anyone done the wwohp with dslr and do all the rides.
i'll be going with one other person, and i'm not willing not to bring the dslr
We were just there Tuesday 9/21, and I brought my DSLR. You can ask one of the attendants at the front of the castle to do a "castle tour" just to take pictures in the queue. They'll let you walk through with your camera in a line that runs parallel to the regular line (except you'll miss the greenhouse)--that way you can take pics without actuallly waiting in the line--and then when you get close to the ride loading area, you exit without riding.
As for a crowd report and experiences with FJ....
As I said, we were there 9/21. Got to Harry Potter area about 10:00-10:30. At that point FJ was a 60-minute wait. We stored our stuff in lockers. An attendant was telling everyone single rider was a five-minute wait. We decided that for our first ride, we'd do the single-rider and then come back later and go through the regular line to see that.
Well....
So we got in the single rider line. And we waited. And waited. And waited. We waited FIFTY minutes. In the single-rider line.
Turns out the person in charge of directing the standby line and the single rider line just before the loading area did not know what she was doing. She was mixing up the lines, and top of that, as she was mixing them she was allowing about 30-40 people from standby into her mixed up line for every 1-2 people from the single-rider line. It was a mess.
Needless to say people were NOT happy. Some guys in single rider ended up jumping the queue into the standby line because it was moving so much faster. When the TM yelled at them, they tried to explain and she did NOT understand. She got mad and ended up yelling at all of us, waving her hands around while saying "FINE, you want to ride together, you'll ALL ride together" and actually hit me in the side of the head with her hand (by accident).
Anyway we finally got on after an hour in the single rider line. Afterwards we went back to the front of the castle to try to explain to the attendants there the problem (because we still weren't sure the issue was being corrected, because the TM never did understand what people were trying to tell her).
The attendant at the front took us through the line (through the castle so we could see everying we had missed in single-rider) to the front so that we got on the ride immediately. That was very nice of her. Once there we noticed the TM who'd been mixing the lines was gone, and we found from talking with the new TM that they had finally understood what was happening and that was why they'd replaced the other TM.
So anyway, we got to ride again, but that time it broke. We got stuck briefly at the end of the dementors scene, and then the screens/movies for the rest of the ride did not work.
So all in all.... not such a magical experience for Forbidden Journey for us. The ride itself really was a lot of fun, but after two rough experiences, we decided that was enough. I had sort of lost the desire to even walk through the "castle tour" queue with my camera just to take pics, so we left the castle for the day.
We enjoyed the rest of WWoHP for another couple hours after that.... riding Dragon Challenge, drinking butterbeer (loved it), and just taking our time in the shops.
All in all I am very glad we went: the theming is amazing. FJ is a fun ride, although perhaps because of our disappointing queue experience, it didn't quite blow me away the way I thought it woud. (But please hear me, it was still VERY good--I think we were just so rattled...) Butterbeer was awesome. Loved Dragon Challenge. Loved Zonko's and Honeydukes.
Moral of the story..... well, I guess it's that if you get in the single rider line and it seems to be taking way too long, leave, let a TM know, and try back later!
We waited about 15-20 minutes and I would recommend waiting at Ollivander's first because the rest of the day it looks to be about a 45+minute wait AND in the morning, the line is next to the building which shades you from the sun. Later in the day you will be waiting in DIRECT sunlight.
We did MiB, Jaws was closed
, Disaster, the Mummy, Beetlejuice, Twister, then ET and Jaws. (RRRclosed
) Back to IOA and walked on Doom's Fearfall twice, walked on the Hulk, 15 minutes for Spiderman, no wait for Bluto's, 10min for Jurassic Park. Back at WWoHP, at 3pm it was a 40 minute wait for FJ but we got on in about 30 and literally, Hermione said "one, two three....." and the ride shut down. We waited in our seats for 15-20min until they finally turned the lights on and we had to go thru the ride with the lights on. Very interesting to see how they do it!
We got a voucher to use and used it once the ride got up and running. Last ride of the day was Dragon Challenge and we walked on it again.
In it were my credit cards, license, tickets, etc. I checked behind me and found it! 
Luckily I checked before it fell from the seat. 
