Advice/Help needed for FP attraction choices

[KellyHonos]

Hello all! Based on the FP thread pinned in this forum, I made the following selections for FP's. Please, I urge you guys to either confirm or deny the choices, because this is my second time doing fast passes at the 60 day mark; the first time was fine but could have been executed better. Any and all feedback is totally appreciated. (these are in no particular order or time frame, we still have another month to go before our 60 day mark, we're just planning ahead).

Animal Kingdom:
Tier 1: Flights of Passage
Tier 2: Expedition Everest
Tier 2: Kilimanjaro Safari
(We plan to get to the park at open and booking it straight to Navi River Journey. We looked at current wait times over the span of a couple different days and Flights of Passage consistently had longer wait times than Navi River Journey, so that's why we were thinking us using the tier 1 FP on Flights of Passage. What do you guys think?)

Epcot:
Tier 1: Frozen Ever After
Tier 2: Living with the land
Tier 2: Spaceship Earth

Magic Kingdom:
(From what I read on the FP thread, MK has no tiering? Just want to confirm)
Splash Mountain
Space Mountain
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train


Hollywood Studios:
Tier 1: Rock n Roller Coaster
Tier 2: Tower of Terror
Tier 2:Frozen Sing-a-long
(Not really sure what type of mayhem to expect with Toy Story land. We will be getting there a few weeks after it opens, so I'm not sure if those rides will be considered Tier 1? What do you guys suspect?)

Magic Kingdom:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Peter Pan's Flight
Jungle Cruise
(Last time in WDW, we booked Pirates and Haunted Mansion as a FP, and the stand by times weren't too bad so we felt like we wasted a FP. When we went on Pirates, stand by was 20, and if my memory serves me, Haunted Mansion was around 40. Definitely under an hour. Am I safe by skipping these attractions on FP and just banking on doing the stand by? Would opening or closing time give us a better shot on waiting less time?)

How do my selections look? Any changes or recommendations? Also, do you guys book your FP in order, or do you book them and hop around the park? I think this year after I get some feedback, we will try to book them in order in terms of booking the first one as close to the front, the second one a little further into the park, the third furthest, if at all possible.

 

[pitpat]

those all make sense and are good FP priorities

one thing about MK - with two days there, it is helpful to focus on half one day and the other the next instead of trying to do the entire park both days. your plan is not too far off from that, but something to consider.

 

[Robo]

Epcot:
Tier 2: Living with the land
Tier 2: Spaceship Earth

Magic Kingdom:
(From what I read on the FP thread, MK has no tiering? Just want to confirm)

Magic Kingdom:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Peter Pan's Flight
Jungle Cruise
(Last time in WDW, we booked Pirates and Haunted Mansion as a FP, and the stand by times weren't too bad so we felt like we wasted a FP. When we went on Pirates, stand by was 20, and if my memory serves me, Haunted Mansion was around 40. Definitely under an hour. Am I safe by skipping these attractions on FP and just banking on doing the stand by? Would opening or closing time give us a better shot on waiting less time?)

Epcot No "need" for either of those Tier 2.
Magic Kingdom has no tiering.
If you arrive at rope drop, you won't need a BTMRR FP for at least the first hour of the day.
Virtually always, very early and very late attraction arrival times will offer less wait time.

 

[JETSDAD]

Looks good to me.

 

[KellyHonos]

Awesome. Thank you guys.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

Epcot No "need" for either of those Tier 2.
Magic Kingdom has no tiering.
If you arrive at rope drop, you won't need a BTMRR FP for at least the first hour of the day.
Virtually always, very early and very late attraction arrival times will offer less wait time.

The "need" is to have them so you can get another Tier 1 as a 4th. SSE is a reasonable use for the required Tier 2 since it does sometimes build a line.

 

[madchatter]

Agree that you could RD big thunder. We like to group the left side together and do JC, Splash and BTMRR and then another day do the right side and fantasy land.

Also, we find pretty good availability for JC, Pirates and Haunted Mansion as additional FP throughout the day. So whichever ones you don’t end up getting you are pretty likely to get day of instead of standby.

If you want to ride Peter Pan it might be a better use of a FP since standby is usually a prohibitive wait and the likelihood of getting it as a 4th is slim.

 

[sponica]

The only Epcot Tier 2 I might do instead is Character Spot (if that's important to you)

 

[KellyHonos]

Agree that you could RD big thunder. We like to group the left side together and do JC, Splash and BTMRR and then another day do the right side and fantasy land.

Also, we find pretty good availability for JC, Pirates and Haunted Mansion as additional FP throughout the day. So whichever ones you don’t end up getting you are pretty likely to get day of instead of standby.

If you want to ride Peter Pan it might be a better use of a FP since standby is usually a prohibitive wait and the likelihood of getting it as a 4th is slim.

Can you educate me as to what "RD" is?

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

Can you educate me as to what "RD" is?

Rope Drop. The time everyone is let into the park at opening. Lines for many attractions (including BTMR and Splash) are short then. You can walk on BTMR a couple times in a row first thing.

 

[KellyHonos]

Rope Drop. The time everyone is let into the park at opening. Lines for many attractions (including BTMR and Splash) are short then. You can walk on BTMR a couple times in a row first thing.

Oh, okay. Thanks for clarifying I need to take a look at the map and see what rides could be done at RD or what we could use as FP. Thanks!

 

[bethbuchall]

There was a post on the Toy Story Land Information thread stating that the three Toy Story rides will now be tier 1 and RnR will be tier 2.

 

[KellyHonos]

There was a post on the Toy Story Land Information thread stating that the three Toy Story rides will now be tier 1 and RnR will be tier 2.

Oh, I missed that. Thank you!

 

[MorpethMiss]

Looks good!
Hollywood Studios: I suspect the Toy Story Land attractions, or Slinky Dog coaster at the very least, will be Tier 1 rides, so you might want to get a FP for one of those and RD Rock n Roller Coaster.
Magic Kingdom: Personally, I think the queue at Haunted Mansion is really fun, so it's not one I want to rush past with a FP, so I agree with your choice to not get the HM FP. One ride that my son likes that can get backed up is Buzz Lightyear. If you think you might do that attraction, I would definitely get FP there. As others have said, you can easily RD Big Thunder.
Remember, you can always get more FP once you've used your first 3.

 

[KellyHonos]

Thank you all so much!!