MM - Fantasyland or Mountains?

[Jiminy'sGirl]

On an upcoming trip I've got two mornings planned starting at DL. One is an MM, one is not. We'd like to spend one rope drop morning doing the "big rides" and one knocking out the Fantasyland rides. My question is, which should I do on which morning? FL on the MM or the non-MM or does it matter at all?

TIA!

 

[Nevada Jen]

On magic morning I would ride peter pan and then Matterhorn and then head to tomorrow land. Ride buzz and star tours if you still have time before regular park opening. At regular park opening grab a fast pass for space and then go ride Indy. Space fastpass return should be open. Grab btmrr and then ride space. Use btmrr fastpass.
On your regular entry day ride pirates and then ride everything in fantasy land except peterpan.

 

[Jiminy'sGirl]

Ok so intermingle FL with the ETickets. We can do that, I just thought it would be fun to do the other way.

I should've said this will be the first week of March.... POTC and Matterhorn will be closed for refurb.

 

[SMD]

Only FL and TL will be open during MM. That leaves you only Space if Matterhorn is closed. Don't bother with a Space FP at park opening, just ride it. The FP merge point is so far back and the FP distribution is so far away that you're going through a lot of effort for a wait that will be shorter for awhile after the park opens. If it's a non-MM day, get a ST FP, do Space, then ST, then go on to Indy. If it's MM and you've already done ST (though not sure that's the best use of MM,) do Space close to park open and then leave TL.

 

[figment_jii]

For me, it would depend on how early I get to Magic Morning and how close to the front I am. If you can get to Peter Pan before the line is long, then I would start there. However, if you're still outside the park when MM starts and/or by the time you get to Peter Pan, the line is already 30+ minutes, then I would skip Peter Pan and go do the rest of the FL attractions that are open (not all attractions open for MM - I think Storybook Land Canal Boats and Casey Junior don't always open for MM). Peter Pan seems to always have a 30+ minute line, so I would rather spend MM doing as many attractions as possible and then I'll wait for PP later in the day. Then after the park opens for everyone, I'd go to TL and ride ST/Space and FP the other one.

 

[agamble]

I would do Fantasyland attractions during MM and do the big rides on the other morning, or later in the day using FP. If you are waiting at rope drop during MM you can easily do 7-8+ rides in that hour. I agree with Figment. Don't wait for Peter Pan. Try to go there first, but if the queue fills up move on to something else. It's better to wait 45 minutes for Peter Pan later in the day than to wait 30 minutes during MM when everything else is a walk-on. Perhaps head to Nemo after doing your share of Fantasyland rides, it doesn't have FP and is slow loading.

We don't get a MM because we purchased APs, but on our next trip we are planning a rope-drop for Fantasyland followed by Toon Town and then on another day we'll start off on the Adventureland side of the park and hit those rides with no wait. We don't tend to sweat Tomorrowland. It's always crowded and busy, but most of the rides have FP.

 

[dshimel]

Let's say you have a 3-day with 1 MM.

Let's say day 1 you show up at 7:30, just a they start letting in non-MM people into the park to line up on Main Street for rope drop. Well, then you go to the right curb, show your 3 day with MM, and they let you in. There is no "scan" or anything they do to the ticket to track that today is the day you are using MM... they just look at the ticket to see it is MM eligible.

2 days later you are not there for MM. You arrive at 7:30, they scan your pass and let you in so you can line up for rope drop. Hmmmm.... if you had a 3-day ticket with MM, and at the sort point they just look at the ticket without any way to know if this is you "mm day" or not....

Read between the line.

 

[Jiminy'sGirl]

Let's say you have a 3-day with 1 MM.

Let's say day 1 you show up at 7:30, just a they start letting in non-MM people in to line up on Main Street. Well, they you go to the right curb, show your 3 day with MM, and they let you in. There is no "scan" or anything they do.. they just look at the ticket to see it has a MM.

2 days later you are not there for MM. You arrive at 7:30, they scan your pass and let you in. Hmmmm.... if you had a 3-day ticket with MM, and at the sort of MM on the curb v. regular entry into the street for rope drop they just look at the ticket without any way to know if this is you "mm day" or not....

Read between the line.

Disney doesn't have the lock on this? Surprising! That would be great except while we are in the parks there is just one MM according to Disneys website.