DAS and soft openings?

[Mousequake]

There are likely going to be soft openings for Luigi's Rollicking' Roadsters when my daughter and I are there next week. Does DAS work at all with soft openings? I'm thinking no since the rides probably wouldn't officially be in the system yet, but does anybody have any experience with this?

 

[Wendydagny]

There are likely going to be soft openings for Luigi's Rollicking' Roadsters when my daughter and I are there next week. Does DAS work at all with soft openings? I'm thinking no since the rides probably wouldn't officially be in the system yet, but does anybody have any experience with this?

When new FL was in soft opening, they were still using the gac. We were able to use it one time at enchanted tales with belle, but after that we were told no. I don't know if the first cm made a mistake, took pity on us, or what. But I would not count on being able to use it.

 

[lanejudy]

You can ask, but I wouldn't count on it. The problem with soft-openungs is that the ride may close down at various points -- so if you obtained a DAS return time, the ride may not be open when you return.
Enjoy your vacation!

 

[SueM in MN]

I would not count on it either.
We've been to soft openings of a number of attractions and because of how they work, they are unpredictable.
They tend to open and close abruptly and, until the end soft openings (like those for AP holders or DVC members), they are not open at a specific time or for a specific time.
Except for those, they don't announce the opening to anyone - it's pretty much, if you are walking by and see people in line, it's open right now. But, no guarantee for how long or when they will close the line.
As people see it's open, they tend to post on social media and discussion boards, so people come running to get on before it closes. Because of delays in posting and/or people reading about it, guests often get there after the line has closed. That can cause somewhat of a mob scene (which they are trying to avoid by not announcing).

The soft opening is to test things, so the length of the opening can depend on what they are testing and may be short. Lines tend to not be very long waits because they only allow enough people in to do whatever they are testing and they close the line to new people before the wait gets long usually.
In the early days, there tend to be more technical tests and if something comes up, they stop the attraction to fix it. So, you could be in line and the line is stopped for an unknown period of time or evacuated. You could also be in the attraction when that happens.
Later tests tend to be more practice for CMs, so tend to have less stoppages. But, again, they have goals for the test which determine how long the test will be.

Because of the testing, they may not have a lot of flexibility available for doing DAS, so might not allow it for that reason. Even after the technical tests are complete, there may be more stoppages.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

We did this in WDW, so I'm not sure if it will apply in DL. We were in MK when 7DMT was in soft openings. We asked the CM if we could get a DAS return time and she said if a wait time was posted, we could get a time. Sure enough, shortly after I asked, a wait time was posted and we were able to get a return time.

 

[Mousequake]

We did this in WDW, so I'm not sure if it will apply in DL. We were in MK when 7DMT was in soft openings. We asked the CM if we could get a DAS return time and she said if a wait time was posted, we could get a time. Sure enough, shortly after I asked, a wait time was posted and we were able to get a return time.

This is how it ultimately ended up working-- I was able to use DAS during the AP preview yesterday, although every person I asked didn't seem to know how it should work and it seemed like they just let me on because they didn't want to deal with it.

Today, during a regular soft opening, I asked about it and they said as long as it was up and had a standby time listed, I could get a return time, with the understanding that it could go down at any time. I ended up not taking advantage of it, but it's nice to know how it's supposed to work.