FOP on morning Extra Magic Hours Day

[EBM1228]

How long is the line typically if you go at rope drop?

 

[Robo]

You should plan to arrive about an hour BEFORE posted "Rope Drop."
(Yes, even an hour before the start of AM EMH.)

And, you would not be among the first guests there, even then.

 

[EBM1228]

That is my plan. And if I go straight to FOP, what would the likely wait be at that point?

 

[Robo]

That is my plan. And if I go straight to FOP, what would the likely wait be at that point?

If you are the first guest to reach FoP, your wait will be virtually nothing.
If you are the 100-150th guest to reach FoP, your wait will be may be 25-35 minutes.
If you are the 350th guest to reach FoP...

 

[kalamazoo]

At the end of August, I went before rope drop on both an AM EMH day and non-EMH days. Maybe I was unlucky, but the lineup for FOP was way longer on the EMH day. Totally not worth getting going extra, extra early.

 

[maryj11]

This was posted for me when I had a question . I thought it was big help.

 

[JETSDAD]

We arrived shortly before official park open for an EMH and it took the entire EMH for 1 ride on FOP so if you're wanting more than that be sure to be early.

 

[YawningDodo]

This was posted for me when I had a question . I thought it was big help.

Super helpful, thank you! I'd heard something about staying right when you cross the bridge into Pandora, but seeing it on the video made it a lot clearer. It's also really encouraging that he didn't get on a bus until 80 minutes before park opening but still got so close to the front of the line; I've got Uber as a backup plan if the bus doesn't show up early enough that morning but it'd be nice to save the money and not deal with it.

 

[loves to dive]

We were there the week before Christmas for an early morning EMH. We don't normally rope drop but knew the parks were crowded that week and my son wanted to ride. EMH was 8 am. We got to the park around 7:30, they started letting people in around 7:45 and then stopped you at the Pandora entrance. We were lined up toward the bridge going toward Safari at the back entrance of Pandora. We were off the ride around 8:30.

 

[JohnneeO]

One thing to remember when riding standby in any park during early EMH is that there are no FP+'s scheduled until official park open. So the standby always moves more quickly during EMH.