Hollywood Studios Lightning Lanes

[chevab2020]

We will visit Hollywood Studios this April (busy time), the day after we check in to our Disney property. My understanding is that we will be able to pick lighting lane passes 8 days before we visit the park. Will good selections still be available, or are they taken already by people who have longer stays? Also happy to hear any tips/strategies for DHS using early entry and LL. We have one rider under 48". Thanks!

 

[scrappinginontario]

You can begin booking LL's 7 days before your arrival day. E.g. if you arrive on a Sat you can start to book the Sat before.

You will still have good selections at 7 days out although some of the top attractions may be later in the day but most/all should be available.

Thrill-Data shows when LLs are selling out.

 

[Tom_E_D]

We will visit Hollywood Studios this April (busy time), the day after we check in to our Disney property. My understanding is that we will be able to pick lighting lane passes 8 days before we visit the park. Will good selections still be available, or are they taken already by people who have longer stays? Also happy to hear any tips/strategies for DHS using early entry and LL. We have one rider under 48". Thanks!

Not all April weeks are equally busy. This article gives info on when LLMP reservations run out in low, medium and high crowds: https://touringplans.com/blog/which-llmp-advance-selections-to-make-at-walt-disney-world/

Rock 'n Roller Coaster is the only Hollywood Studios ride with a height requirement over 40 inches.

 

[chevab2020]

Thanks for these resources! A few more questions--Rise of Resistance isn't part of multi-pass? So the options are to pay extra for the ride or wait? Does it make sense to go there first at rope drop? Also, what does LL get you at the shows, priority seating? Or just ability to go in earlier to get better seats? Finally, which rides at DHS have fun queues that may be more enjoyable to wait in line for? Thank you!

 

[We’reAllMadHere]

Yes, Rise is a LLSP or standby. Sometimes it opens even before early entry is supposed to begin. However sometimes it does not. It usually has shorter lines late at night, but Rise is not the most reliable ride.

Rise also has a single rider line but you bypass the very fun preshows.

LL at shows usually gives you priority seats but unless you’re going at a very busy time, there is really no need to use LL on shows.

For early entry, Rise and Slinky are the rides most people will head to.

 

[cisco911]

I suggesr getting the LLSP for rise if it is in the budget. Last trip was our first trip with Rise being open and we planned to rope drop it. It was down when the park opened and was on and and off all day so when it was up, the wait is quite long and since I have young kids that did not want spend 2 hours in line and I would rather spend time with them than wait the 2 hours on my own, we skipped it. If you buy the LLSP, even if it is down, you get priority when it comes back up. Worse case scenario is you can still rope drop it if its open and ride it again with the LLSP. Or since you have that secured, you can do something else while everyone is busy going to Rise. You can probably get great pictures in front of the Millenium Falcon with no one around if Rise is open.

We are going in the summer and I am buying the LLSP and just rope drop Toy story and Millenium Falcon

 

[TheDailyMoo]

LLMP for Slinky and rope drop Rise is really the way to go if you want to do both.

 

[elvispursley]

Thanks for these resources! A few more questions--Rise of Resistance isn't part of multi-pass? So the options are to pay extra for the ride or wait? Does it make sense to go there first at rope drop? Also, what does LL get you at the shows, priority seating? Or just ability to go in earlier to get better seats? Finally, which rides at DHS have fun queues that may be more enjoyable to wait in line for? Thank you!

For ROTR, I’d either rope drop it or wait until the end of the day and jump in line. Of course, you can try and get a LLSP as well. Personally, I’d rope drop Slinky and wait I. The queue for ROTR—I’ve always had DAS and entered through the LL entrance. Last year I did not use DAS and rope dropped it—it was a walk-on and the queue was so detailed that I would not have been annoyed if I went standby in that queue.

We did have a LL for for FEA but because we had scooters, we were seated first. So not fully clear on what the process would’ve been. I k is in the case of using LL for Festival of the Lion King at AK, they seated the LL pass guests who were lined up first.

 

[hes122]

In November, I hopped over to HS from EP around 8:00 (9:00 close night) and managed to knock out ROTR and TSMM before getting in line at Slinky around 8:50ish (this was all via the standby line). I walked right on to the pre-show at Rise and the wait at TSMM was pretty much a walk-on too, but there was a bit of a wait getting off the ride.

 

[chevab2020]

On nights when there are two Fantasmic shows, are there shorter wait times during the first show or not really?

 

[We’reAllMadHere]

On nights when there are two Fantasmic shows, are there shorter wait times during the first show or not really?

Shorter lines for rides? Yes. The early show is always the more popular and draws some crowds away from the rides.

If you mean a shorter line for Fantasmic, the second show always has a shorter line.

 

[chevab2020]

Sorry, yes, I meant shorter lines for the rides. Thank you!