My family did
Jollywood Nights on 11/15. It was a sold out party but only sold out the day before as I was watching it wondering if it actually would. It honestly didn't really feel like a sold out party and my family had a great time! I would even say that it felt like we had more time to do things than at
MVMCP!
Here's a rundown of what we did that I can remember.
We got there close to 5:30pm, probably like 5:45pm, since we were taking the skyliner from Art of Animation. As a forewarning, the skyliner was closed when the party was over and we had to take bus transportation back to the resort. The line to get in was long, but was moving. It seemed like the entire side was open for the party, so the farther you went right, the shorter the line was. We entered, got our wristbands, which are the plastic ones, and the M&M bottle.
We were ushered down the side way and went through the picture with the sign. My family got in line for a picture with the sign and while it was a cool sign, it wasn't that great of an experience for us. We were a large party, of 11, but nowhere did anyone say that we would be limited to 5 pictures. Additionally, the photopass photographer didn't even wait until everyone was in the frame before snapping them off. She also didn't tell us she was even going to begin taking them. Needless to say, that wasn't the best experience we had. When my parents inquired whether they'd be able to take a picture together, they were told that they'd have to wait in line again as we were well past the limit of 5 per group. Had we known that, we would've split into smaller groups before taking the pictures. Also, we did have Memory Maker for our trip, but if you don't, only the pictures you take after the party starts, which I think is 7:30pm, would be included for photopass. If you were only attending the party and didn't have Memory Maker, any of the pictures you take beforehand, including those at the Jollywood Nights sign, wouldn't be included.
After that, we split off to do what we wanted to. We had a long time before the event officially started and so I, along with some others in the party, went to Smugglers Run first as it was a short wait. I believe it was 15 minutes. Rise was longer, at about 40-45 minutes and while the younger children wanted to go on that, we told them that it'd be shorter later into the party. Instead we went to Alien Swirling Saucers and went on that with a 5 minute wait.
Next, it was nearing the beginning of the party and my nephew wanted to meet Phineas and Ferb. We got in line right before the party officially started and the wait was about an hour until we got to see them. They were delayed in coming out, but also, in the beginning, it was only Ferb. After a couple of families, Phineas also joined. We met them by 8:30pm.
Once we finished with them, I got the meatball and polenta, which was actually pretty good, and we walked over to the Tower of Terror area to meet the rest of the family that was getting food. Some went on Tower of Terror, which was a walk on, and I got the Miss Piggy dessert, which was pretty good. I thought it was a lot of one person and definitely shared it. When they came back from Tower of Terror, we went to Rockin' Rollercoaster next. I only went on it once, but my nephew went on it three times, all with minimum waits. I think the first time we walked right into the pre-show.
Then it was time for fireworks and so we were able to get a spot like 10-15 minutes before. My nephew was done with his third Tower of Terror ride in about the middle of the fireworks. We took a short break after the fireworks getting some more pictures before going to Toy Story Mania, which was probably our longest wait of the night. On the way, we also stopped by the Pixar Dance Party for a little bit and it was really cool with the lights and bubbles. Toy Story Mania was probably about a 20 minute wait. The ride did shut down for a little bit, but we were already at the end where they showed you the scores, so it wasn't bad for us. Majority of our party left afterwards, it was about 11:30pm by this time, while some of us stayed to do more rides. Initially we wanted to do Slinky Dog Dash as a whole group, but it was down at this time. We headed towards Rise of the Resistance, which was listed at 15 minutes. The 15 minutes was really walking through the line for the ride. We literally walked right in to the pre-show and right on to the ride. It was only our party of 5 in one car and then just a singular person in the other car, so it was only us 6 on the ride.
By this point it was midnight so we had about 30 minutes left. Our plan was to ride Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railroad, but that showed that it was shut down. Figuring that it probably wouldn't come back with 20 minutes, we decided to go on Slinky Dog Dash to end the night. The wait for that was also probably 10 minutes. In the end, we began to make our way out from the party at 12:30am. The wait for the bus wasn't long and we were back by 1:30am.
All in all, I thought it was a great time!
