. There is no way this will work at WDW. It was great for DL, not crowded at all and even though I have never watched any of the movies, I thought it was kind of cool.
I will not attempt to visit Hollywood Studios for my next few trips. Not interested enough to fight crowds!

 

[larryz]

So a house with three doors is always larger than a house with two doors?

And smaller than a...

 

[Disstevefan1]

I just returned from DLR and was one of the “lucky “ guests staying at a Disney resort that had a reservation to get into GE. I could have cared less about it, but we traveled with my son and his family and they were looking forward to going. We had the early morning time. There is no way this will work at WDW. It was great for DL, not crowded at all and even though I have never watched any of the movies, I thought it was kind of cool.
I will not attempt to visit Hollywood Studios for my next few trips. Not interested enough to fight crowds!

Tell me why the reservation system would not work at DHS?

 

[Tinker218]

Tell me why the reservation system would not work at DHS?

It was open to DL resort guests only, so I don’t know how they would do it with so many resorts at WDW. There are only 3 resorts at DL, so much fewer guests to deal with. I know they opened it up to the general public for the rest of month of June, but could you imagine the outrage if onsite guests did not get a reservation and offsite guests did? Unless they open reservations to only onsite guests for the opening month and schedule the time slots as the did at DL, it may work. I just don’t see it happening just due to the numbers of guests

 

[nickys]

3 entrances/exits at Disneyland, 2 at DHS. 3/3 - 2/3= 1/3. So DHS's land will be 1/3 smaller. Simple math.

My house has three doors and is bigger than the house across the street with two. Many insiders over at the Disneyland forum have confirmed that WDW is getting the smaller version of Star Wars Land.

Oh, so your post was serious?

How would Disneyland insiders know what WDW is getting? Have you seen the overlays done by @MisterPenguin of the two lands, showing that apart from a few differences due to layout, they are equally sized? Or even read the comparative sizes of both?

 

[nickys]

Tell me why the reservation system would not work at DHS?

1. There are 37,000 rooms at WDW. No way to allocate time slots to everyone, even it were logistically possible, the land would need to be open 24/7 to fit everyone in.

2) The demographic of WDW guests is totally different.
It works at DL because most people there are repeat visitors, if they don’t get everything done they can come back a month later (when it moves to a virtual queue). And if there are guests who are unhappy with not having enough time, and they’re not local AP holders, there is enough capacity to allocate them another time slot to keep them happy.
At WDW many are once-in-a-lifetime or once-in-a-few-Years visitors. They would be mightily upset if they didn’t get to do everything.

3) DL is only doing reservations for 3 weeks. Then it moves to a virtual queue.
WDW has 3 hours a day EEMH. Those are (in place of) the resort guest reservations. There will also be a virtual queue, at some point.

 

[LAKid53]

3 entrances/exits at Disneyland, 2 at DHS. 3/3 - 2/3= 1/3. So DHS's land will be 1/3 smaller. Simple math.

Both lands are 14 acres.

 

[MinnieCaroline]

The crowds are going to be crazy!! It’s already like being in a cattle herd to get to TSL, it will be cattle herding to the extreme, yuck!!

 

[Chet Dakota]

WDW will have crowd control issues for months

this will be a first in line ,first in land situation...

i just dont see any other way unless they adopt a reservation system for dhs

...years.

 

[danlb_2000]

My house has three doors and is bigger than the house across the street with two. Many insiders over at the Disneyland forum have confirmed that WDW is getting the smaller version of Star Wars Land.

Any size difference between the two versions will be negligible.

 

[Prince-1]

So what’s good about “same size”?

My wife and I were talking about this and she said it’s not all about the size.

 

[EOD K9]

Never happen, but if GE was open for 24/7, you may get some crowd thinning.....maybe.

 

[Heppenheimer]

The crowds are going to be crazy!! It’s already like being in a cattle herd to get to TSL, it will be cattle herding to the extreme, yuck!!

Just tell the Star Wars ultrafans that the cattle prods are some kind of Jedi weapon, and they'll probably stand in line and pay money to get zapped.

 

[JIMINYCR]

So a house with three doors is always larger than a house with two doors?

Everyone knows that when your family size increases, Instead of moving into a larger home just add another door, duhh.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

My wife and I were talking about this and she said it’s not all about the size.

...but what does she say to the....wait...never mind

 

[SteveAZee]

1. There are 37,000 rooms at WDW. No way to allocate time slots to everyone, even it were logistically possible, the land would need to be open 24/7 to fit everyone in.

2) The demographic of WDW guests is totally different.
It works at DL because most people there are repeat visitors, if they don’t get everything done they can come back a month later (when it moves to a virtual queue). And if there are guests who are unhappy with not having enough time, and they’re not local AP holders, there is enough capacity to allocate them another time slot to keep them happy.
At WDW many are once-in-a-lifetime or once-in-a-few-Years visitors. They would be mightily upset if they didn’t get to do everything.

3) DL is only doing reservations for 3 weeks. Then it moves to a virtual queue.
WDW has 3 hours a day EEMH. Those are (in place of) the resort guest reservations. There will also be a virtual queue, at some point.

I suppose that one way to address #1 is to only give a time slot to guests who are staying 3 nights or longer.

 

[nickys]

I suppose that one way to address #1 is to only give a time slot to guests who are staying 3 nights or longer.

I don’t think that would cut out enough, three to four nights seems typical for a short stay. A week might do it, possibly. Deluxe or DVC only might be enough perhaps. But I think either option would provoke howls of protest, especially given the relatively short notice.

 

[Tinker218]

Oh, so your post was serious?

How would Disneyland insiders know what WDW is getting? Have you seen the overlays done by @MisterPenguin of the two lands, showing that apart from a few differences due to layout, they are equally sized? Or even read the comparative sizes of both?

I am not a Disneyland insider. This was my 3rd trip to Disneyland. I go to WDW 3-4 times a year. I stated I don’t see the reservation system working due to the number of resort guests.

 

[SteveAZee]

I don’t think that would cut out enough, three to four nights seems typical for a short stay. A week might do it, possibly. Deluxe or DVC only might be enough perhaps. But I think either option would provoke howls of protest, especially given the relatively short notice.

There will always be howls of protest, regardless of what is done.