BabybetterDisney
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Here’s my plan:
We will stay at Yacht Club for 7 nights with a 6 day pass. Every morning, I will march DS4 in a stroller to Hollywood Studios at about half hour before the real opening time. The walk takes 20 minutes, so that I will get there around the real opening time, which should guarantee a spot. And I will do this every morning of our stay.
How can an old and decrepit person like me pull this off? Easy. I don’t sleep well and wake up too early. And I can still walk. (Can’t run anymore, boohoo.) So why don’t I just get up and walk to DHS? I can pop DS4 in a stroller and he can continue his sleep in there. DS19 is an early riser, so I will just make him get up even earlier. Once we get inside DHS, we’ll get the boarding passes and then come right back on the boat.
I have no interest in ROTR myself because:
1. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies.
2. ROTR is too long with too many walking and waiting parts within the ride before you can get to the real ride part. It also breaks down too often. It tries my patience. All this is very irritating, like a good deal with too many strings attached to ruin it.
3. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies, and that’s what ROTR is based on.
4. I think Galaxy’s Edge is disgusting. I am not a big fan of chipped paint, broken walls, stains and weather erosion. Even Mos Eisley doesn’t look near that bad. What a dump. But now I have to be in there every day, like paying $$$$ to visit a third world country. Ew.
5. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies and everything about it.
So I am still going on it for the kids, who will enjoy this “best ride in the world.”
If RotR had fastpasses like other rides, my original plan was to get 2 days of fastpasses for RotR, being that I need to do other stuff for the other days, and you can only get one main fastpass each day. But being that RotR is not a fastpass but a “boarding group”, it doesn’t take away from being able to get other fastpasses, so I can totally get it every single day of our trip while at the same time get fastpasses for FoP, and I am totally going to do it.
I realize that in doing this, I am hogging RotR for my family. I estimate that 90% of the RotR rides and being used by 10% of all visitors who want to get on it, multiple times. That is, one guy eats 10 pies while 9 guys watch and go hungry. Most people who cannot or will not get up that early will never be able to get on RotR during their stay, as people like me are snatching RotR away from them. This is true even for people who stay at club level and pay an extra $50 per day per person for extra fastpasses, none of which will get them anywhere near RotR.
Well, sucks for them, but don’t blame me, this is Disney’s idea to turn RotR into a challenge, and I don’t back up from a challenge. I don’t lose. Besides, I’m nothing in the big picture. You know full well that there’s that guy who lives with his parents near WDW, who works at McDonald’s in the evenings to pay for his Disney annual pass, who is coming to DHS every morning to get the boarding pass for RotR and has been riding it every day since it opened.
In the past, back when big named rides opened, like FoP, 7DMT, Frozen, Slinky Dog, I’ve never had trouble getting a few fastpasses for the family 60 days in advance from the comfort of my home, which was all we wanted. But times have changed, and now Disney has invented the “boarding pass,” which is really the original fastpass (without the “+”), by cell phone, without the exclusivity requirement -- even the original fastpass didn’t allow you to get 2 fastpasses at the same time, whereas the boarding group isn’t a fastpass, so you can totally get away with it.
However, at the end of the day, I’d rather not do that early walk and then wait at DHS in a big crowd if I can help it. So hopefully, Disney will have installed the regular fastpass by the time I get there next year. But things are not looking good, though. Disneyland’s Smuggler’s Run has been open for this 6 months with sluggish wait times and there’s still no fastpass in sight. So, better be prepared.
We will stay at Yacht Club for 7 nights with a 6 day pass. Every morning, I will march DS4 in a stroller to Hollywood Studios at about half hour before the real opening time. The walk takes 20 minutes, so that I will get there around the real opening time, which should guarantee a spot. And I will do this every morning of our stay.
How can an old and decrepit person like me pull this off? Easy. I don’t sleep well and wake up too early. And I can still walk. (Can’t run anymore, boohoo.) So why don’t I just get up and walk to DHS? I can pop DS4 in a stroller and he can continue his sleep in there. DS19 is an early riser, so I will just make him get up even earlier. Once we get inside DHS, we’ll get the boarding passes and then come right back on the boat.
I have no interest in ROTR myself because:
1. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies.
2. ROTR is too long with too many walking and waiting parts within the ride before you can get to the real ride part. It also breaks down too often. It tries my patience. All this is very irritating, like a good deal with too many strings attached to ruin it.
3. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies, and that’s what ROTR is based on.
4. I think Galaxy’s Edge is disgusting. I am not a big fan of chipped paint, broken walls, stains and weather erosion. Even Mos Eisley doesn’t look near that bad. What a dump. But now I have to be in there every day, like paying $$$$ to visit a third world country. Ew.
5. I hate the Disney Star Wars movies and everything about it.
So I am still going on it for the kids, who will enjoy this “best ride in the world.”
If RotR had fastpasses like other rides, my original plan was to get 2 days of fastpasses for RotR, being that I need to do other stuff for the other days, and you can only get one main fastpass each day. But being that RotR is not a fastpass but a “boarding group”, it doesn’t take away from being able to get other fastpasses, so I can totally get it every single day of our trip while at the same time get fastpasses for FoP, and I am totally going to do it.
I realize that in doing this, I am hogging RotR for my family. I estimate that 90% of the RotR rides and being used by 10% of all visitors who want to get on it, multiple times. That is, one guy eats 10 pies while 9 guys watch and go hungry. Most people who cannot or will not get up that early will never be able to get on RotR during their stay, as people like me are snatching RotR away from them. This is true even for people who stay at club level and pay an extra $50 per day per person for extra fastpasses, none of which will get them anywhere near RotR.
Well, sucks for them, but don’t blame me, this is Disney’s idea to turn RotR into a challenge, and I don’t back up from a challenge. I don’t lose. Besides, I’m nothing in the big picture. You know full well that there’s that guy who lives with his parents near WDW, who works at McDonald’s in the evenings to pay for his Disney annual pass, who is coming to DHS every morning to get the boarding pass for RotR and has been riding it every day since it opened.
In the past, back when big named rides opened, like FoP, 7DMT, Frozen, Slinky Dog, I’ve never had trouble getting a few fastpasses for the family 60 days in advance from the comfort of my home, which was all we wanted. But times have changed, and now Disney has invented the “boarding pass,” which is really the original fastpass (without the “+”), by cell phone, without the exclusivity requirement -- even the original fastpass didn’t allow you to get 2 fastpasses at the same time, whereas the boarding group isn’t a fastpass, so you can totally get away with it.
However, at the end of the day, I’d rather not do that early walk and then wait at DHS in a big crowd if I can help it. So hopefully, Disney will have installed the regular fastpass by the time I get there next year. But things are not looking good, though. Disneyland’s Smuggler’s Run has been open for this 6 months with sluggish wait times and there’s still no fastpass in sight. So, better be prepared.
