Magic Kingdom open 24HRS TODAY

[casinocolin]

It will be interesting to see how busy it is from about 1am to closing time at 6am tomorrow morning and how many were there for opening at 6am this morning. Anyone out there at the moment.

 

[2Tiggies]

Crowd levels are not predicted to be very high but I have to say .... I am SOOOO jealous of the people who are getting to do that. I would definitely have been one of those in the park between midnight and 6 am!

 

[wayneg]

Matt Blogged about it this evening, he also includes a link to the Disney Blog with pics of the merchandise.
http://mathewgillings.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/29th-february-2012/

 

[jtlover]

That would have been cool for the UK people who had just arrived. As we get up so early when we first go it would have been a good excuse to go to the park at 6.00 a.m.

 

[chmurf]

we'll pop up in MK when it's dark. It is HOOOOT today
When we were driving back from IDrive this morning around noon, it was like 28°C ... it's summer heat for us ... and DW got heat rash this morning. she's cooling off in the hotel room
judging from the traffic we got driving around WDW property today, it doesn't look busier than yesterday.

 

[casinocolin]

Here is a video of the opening ceremony at the Main Street Train Station 6am this morning, other than a brief mention of One More Disney Day by the mayor of Main Street USA, the ceremony was essentially the same that’s seen every morning at the park, though normally performed after the sun has risen of course.


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[casinocolin]

Here is some good pictures and a report of the day;

http://thedisneyblog.com/2012/02/29/extra-day-at-the-magic-kingdom/

 

[chmurf]

it was crazy
we decided to go for the evening, and we were at the parking toll during wishes, we were stuck in our lane for about 5 minutes during which we enjoyed the fireworks through our windshield. The view was great as we were facing directly towards the fireworks.

we parked in villains 128 (cruella) which has to be the farthest I ever parked in my Disney life.
We were at TTC at 8:30 and boarded the ferry boat. Lines for the express monorail extended almost down to the ticket booths at the time we came in, so we went for the boat instead because even at capacity, there is much more space on the boat than there is on a monorail.
By the time we cleared security and actually entered the park it was well over 9:20 and people had already crowded every sidewalk waiting for MSEP at 10

we went to Tomorrowland as DS wanted to ride Tomorrowland speedway, did it twice once with me and once with DW. We had hardly a 10 minutes wait each time
we the moved on to ride teacups with 15 minutes wait (DS favorite)

then it was 11:30 and DS and DW began to show obvious signs that it was bedtime, so we got out of the park (must admit I was a little bummed)

anyway we got our photopass pictures in front of the "one more disney day" banner at the train station and our leap day button.

I had wanted to get more spells for sorecerer of MK but the line into the fire station was so long that it drove me off.

The idea of 24hrs is cool, but it's just not my kind of experience, especially with a 4yr old. And the crowds drawned by the event made it almost impossible to move around with our stroller.

 

[casinocolin]

Crowd levels are not predicted to be very high but I have to say .... I am SOOOO jealous of the people who are getting to do that. I would definitely have been one of those in the park between midnight and 6 am!

Looks like the prediction was so wrong