20 minutes late, technical problems?
no clue, I wasn't in the area to see what happened I just got there when it was suppose to have started waiting for the second show fp+ time to start. it made the second show 10 minutes late but that was because it took longer to get standby seated. (aka I think they delayed the second show to let more people have a chance to come see it that weren't in line but I was seated in fp and didn't see why it took standby so long to get into the theater) but I could see it half empty witha steady flow of people coming in at advertised start time.
My one point was to note that on many nights there have been reports of the FP+ being way backed up towards the monkeys and folks are getting in line over an hour in advance. And I don't think it will change whether the show was late or not unless they put a huge gap between them. You still have a few thousand people coming out into a tight area where a few thousand are waiting and some that are going to Everest.
jungle book did the same for the first 2-3 weeks. It'll get better. right now everyone is rushing to see it including locals who will die down like anything new that disney does.
I believe the leaked DP originally showed 3 shows, but with it only 15 minutes long they should be able to put a decent gap in there.
I agree, I think the issue might be more that it's new and they don't want the park opened really late yet. I think once pandora, the later sunsets and things are all opened we'll see better spacing. The show I saw was 30 minutes after close.
You are saying what you did was sit next to the line as show one was starting so you could join line for show 2, so again, getting to the line very early. So if the DP seating is a much smaller portion, it may be worth paying the extra few dollars on a meal in order to not be in line a long time for decent seats.
We were only coming in for snacks and ROL so we weren't early as much as the snacks we wanted happened to be where the line started.
this will help:
- 7:20ish we were walking from africa towards EE and say tons and tons and tons of peopel takine up half the walkway trying to watch the show from the walkway between the monkies and the theater.
- 7:30 the first show should have started. It was pretty empty except for normal traffic in the area when there is no show.
- 7:45 it actually started (actually the 5 minute notice when off and it started at 7:50)
- 7:45 cms started to go up the walkway moving thigns like strollers and trash cans to the side and making more room to try to make the situation better.
- 7:50 the fastpass for show 2 window started and they let people line up (still not crowded).
- 8pm we heard what sounded likes start of finale and the fp line finally was long enough for where you enter it so we jumped in.
- 8:10-15ish the theater was empty from the first show and they started to let us go in and sit. they used the door next to the center most fp+ section and worked it's way towards section A (mobility entrance is near A so they are going in separate from the masses).
So if show 1 was on time, it would have ended at 7:45, the theater would ahve been clear by 7:50-7:55 and there would have never been a fp+ line that snaked back towards kali. but figure you want to be near the fp+ entrance by 7:45 or it's going to be a wall of people heading to the tree or leaving the park on that walkway until about pm.
Standby is a different situation where they use a lesser used walkway with no attractions to form a switchback style line so that doesn't make a mess. Preferred used the nemo waiting switchbacks so they aren't in the way either. it's just fastpass and that narrow walkway in that area that is a mess but once things are smoother and CMs know what to do
I can't speak for only 1 show or what the first show line was link, I didn't look. I was just happy to see a second show, fastpasses for it, etc.
