**Disney After Hours - Magic Kingdom** FAQ & Discussion Thread

[KangaFan]

Space mountain has been down for awhile. Crossing our fingers it’s open for the event.

When booking fast passes for before the event starts in August, I couldn’t get Pirates or Space Mtn for 9-10 pm so I’m thinking they close early to add the overlay?

 

[skis2]

Looks like splash mountain is down as well tonight.

 

[tookydo]

When booking fast passes for before the event starts in August, I couldn’t get Pirates or Soace Mtn for 9-10 pm so I’m thinking they close early to add the overlay?

My son had fastpasses which turned into multiple experience passes. His passes were 6:25-7:25.

 

[Raya]

Some pre-party crowd updates: 55 minute standby wait on bug thunder mountain, 25 minute fast pass wait. Lines for a churro or popcorn were 5 to 10 people deep. I'm hoping things clear out after fireworks.

Side note not every shop had the same party merchandise. The T-shirt of my dreams was at Mickey's Philharmonic, not Momento Mori.

 

[afan]

Some pre-party crowd updates: 55 minute standby wait on bug thunder mountain, 25 minute fast pass wait. Lines for a churro or popcorn were 5 to 10 people deep. I'm hoping things clear out after fireworks.

Side note not every shop had the same party merchandise. The T-shirt of my dreams was at Mickey's Philharmonic, not Momento Mori.

Looking at touring plans and most of the posted times are all inflated as expected at this time of night.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

9:30 pm and no Space & no Splash. Space has been down since about 6:30. Not a happy camper right now as my teen and I are just here for rides. We’re in standby for BTMRR now HEA finishes.

 

[cakebaker]

9:30 pm and no Space & no Splash. Space has been down since about 6:30. Not a happy camper right now as my teen and I are just here for rides. We’re in standby for BTMRR now HEA finishes.

Sucks when rides are down during special events you pay a lot of money for. Been there done that with Magic Morning at the MK.

 

[cakebaker]

9:30 pm and no Space & no Splash. Space has been down since about 6:30. Not a happy camper right now as my teen and I are just here for rides. We’re in standby for BTMRR now HEA finishes.

The streamer I'm watching says Space is down for the switch over to villains.

 

[tookydo]

Space is open

 

[vinotinto]

The streamer I'm watching says Space is down for the switch over to villains.

Wow. 3-4 hours for the overlay? Is it because today is the first night? they've put out FPs during that period, so if the ride being down is planned, it didn't coordinate with FPs.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1136817739945992192

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Space was down earlier likely due to mechanical reasons. It reopened a little less than an hour ago, before the park closed. Wait time shot up pretty quick.

From watching the app and various tweets, I don’t think it was down for the overlay, just a ‘normal’ long ride downtime.

 

[cakebaker]

Wow. 3-4 hours for the overlay? Is it because today is the first night? they've put out FPs during that period, so if the ride being down is planned, it didn't coordinate with FPs.

He corrected himself. Talked to a CM just before 10 and they said it didn’t take long to switch over. They put event folks through the FP line before closing.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Having a Mickey ice cream sandwich. There are CMs blocking paths everywhere for wristband checks. We will probably hang out in FL for a bit before checking out Space overlay.

 

[tookydo]

There are CMs everywhere doing wrist band checks. Literally 10 in a straight line across the walkway in front of IASW. My son even commented, in the 5 after hour events he’s attended, he’s never seen so many.

 

[afan]

Wait times look pretty good everywhere but Space, 7D and Pan. Not surprising given the overlay and that the other two always seem to have waits and could have had regular guests get in line right before park close.

 

[Raya]

3 band checks between splash and big thunder. Wait for water bottles was about five minutes. There aren't really any crowds left about 30 minutes the event

 

[AllThingsMickey4]

Just walked right on Peter Pan. Day crowd is finally starting to thin out thanks to the CMs sweeping the park checking for bands.

 

[Cinderumbrella]

We’ve walked onto IASW, Pooh, Buzz (twice) and in line for Astro Orbiter. Crowds are very light. Honestly haven’t checked out any stage shows yet. There’s villlainy music playing and special lighting everywhere. Park seems well cleared

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1136833645757444098