Take this with a grain of salt...but keep it in the back of your mind. Last week I was talking to a friend of mine who is a Disney World fanatic. She's making a business trip to Orlando in mid-May and has always wanted to go to the Flower & Garden Festival so she decided to contact her good friend who works at DHS to see if she could get her in to Epcot one day while she was there. She said her friend would be able to get her in to Epcot that day and also got her "some sort of special fastpass to ride the new Frozen ride". At first (based on the lack of information we had about a firm opening date) I thought, "There's no way that's happening -- she must have misunderstood something. There's no way that FEA will be open by the time she's there in 3 weeks" (though she's not the type to misunderstand something like that. She's a true and knowledgeable fan of Disney World -- not some misinformed guest going on their first trip who doesn't really understand how everything works.) Based on the announcements this morning...I'm 99% confident that my friend
will have the opportunity to ride FEA when she's there in a few weeks...the timing is right for cast previews at that time and I'm guessing her friend is taking her as a guest. But here's the kicker....she's not sure she wants to ride it. She and her teenage daughter have been looking forward to this ride (they're both Frozen fanatics) and want to experience it together for their first ride on it (and her daughter will not be on the business trip with her). I told her I'd still ride it and just not tell my daughter.
Again...just something to keep in the back of your head when you're there. If they're doing CM previews...soft openings have to be close behind. I can't remember if there were soft openings mixed in between the cast previews for 7DMT or if the previews were first and soft openings followed.
Surely they weren't snatched up that fast !
