WDW Galaxy Edge - gotta get this off my chest!

[LAKid53]

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.

Yes, it would. I was hoping for an AP/DVC preview as was done for Pandora, but extra early EMH must be what Disney decided to do. So I'll be getting up at times I get up for races in September to visit Galaxy's Edge.

 

[nickys]

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.

Sorry, the quote didn’t work! Wasn’t a reply to you. Edited the post to make it clear.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

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.

And that is common sense...

You basically have double the people if Normal Patterns hold...and a lot less “local” who can take it or leave it.

Anyone else starting to see the problem with “Star Wars: excuses edge” in Orlando?

 

[nol_dur]

Ok I’ve been watching the live feeds & such of GE from Disneyland - but I SO have to get this off my chest! Everyone says it so great, it’s so immersive, they’ve so enjoyed it. However, why do I feel that our GE is going to be TOO crowded, super long lines to the point where we here on the East coast wont be able to enjoy it? All the peeps enjoying it have the reservations & there is NO evidence our WDW is going to do that! Does anyone else get the sneaky feeling that DL did the reservations to build up the land, and us Eastcoasters won’t be able to get in for 2 years???? LOL

We need reservations to exist for both coasts and longer. They set up reservations as the intended amount of guest in the land at a time. Without them the land will become way more crowded, on both coast, ruining the immersion and the way that the Imagineers intended it to be experienced.

 

[Disstevefan1]

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.

Therefore WDW will be a free for all mob fest!

Well they can do hard ticket after hours for GE at DHS like every night till it dies down. I would pay to see it for my first time without mobs

 

[CP_alum08]

Is a FP-like system for land entry an option? A certain number would be available for a certain time slot, guests staying onsite get priority, and no FP no entry into the land. It wouldn’t technically be impossible to get a FP if you were staying offsite but it would a lot more difficult.

 

[NormC]

Many insiders over at the Disneyland forum have confirmed that WDW is getting the smaller version of Star Wars Land.

No insiders have confirmed this because it simply isn't true.

 

[LAKid53]

No insiders have confirmed this because it simply isn't true.

I didn't realize 14 acres in Florida is smaller than 14 acres in California.....

 

[NormC]

I didn't realize 14 acres in Florida is smaller than 14 acres in California.....

Exactly. Having one less gate doesn't change the acreage.

 

[NickMaio]

A reservation system in WDW is a total "Must Do" - - I really can't believe they won't be doing this?????

 

[Kamikaze]

Having just returned from spending a few days in Batuu, I can tell you that there is no possible way that they can just 'open' the land without some sort of virtual queue or FastPass/MaxPass system. At least until RotR opens, but probably far, far longer than that. The capacity for Smuggler's Run seems to be fine, and the line moves quickly and you have essentially two preshows which splits up the wait pretty well. But the cantina is such low capacity, and the lightsaber experience is even less - max of 42 people per hour can do it, but based on what I witnessed its probably more like 35-38 OHRC. Thats a tiny number. The marketplace shops are ridiculously small.

Unless DHS-Batuu is built differently with more room for everything, they will have to have a FP/Virtual Queue to enter the land to make it bearable and avoid overcrowding and complaints. There were already tons of complaints about the cantina and thats with the extremely limited number of people they were letting in for the first morning group each day. By 8:30 am, the saber building was full for the 8am-12 group and they were literally sending away people $200 a pop.

 

[Kamikaze]

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

You're not right about how the reservations worked. If you booked a stay at DLH, GC, or PP you got 1 reservation time at SW:GE. True. However, they DID allow reservations for anyone else to book. They were gone within an hour, but they were open to locals and anyone else to book.

You ARE right that it can't work at WDW the same way. Too many hotel rooms.

 

[larryz]

You're not right about how the reservations worked. If you booked a stay at DLH, GC, or PP you got 1 reservation time at SW:GE. True. However, they DID allow reservations for anyone else to book. They were gone within an hour, but they were open to locals and anyone else to book.

You ARE right that it can't work at WDW the same way. Too many hotel rooms.

Ah, but not too many CL guests... I expect to see CL reservations announced shortly, much like the pay-to-play extra FP+s.

 

[Janir]

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

Just make entry a FastPass+ and force you to use a FP+ to get in. Virtual queue created. Then have a limited amount of FP+ that are available to people walking in that day to account for the locals with out a AP. To limit time IN the land, do as they are doing in D:LR now and stop serving anyone outside of their 4 hour window according to their Magic Band FP+. Thats at worst some minor coding efforts to rollout in the FP/Guest tracking/MDE systems.

EDIT: Does require they add in two FP+ touchpoints at the entryways to SWGE. That shouldn't be any sort of a problem to do either.

 

[danyoung56]

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.

Is this for real? If so, it's the dumbest logic I've ever seen.

 

[nol_dur]

Is this for real? If so, it's the dumbest logic I've ever seen.

I'm pretty sure it's joke but if it's not

 

[Kamikaze]

Ah, but not too many CL guests... I expect to see CL reservations announced shortly, much like the pay-to-play extra FP+s.

Correct, I'd expect it to at least be a club level perk. I'd also expect some way to directly pay for access. Be it after hours or some sort of paid FP.

 

[Kingtut]

I didn't realize 14 acres in Florida is smaller than 14 acres in California.....

It's the new math

 

[NickMaio]

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. - -

Yup - The boys in MIT crunched the numbers and his math checks out...... Solid as a mickey mouse cone in August on Main Street

 

[voodoo321]

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. - -

Yup - The boys in MIT crunched the numbers and his math checks out...... Solid as a mickey mouse cone in August on Main Street

You guys act like your'e so clever. I didn't want act like a bigshot before but my source is my cousin in Anaheim California and he is a CM that has been assigned to Star Wars Land. He gave me some info that you guys aren't privy to. The biggest scoup is the size of the land at DHS. He and his fellow CM's/supervisors have been laughing at how small the WDW version will be in comparison. I wish I could give more details and other info but I'm afraid it will get traced back to him if I do, I don't want him to lose his job, especially because he has special privelages and can get me into the park for free.

And logic is logic and math is math, no matter how you'd like to twist it. It'll be proven that the land is too small once you see it at capacity on a daily basis.