***Official*** Pandora: The World of Avatar Information Thread

[viluvsdisney]

Any input on how either ride looks on the afternoon of May 30th?

 

[hiroMYhero]

Any input on how either ride looks on the afternoon of May 30th?

@ArielSRL may be able to check for you as I believe she has an available ticket entitlement to check that date.

 

[Adreana]

Got my fast passes! Earliest time for opening day was 2 o'clock for river journey. Flight of passage earliest was around 5 o'clock. This wasn't originally my AK day but I wanted to go to opening day so I'll stay I use my Pandora fast pass and continue with the rest of my plan. Days after the 27th had plenty of AM fast passes for anyone interested. Got a 8 am flight of passage for the 30th

 

[Shellyb84]

Any input on how either ride looks on the afternoon of May 30th?

There is FP+ availability all day for May 30th for both rides. I don't see anything after 8PM for either though.

 

[LISmama810]

We're going to be at Disney World the first two weeks of June. I had planned on skipping AK entirely because it's not my thing, but my husband and son are INSISTING we go see Pandora. I tried talking them out of it by saying it would be horribly packed (AK would likely be June 7), but they won't be swayed. So...any idea how bad it'll actually be then? Should we plan on being there ALL DAY or is there a good chance we could knock everything (in Pandora) out in a few hours?

 

[ckelly14]

We're going to be at Disney World the first two weeks of June. I had planned on skipping AK entirely because it's not my thing, but my husband and son are INSISTING we go see Pandora. I tried talking them out of it by saying it would be horribly packed (AK would likely be June 7), but they won't be swayed. So...any idea how bad it'll actually be then? Should we plan on being there ALL DAY or is there a good chance we could knock everything (in Pandora) out in a few hours?

I think it will be bad, but I think early is better. This is certainly being billed as evening entertainment. I don't think it will be bad if you hit it first thing...

 

[ArielSRL]

@ArielSRL may be able to check for you as I believe she has an available ticket entitlement to check that date.

There is FP+ availability all day for May 30th for both rides. I don't see anything after 8PM for either though.

I would have checked but I see someone beat me to it.

Here's a funny thing about the FP though. When I went on today to book, the latest I could get for NRJ initially was 7:30pm. I was disappointed as that wasn't going to work for our schedule. I refreshed a few times and still, nothing later. So I just booked it. Then, I went in to modify it and several later times did pop up. I booked an 8:15 but I think there was even later times.

 

[ArielSRL]

We're going to be at Disney World the first two weeks of June. I had planned on skipping AK entirely because it's not my thing, but my husband and son are INSISTING we go see Pandora. I tried talking them out of it by saying it would be horribly packed (AK would likely be June 7), but they won't be swayed. So...any idea how bad it'll actually be then? Should we plan on being there ALL DAY or is there a good chance we could knock everything (in Pandora) out in a few hours?

Our full AK day is June 7th, as well. I think it won't be as bad as weekends but it still will probably be busy. Depends on everything you want to do as far as a full day or not. You can't book FP for both Pandora rides for the same day so you'll have to do standby for one unless you can come back on another day.

 

[JennLTX]

Our full AK day is June 7th, as well. I think it won't be as bad as weekends but it still will probably be busy. Depends on everything you want to do as far as a full day or not. You can't book FP for both Pandora rides for the same day so you'll have to do standby for one unless you can come back on another day.

In an ongoing effort to keep myself from stressing about this (and it IS an effort, I'm sorry to say), I keep reminding myself that even if we can't get FPs for either ride on June 5th (it's early in our trip so I know I'm taking a chance), we can standby at RD that day with fingers crossed the crowds aren't completely hideous at 7:00am. AND we'll be back in Nov/Dec when I HAVE to believe it will have died down at least a little and the FPs will be hopefully easier to come by.

BTW, I have NOT received any email nor any snail mail regarding Pandora. I am not feeling the Disney Love.

 

[AZMermaid]

We arrive June 2 and I got the "Pandora is coming" flyer in the mail on Saturday.

@ArielSRL Are you in your booking window already? Exciting! Mine is next Monday

 

[JennLTX]

We arrive June 2 and I got the "Pandora is coming" flyer in the mail on Saturday.

@ArielSRL Are you in your booking window already? Exciting! Mine is next Monday

Ariel, mine is next Tuesday. Any chance I could get you to check on what's available on my AK date? When you're done with yours, of course.

 

[Tinkerbell7479]

Need some of your expert opinions. We are a party of 7 (6 adults & a 2 year old) AK day for us is May 17th. we were able to get in to the DVC preview that morning. We have a Tusker House ADR for 8:30. I'm trying to find an opening for 8am but in the likely case that I can't, should we:

1. get to Tusker House around 8/8:15 to see if we can be seated any earlier, eat fast and run over to Pandora
OR
2. cancel and either re-book a later breakfast or eat someplace else and ensure we're standing at the entrance to Pandora at 9

thoughts?

 

[hiroMYhero]

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Need some of your expert opinions. We are a party of 7 (6 adults & a 2 year old) AK day for us is May 17th. we were able to get in to the DVC preview that morning. We have a Tusker House ADR for 8:30. I'm trying to find an opening for 8am but in the likely case that I can't, should we:

1. get to Tusker House around 8/8:15 to see if we can be seated any earlier, eat fast and run over to Pandora
OR
2. cancel and either re-book a later breakfast or eat someplace else and ensure we're standing at the entrance to Pandora at 9

thoughts?

AK will allow you to enter a little before 8:00 with your Tusker ADR. You'll be seated as soon as you reach Tusker.

If that amount of time doesn't seem long enough, I'd skip Tusker and just grab something at a QS.

 

[twebber55]

my plan for May 13th 6-8 pm
ride both rides first
explore land
eat lumpia and blue cheesecake
stay as long as they let me to see if it gets dark at all by 8:00

get FP for EE, Safari, Dinosaur
eat lunch at Yak and Yeti

 

[Lesverts]

Anyone else doing the hit the Pandora rides early in the day and than head back in at night just to walk around and experience the place?

 

[Tinkerbell7479]

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AK will allow you to enter a little before 8:00 with your Tusker ADR. You'll be seated as soon as you reach Tusker.

If that amount of time doesn't seem long enough, I'd skip Tusker and just grab something at a QS.

thanks! good to know they'll allow us to enter a little early I think that's going to be our plan. Our slowest eater(not the 2 year old) is the one who wants to see Pandora the most and that motivate him to eat fast LOL

 

[Willow1213]

Anyone else doing the hit the Pandora rides early in the day and than head back in at night just to walk around and experience the place?

That's my exact plan. Get an early FP for NRJ and ride FOP at rope drop. We actually have a PPO Tusker House ADR w/ Rivers of Light package that might help us out.

Has anyone heard if Flight of Passage will have a Single Rider Option? This has worked well for us with EE and Test Track in the past, especially with needing to use Rider Swap.

 

[AZMermaid]

Anyone else doing the hit the Pandora rides early in the day and than head back in at night just to walk around and experience the place?

Yes. This is our plan exactly.

 

[abnihon]

Anyone else doing the hit the Pandora rides early in the day and than head back in at night just to walk around and experience the place?

I'm planning for 2 AK days and made our FP for evening both days. Going to have lazy pool mornings at AKL and then head to AK in late afternoon and stay past dark.

 

[aviva5675]

will they be letting us/assigning us FP for AP preview slots? Or we have to stand in line for both?