Attempting the DL Nighttime entertainment trifecta. Anyone got any tips?

[PurpleKomodo]

We leave for Disneyland in 8 days! So excited! Our trip is mostly for a conference so, we really don't have many full park days. We will be in Disneyland Park for 1 evening (our other part day there is in the morning). So, we have 1 shot and want to hit the nighttime trifecta - Main Street Electrical Parade, Disneyland Forever, and Fantasmic. Likely in that order. The youngest of my kiddos and maybe my middle as well will not last until the 2nd Fantasmic, so all of us may not try to hit it after Fireworks. So, tips on spots to watch them from. We would like to watch Disneyland Forever from somewhere we can see the castle. Another curve ball for all of you Disneyland experts out there, my 3 year old uses a power wheelchair. We don't know that we will try to get into the wheelchair section for any of the shows because they night we are there is the night at the park for the convention we are attending, which is for my son's disability. There will be an unusually high volume of wheelchair users in the park that night.

 

[FeistyDisneyMom]

I just saw this, so it is too late for your trip, but I am curious how it worked out for you! My brother is also in a power chair, so I'd love to hear how it went.

I probably would have done F! first, stayed there to watch fireworks (yes, it isn't quite as good as the hub/main street, but definitely takes the stress of rushing out of it), and done 2nd showing of MSEP, just to minimize going back and forth and give myself more time. Of course you can also do MSEP & fireworks from hub and then rush to F!, but if you don't have a package, I'd wonder about views especially with a power chair.

 

[PurpleKomodo]

I just saw this, so it is too late for your trip, but I am curious how it worked out for you! My brother is also in a power chair, so I'd love to hear how it went.

I probably would have done F! first, stayed there to watch fireworks (yes, it isn't quite as good as the hub/main street, but definitely takes the stress of rushing out of it), and done 2nd showing of MSEP, just to minimize going back and forth and give myself more time. Of course you can also do MSEP & fireworks from hub and then rush to F!, but if you don't have a package, I'd wonder about views especially with a power chair.

So, we did manage to do all 3. Here is what we did and how it worked out for us. We watched the 1st MSEP from the train to Pixie Hollow. We stayed there for fireworks, which was not great to see the fireworks themselves due to trees (we saw about half), but we could see the projections on the castle, Matterhorn, and Small World which was cool. We immediately trekked to Frontierland with the hoard after Fireworks. We lucked into an accessible spot at the back of one of the seated areas right in front of the stage by just asking a cast member if there were any accessible spots. It was a perfect view. So, I would say everything worked quite well with the exception of Pixie Hollow not being a great spot to see fireworks. Good luck!

 

[Ariel620]

I'm gonna try this soon too. I know going into it, that we won't have the best view for any since we won't be able to get there early enough with just one day in DL, but I want to at least see all 3 if we can.... so... I booked two dining packages (Plaza for MSEP and Hungry Bear for 2nd F! show). So the hardest part will be repositioning from the MSEP viewing location facing the train station to a view of the castle for the fireworks. We plan to walk towards the castle as soon as MSEP ends and see how close we can get (realizing we won't get that close). Any tips are appreciated!