Rope drop is a waste of time, you are just waiting in a different place. You wait an hour out in front of the park to get in, then get trampled going to a headliner. You may only wait 10 minutes, but you waited 60 minutes already outside the park, so no real savings and you had to wake up at the crack of dawn on vacation. I'd rather sleep in, go to the pool, get to a park in the afternoon, and if I wait 60 minutes in a line for a headliner, it's just about the same! And I'll stay later in the evening and go on the headliners during a parade or fireworks and hardly wait at all, regardless of the posted wait time (I agree with the other post #1, and actually, quite a few of the others!).