Thanks- after I asked I saw another post which mentioned the preview via facebook. We got through the gates at 7:57am, was at the rope crowd right at 8 and after a 10 min wait was on PP! It's definitely brighter now with some minor improvements in effects. Glad we were able to do it today as we leave Fri when it reopens for good and I doubt we would have rushed rope drop fast enough to make it worth the wait. Thanks so much for starting this thread as I would have never known otherwise. Glad we got to take part in an AP perk before our passes expire next month, we live in NorCal so these things are never Nnounced early enough to plan but we were already here and got lucky.