Thank goodness for DVC, we went this morning. Early entrance day so arrived at 8 am, went right to line, at 8:15 they checked magic bands and moved line up. At 8:30 they checked magic bands again and move down line up. By 8:35 or so they let us in and handed us a fast pass. Very little crowds. We had plenty of time to do everything, lots of pictures, lots of checking things out.
FoP, we had an 8:30 to 8:45 time, funny we had a 9 to 11 time a lot. We went to fo lane, stopped. They explained the dog could not go, we knew that. They originally told us that it could not even go in line. I said n way, I am blind and will do a rider swap but I need either my dog or my daughter to walk me up and if she walks me up the dog has to come because there are only two of us. A second cast memeber said no problem and we went up. My daughter 26 went first as I waited with Lainie. She hated the ride and said never again. She is 4ft 9 in and weighs about 135. I went second as she waited with Lainie.
It took quiet a while, I was first in line but it took maybe 15 minutes for the doors to open to load. Then we waited inside for about another 12 minutes for the movie part to start, and then in the next room for about 3 minutes. Then onto the ride. I am big 210, 5'5" not huge and I had no problem, but one man was asked to leave because he did not fit, I am blind but will take a guess at weight, he was probably over 400 pounds. The safety straps did not fit. Both women next to me weighed a lot more than me and they both fit, so I am going to guess that about 400 is the limit for the restraints, but it could be 500.
I loved the ride, we had no more technical difficulties. When told it was like Star Wars which I will not go on, it was nothing like Star Wars to me, it was awesome.
We went thru the queue line and took pictures. We went on the river ride twice just walked on. We held the banchee toys and bought some things. It was 11:02 when we headed out. No one asked us to leave, we just noticed fewer and fewer people, although it was almost empty right from the start, I think everyone got a do to FoP.
When we were leaving we saw the line of AP holders, which I have but used DVC instead, that line was crazy long, very very much so. If I was to guess, they left 5x's more AP people in at a time than DVC and I would say that is a concervitive estimate. Just a guess we had maybe 500 DVC people from 9 to 11, there must have been 3000 AP holders lined up. I was thankful that I missed AP and went DVC.
Side note for anyone, they have a kennel on order, they said they have six kennels on order. I said why so many I have only seen one other dog in 10 days. They said for parents who want to cage kids, I laughed and said you will need to order 100 more, and 500 if you asked kids if they want there parents caged.
Also, as we sat at exit waiting for rider swap, we heard a lot, even at the preview a small preview, they had to many w/c to fit into the space they had for them. I can see it being a real big problem as it takes on the 8 or 9 hour lines they plan.
