WonkaKid
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Brief posting tonight folks because it's late and I'm tired. Incidentally, I know I said my park visit schedule was going to change. Well, circumstance no longer warrant that so I should be back on my regular schedule 
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OK. As I exited Buzz after my last game of the day (when I finally broke 2M), a woman approached me and asked about my score. When she asked my name and I told her it was Rob, she got excited and said she'd heard about me. So we talked for about 20 minutes on various DL subjects. Towards the end of our conversation she told me something to try with MaxPass to get the best out of it and potentially score more FPs. She explained that MP updates once every five minutes. So: if you're outside of an attraction and you see that the next FP return time is two hours in the future, she suggested that you wait a few minutes and check again. Apparently if a substantial number of FPs aren't used at that time, more may be released. That is, you can be outside of HM at 1:00 and see that there are FPs available with a 4:00 return time. However, you're anxious to get on the ride so you check the app a few minutes later and you may find that much earlier FPs have been released. She said that it worked for her regularly. So -- good time. Certainly I hadn't heard it before.
Crowds were great! They were low all day. We suspected that was due to most of the out-of-town guests having left that day. In fact, at around 9:30, the line for Buzz didn't even extend to the outside of the attraction.
I was up front for PP and then we were second and third for Toad. I did a number of Buzz rounds but couldn't capture a really strong score for most of the day. In the late morning I made it to 1.9M. As I mention above, on my last ride of the day, that's when I scored 2,061,200. Nice way to round out my day
May post more tomorrow. I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Oh -- it was nice to be approached by @B3rlingirl as we were about to leave Fantasyland at around 8:30. She recognized me from the boards and spent a few hours with us, which was nice. We did several rounds of Buzz, Pirates and then Space Mountain. She had a 1:30 reservation at BB and we met briefly before that. I left shortly thereafter. Overall, a pretty good day.
No captions tonight, BTW. May add them tomorrow. I suspect readers can get along without them at least once.
Moments after the park has opened.
.OK. As I exited Buzz after my last game of the day (when I finally broke 2M), a woman approached me and asked about my score. When she asked my name and I told her it was Rob, she got excited and said she'd heard about me. So we talked for about 20 minutes on various DL subjects. Towards the end of our conversation she told me something to try with MaxPass to get the best out of it and potentially score more FPs. She explained that MP updates once every five minutes. So: if you're outside of an attraction and you see that the next FP return time is two hours in the future, she suggested that you wait a few minutes and check again. Apparently if a substantial number of FPs aren't used at that time, more may be released. That is, you can be outside of HM at 1:00 and see that there are FPs available with a 4:00 return time. However, you're anxious to get on the ride so you check the app a few minutes later and you may find that much earlier FPs have been released. She said that it worked for her regularly. So -- good time. Certainly I hadn't heard it before.
Park report
Crowds were great! They were low all day. We suspected that was due to most of the out-of-town guests having left that day. In fact, at around 9:30, the line for Buzz didn't even extend to the outside of the attraction.
I was up front for PP and then we were second and third for Toad. I did a number of Buzz rounds but couldn't capture a really strong score for most of the day. In the late morning I made it to 1.9M. As I mention above, on my last ride of the day, that's when I scored 2,061,200. Nice way to round out my day
May post more tomorrow. I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Oh -- it was nice to be approached by @B3rlingirl as we were about to leave Fantasyland at around 8:30. She recognized me from the boards and spent a few hours with us, which was nice. We did several rounds of Buzz, Pirates and then Space Mountain. She had a 1:30 reservation at BB and we met briefly before that. I left shortly thereafter. Overall, a pretty good day.
Park pics!
No captions tonight, BTW. May add them tomorrow. I suspect readers can get along without them at least once.
Moments after the park has opened.
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