The Magician on Crescent Lake. A sister TR 4/28-5/4/24, New TR link 9/22**

Hello 👋 Everyone!

I had my first experience with the FP for cash system today.
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I was able to make selections for our 6 park days this morning at 6am central time.

Here is the shocking 😮 news! It was very easy!
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The MDE didn’t crash, time out or show Stich eating the page, not once during my selections!

I talked to Andi and Kait about the selections beforehand.

Kait suffers from motion sickness on most rollercoaster and spinning type rides. We know which ones were fine last time and focused on those ones.

We arrive around 5pm on 9/5 and plan to spend time in DS this evening. Right now we have an ADR for Summer House at 8:15pm. I booked on open table so if I need to cancel it is easy peasy. We will be staying at AS Sports this night. It’s a preferred room and I requested Surf’s Up section on a higher floor. The next day we move to Boardwalk Inn. I requested a room on a higher floor with a peek a boo view of Epcot in a quiet area, fingers crossed we get our request. I won’t hold my breath! Bitter still from our terrible room at BC!
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Here is the FP for cash (aka multi pass LL, lame name). I like my FP for cash name better!

9/6 DHS MMRR 9:55-10:55, ToT (just Andi and I) 12-1 and TSMM 1:15-2:15. Rise was $20.00 a person, too expensive!We decided to try rope dropping Rise for the first time ever!

9/7 AK FP for cash was relatively cheap today at $15 so I got it for PH later. Safari 8:30-9:30, Navi 9:30-10:30, and Dinosaur 10:30-11:30. I will probably buy a fancy ride for FOP for Andi and I, the cost is $14.00 a person.

We have Sanaa at 2pm.

9/8 MK, PotC 9:10-10:10, HM 10:10-11:10, and Tiana 11:10-12:10. We will skip Tron at $20 a person for a 70 second ride, Andi might try for a VQ for the 2 of us. We just don’t want to wait in the VQ line for an hour so we may not do it. We will RD PPF. Today is a MNSSHP day and we are hoping for low crowds during the day. No party this year for us, sad 😢 We are dining tonight at II Mulino located at The Swan Resort. I’m really excited to try this one. I have read many wonderful reviews.

9/9 AK, Dinosaur 8-9, we will ride several times and don’t you wonderful readers worry, my TR will be an ode to all things Dinosaur 🦖! Navi 9-10, Safari 10-11, we will PH and hopefully make use of more FP for cash selections! A hack I am thinking is a good one, buy all your FP for cash days at AK because it is the cheapest and PH to the other parks!

It is EMH at Epcot tonight and I bought a Fancy Ride for GotG for Andi and I at 8-9pm. I think GotG is way better than Tron and it is $14.00 a person! Relatively cheap for Disney!
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9/10 MK Tiana 9:20-10:20, WtP 9:20-10:20, and HM 10:20-11:20. This is another party day, hoping my strategy holds true with lower crowds on party days. We will RD JC this day. Andi and Kait have date night tonight. I think I will go into DHS for a while and later, I want to try the new Blue Ribbon Corn Dog booth on the Boardwalk. Tonight maybe the night for the pickle corn dog!

9/11 Epcot. Remy 9-10, LWTL 10-11, SE 11-12. We want to try a few F&W booths today. We will RD Frozen, can you believe Andi will ride this because Kait enjoys it! Geesh I know how I rate, lol 😂 She won’t ride with me because she got wet on the ride once!
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We head to USO later today to start the terrifying portion of the trip! Horror nights! Cue scary 😱 music 🎶
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My hot take on FP for cash, easy to book what you want 7 days out. SDD, RNRC, Remy, Frozen etc. all available when I looked. The tier thing is a little different than the old FP selections. MK/DHS have more in tier one than the old system. You can only pick one selection from Tier 1 to start but you can immediately book a Tier one right after you use your first selection so that helps.

Disney does not let you know when your booking day is. I just counted back and figured today was my day and it was. I did notice in the LL area on MDE it showed who was eligible and the date once I went in to it and looked around a little bit.

Our trip is one week from today! If all goes as planned we will be enjoying a drink and meal right about now in DS!
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If anyone has questions about the process of booking the FP ahead of time let me know! I’m an expert now, lol 😆
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I plan to write a TR and it will be all things Dinosaur since this will likely be the last time we ride it! Cue the waterworks!

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See ya real soon! :smickey:
 
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Appreciate your thoughts on booking fastpass for cash. I am a week behind you and can book then. My mom was denied for DAS so thinking I will need to book at least a few of our days with the new FP system and maybe a few fancy rides.
 
Your plans sound amazing!!! And that's good to hear about the FP for cash system (I will only ever call it this from now on.) I have a couple of months until mine. How long is Dinosaur open?? I didn't ride it in April and I would love to catch one last ride.
 

