Early magic day- affects MK crowds?

[JenniferFolsomCa]

I was considering going to MK on a day where the park opens at 9am to the public but has the paid ticket from 7:45-9 for other people. Not sure if I should change my plan or if it is going to be much busier? What would anyone suggest? At 9 do most people head over to Tomorrowland since that is where breakfast is?

I am not going to pay the extra myself, too large of a group and no one wants to wake up extra early. Rope drop is plenty early enough as it is!

Jenn

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Early Morning Magic (EMM) is too small a guest count to have any impact on crowds, and those guests are scattering to various parts of the park or going to breakfast at 9am anyway - so they are even further diluted into the fabric of a MK day. If you had not seen it on the park calendar, in all likelihood you would never even know EMM were occurring that day based on what you experience/see on the ground, in my opinion.

 

[TisBit]

The biggest issue with an early magic day, is just understanding if you are trying to get there early (at 9 am or slightly before) you won't have a first chance to get into a line before it forms too long (why people do rope drop). But, if you arrive at 10 am, you won't notice much of a difference from an EMM day or not. Same goes for Extra Magic Hours for onsite guests.

In a related note, I think evening extra magic hours for on site guests is completely different. Guests with park hoppers tend to move to that park in the afternoon or guests without park hopper may go to that park all day in order to have the EMH. Hard ticket events in the evening are also similar. While guests are being ushered out and ticketed guests are arriving, the park gets very very crowded, then starts to die out about an hour into the ticketed event.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

The biggest issue with an early magic day, is just understanding if you are trying to get there early (at 9 am or slightly before) you won't have a first chance to get into a line before it forms too long (why people do rope drop).

Just curious, I am not sure why you would say this about Early Morning Magic? Early Morning Magic has effectively no impact on the regular day guest rope drop experience, or at least not anything close to what could be considered a negative impact.

Extra Magic Hours, absolutely. But not Early Morning Magic.

 

[TisBit]

Just curious, I am not sure why you would say this about Early Morning Magic? Early Morning Magic has effectively no impact on the regular day guest rope drop experience, or at least not anything close to what could be considered a negative impact.

Extra Magic Hours, absolutely. But not Early Morning Magic.

My point is that there will be people in the park already. I agree it has little impact, but if you are a rope drop person, those in the park can effectively beat you at rope drop. I haven't done rope drop with these events, but just having guests in the parks early will have some (albeit minor) impact.

 

[gharter]

I've done RD many times and I've never been the first person in line for any ride. So, for me, the difference between the number of people ahead of me at RD and adding in those few from EMM (that already were in the park) is really no different.
EMH, if I'm not there at the start of it, I skip that park. EMM, I don't worry about.

 

[JenniferFolsomCa]

Hard to imagine that when I rope drop, which is always our plan, that if I go to Space Mountain, there won't already be a large group of people who just finished with Fantasyland and are moving on to other lands...

Do they let us on main street at 8am and then not into the land until 9? Is that how it would be on a regular day or do they sometimes let people in a bit early?

Jenn

 

[gharter]

Hard to imagine that when I rope drop, which is always our plan, that if I go to Space Mountain, there won't already be a large group of people who just finished with Fantasyland and are moving on to other lands...

Do they let us on main street at 8am and then not into the land until 9? Is that how it would be on a regular day or do they sometimes let people in a bit early?

Jenn

You will be let into Mainstreet at about 8 and can go up to the hub and pick your route to the land you want to go to.
They will not let you into the lands until the opening ceremony at the castle is over at 9.
If you are there on an EMH morning and staying on site, you can get at 8, otherwise at the posted opening time.