DLR/DCA on Superbowl Sunday

[halfmonkey]

I was thinking of maybe making a trip to DLR/DCA on Superbowl Sunday but I hear that it's actually a very busy for the parks. Is this true? Does the crowd start dying down in the afternoon at all once the game is started or is about to begin or does it stay busy all through out the day?

 

[tlovesdis]

The weekends are always packed, unless it's raining. I was there this past weekend and Saturday was packed, Sunday not so much cause of the rain. If the weather is good, it will be busy.

 

[figment_jii]

Here was a report from 2014:
http://www.disboards.com/threads/superbowl-crowds.3230845/

 

[halfmonkey]

Here was a report from 2014:
http://www.disboards.com/threads/superbowl-crowds.3230845/

Yikes! We're planning on going on Sunday so I guess we'll just have to prepare ourselves. Besides, I still want to check out the new Star Wars merchandise and I'm still looking to see if they have, "The Force is strong in my family" t-shirt in stock. We also want to meet Kylo Ren too. We met Darth Vader in December so my kids are now excited to meet Kylo Ren. Besides, I need my DLR/DCA fix.

 

[figment_jii]

I tried to find reports from last year, but I couldn't really find anything. Basically, as tlovesdis said, weekends are pretty busy at this point regardless of any other event happening. So I would go expecting large crowds. As mentioned in the 2014 thread, I think there was a local LA (or even Southern California team) playing, you might see an impact on the parks, but with both teams being from out-of-the-area, I would expect the impact to be fairly low.

 

[MICKEYFIL]

Roughly 115 million Americans watch the Super Bowl. Roughly one third of the population. It seems odd that a park which historically relied upon local visitors would not be impacted for attendance on a day like that. Still, who am I to say what will happen. What I do know for certain is that I will be reporting back my findings as we will be in DLR that day.

 

[lalasmama]

I recall 2014 being busy. I had hoped for low crowds, but nope! It didn't clear out at all when the game was on.

 

[figment_jii]

Roughly 115 million Americans watch the Super Bowl. Roughly one third of the population. It seems odd that a park which historically relied upon local visitors would not be impacted for attendance on a day like that. Still, who am I to say what will happen. What I do know for certain is that I will be reporting back my findings as we will be in DLR that day.

I wonder if higher park attendance on days like the Super Bowl are driven by folks that aren't interested in the game, but still want to do something. It's not exactly anti-Super Bowl, but kind of "well...if everyone else is watching the Super Bowl, let's go to <fill in the blank> instead because everyone will be watching the Super Bowl" mentality.

 

[Mysteryincorp]

I think word got out that it was empty on Super Bowl Sunday and everybody flocked there the last few years.

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Roughly 115 million Americans watch the Super Bowl. Roughly one third of the population. It seems odd that a park which historically relied upon local visitors would not be impacted for attendance on a day like that. Still, who am I to say what will happen. What I do know for certain is that I will be reporting back my findings as we will be in DLR that day.

I wonder if higher park attendance on days like the Super Bowl are driven by folks that aren't interested in the game, but still want to do something. It's not exactly anti-Super Bowl, but kind of "well...if everyone else is watching the Super Bowl, let's go to <fill in the blank> instead because everyone will be watching the Super Bowl" mentality.

So thinking about this math and this suggested motivation...

Disneyland is rumored to have as many as 1 million annual passholders. So if roughly one third of them are watching the Super Bowl that leaves 600,500+ that aren't watching it and that have admission to Disneyland (although in fairness we would have to not count the subsection of so cal select passholders since they would be blocked out). Then, of course, there's anyone else local or not who decides to use single or multi-day tickets to Disneyland that day. Like Figment says they may all be thinking they may as well go to Disneyland since they don't watch the Super Bowl, or they may not have even paid attention to the fact that it is the day of the Super Bowl.

It only takes around 50,000 people to make Disneyland feel crowded, especially when there any significant number of attractions and/or walkways that are closed for refurbishment.

 

[offwithyourhead]

I was there last Superbowl Sunday and it was busy. If it were me, I would make that my shopping/wandering no-plan day, because you may not get much done if there are multiple things you're trying to do, especially with large parts of the park closed.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I think word got out that it was empty on Super Bowl Sunday and everybody flocked there the last few years.

I agree with this. Already this year I've had several people tell me that they "know" DL will be a ghost town on Super Bowl Sunday. Um, yeah, you and tens of thousands of other guests will be filling up that ghost town, if past years' experience is anything to go by.