How exciting! You're so close to your trip.

I'm really missing going this year. I was at Disney last year in September. I will have to live vicariously through you.

Looking forward to your report.
 
Your plans look great. You will get lots done! :)

We just got back from WDW on Thursday night. I bought MPLL for MK only and it was the best money I ever spent. We got VQ for Tron and MPLL for Tiana, so that was good. I was able to book all the rides that we wanted at MK. It worked better than I expected, but the crowds were low, which helped.
 
Here is the shocking 😮 news! It was very easy!
:faint:
We arrive around 5pm on 9/5
Oh! And it's September now! Soon!
Bitter still from our terrible room at BC!
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Oh dear. :rolleyes:
Here is the FP for cash (aka multi pass LL, lame name). I like my FP for cash name better!
::yes::
We will skip Tron at $20 a person for a 70 second ride,
Good call. I really thought this would be a much better ride.
No party this year for us, sad 😢
:(
I'm sorry to hear that.
don’t you wonderful readers worry, my TR will be an ode to all things Dinosaur 🦖!
:rolleyes1
A hack I am thinking is a good one, buy all your FP for cash days at AK because it is the cheapest and PH to the other parks!
I don't understand this... don't you buy the FPs for rides in AK? Or... you book AK but go to another park? What? Help!
I think GotG is way better than Tron
Definitely.
I want to try the new Blue Ribbon Corn Dog booth on the Boardwalk.
First I've heard of this. Yum!
We will RD Frozen, can you believe Andi will ride this because Kait enjoys it! Geesh I know how I rate, lol 😂 She won’t ride with me because she got wet on the ride once!
:laughing:
 
Enjoy your trip! Looking forward to your trip report. Specially your Blue Ribbon corn dog review. LOL! Took forever to open.
:thanks: I’m excited to try the pickle corn dog and yes how did it take this long to open a kiosk on the Boardwalk :confused3
Appreciate your thoughts on booking fastpass for cash. I am a week behind you and can book then. My mom was denied for DAS so thinking I will need to book at least a few of our days with the new FP system and maybe a few fancy rides.
Yay to trip coming up for you also but Boo to your mom not getting DAS. I have heard about so many not getting this anymore
Your plans sound amazing!!! And that's good to hear about the FP for cash system (I will only ever call it this from now on.) I have a couple of months until mine. How long is Dinosaur open?? I didn't ride it in April and I would love to catch one last ride.
I love the name and it sums it up perfectly right! Disney just doesn’t want to use it because they don’t want to remind everyone this was FREE as it should be! I’m not sure when Dinosaur will be closing but I bet it will be soon! :sad:
How exciting! You're so close to your trip.
Yay :cheer2:
I'm really missing going this year. I was at Disney last year in September. I will have to live vicariously through you.
I love The Halloween time at the parks. I am sad about not doing a Halloween party but at least I have done the party many times before!
Looking forward to your report.
:thanks: I will definitely have many references to Dinosaur, best ride EVER!!
Your plans look great. You will get lots done! :)
:thanks: We need to pack in a lot with only 6 park days!
We just got back from WDW on Thursday night. I bought MPLL for MK only and it was the best money I ever spent. We got VQ for Tron and MPLL for Tiana, so that was good. I was able to book all the rides that we wanted at MK. It worked better than I expected, but the crowds were low, which helped.
I was happy how easy it was to do at 7 days out! I hope it will allow for multiple FP each day after redeeming the first 3.
Good call. I really thought this would be a much better ride.
It is smooth but uncomfortable ride vehicle and so darn short!
I don't understand this... don't you buy the FPs for rides in AK? Or... you book AK but go to another park? What? Help!
Yes you would need to do your first 3 FP for cash at AK, but AK opens earlier than the other 3 parks and you really only need to use one FP there and you could modify the other two and use at any of the other 3 parks including Tier 1 rides. The only thing is the day of the ride choices might be a little more limited.
The cost per person per day overall was less than I thought so I was happy about that! AK is by far the cheapest park to buy the FP for cash 💰!
Probably because with a good park strategy you don’t need it there :laughing:
First I've heard of this. Yum!
I have my eye on the pickle corn dog. It is the franchise as Disneyland and it always gets good reviews! I love a good corn dog! Andi and Kait don’t eat hotdogs so this is a good time for me to try it!
 
It is smooth but uncomfortable ride vehicle and so darn short!
I was very surprised at how short it was.
Yes you would need to do your first 3 FP for cash at AK, but AK opens earlier than the other 3 parks and you really only need to use one FP there and you could modify the other two and use at any of the other 3 parks including Tier 1 rides. The only thing is the day of the ride choices might be a little more limited.
Thanks!
Probably because with a good park strategy you don’t need it there :laughing:
::yes::
 










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