Not sure $149 Disney After Hrs event is doing well... (ETA: reviews in 1st post)

[Planogirl]

I wonder if we will ever know for sure how many guests Disney expects for these?

 

[HopperFan]

"First free ice cream of the night and a ride on the Carousel all by ourselves!! Lets see i… ift.tt/1p2Rpga"

 

[Paigevon]

Stopped in to check if anyone else was looking at the line wait times on the app and if they're accurate. Only 3k tickets? Wow, wonder if that's true.

 

[sretav]

The reason Disney lets party ticket holders enter at 4, and After Hours ticket holders enter at 7, is for traffic flow. Imagine what a disaster it would be if they had a park full of day guests exiting the park at the same time thousands of party goers were trying to enter. Allowing entry on party tickets a few hours prior to the actual start time of the after-hours event helps stagger the time those guests enter the park so they don't have thousands all trying to get in at once. In theory.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[HopperFan]

Stopped in to check if anyone else was looking at the line wait times on the app and if they're accurate. Only 3k tickets? Wow, wonder if that's true.

Friend is MK CM and they were told 3000, 4000 tops. I imagine it will depend on sales. Even 4000 is not many for 26 attractions.

 

[HopperFan]

"Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin empty #DisneyAfterHours" with photos to prove

 

[HopperFan]

"Frozen treats: Mango cream bar, frozen banana, strawberry fruit bar, Mickey premium, Mickey sandwich, Olaf lemonade bar. #DisneyAfterHours"

 

[Paigevon]

Friend is MK CM and they were told 3000, 4000 tops. I imagine it will depend on sales. Even 4000 is not many for 26 attractions.

If I had, say a 10 year old instead of a 4 year old this would be so tempting for a mommy/daughter thing. I wonder what the numbers will be for the Early Morning Magic. I just wish it included FTH, Tink, Mickey at least. Still holding out for my dream of a limited-access park full of "free range" characters..

 

[HopperFan]

"Just rode Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride at #AfterHoursatMK - It was a walk-on."

That is why they will be able to sell these tickets.

 

[Ellwood970]

Reports are the park is empty rides are a walk on I wonder if they are also running empty buses back to the hotels.

 

[Planogirl]

Is this really worth it to Disney in the long run? They seem to have about as many CM's as guests.

 

[sretav]

MDE has wait times for every thing at 5 to 10 minutes. If it was just hubby and myself, I might splurge for this. 3 hours of just riding everything. With 4 girls, 8 and under, it would be $900 so no. They'd never make it to 11 pm anyway.

 

[HopperFan]

Is this really worth it to Disney in the long run? They seem to have about as many CM's as guests.

YES

1) If future nights sell slightly over 3000 you are talking almost half million dollars. 2x per week = $1 million.

2) You over-estimate what CMs make.

3) In that mindset then EMH are a huge loss ....

 

[whiporee]

WDW could not have hoped for better press on this than they are getting. Reports of it being walk-ons, pics of a deserted park.

If I were in Orlando right now or had a trip planned, I'd jump at this thing as fast as I could. I think it takes 10,000 at MK to even feel other people, so anything up to 12 is going to be gravy.

 

[Misha72683]

This looks pretty amazing and I admit that if we were going to be there anytime soon (and I didn't have tiny children), I would definitely splurge on this. My husband hates crowds (and loves ice cream), so this is pretty much his dream scenario: a near-empty park, lots of rides and as much ice cream as he can eat. I'm sure he'd say $150 would be well worth it for him.

 

[HopperFan]

WDW could not have hoped for better press on this than they are getting. Reports of it being walk-ons, pics of a deserted park.

If I were in Orlando right now or had a trip planned, I'd jump at this thing as fast as I could. I think it takes 10,000 at MK to even feel other people, so anything up to 12 is going to be gravy.

Yeah, driving towards O for the SW marathon wishing we had left earlier to do this.

 

[DoingDisney]

YES

1) If future nights sell slightly over 3000 you are talking almost half million dollars. 2x per week = $1 million.

2) You over-estimate what CMs make.

3) In that mindset then EMH are a huge loss ....

They reportedly only sold 1000 tickets tonight, which is why they were giving them away for free...

 

[HopperFan]

"Longest line so far: Princess Fairytale Hall. Signed as 5 minutes. Definitely longer."



Just saw picture of Space Mtn, not a soul in sight.

 

[lugnut33]

I still can't justify the cost.

 

[HopperFan]

They reportedly only sold 1000 tickets tonight, which is why they were giving them away for free...

Yes and no surprise. Folks are not going to spend that much to be guinea pigs but rather wait for reviews AND it's so new and hardly advertised. They gave away tickets so all the good reviews would be based on realistic crowds plus more folks to say good things.

My math was about future potential.