Fantasmic - late arrival

[sjw4870]

Can you still enjoy Fantasmic if you don't arrive early? Everything I've seen on this is suggesting that you arrive an hour prior to the show. I really have no interest in waiting for an hour to get a decent seat. Not really interested in doing the Fantasmic dinner either. I don't mind if I dont get a perfect view, but if I arrive right around when it starts will I be able to still see? I'm going second week of May - if that matters crowd-wise.

 

[Daryl]

If you are in the back or even standing you can still see fine. Its a BIG SHOW! The real problem is if you wait that late, you may not get in!
Have a wonderful trip!

 

[cinderkelli]

I have never been, but EVERYTHING I hear is get there an hour and a half early. Even for the Fantasmic Dinner Package you have to get there 30 minutes early. I hear if you don't you won't get it at all. Just what I have heard!

 

[mdoc]

I went to MGM on March 26 (spring break time). There were two Fantasmics that night - one at 7:30 and a second at, I think, 9:30. DD and I were on RnR at 7:10. We decided to go to Fantasmic, and if we got in, great, if not, we've seen it before. We gave away our remaining FPs for RnR, stood in line for a turkey leg and then went to Fantasmic. We started in at about 7:20 and got seated a couple minutes before it started. We were on the far side as you went in, but I thought the view was fine. We chose to sit near the back so it'd be easier to get out - we could have sat further up in that far section. Maybe I lucked out, but I don't like fantasmic enough to wait in line for an hour or more or book a dining package to see it.

 

[SueM in MN]

I went to MGM on March 26 (spring break time). There were two Fantasmics that night - one at 7:30 and a second at, I think, 9:30. DD and I were on RnR at 7:10. We decided to go to Fantasmic, and if we got in, great, if not, we've seen it before. We gave away our remaining FPs for RnR, stood in line for a turkey leg and then went to Fantasmic. We started in at about 7:20 and got seated a couple minutes before it started. We were on the far side as you went in, but I thought the view was fine. We chose to sit near the back so it'd be easier to get out - we could have sat further up in that far section. Maybe I lucked out, but I don't like fantasmic enough to wait in line for an hour or more or book a dining package to see it.

i took a picture of the audience 5 minutes before the show started on the night we went during Spring break (it was sometime between March 26 and April 2nd, just don't remember when). By 5 minutes before the show started, the farthest area from the entrance (the far left side as you face the stage) was still about 1/3 empty. They didn't have anyone at all in the standing room only areas as far as we could see.

 

[Miller1412]

I went to MGM on March 26 (spring break time). There were two Fantasmics that night - one at 7:30 and a second at, I think, 9:30. DD and I were on RnR at 7:10. We decided to go to Fantasmic, and if we got in, great, if not, we've seen it before. We gave away our remaining FPs for RnR, stood in line for a turkey leg and then went to Fantasmic. We started in at about 7:20 and got seated a couple minutes before it started. We were on the far side as you went in, but I thought the view was fine. We chose to sit near the back so it'd be easier to get out - we could have sat further up in that far section. Maybe I lucked out, but I don't like fantasmic enough to wait in line for an hour or more or book a dining package to see it.

We did the exact same thing last year on Easter Sunday, just sort of wandered in, and we could see really well too.

 

[Ilovestitch]

I would never EVER get to Fantasmic an hour early. We've seen it in May and we just walk in 10 mins before it starts- sometimes we get a seat and sometimes we are in the "standing room only" section which is fine. I think the show is less than 15 mins so its not bad to stand for it- also when you stand you can scoot out quick at the end and don't have to wait in this huge mass of people.

 

[babywewe]

is the second showing less crowded?

 

[DISUNC]

We always go in 5 minutes before it starts! NO problem! No line! Can see EVERYTHING!