Attraction count is not the be-all, end-all. You can get a high attraction count if you do Snow White and Pinoc, the main street vehicles, and tea cups, little mermaid, monsters, tea cups, single riders... You can get a high ride count, if you are willing to run back and forth across the park, but you end up foot sore and exhausted.
you list 5 days. Are you doing 5 day hoppers? Where are you staying? How many in your group and ages? Thrill rides or dark rides? What hotel are you staying at?
General hints:
My Disney park rules:
Be at the gate at least half hour before opening (a full hour is better)! The MOST IMPORTANT 2-3 hours is the FIRST 2-3 hours the park is open. You can get more done in the first 3 hours than 6 hours later in the day.
Grab Fastpasses with 40 min out return time, so you can grab another FP 40 mins later. In December, Space, then Indy, then Star Tours. Go in the wrong order, such as Indy first, then by the time you get to Space it will be 2 hours away and you can't get another for 2 hours. Only 1 person needs to be present to get FP for everyone. Runner go get passes and meet up with others at next ride.
If in a group of more than 2, when one needs to use the restroom, ALL need to use the restroom. Otherwise, someone has to use the restroom after every ride.
Don't go with smokers. Smokers can cut your attraction bout SIGNIFICANTLY!
Backpack snacks! Don't eat at normal meal times. Breakfast, backpack snacks to tide you over, then lunner (lunch-dinner), then more snacks.
If young-uns, STRONGLY consider a break mid-day. Do the break before you are burned out.... I've stuck around until like 4 or 5, when everyone is tired.. go back to the room for a couple hours, and suddenly it is 6 or 7, and everyone wants to order in pizza and go to sleep early. Hit the room at 1 or 2, by 4 everyone is ready to grab lunner at McD on the way back into the park.
Plans:
Thrill ride plan would be something like:
Get FP to space mt.
Ride Space Mt. (10-15 mins)
Ride Matterhorn (20 mins?)
Get FP to Indiana Jones
Ride Indiana Jones (depending on if the 40 mins are up, may need to ride, then get FP)
Ride Space Mt with fastpass
Get FP to Star Tours
Ride Big Thunder
Ride Indy with FP
(If you get lucky and it is going to be warm, maybe a ride on Splash Mt.)
For DCA, it is Radiator Springs Racers to get FP to first.
Then ToT (especially since it is closing Jan 2). I've literally been elbowed in the face trying to get to ToT at rope drop.
Soarin'
Screamin' has lower wait time later in the day due to higher capacity
Mermaid had super high capacity so goes fast even if a long line.
Mater's and Luigie's car rides are really cute and fun!
These rides all have short ride-time, and early in the day should have short waits (but much longer later in the day).
Avoid the long ride-time rides until later (pirates, mansion, subs)
If you have a magic morning and have young ones, then:
Peter Pan
Dumbo
Toad
Alice
(Long ride-times to avoid early: subs, small world)
If you have a smart phone, download the official
disneyland ap, and learn it before you go. You can not only see the wait times, but also the current fastpass return time for FPs being handed out. Before you even go, you can watch the park from afar and see wait times and fp return times and such to help plan your specific trip.
