MM and Buzz Lightyear?

[OBDisney]

We are getting ready for our first trip to Disneyland with our two young girls. We are going March 27-31 so we know it will be very busy, but that is the only time we can go. I have been reading these boards and trying to come up with a basic plan. here is my question:

We have 1 magic morning day, our plan is to get there at 7:30 - for 8am MM. We will go on PP, Dumbo, Alice, Matterhorn as our top 4 rides we want to get done there, just wondering since I read that Buzz no longer has a fast pass, should we include this ride in our MM or are the lines still reasonable for us with a different ride being more important (we don't care too much about Mr. Toad). Thanks so much for your help, I would be lost without this board and all the helpful people here!

 

[Vala]

During Magic Morning in late October Buzz was pretty much dead.

The Fast Pass machines were not active during Magic Morning (I don't think they ever are?) back then.

In fact when I was running around and coming back straight away for the third ride one day the CMs told me to just stay on and get off when I didn't feel like riding anymore.

 

[TripHHH]

Just a side note on Mr. Toad's Wild Road -- young kids love this ride because they can sit behind the steering wheel and feel like they are driving.

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Your MM ride order looks good to me. Do your Fantasyland rides first then head over to Buzz if it's important to you. Not sure what the lines are like with current crowds but Buzz was usually an easy ride to get on quickly for the first 1-2 hours after regular park opening even on a MM morning. We went for President's Day weekend after the fastpass machines had been shut down, and we generally saw waits between 15 and 30 minutes. It probably got worse than that through the middle of the afternoon, but we weren't in the area to look during that time.

 

[Briarrose1306]

The Buzz line moves pretty quickly, so I wouldn't worry about using precious MM time to ride it. I'd go for Snow White instead or another run on the Matterhorn, or Nemo, maybe.

 

[Hound 109]

We are getting ready for our first trip to Disneyland with our two young girls. We are going March 27-31 so we know it will be very busy, but that is the only time we can go. I have been reading these boards and trying to come up with a basic plan. here is my question:

We have 1 magic morning day, our plan is to get there at 7:30 - for 8am MM. We will go on PP, Dumbo, Alice, Matterhorn as our top 4 rides we want to get done there, just wondering since I read that Buzz no longer has a fast pass, should we include this ride in our MM or are the lines still reasonable for us with a different ride being more important (we don't care too much about Mr. Toad). Thanks so much for your help, I would be lost without this board and all the helpful people here!

OBD, based on your ride order, I'm guessing you've read thru the handful of MM threads.

If you've successfully negotiated the PP, Dumbo, Alice, Matterhorn rides & it's still :30 or :35, then i agree that Toady (& even the teacups or carousel) should be ridden prior to heading over to Buzz. All 3 are slow loaders & if they are empty during MM.....hop on.

I'm assuming that with very young children, you're skipping SM & possibly Snow White & Pinocchio. (But do try Pinocchio later in your trip if they're up to it...it's a classic & has short lines all day long).

If you head over to Buzz by :45, you should be able to ride it twice before MM ends (& as the previous poster said possibly immediately after gen adm. opening, it could be walk on as well).

Please report back here with your results. I think that since Buzz no longer has FP available that it does make sense to plug it in late in the MM touring plan. With little ones, Buzz is a GREAT ride to enjoy multiple times, I'm curious what the lines are like now at the end of MM & also the first hour after rope drops.

One last thing. With only one MM, don't take any chances.....get to the Security Tent at :20 (not :30).....so you can be near the front at the turnstiles. & when thru, DO NOT dawdle on Main St. Move the family immediately to PP (no pics, no bathroom stops) so you're one of the first few folks to board. (Did you see that picture where PP delayed opening for 5 min.???? )

Good luck & please post back regarding Buzz....Thanks.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

If your kids are at all interested in the Nemo submarines I would put that in place of Buzz it loads much slower and the lines are longer. We were there Christmas week and the lines for Buzz rarely got over 20 minutes...the lines moves very quickly.

 

[DahliaRW]

I find that Buzz and Nemo have the shortest lines late at night, so if you can stay until park close you might want to try that, particularly for Nemo. We waited 5 minutes at 11:30pm one night to do Nemo.

 

[OBDisney]

Thanks for all the responses this is great. I have read the MM thread, along with a lot more on here (and thanks to all that feel pretty good for never having been there).
I had forgot about teacups so I'll have to add that in for sure, we'll put Buzz at the end of MM. Dh and I want to do SM so we will get fastpasses for that as soon as the park opens and do rider swap, since the girls won't/can't go on it.

MM is our second day there so we will have already had time on Monday to wander, look and take pictures so we can rush to the rides, will have to remember all bathroom breaks before we leave the hotel- ha ha. Will also get there at 7:20 (dh won't like that part, at least until he sees the benefits).

As for Nemo from what I have read it has crazy lines and we really don't want to waste most of our MM with one ride, we are hoping to be able to skip it all together, but we'll see, our back up plan if the girls won't let us skip Nemo, is Wednesday get there early for rope drop and make a beeline for Nemo and hope for the best.

 

[sonnyjane]

I know you're traveling with kids, so I'm not sure how late you'll be staying in the parks, but if you don't want to worry about Buzz during MM, the other time it is virtually a walk-on ride is at night, during and after the fireworks. I have ridden it several times in succession at night just to improve my score because there was no wait

 

[DisSarahK]

Just a side note on Mr. Toad's Wild Road -- young kids love this ride because they can sit behind the steering wheel and feel like they are driving.

Not all young kids! My little boy HATED this ride and still informs me that it is the "worst thing EVER" at Disneyland. He hated it when he rode it at age 2.5 and I hoped that two years later he would like it--nope, as soon as we were in the car and went through the doors he immediately remembered the ride and told me (in no uncertain terms) that this was THE ride he hated. So much for my theory! He really did hate it, too!

Edited to add: The ride terrified him on both trips--thus his extreme dislike of it. I will not be making him go on it this fall unless he chooses to ride it--he really was scared and did not enjoy it at all.