Disneyland (DL)
Arrive 30 minutes early. If you have an Early Admission day arrive 1:15 before official park open (Early admission is on certain days and is a one shot deal for most 3 or more day tickets as well as onsite hotel guests can do this as often as they like during their stay on days that it is offered. ). There are two gates behind trees (I think they are 14 and 17) that do not form lines as folks do not see them/use them.
Top Priority Rides: Peter Pan and Dumbo (Ride first and in this order, assuming you were early to the gate).
Exception to above is Anna and Elsa if you want to see them and their line opens around park opening . Ask a CM (Disney Employees that are roaming the parks). Hard to say if you would want to use an Early admission day for this to wait in line. I would pick a day where Early Admission is at DCA to do this if you have the option.
Jedi Training Academy. To have your child picked bring a small blank paper and pen to make a sign. Signs are not allowed into the gates but are tolerated at the Jedi Training Academy. Sign can say Pick Me or Use the Force, etc
FastPass (FP). Once everyone has entered either one of the parks with their ticket a runner can be sent to any ride in either park with all of the tickets to collect fast passes for the entire party. FP have a time stamped on them when the next FP is available (anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours).
Rides to fast pass first are Big Thunder, Splash, Space and Indy. (normally Big Thunder does not need a FP but currently it is helpful).
Disney California Adventure (DCA)
Arrive 45 minutes early. If you have an Early Admission day (onsite Hotel guests only) arrive 1:20 before official park open at the Main Gate. Do not use the Hotel entrance for Early Admission unless you are 2 hours before official park open. If you do not have early Admission the right hand gate is often best as they will sometimes will open additional gates to the right just as the park opens.
Top Priority Ride: Radiator Springs Raceway (RSR) in Cars Land. Toy Story Midway Mania(TSMM) under the SCREAMIN roller coaster (There is not FP available for TSMM).
If you do not have early admission the fastpass runner should get inline with everyones ticket for Radiator Springs Raceway (RSR) Fastpasses. Line starts near a Spanish/Mission style looking building. The others should get in line for RSR and stay to the right. Once the FP runner has FP they can jump in the single rider line and likely catch up with their party (but ride separately). If you party is all old enough the single rider line for RSR works great (Also Indy in DisneyLand).
Hotel Guests can jump into the FP line near the end of early admission (10-15 minutes before official park open). UPDATE: Hotel guests may be asked to jump into standby line to ride actual ride instead of being allowed to get in the FP line.
FastPass (FP). Once everyone has entered one of the parks with their ticket a runner can be sent with all of the tickets to collect fast passes for the entire party. FP have a time stamped on them when the next FP is available (anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours).
Rides to fast pass first are RSR, SOARIN, TOT, SCREAMIN, Grizzly River Run. Also Goofy's Sky School has FP.
After visiting Carsland grab a FP for World of Color (WOC).
Also disconnected FP machines in DCA are RSR, WOC and SCREAMIN.
Which means you can get an additional FP on a different ride immediately. And for SCREAMIN you can collect a lot of FP for this and ride it 5-6 times (You can generally pull an additional SCREAMIN FP every 40 minutes on average without impacting your other FP eligibility.
I highly recommend HYDROGUY'S SUPER THREAD TIPS:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1520483
Extra Magic Hour:
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/gue...rly-admission/
Magic Mornings:
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/gue...rly-admission/
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