Do you think HM do a soft opening a day early?

[Disney-Kim]

for the Halloween overlay?? we leave Sept 16th and will just miss it.....boo hoo

 

[Sherry E]

for the Halloween overlay?? we leave Sept 16th and will just miss it.....boo hoo

I think they very well might - or could - do one. Of course, we never know until it happens because it's not announced, but my guess is that if they get the overlay done a bit ahead of schedule, and the CMs test it out to make sure it's good to go, it might open on the 16th, possibly. Last year I don't think there were any soft openings that were reported here on the DIS. I would hover ominously around the HM area on the 16th as much as possible. What time do you leave? Early or late?

The actual start of HalloweenTime is 9/17, so if HMH opens on the 16th, that will be a soft opening, I suppose.

 

[Disney-Kim]

Now that I realize it our last day in the parks will actually be the 15th....thats the day our hoppers will expire.

oh well...the night of the 15th we will keep hovering...just in case

 

[Sherry E]

Yes, keep hovering close by the NOS area!

See, my guess - assuming that DLR has the whole overlay process finely tuned by now, after so many years of doing it - was that they could whip out the HMH fairly quickly.

Therefore, I really was not expecting them to close down HM before a major holiday weekend to start the transformation. I would have assumed that at the latest they would shut HM down immediately after Labor Day ended - like 9/7 or 9/8 or so - or at the earliest, if it had to be pre-Labor Day, then possibly on 9/1 or 9/3. The fact that they are shutting it down on August 30th (with a goal of a HalloweenTime start date on 9/17) seems kind of early-ish to me. So I'm thinking that because they are closing HM a bit early, they may very well be able to do a soft opening this year if all goes well with the installation. Of course, I could be completely wrong - wouldn't be the first time - but it could be possible for the 15th. You never know. It's certainly happened before at DLR - the soft openings - so it's not out of the realm of possibility!

 

[specialks]

We were there last year and there were no soft openings for HM or SM.

 

[Disney-Kim]

Well we can always hope

HM is my fav ride...but if we miss it...no biggie. We have seen the NBC overlay before