Disney Bumfords said:
Where is the waiting line for wheelchair seating for Fantasmic?
If you are participating in the Fantasmic Dinner package, you show your slip of paper to a WDW Castmember at the large, wooden gates located to the left of the gas station where the stroller, wheelchair, and
scooter rental building is near the entrance to MGM.
Then you follow the path behind the buildings until you reach someother WDW Castmembers and they point you to the path up a hill to the top of the Fantasmic Theater. They will direct you into a space at the top behind the top metal bleacher seats, filling them up from about the right-center to the far right side of the Fantasmic Theater. There are about two rows of bleachers for any guests to sit in front of you.
The rest of the Fantasmic package walkers fill up the metal bleachers all the way down to the first row.
If you don't reserve a dinner at a restaurant for the Fantasmic Theater like the majority of people then you will enter the large walkway entrance between the Tower of Terror entrance and bathrooms on your left and the other theater on your right where the Beauty and the Beast show is located.
I usually stay against the wall on the right side of the wide entrance path. Most strollers and scooters and wheelchairs hug the wall on the right side all the way to the top of the Fantasmic Theater where the WDW Castmembers direct that all of the strollers be parked and left outside of the theater. If you can get out of your wheelchair, you can leave your wheelchair parked there also and walk in with the rest of the walkers and sit down as low as you can as they direct you to your seating.
WDW Castmembers like to fill up each section starting near the right of center, where the Fantasmic package people sit, all the way over to the far left side of the theater. After all of the seats are filled, they have standing room only in special areas all the way in the back and they don't allow anyone to stand behind the wheelchairs or the path behind them. The standing room only area is a slightly tiered area in the special back section.
If you are going to stay in your wheelchair, or scooter, then at the top of the theater, just past the last parked stroller, and on the right side...a WDW Castmember will direct two to six wheelchairs with guests in a row to line up side by side behind the very top metal bleacher, starting from the right, center, all of the way to the left side of the Fantasmic theater. Guests also have about two rows of bleachers to sit in front of you.
If you get there early whether you are a walker or a wheelchair, they will start sitting you in the center of the theater going all the way to the left.
Disney Bumfords said:
Do you need to arrive as early as everyone else does?
Oh, yes. If you want to be near the center, but all of the spaces are good views to see the Fantasmic show. I would just be concerned if the park was full of people and everyone was going to watch the show at the same time.
Otherwise, I try to get there about forty five minutes before the show starts.
Disney Bumfords said:
Also - where is the seating and how hard is it to get out afterwards.
The wheelchair seating is located at the top where everyone enters the theater. The metal bleacher seats go down toward the water to the front row. The wheelchair area is located from the right to the left side of the theater. But they direct you where to roll your wheelchair to try use the space economically. So that everyone can have a place to roll into.
I have seen wheelchairs in the standing room only area and that would be a hard place to see everything as people walked in front of your going to the rest rooms or getting food and souvenirs.
Can you tell that I had to much coffee last night at work...lol.