World of Color Superthread

[HydroGuy]

Just out of curiosity, how early did you get there, and where were you in line? I a wondering if we need to get there earlier than is typical since it's a new show.

The OP discusses all of this.

 

[Athenaa]

The OP discusses all of this.

Hi Hydroguy,

I can't tell you how many times I've read your OP for World of Color (and how much I appreciate your contributions here.) I'm asking about specifics because I understand that FPs are going faster for Winter Dreams than the regular show, so I figured people might be lining up earlier for reserved seating as well since it's novel. I'll be there in a few days with my mom, who is 71, and who hasn't been to Disneyland in over 20 years. This will likely be the last time she will ever go and I want her to experience it in the best possible way (she's only 5 feet tall as well, so being at the rail is a must).

I do everything to the extreme, so I have only ever seen Fantasmic and World of Color from the very front railing. However, I don't like to wait for a crazy amount of time either, so I only ever see the late Fantasmic show so I can push in and get the best spot with only an hour wait.

I am considering eating at Carthay Circle for lunch because a shorter wait would be easier on the people I am going with this time. But, I don't wait to pay the bill for the food, get in line 75 minutes before the show, and discover that I can't get a rail spot because the show is new and people are lining up earlier than usual. I just want as much info as possible from people who saw Winter Dreams last weekend.

By the way, how was your lunch at Carthay Circle, and what did you eat? I have reservations, but I'm really on the fence about it because of the cost (and the menu isn't blowing me away). Our schedule dictates that we will be seeing WOC on Saturday, but we are spending Saturday morning in Disneyland. I want yellow FPs for the first show, but I don't want to spend my day wandering back and forth to DCA to get the right passes. I don't get to Disneyland enough to waste my time going over there more than once.

I don't think my mom can handle staying up for the second show. I am concerned that the timing might be off, (i.e., I will miscalculate when to get the FPs) and that it might be easier to just go for the sure thing with the lunch.

 

[Monica D]

Thank you HydroGuy for all of the work you continue to put into this thread. We used your tips last Friday and were able to get a perfect spot in the yellow section, right against the railing. I got some great photos, too (until the wind picked up!). Thanks again!

 

[HydroGuy]

Hi Hydroguy,

I can't tell you how many times I've read your OP for World of Color (and how much I appreciate your contributions here.) I'm asking about specifics because I understand that FPs are going faster for Winter Dreams than the regular show, so I figured people might be lining up earlier for reserved seating as well since it's novel. I'll be there in a few days with my mom, who is 71, and who hasn't been to Disneyland in over 20 years. This will likely be the last time she will ever go and I want her to experience it in the best possible way (she's only 5 feet tall as well, so being at the rail is a must).

I do everything to the extreme, so I have only ever seen Fantasmic and World of Color from the very front railing. However, I don't like to wait for a crazy amount of time either, so I only ever see the late Fantasmic show so I can push in and get the best spot with only an hour wait.

I am considering eating at Carthay Circle for lunch because a shorter wait would be easier on the people I am going with this time. But, I don't wait to pay the bill for the food, get in line 75 minutes before the show, and discover that I can't get a rail spot because the show is new and people are lining up earlier than usual. I just want as much info as possible from people who saw Winter Dreams last weekend.

By the way, how was your lunch at Carthay Circle, and what did you eat? I have reservations, but I'm really on the fence about it because of the cost (and the menu isn't blowing me away). Our schedule dictates that we will be seeing WOC on Saturday, but we are spending Saturday morning in Disneyland. I want yellow FPs for the first show, but I don't want to spend my day wandering back and forth to DCA to get the right passes. I don't get to Disneyland enough to waste my time going over there more than once.

I don't think my mom can handle staying up for the second show. I am concerned that the timing might be off, (i.e., I will miscalculate when to get the FPs) and that it might be easier to just go for the sure thing with the lunch.

I hope everything works out for you. I guess I missed the reports of FPs going faster for WOCWD. I have not heard of anything working differently by way of timing for anything on WOCWD but would be interested if it is.

I personally have done CCR/WOC dining twice and AG/WOC three times. CCR was once before the prix fixe and then in August with. I do not claim to be a big foodie. I thought the meal was fine. I wanted to eat at CCR regardless - not just for WOC. I personally would not do it only or mostly for WOC as I do not think the extra cost gains you much.

So you are considering CCR for Saturday because you do not want to waste time guessing when yellow FPs for first show will be given out? If so I guess it comes down to whether yellow FP is absolutely necessary for you and whether you are willing to pay to get a CCR pass. I would think that timing a yellow FP would not be that hard. I would go 90-120 minutes after the park opens. But if I needed 100% certainty vs. 95% then maybe CCR is the way to go.

