Will it be a Fatasmic night too? This really made the crowds heavier at spring break.
Over spring break (DS wanted to see Fatasmic) and we didn't have park hoppers, so went to DHS on a Fatasmic Day. We were there at rope drop and had a touring plan. My general observation, though, was that it seemed like everyone else was there at rope drop or at least an hour after park opening too. Usually at the parks we experience two hours of shorter lines when we get there early. But that wasn't the case here (This is the first time for me in 22 trips to WDW since 1970 that I saw park crowds so heavy that early). This is also the first time I've ever actually skipped rides in my touring plan (2nd ride of the day recommended was Tower or Terror), but because the line was already over an hour and we didn't want to wait that long we skipped it and went to the next recomendation. (Picked up fast pass for TOT later (two in our party weren't interested in doing Voyage of the Little Mermaid) and got fast passes when other went on that and rode in in the evening after Fatasmic.) Even being there at rope drop, the line just to pick up a Toy Story Mania fast pass was 15/20 minutes long (first thing we did). Crowd level was a 10 per the Unofficial Guide, and it felt like it too.
The weather was wonderful, we still had a fantastic day, but even with good planning didn't do everything we were originally planning to do (not a problem for us / had been before in 2008 over Christmas) During Christmas 2008 crowds were lighter then I think because at that time Fatasmic had two shows a night going every day (Unofficial Guide said that the crowd projection for that day was a 9). I actually if that was acurate saw a huge difference between a 9 and a 10 day. We didn't fit in the Stunt show or Beauty and the Beast which were on our plan on this spring break trip -- did get to do the animation class which we love -- not on the plan, but a favorite of ours and something we added in.)// With the exception of Voyage of the Little Mermaid -- That was our worst line of the day (Wasn't posted as being that long but took about an hour and 10 minutes), other lines with our plan were 30 to 35 minutes (not that terrible) for popular attractions // shorter for smaller attractions or we got fast passes (Tower of Terror and Toy Story Mania).
I don't want to scare you off, though. Believe it or not it despite how crowded it was, it was really fun.