FP for Big Thunder Mountain

[hllb]

I've been watching the wait times app a lot over the last week. One thing I've noticed is that almost every day, there are no big thunder mountain same day FPs available. This kind of surprises me. I certainly expected no 7DMT, FEA, and FoP, but didn't realize this one would have no FPs left too. Is that the norm, or is this the "January is crazy busy compared to the expectation" thing again?

 

[Gentry2004]

I was there Dec. 16 - 23. It was obviously crowded by the end of the trip, but not too bad the first few days of the trip. I never saw any same day FP's for BTMR during our trip. Once we were able to snag Space for 4 ppl as a 4th, but we never saw that again either.

 

[Action City]

I've been watching the wait times app a lot over the last week. One thing I've noticed is that almost every day, there are no big thunder mountain same day FPs available. This kind of surprises me. I certainly expected no 7DMT, FEA, and FoP, but didn't realize this one would have no FPs left too. Is that the norm, or is this the "January is crazy busy compared to the expectation" thing again?

Splash is closed, so BTMRR is picking up the slack.

 

[JETSDAD]

It is one of the more difficult ones to get day of especially when Splash is down or the weather is cold. With some refreshing it can still be found but may take a bit. Just now I was able to quickly add an early evening FP for 3 people for today...with a bit more refreshing it should be possible to modify it to an earlier time.

 

[hllb]

Thanks all. I keep forgetting that splash is closed. That does make sense.

 

[shanew21]

I was there Dec. 16 - 23. It was obviously crowded by the end of the trip, but not too bad the first few days of the trip. I never saw any same day FP's for BTMR during our trip. Once we were able to snag Space for 4 ppl as a 4th, but we never saw that again either.

We were able to grab Space and BTMR numerous times. We even grabbed Peter Pan twice in one day. We were there from the 19th-23rd.

 

[DavidNYC]

What do you mean by "a lot"? If you pull up the app a few times a day and take a look at what's available then the odds are going to be low. If you sit there for five minutes and constantly refresh, you'll likely find it'll pop us as will almost anything else (with 7DMT being the main rare one). All of the major rides aren't going to show up consistently. We were the Jersey Week/ Vet Days weekend and while BTMR was one of the harder ones, it also did pop up pretty regularly if you refreshed enough - not every time, but we were about to get a couple 4th+ FP for that during the trip (as well as FEA, TT, Soarin, TSM, and SM). Pandora was really the only ones we didn't see (although we also had 3 FP for FoP during the trip so didn't really try for add'l ones at AK much.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

We are planning on rope dropping BTMR and then working our way over to Fantasyland.

 

[Klayfish]

With some refreshing it can still be found but may take a bit. Just now I was able to quickly add an early evening FP for 3 people for today...with a bit more refreshing it should be possible to modify it to an earlier time.

This. We never have trouble getting one same day, even during very busy times. It may take a bit of refreshing, but we can get it...and even modify it to an early time.