nope unless things were listed after the fact..... I hope this isn't the new norm as it eases the anxiety knowing I've already seccured my magnet and pins (though having to run with the masses at the expo means AP discount so you loose some you win some I guess.... )
I took the first bus from ASMu and got to the expo at 9:30am and got into the merch line right away, and 2.5 hours later when I got into the merch room, there wasn’t anything sold out, as far as I could tell. I got everything I wanted, and mobile checkout was quick and easy.
). But the line did grow quick once the resort buses started coming, so if you’re bussing, get on the first one.
My plan is EP reserved for Saturday and DHS reserved for Sunday: I want a guarantee of being able to celebrate the TOT 10-Miler at DHS that evening. But I'm also arriving Sat. morning and going to the expo at 11, and not planning any morning park time, only afternoon/evening.
Hard to say on the one hand smaller field on the other no pre orders and I assume those doing Everest that night will want to go earlier to relax pre race
I can't imagine it being much better. This is a race weekend where three beloved and unique events are returning for the first time in several years. I'd imagine fans who are sentimental about these races would make it a high priority to get merch, particularly since there's no guarantee that we'll see these races again next year (given the surprise "theme", it seems unlikely). If I were doing this and I was interested in merch, I'd def be there early and expect some craziness.
I used G+ yesterday in HS, and I did get ToT for 11:15-12:15 (which was right on top of my lunch res at 11:45, but I made it work by the skin of my teeth) and then only got Star Tours and Indy (neither of which was really needed, but I felt like I needed to get some kind of value for my money). I could have gotten a Smuggler’s Run for late in the day, butIi didn’t want to stay that late.
Do you have to be tapped in at the 2nd park to get LL for stuff? Or can you do it at the first park before you hop?
You can do it from the first park, and it will automatically give you times after 2pm for your hopping park (the one intelligent feature of this idiotic system
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I my humble opinion, I prefer Fast Pass+. At least you could guarantee three priority rides and place them at times in the day where you wanted. I have only used Genie+ for MW so far; and that was just for four people. But I would say that at least at HS and MK it helped. Both days we were able to prioritize a couple rides that were important to us. It also helped to be in the park at rope drop and get on one ride, like at MK we went straight to Space Mountain and had a very short wait. We will likely use Genie+ again but never at Epcot or AK, that was a waste.
I would agree with this. I almost feel like they took a look at Fastpass and Fastpass+, kept the worst of both, and came up with Genie+. In any case, I think it is pretty good in Magic Kingdom, hit-or-miss at DHS, and not worth it at Epcot. Fair warning, there is a chance that if the parks are crowded, you will feel like it wasn't worth it because you didn't get anything good as everything will be gone before noon; if the parks aren't crowded, you might feel like it wasn't worth it because you wouldn't need it in the first place. With the time of year, I'd lean more towards the former being likely. Our strategy at DHS without Genie+ was rope drop Slinky, head straight to TSMM after that, wait an hour for Tower, single rider both Smugglers Run and RNRC, and either skip or LL Rise. If you don't want to be an engineer in Smugglers Run or don't want to likely be split from your group, you'll want Genie+.
Fully agree on FP+ being the superior system
I'm assuming that the parks will be at or near capacity since that's getting into peak spring break time.
Good chance. I was there this past week for Princess and I know Magic Kingdom sold out at least a few days we were there (New York was apparently on winter break) and things went fast. Only things that still had Genie+ availability were the rides that had the shortest waits anyway or shows.
I'm really curious about the reasoning behind the age requirements. My daughter, who will be 12 when these races happen, is a year too young but is registered to do the 10k and 10 miler (and yes, she has trained and no, this won't be her first time doing either distance). I'm assuming it's an insurance thing having to do with the race being at night, but all of the 5k and many of the 10k races I've done at Disney started and ended before sunrise.
