Delayed openenings on certain rides?

[lentesta]

This is fantastic info! Thank you so much.
Using this, we will plan to go straight to Millennium Falcon on our HS day.
Since I don't see Millennium Falcon in the table, is it really possible that it is almost never down during EE?

That's correct. One of the interesting things about the data is how well rides with built-in fault tolerance perform:

• Soarin' has 3 theaters that run largely independently - down 2% at rope drop.
• Flight of Passage has multiple ride systems - down 2% at rope drop
• Toy Story Mania has 3 ride tracks - down 4%

 

[mickeyluv'r]

That's correct. One of the interesting things about the data is how well rides with built-in fault tolerance perform:

• Soarin' has 3 theaters that run largely independently - down 2% at rope drop.
• Flight of Passage has multiple ride systems - down 2% at rope drop
• Toy Story Mania has 3 ride tracks - down 4%

Ugh! Then we recently got rather unlucky. The CM's did not inform us that TSM was down when we scanned our LL, but it was. We were held for a solid 15 minutes just inside the building, then we were moved towards one of the tracks, but had to wait another almost 10minutes until they got that track running. Had I been informed, I would have done something else first.

Another day in 2025, we arrived at MK about 8:50. Since it was the end of EE, we decided to wait for Jungle Cruise opening at 9am. It was down. At that point, we probably should have checked MDE, but decided to just walk over to Pirates. Not normally where I would go in the morning, but we only had a few hours in the park that day. Pirates was down. Third, we walked to Tiana's. Tiana's was ALSO down! At all 3, CM said they didn't know when the rides would open.

After that, I checked the app. We headed to HM, which was still walk-on. Fantasyland and Tomorrowland attractions all had solid waits by then.

EE was really rather a bust!

I am slightly inclined to think that with all we pay these days to be in MK, when that many rides are down, WDW should offer some sort of little bit of compensation to guests, like a free snack or at least a handful of stickers or some other gesture of good will.

 

[Minnie1222]

Observations from from 2021-2024. I'm confident Disney's data is the same:

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On the bright side, the chance of a ride not being down at rope drop is 59% to 98%.

 

[lentesta]

Even during EE too?

Yeah, wait times aren't displayed for EE. And other than the CM standing on Hollywood Boulevard shouting out the staus of ROTR, there's no way for EE guests to know a ride will be down at rope drop.

I'm really surprised about not doing this. It has to be a big guest dissatisfier to wait until a couple of minutes before opening to tell people to go elsewhere. They'd go from being front-of-line for their first ride, to back-of-line. Essentially a waste of time and effort to get up for EE. A couple of CMs or data in the app would solve this relatively cheaply.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

And other than the CM standing on Hollywood Boulevard shouting out the staus of ROTR, there's no way for EE guests to know a ride will be down at rope drop.

For the main headliner(s), Universal will have a CM shouting the status that you walk past right at the entrance, and then again where paths split. They'll usually also put up big sandwich boards "X ride is not open for early entry" or "X ride opening is delayed" at the same path splits. Since the ride is down, those TMs are available for "shouting" duty. It still sucks that a ride is down, but it does let guests pivot before committing to a ride Universal knew was down.