Can we do all these DHS rides in standby first thing?

Artygal90

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We are headed to WDW in three weeks! I can't believe it's almost here!

Tuesday Jan. 20th is our DHS day. Currently park open is scheduled for 8 am that day and I have a Slinky FP for 9-10 am. Since my better half would get bad crowd anxiety in the rope drop crowd to Smuggler's Run, I am thinking the best thing to do would be for us to arrive about 30-45 minutes early to get our boarding group for RotR and hit up the Sunset Boulevard rides first, then head to Toy Story Land to do TSMM and (if time) Alien Swirling Saucers before our Slinky window closes. We'll work in RotR whenever our BG comes up and just suck up the hour wait to do MFSR sometime in the afternoon between our Star Tours FP and Savi's/Oga's reservations. I like the idea of doing all the Star Wars stuff in the afternoon and evening, finishing up with the fireworks.

Does this sound feasible? I'm worried about the TSL rides developing prohibitive waits before we're able to get over there, but I also don't want to backtrack to Sunset Boulevard in the middle of the day, especially since I would be doing ToT solo.
 
We are headed to WDW in three weeks! I can't believe it's almost here!

Tuesday Jan. 20th is our DHS day. Currently park open is scheduled for 8 am that day and I have a Slinky FP for 9-10 am. Since my better half would get bad crowd anxiety in the rope drop crowd to Smuggler's Run, I am thinking the best thing to do would be for us to arrive about 30-45 minutes early to get our boarding group for RotR and hit up the Sunset Boulevard rides first, then head to Toy Story Land to do TSMM and (if time) Alien Swirling Saucers before our Slinky window closes. We'll work in RotR whenever our BG comes up and just suck up the hour wait to do MFSR sometime in the afternoon between our Star Tours FP and Savi's/Oga's reservations. I like the idea of doing all the Star Wars stuff in the afternoon and evening, finishing up with the fireworks.

Does this sound feasible? I'm worried about the TSL rides developing prohibitive waits before we're able to get over there, but I also don't want to backtrack to Sunset Boulevard in the middle of the day, especially since I would be doing ToT solo.

The challenge is going to be TSMM. You likely won't have a problem with ToT & RnRC.

What's your hard limit on a standby wait time for TSMM? By which I mean how long are you willing to wait?
 
Rock N Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror and Toy Story all standby before 10:15 is possible but you're going to to need some good fortune. I don't think you will have time to de Swirling Saucers as well.

Rock N Roller coaster and Tower of Terror will probably take you 20 minutes each. If you aren't doing single rider Id do RNR first. If you're using single rider I would do ToT first. Then you'll have to walk to Toy Story Land and wait for TSM. Assuming the games open at 7:45 it's possible but it largely depends on the wait by the time you get to Toy Story.
 
The challenge is going to be TSMM. You likely won't have a problem with ToT & RnRC.

What's your hard limit on a standby wait time for TSMM? By which I mean how long are you willing to wait?

Maybe 30-40 minutes? We have passed up the opportunity to ride it twice now on previous trips so we are willing to wait longer this time just to get it done and not have to backtrack later if we were to grab it as a 4th FP.
 



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