I thought I'd give a quick report from a solo trip on June 20. My number one goal for going was to avoid line waits, the number two goal was to see PotC and SM with the overlays, and the number three goal was to watch the Maleficient parade. I caught part of the Villains stage show on
Youtube, and decided that I wasn't going to plan around it.
With the DAH ticket, you were told you could enter at 7pm - it was actually about 6:45 when they started letting people in to the park.
Before the event started at 10pm, I rode:
Peter Pan - FP
Space Mountain - FP
Got dinner at Pecos Bill's here in the middle
Splash Mountain - FP (last pre-booked FP)
Magical Carpet x2 - FP during the Happily Ever After Fireworks
Treehouse during Fireworks
Jungle Cruise - FP
Haunted Mansion - 9:45pm - 10 minute posted wait, out at 10:01pm or so.
At this point the event started, and every CM started asking to see the DAH wristbands - and they were pretty active about going around to people that were just sitting down and not even walking around.
I looked on the
MDE app, and 7DMT was showing a 10 minute wait right at 10:02 pm - I went straight there from HM, and hopped in the FP line for about a 10-15 minute wait. From 7DMT, I went to Peter Pan again, but the line was long and slow and did not seem to be a 10 minute wait, so I bailed for Pirates - which said 10 minutes and was probably about that. I only saw one actor in the queue, and that was skippable. The pirate on the bridge was getting a kick out of the audience participation - that was actually a lot of fun.
Since I was over at Pirates, I went to BTM, for a 10 minute wait, and then called it quits on that side of the park - I did everything except Tiki Room. Over to Tomorrowland, where I rode an empty People Mover, no real wait for Astro Orbiter except for the elevators up, an empty walk-on Buzz, and then a 15 minute wait for Space Mountain. I was disappointed in the "pitch-dark" and "villains voices" part of Space - I actually thought it was much cooler to go through SM on the People Mover where you could hear Ursula and hear screaming coaster riders but not see them, than it was to be on Space. I wouldn't wait real long in line for this unless you just really like Space Mountain.
Done with Tomorrowland, I walked back to Frontierland for another ride on BTM, and then finished on Splash. Caught the 1 am stage show, thought the DJ/projects/lights were fun at the castle, and then watched Maleficient right in front of the castle. Villain Hecklers were gone by 1:50am, so missed all of that.
I enjoyed the event, especially at roughly the same price as a 1-day MK ticket.
