Beauty and the Beast at 11:45 and Indiana Jones at 12:30??

[Ari37]

Hi everyone,
So my 60 days opens up for fp+ tomorrow at midnight, and I am fine-tuning some of our touring plans for the occasion! I am having trouble fitting all of the shows that we want to see at HS into our plan, and am wondering whether it would be realistic to see the 11:45 AM Beauty and the Beast showing and then make it to Indiana Jones in time for the 12:30 PM showing? Touring plans is saying that Beauty and the Beast is a 25 minutes long show, and is about 5 minutes away from the Indiana Jones theater. However, the site also recommends arriving 20-30 minutes before show time, and I'm not sure how long it will take us to get out of the Beauty and the Beast theater after the show! Touring plans says that the park will have a crowd level of 3/10 that day in case that is helpful.
Thanks so much for any advice that you can provide!!

 

[Robo]

Just give it a go.
You likely won't be sitting own close at Indy, but there should be seats available, regardless.

(Also, it will help to sit toward the back of the seating at B&tB, so you can exit more quickly.)

 

[gem21]

Yes, I've done this before on my last trip to WDW. We did the 11:45 BATB, 12:30 IJ and then the 1:20 LMA!! But we pretty much just ran from stage to stage! We were at the top of BATB (we had a FP before it, so we were late getting there, but that was our choosing), but we were lower down and off to the side for IJ. It was our second day there so we had planned on only doing the shows then.

 

[FeralCatRogue]

BATB lasts 30 minutes if I remeber right, I do not know how far away IJ is from it but if you factor in the time to walk there and the time to exit BATB you might be cutting it close.

 

[Robo]

BATB lasts 30 minutes if I remeber right, I do not know how far away IJ is from it but if you factor in the time to walk there and the time to exit BATB you might be cutting it close.

The walk between will be about 5-7 minutes.

 

[Cando86]

I think you should be fine especially with a crowd level 3 day. We were there on a similar crowd level day and they were letting people in all the way up to the very start of the show and there were still seats after.

 

[skier_pete]

You can do it, but I don't know that I would bother with FP for the Indiana Jones show. They usually open up the whole FP section to general admission 5 minutes before the show starts, so your FP would be a waste.

 

[Ari37]

Thanks so much for your input, everyone! After reading all of your comments, I realized that although we could probably make it, I would feel anxious all morning about making both shows, so I was able to rearrange things a bit by changing the time of our lunch ADR! The new plan is to see the 11:15 AM Indiana Jones show, use our Star Tours fp+ (11:35-12:35), go to our 12:45 PM ADR (Mama Melrose Fantasmic Lunch package), use our TSMM fp+ at the beginning of the window (1:50 PM- 2:50 PM), see the 3:00 PM Beauty and the Beast show, use our Tower of Terror fp+ (3:15- 4:15 PM), see the 4:30 PM Lights, Motors, Action! show Thoughts?

 

[Robo]

Thanks so much for your input, everyone! After reading all of your comments, I realized that although we could probably make it, I would feel anxious all morning about making both shows, so I was able to rearrange things a bit by changing the time of our lunch ADR! The new plan is to see the 11:15 AM Indiana Jones show, use our Star Tours fp+ (11:35-12:35), go to our 12:45 PM ADR (Mama Melrose Fantasmic Lunch package), use our TSMM fp+ at the beginning of the window (1:50 PM- 2:50 PM), see the 3:00 PM Beauty and the Beast show, use our Tower of Terror fp+ (3:15- 4:15 PM), see the 4:30 PM Lights, Motors, Action! show Thoughts?

11:15 AM Indiana Jones show (Out at 11:50)
Star Tours fp+ (11:35-12:35) (Ride at approx. 12:20-12:30)
12:45 PM ADR (Mama Melrose (Out at about 2PM)
TSMM fp+ at the beginning of the window (1:50 PM... (Ride at approx. 2:15-2:35)
3:00 PM Beauty and the Beast show (Arrive at approx. 2:45, Show ends @ 3:30)
Tower of Terror fp+ (3:15- 4:15 PM) (Ride at approx. 3:45- 4:10) (The inside queue may be long.)
4:30 PM Lights, Motors, Action! (Arrive at approx. 4:20)

A problem might be getting out of ToT in time to walk the very long distance (full length of the park) to Lights, Motors, Action!

 

[Ari37]

Thanks again for your input, Robo! Out of the shows, Lights, Motor, Action! is the one that we care least about, but it sounds like there is still room for improvement in our plan.
One last attempt (assuming I can change the ADR again and fp+ reservations slightly):
Rope drop TSMM, RR, and ToT (rope drop at 8:00 for morning EMH)
Voyage of the Little Mermaid (10:25)
Star Tours with fp+ (10:30- 11:30)
11:35 lunch at Mama Melrose (it looks like this time is still available)
Lights, Motor, Action! (1:20 PM)
TSMM fp+ (1:50- 2:50 PM)
See Walt Disney One Man's Dream and/ or the Magic of Disney Animation
ToT fp+ (3:15-4:15 PM)- go right at 3:15 or move slightly earlier
Beauty and the Beast (4:15 PM)
Indiana Jones (5:15 PM- may be too tight?)
Muppets 3D
Dinner at Sci Fi (6:40 PM)
Does anyone have any feedback on whether this plan is better, worse, or roughly equivalent to the one above? One advantage to this new plan may also be a shorter wait to be seated at Mama Melrose for lunch? I hear that they can build up quite a wait and have very slow service...