Strongly agree with all of this. I was pretty against losing Maelstrom to Frozen…but there are a lot of actual countries with actual Disney stories set in them or character associated with them and they really need a few more rides around World Showcase…and while we’re at it, I want Marrakesh back too.
How is it??
This was a sad loss from that pandemic. This pavilion had so much history. Wish the Kingdom of Morocco would return with its sponsorship.
The store there used to have so many cool things for sale… A shadow of itself.
Yes, you can just buy in advance and then activate when she gets there. She can go to the tap in station. Usually you can activate it there, but once in a while they make you go over to guest services.
The best way to purchase the Sorcerer Pass is for you to call MS and buy it for her. Explain to them what you're trying to do. They should be able to make it happen, but your daughter will probably need to stop by a Guest Services window before entering a Park the first time in order to verify the address on her ID matches your official DVC address. It's also possible that MS will go ahead and pre-verify her eligibility without seeing her ID. In which case your daughter can go straight to a park and the pass will activate when she enters the first time. MS isn't technically supposed to do that, but they might. In any case, you're daughter will know if she needs to stop by Guest Services first or not by looking at her pass in her MDE account. It will say on the pass.
There have been inconsistent reports that Sorcerer passes purchased through MS need activation before working at the gate.
As a related data point, when we purchased a SP for my minor child (the rest of us had passes already) last fall, we were required to go to a ticket booth day 1 to do something which involved me giving proof of my ID (don’t think I had to show proof of membership but potentially they checked it and I forgot).
There is also a pancake race that originated in Olney which is a little town near me! That involves running with a frying an while flipping the (crepe style) pancake and trying not to drop it!
I'm the opposite, when i first get to FL I'm wide awake at 4am (if I'm lucky enough to sleep until then!), great for rope dropping but coming home the jet lag hits me hard!You also make an important point here—in my 20s, I could wake at 6:30, rope drop, nap from 1-4, and then stay out until midnight (back in the magical days where almost every day had extended hours at one park)— these days I’ve got kids who won’t nap for any amount of bribes, so it’s harder to pull off.
Honestly, I think I would land here except that I’m on the West Coast and I work from home in pajamas so it’s like 4-5 hours earlier to rope drop Epcot, let alone AK.
I would DEFINITELY rope drop for Cosmic Rewind if the preshow process wasn’t so crazy long. Like if I could get even 2 rides in before the wait stretched out beyond 45 minutes, it would be easier to justify to myself. For now, I just pay the after hours tax instead.
I did not get to see a lot of the older classics that have been mentioned! I never went as a kid. I would have loved to see some of that! I think it's nice others were able to see the older WDW and can still enjoy it now!
Slinky was posted as 30 minutes, but was actually about 20 minutes which was fine. I don't know if anything special was happening at EPCOT. It was a weird week for the Extended Evening Hours because they didn't have them for Magic Kingdom this week- it was HS and AK.
Wednesday was awesome at MK because of the early closure!! We rode Tron 3 times in less than 30 minutes during early entry. We could have kept going, but I was over Tron at that point! Since EE was at 7:30am, it felt like an empty park for at least an hour since I think a bunch of people thought EE was at 8:30am. Even after that, the wait times were low. Highly recommend hitting a park that has an early closure. We left around 2pm, grabbed a nap and dinner, then hopped to Animal Kingdom for Extended Hours.
Same thing happened to us! Once inside McKim's there were so many open tables. I was surprised to hear there were so many people waiting to get in but yet there was clearly room available. They tried to put me and my husband at a table for 6 people, but I insisted on a smaller table so they could use the larger table for a bigger group. They didn't bring anyone else in to fill it or the other empty tables though. I thought that was weird. Is it normal for them to not fill the lounge and keep a large wait list? I was glad we have DVC-BY so we could get in within minutes but hated that was necessary.
Agreed-- Slinky is more like Seven Dwarfs, less than Big Thunder for intensity. One of the nice things about Slinky is that the restraints are individual rather than a single restraint bar for both riders. I like that individual lap bar because there is a large height difference for myself and my husband. As the smaller person, I go sliding around quite a bit on Big Thunder but am secure in Seven Dwarfs and Slinky with the individual restraint. I imagine kids feel the same way given the size difference between them and the parent.
We were at BLT for the first half of our trip and then Poly. BLT/Contemporary shared busses with Wilderness Lodge. They seemed to always pick up and drop off at WL first.
They have them at WinCo regularly
Yes! TWO MORE DAYS! I am ready to be there already.
Did Cosmic Rewind several times over our trip last week and they were definitely alternating door 1 and 3 opening first. The middle door always stayed closed and roped off. It was a gamble on which door you would stand in front of.I saw that, and I think it sounds like a good solution with a minor change. If they always start with the last section, then everyone who normally crowds towards the doors will now just crowd towards one particular door to get in the section that is released first. They now need to just randomize the order or let the CM choose which of the 3 sections are let go so that no one section has an advantage over the others for people to fight over. Of course if I were a CM with that power and I saw people rush to fill one particular one, I would always choose to release that one last
Activated our Sorcerer Passes about 10 days ago. We went directly to Guest Relations at MK and it took them about 5 minutes to activate our two passes. I didn't even try to go directly to the gate, but given that it took him a few minutes, I imagine it was necessary to go to GR. We did have to show ID and my Apple Wallet.
