LL breakdown passes

[disneylover102]

Hey y’all! I haven’t been to Disneyland in a couple years but a big strategy was to take advantage of rides breaking down in order to get a bonus pass. You could typically use that bonus pass on the majority of rides except the most popular ones. I’m just curious which rides are excluded from those bonus passes these days? Hopefully that makes sense lol

 

[My3crazymonkeys]

We got one yesterday when Indy broke down. We were able to use that lightening pass on any ride except Rise and Tiana’s.

 

[My3crazymonkeys]

Oh and Cars is excluded.

 

[Aspencreek]

Standby might be hit or miss whether you get a pass in the event of breakdown, but if you are talking about using LL then you will get a MEP (Multi Experience Pass) to use if it breaks. They have them in tiers so what you can ride will depend on which one broke down. Not sure of the current levels as they seem to change, but the last time I saw it in writing the top tier was: Indy, Matterhorn, Space Mtn, Guardians, Toy Story Midway, and Webslingers. Those could be used on any of those top tier rides or any other LL ride. If you were on a lesser tier ride then you could only ride similar lower tier rides. If you do get one it will have a link by it in the app that says "Find out where you can go", and that will tell you exactly which rides you can use it on.

 

[Orsino]

We’ve been mining these during our stay. Our strategy has been to book rides likely to go down or that are already down and hope they stay down until the LL window opens.
N.b. Passes convert about 5-6 minutes before your window opens (probably consistent with the grace window).

One weird thing o noticed is when we mined pirates the anytime pass was ONLY valid for pirates. The time was open, but the ride had to be pirates.

I’m currently holding a pass from haunted mansion going down:
Excludes: Indy, Minnie Mickey railway, space mountain, rise of the resistance, Matterhorn, Peter Pan.
DCA excludes: guardians, Toy Story, radiator springs racers, Webslingers.
Also note the anytime is valid for some rides that don’t have LL.

I know we had an anytime from toy story yesterday that we used on Webslingers. So they seem to be in the same level group.

 

[CalSea12]

We’ve been mining these during our stay. Our strategy has been to book rides likely to go down or that are already down and hope they stay down until the LL window opens.
N.b. Passes convert about 5-6 minutes before your window opens (probably consistent with the grace window).

One weird thing o noticed is when we mined pirates the anytime pass was ONLY valid for pirates. The time was open, but the ride had to be pirates.

I’m currently holding a pass from haunted mansion going down:
Excludes: Indy, Minnie Mickey railway, space mountain, rise of the resistance, Matterhorn, Peter Pan.
DCA excludes: guardians, Toy Story, radiator springs racers, Webslingers.
Also note the anytime is valid for some rides that don’t have LL.

I know we had an anytime from toy story yesterday that we used on Webslingers. So they seem to be in the same level group.

How do you know if a ride is likely to go down?

 

[chris1212]

We did this last week. Space Mountain ended up being down all day, so I kept booking a LL and checking and moving the time up. It would turn ME and I would do it again. We ended up with 5 ME’s!!

They were good for everything except Rise, Tiana’s and RSR I believe. It was also good for non LL rides. We rode the Pixar Pier Ferris wheel at night which had a considerable lineup using one.

 

[Orsino]

How do you know if a ride is likely to go down?

Familiarize yourself with the Disneyland app and tune your eyes to the color purple as you scroll the LL lists.
Note the common offenders.

We also had luck (especially in the morning) booking something for a ride that is already down and rolling the dice that it would still be down when the LL window happened.

There is a lot to LL strategy, I think. But it will also depend on how busy the day is and what you want to do. We found the risk/reward of trying for anytimes to be worth it because it gives so much more flexibility. But everyone has different goals and risk tolerance. Not to mention ability to keep track of LL that you keep pushing rather than use.

One night we were walking to the gate with my husband and I was giggling about how we have too many lighting lanes. It was kind of ridiculous.
For two nights now we’ve used all our left over anytimes at goofy sky school because it is so close to our hotel. (I love the Pixar exit).

When I’m back home maybe I’ll write a manifesto.

 

[disneylover102]

Just checking, you can only modify LLs within the same park right? So say I book Matterhorn because it’s down but it comes back up and I don’t need that LL anymore, I could modify it to something within that park (like Space Mountain) but not anything in DCA (like Guardians) right?

 

[Orsino]

Just checking, you can only modify LLs within the same park right? So say I book Matterhorn because it’s down but it comes back up and I don’t need that LL anymore, I could modify it to something within that park (like Space Mountain) but not anything in DCA (like Guardians) right?

Correct. But if it becomes an anytime it is valid for rides in both parks.

 

[kristensideaoffun]

I had some pretty rotten luck with MEPs on 2/6. No matter how long a ride was down, it would not turnover to a MEP. And guest services made me go to the ride to get a CM there to turn it into a MEP. And ride CMs sometimes would give me a pass just for that ride, and sometimes it was a MEP. It was really, really frustrating. I tried force closing the app, uninstalling and reinstalling. Nothing fixed the problem.

 

[Orsino]

That's terrible to hear. We were there on 2/6 as well and I was looking at my notes, we didn't try for anytime passes. 2/6 was our arrival day so we didn't get into the parks until lunchtime, so prime anytime pass harvesting was over anyway. But we must have gotten one since we rode Toy Story Midway Mania twice with LL.

 

[mel2014]

We had mixed results with this on our trip last weekend. I successfully got a few MEPs, but:

(1) In one instance, I booked a LL for Little Mermaid for 10 minutes in the future when it was already down. It never came back up within the window (and was down even several hours later) but 25 minutes into the 1-hour window it still hadn't converted, so I modified to another selection.

(2) For most rides, as soon as the ride went down, the LL window pushed out several hours and I didn't want to take a chance on locking up my single LL selection for two hours on the hope of a conversion.

My amazing success story was that on Monday, MMRR was down for multiple hours and the return windows had already pushed out into late evening, but for whatever reason when I was refreshing to modify at 3:55, it gave me a 4:00-5:00 return window for MMRR, which then promptly converted to a MEP that I was able to use on Guardians.

 

[MonocularVision]

Yeah don’t bother trying to snag a MEP by booking a couple hours out for a ride that is down now. But, as you found out, you can sometimes refresh your way to a much earlier time. My theory is that folks are cancelling their reservation because they see the ride is down not realizing the gold they are holding.