Magic morning, toontown and be at DCA at 10am?

[ellibelly]

We have 10 more days left till our Disneyland trip! I am in the last stages of finalizing our trip plans. With only 2.5 days in the parks I really want to maximize our time. I was thinking on our Sat at Disneyland to do magic morning at 7am, spend an hour in fantasyland (by the way, can your ride all the open rides there in an hour) then head over to toontown for the toontown madness thing and still make it to DCA by the time it opens at 10. Is this realistic? From what I have read we really need to be at DCA by 9:30 to get on the rides by 10am, is this also true? We are going MLK weekend, I'm not sure if that is going to change things if it is really busy. Any advice would be helpful, thank you!

 

[DizNee Luver]

Doing your Magic Morning & following it up with the ToonTown Morning Madness is very doable......if you want to see the entire opening ceremony....you will need to stay past 9:30 which would make it hard to be at the gates by 10am at DCA. DCA will open the gates at 9:30 & do a rope drop at 10. Since you're going on a Holiday weekend.....that will add to the difficulty in doing this. If you had a free shot with no "traffic"...you could be close but you will be trying to get through the masses & this will slow you down.

As for riding everything that is open during Magic Morning......I'm not sure it's possible or not. I've gone when it's dead & other times when it's really busy.....we've never tried to do it all.....but I would suggest hitting Peter Pan first, as this line will get long in a hurry & stay that way until closing.

Good Luck in your planning & have a *+*+*Magical*+*+* trip!!

 

[skiingfast]

MLK weekend is not partiularily busy as it's not a 3 day weekend or major holiday for most people. Don't take this the wrong way, it's a weekend and all weekends are busy. There just really isn't anything special about it.

Each FL attraction will take about 7.5 minutes and with a dozen attractions you can't get to all of them in an hour. Plan to do Peter Pan, Matterhorn, Mr Toad, Dumbo and Tea Cups and maybe Small World, becuase they have longer lines later in the day. Small World lines would be third on the list but because it's a ways away it may not be one to fit in.

For Toontown Madness and DCA it may be possible. You could do Mickey's Toontown Madness on Friday if you are there. Or save the early entry into DCA for a day other than Saturday.

To enter DCA at 9:30 it's quite simple and not a must, but helpful.
You go in the front gate that open at 9:30. You can at this time ride Soaring(takes about 10-20 minutes.) You can get Soaring FastPasses. You can get a World of Color Show Pass. Maybe ride Mermaid, how this works may change. Also line up for the Rope Drop into the pier area.

The rope drops at 10am with most guests going to TSMM, CS and MFW. If you aren't at the front you will likely to TSMM when it already has a 10-20 minute wait. If you are a few minutes after wait drop it will be a 30 minute wait, and be 30-45 minutes the rest of the day.. So it's a trade off wait at rope drop for 30 or 25 minutes. Or wait for TSMM 30-45 minutes.

 

[ellibelly]

Thank you, these are good tips. I guess my struggle is in trying to do everything in a short amount of time. With a 10 month old we are trying to minimize times in line by using ridemaxx, but after running a lot of different options it always seems best to do rides first thing in the morning and toonotown always messes me up! My daughter is really excited for toontown so I have to make it work.

If the parks open at 8am, toontown madness starts at 8am correct? Why would the ceremony go until 9:30am?

In general if you are going to toontown madness and want to see the ceremony and meet all the characters and go in all the houses, how long should I block out for that? Thank you!

 

[SFMommy]

Yes you can do this! (But not ALL of the Fantasyland rides.) We just did it on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend and it was great.

We were at the gates at 6:40. Did 6 rides in Fantasyland from 7-8.

At 8 we went into Toontown for Morning Madness. We did some character meet-and-greets, rode Roger Rabbit then sat in the little plaza for the ceremony at 8:20. By 9:00 we were done with Toontown. But that is because we had been there before and my DD5 didn't need to go into every house again.

We headed over to the GCH and were there by 9:10 waiting in line to get into DCA through the special GCH hotel. Are you staying at a Disney property? They started letting us in at 9:15 and we were Soarin' Over California by 9:30!

Have fun!

 

[bumbershoot]

In general if you are going to toontown madness and want to see the ceremony and meet all the characters and go in all the houses, how long should I block out for that? Thank you!

I assume you have more than one child, so really make sure the older one wants to do all of that.

Unless the lines are horrendous, there's just the one house, Mickey's house. Minnie's is used as a line to get to Mickey's sometimes, otherwise you just walk through it.

Donald's boat is just a play thing, and Goofy's house is an indoor/outdoor play area as well.

It's the playing that's going to suck up your time!!! I know that DS could have spent hours and hours in both of those places (was never much into the chip/dale tree thing).

 

[ellibelly]

We are not staying at a Disney hotel, are those the only people let in at 9:30? I did read somewhere that if you buy a bottle of water at the gift shop and show your receipt you can use the special entrance. Can anyone confirm this?

We only have one other child besides the baby so I can just warn her we are on a time limit in terms of playing around. She has already agreed in principal to follow my rigid schedule in exchange for being able to do all the rides and having some scheduled free time. If that will actually work once we are there is another story!

 

[skiingfast]

We are not staying at a Disney hotel, are those the only people let in at 9:30? I did read somewhere that if you buy a bottle of water at the gift shop and show your receipt you can use the special entrance. Can anyone confirm this?

We only have one other child besides the baby so I can just warn her we are on a time limit in terms of playing around. She has already agreed in principal to follow my rigid schedule in exchange for being able to do all the rides and having some scheduled free time. If that will actually work once we are there is another story!

To get into Mickey's Toontown Morning Magic you need special tickets. These come with room and ticket packages sold by Disney. This is probably why people wonder if you are staying onsite.

The 9:30 opening is for general guests.

The once 9am and later 9:15 DCA open through the GCH entrance was for resort guests only. Some people had meals in the GCH and were let in. Some may of done quick purchases at the GCH. In my speculation based on those accounts it seems like Disney is lenient in letting non resort guests into DCA trhough the GCH based on crowds.

 

[Brady's Mom]

Toontown usually opens 1 hour later than regular park opening. Toontown Morning Madness is a separate ticketed event only available on certain days (sorry, I don't know which days). I think the only day that has Magic Morning and TTMM is Saturday which may or may not mess up your schedule.

If you have TTMM tickets and use your MM entry on Saturday, you would probably not get the value of your TTMM tickets, since you would be doing Fantasyland during TTMM. If you go to Toontown after you are done with Fantasyland you will probably find that there are some lines because of the people that are there for TTMM.

Toontown is a fun place to go and play around, my kids like the gags and stuff at the beginning of Toontown, but don't really think Gadgets is worth the wait. They've ridden it a couple of times and usually pass on riding it again. It is a cute coaster in terms of theming and ingenuity, though. No one in our family likes Roger Rabbit. Our oldest son (23) is our only kid to ever see the Roger Rabbit movie and he was a little kid the last time he saw it, so there is no frame of reference for our other kids. We usually just skip the rides there and hang out and mess with the gags and maybe see Mickey.