first*toright
The poster formerly known as 1st*toright
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2020
Many thanks to the people who have kept this thread up to date. I rode on Wednesday 1/29 and Friday 1/31 - very different days for RoTR, but excellent experiences both times!
Weds- On bus from GF at 5:25. Arrived at 5:45 ish and was about 30 people from the front of the line for tapstiles. Let in at about 6:20 - booked it over to the front of the Hyperion Theater (couldn't see how close to the front of the crowd I was because I'm short!). With a little help from friends outside the park, got BG 17. I was called at about 7:45 - about 5-8 minutes in line and then on the ride. I did MFSR before RoTR - turns out I was pretty close to the front of the RD crowd and walked on to MFSR. When I got off, everything in the park (other than star tours) had a pretty significant wait. I had fun people and character watching in Galaxy's edge.
Fri- Had the family with me, so got a bus from the GF at 6:15, arrived at 6:25. Moved through bag check quickly, some delay at the tapstiles (maybe 8-10 minutes to get through). Walked over towards Toy Story Land, but we were clearly pretty far back in the RD crowd. I had a work obligation mid-morning, so I wanted a late-ish BG. After the button turned red, I took 3 deep breaths before tapping. Got BG 56. Turns out I was super lucky - they didn't gt through all the BGs that day and we could have been shut out! The ride was up and down a lot that day, so they were moving much more slowly than on Wednesday. We were waiting for our dinner reservation at 50s Prime Time when I noticed that the BGs were moving again - and moving pretty fast. I was concerned about getting stuck in line for ages during the end of the day boarding group cattle call, so we abandoned our reservation and started walking over when it hit group 54. Our group was called just about the time we were walking under the tunnel into Galaxy's Edge (just before 6pm). We waited at least a half hour, maybe 45 minutes. We then did MFSR with a posted wait of 30mins at 7:15 pm- was about 20 mins in line.
We were too far back in the rope drop crowd to do SDD (line was crazy, and they announced they were delaying opening a little bit) the TSMM line was also looking pretty substantial already, so we started with a walk-on for AS2 - probably a one and done for my family, but glad we didn't wait for it or burn a FP on it
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Weds- On bus from GF at 5:25. Arrived at 5:45 ish and was about 30 people from the front of the line for tapstiles. Let in at about 6:20 - booked it over to the front of the Hyperion Theater (couldn't see how close to the front of the crowd I was because I'm short!). With a little help from friends outside the park, got BG 17. I was called at about 7:45 - about 5-8 minutes in line and then on the ride. I did MFSR before RoTR - turns out I was pretty close to the front of the RD crowd and walked on to MFSR. When I got off, everything in the park (other than star tours) had a pretty significant wait. I had fun people and character watching in Galaxy's edge.
Fri- Had the family with me, so got a bus from the GF at 6:15, arrived at 6:25. Moved through bag check quickly, some delay at the tapstiles (maybe 8-10 minutes to get through). Walked over towards Toy Story Land, but we were clearly pretty far back in the RD crowd. I had a work obligation mid-morning, so I wanted a late-ish BG. After the button turned red, I took 3 deep breaths before tapping. Got BG 56. Turns out I was super lucky - they didn't gt through all the BGs that day and we could have been shut out! The ride was up and down a lot that day, so they were moving much more slowly than on Wednesday. We were waiting for our dinner reservation at 50s Prime Time when I noticed that the BGs were moving again - and moving pretty fast. I was concerned about getting stuck in line for ages during the end of the day boarding group cattle call, so we abandoned our reservation and started walking over when it hit group 54. Our group was called just about the time we were walking under the tunnel into Galaxy's Edge (just before 6pm). We waited at least a half hour, maybe 45 minutes. We then did MFSR with a posted wait of 30mins at 7:15 pm- was about 20 mins in line.
We were too far back in the rope drop crowd to do SDD (line was crazy, and they announced they were delaying opening a little bit) the TSMM line was also looking pretty substantial already, so we started with a walk-on for AS2 - probably a one and done for my family, but glad we didn't wait for it or burn a FP on it
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