A few notes from today. Overall it was an awesome visit. I was worried that the day could go off the rails due to the various issues I experienced on my visit a few weeks ago and the issues that have been brought up here from others’ recent visits.
Got in line outside harbor around 6:30. Line was long but moved quickly once it started going. However, the line that grew behind where I was looked absolutely insane.
At 7am got a boarding group for WS by refreshing the CA tab page right at 7am. Group 16.
Snuck in a quick RSR walk on before we were called back for WS around 8:30am.
Had about a 20-30 minute wait for WS after getting in line. We all liked Web Slingers. Although it is basically the next generation of Midway Mania. The “game” seems to have a lot more going on and probably has better replay ability because of it. Although, there’s something about being in a big vehicle in front of large screens that really gives off a Universal/Transformers vibe. Still, I look forward to riding it again and am happy to have it as an option in the park.
Kept looking for a lunch Pym lunch slot every 15 minutes basically all morning. Finally they opened it at 10:15 and I snagged an 11:15 return time but it looked like they went quick.
-The Shawarma was the hit of all the food we ordered. We all liked it and will get it again. Big hit.
-I loved the giant pretzel. Fair warning though, it’s not necessarily very “pretzely”. It was more like a soft warm log of bread. But I really liked it and so did the kids.
-Chicken sandwich was good, but as others have pointed out the chicken is more like schnitzel than what you’d normally get in a fried chicken sandwich. It was good but not something I’ll be getting again any time soon.
- The big candy bar thing was delicious. This was probably my second favorite after the Shawarma. It’s really rich and sweet, so you’ll love it if that’s your thing.
They have converted the Hyperion waiting area into extended seating for Pym, so that area is blocked off as part of Avengers Campus. This is also where the Shawarma Too cart is, so know that they are both inside the new land.
Saw the Spider-Man stunt show and the fight at the Avengers headquarters show. The kids loved these. Without question, the thing the kids loved most in the entire land was the SpiderMan appearance and specifically Spider-Man flying through the air. Disney: bring back more live entertainment to your parks!!!!!!!!
Outside Avengers Campus, lines at DCA felt nonexistent. We hardly waited for anything all day. A few rides like Incredicoaster and Goofy’s had posted 20 minute waits but were essentially walk ons. So many people were either inside AC or in the line for it, the rest of the park felt pretty light.
Also got lucky and snagged a RotR boarding group at noon, but that’s for another thread!
I liked AC and think it’ll be a nice addition to the park once it gets to be “normal” (no standby line just to enter the land).
I gotta say though, if I had not gotten a Boarding Group for WS, I would have skipped going in. For me, there is very little sense in waiting for hours to get into a land where you can’t ride the one new attraction and likely can’t eat at the new restaurant because of the difficulty of timing a mobile order. But judging from the long standby line to get into AC, plenty of other people disagree.
For anyone worried about managing a visit to AC, just know that despite the chaos it IS possible for it all to work out. Just be on top of the WS boarding group at 7am and the Pym mobile order depending on when you are looking to eat.
We had similar experiences today.
I got in the harbor line just before 6 am and was back by the tram route. The moved the lines a little bit so I ended up under the monorail track. At 7 I got WS boarding group 20.
When parks opened we went to rsr first and there were only a couple dozen people in front of us so we got on quickly. Saw the first loaded car go is how close to the front we were.
Next we rode incredicoaster and then toy story and both were very short waits of less than 5 min.
Our WS BG was called as we were on TSMM ( we got off TSMM about 8:55 or so). We headed over to AC and got in line for WS. Ride was a lot of fun. Not my favorite but one I would do on future trips.
Then we got a breakfast shawarma. We got in line at the stand near WS but a CM told us of the other cart near GOTG that usually has a shorter line and sure enough she was right. Only 2 people in line so we ate there next to the hyperion theater.
Next we rode GOTG twice before the line started growing. Had to get that in knowing that we might not get a chance to ride later in the day once we left AC which was a smart move on our part.
DD doesn’t like GOTG so she got a treat from Terran treats while she waited for us (don’t know what it was, it was some kind of purple cheesecake thing but I had a bite and it was pretty good).
We then looked around the rest of AC and saw the fight show with black panther and black widow.
Saw Capt Marvel walking around in that same area the fight show happened (up near the quin jet ). Saw Spider-mans stunt show which was cool. We wanted to do other things.
We did every ride in DCA that we wanted to and several more than once. Wait times went up and down quite a bit so we just went where they were shorter. I found the wait times in DCA to usually be much shorter than posted so that was nice.
Never did get to try pyms kitchen but that’s ok, I wasn’t super excited about anything on it, just wanted to try one or two things and see.
Food wise we had lunch at Hollywood lounge near monsters inc. The nachos were decent. The mobile order set up wasn’t very good though. Waited in a long line to get the food only to be told (at the window the app told me to go to when my order was ready) that my order would be at the food truck over to the right. So I had to go stand in another line. The food truck wasn’t supposed to serve drinks for some reason even though they had them. One customer before me wanted to cancel his drinks because he didn’t want to go stand in the long line (who can blame him) after having stood in the line I was now in. So they just did his drinks right there. So dumb how they were trying to do it and confusing to the customers.
We had ice cream at Ghirardelli and later from cozy cone.
DW and I had dinner at Flos and DD had the bacon mac n cheese cone from cozy cone.
I was hoping to maybe get a little disney magic and get back into AC late as people were flooding out at a little after 8pm but it was not to be. I wanted to see it at night and possible get one more GOTG ride in. But the CMs I asked were not letting anyone else in. They closed the line to get into AC sometime before 7pm because people wouldn’t have had enough time to get into AC if they got in line at that point.
Back to DL tomorrow for our last day of this trip. Very happy with how today went overall.
. So I settled for a shirt. Bots were available in several spots I saw through DCA.