Good luck!

 

[mom2rtk]

OK, I thought I had a plan for WOC. Now it appears I'm back to the drawing board. I was going to do it Friday 12/6. Then the LTM for AP holders was announced and I decided to do it Monday 12/9. But we plan on being in DL almost all of 12/9, and it would be easier to scout the first show yellow FP we want on the 6th when we'll be there most of the day.

But then I thought they were adding an extra showing of WOC for AP holders, so I'd just stick with 12/6. Now I look at the schedule again and it says the event is for the 9 PM show. Sheesh they make this hard.

Can someone explain to me where the AP holders will be? Will there still be spots at that 9 PM show on the 9th for non-AP holders? If so will my choice of spots be diminished even more than usual?

I guess MY Limited Time Magic for that week is that my plan to watch WOC gets harder than it was before.

 

[HydroGuy]

OK, I thought I had a plan for WOC. Now it appears I'm back to the drawing board. I was going to do it Friday 12/6. Then the LTM for AP holders was announced and I decided to do it Monday 12/9. But we plan on being in DL almost all of 12/9, and it would be easier to scout the first show yellow FP we want on the 6th when we'll be there most of the day.

But then I thought they were adding an extra showing of WOC for AP holders, so I'd just stick with 12/6. Now I look at the schedule again and it says the event is for the 9 PM show. Sheesh they make this hard.

Can someone explain to me where the AP holders will be? Will there still be spots at that 9 PM show on the 9th for non-AP holders? If so will my choice of spots be diminished even more than usual?

I guess MY Limited Time Magic for that week is that my plan to watch WOC gets harder than it was before.

I wish I could help but I do not know anything more than you do. Sorry this is turning out to be frustrating for you. Hopefully someone else has some insight?

 

[mom2rtk]

I wish I could help but I do not know anything more than you do. Sorry this is turning out to be frustrating for you. Hopefully someone else has some insight?

Thanks for chiming in. I'd love if others with experience would share.

 

[SchneiderFam]

I was just wondering what people's experiences were with the AP FP's for the current special event, most specifically when they ran out of those FP's. We are contemplating a trip down on Friday, but couldn't get down there until mid-afternoon. I suspect we'd be out of luck, but thought I'd ask.

 

[smiley_face2]

Thanks for chiming in. I'd love if others with experience would share.

We have our dinner reservation at Ariels at 5:30 WOC dinner, the show is at 8:15 there is an annual passholder show at 7. I will do my best to pay attention take in as many details as I can about lineups, how soon you have to be there etc. I hope they have changed it to an orderly line into the viewing area, that would be such a major improvement. I also did not know whether to do the annual passholder show, or the dinner for best viewing, but we wanted to eat at Ariels anyway so we went with that for now. maybe we will try out the passholder event on Friday as well and see the difference. I will try and make a report tonight when we get back.

 

[mom2rtk]

We have our dinner reservation at Ariels at 5:30 WOC dinner, the show is at 8:15 there is an annual passholder show at 7. I will do my best to pay attention take in as many details as I can about lineups, how soon you have to be there etc. I hope they have changed it to an orderly line into the viewing area, that would be such a major improvement. I also did not know whether to do the annual passholder show, or the dinner for best viewing, but we wanted to eat at Ariels anyway so we went with that for now. maybe we will try out the passholder event on Friday as well and see the difference. I will try and make a report tonight when we get back.

Thanks! I'd definitely like to hear how your experience goes.

 

[smiley_face2]

Thanks! I'd definitely like to hear how your experience goes.

any other questions, I'll be here resting my feet till about 5

 

[smiley_face2]

Well having the one show follow right behind the other did make things a bit more complicated but... we stayed in Ariels until about 7:20 then made our way across the bridge along the nice clear marked off walkways to over in front of the Little Mermaid ride. There is a section roped off that runs all along in front of the ride for "stand by" viewing of the show, and after asking 2 cast members along the way where the preferred dining viewing line would start, we were directed to about half way down from the entrance to little mermaid, right in front of the last big glass window looking into the ride. there was lot's of room to just stand in that viewing area waiting for the last few minutes of the annual passholder show to end, then we were right in position to be first in line. And yes, they are leading everyone nice and orderly down into the area! we got our prime viewing spot at the railing one up from the wet zone. She said this was only the 3rd I think...showing they were doing with this system but it seems to be working, but she said you never know, they may change it again! Ashley was her name, an awesome cast member!!
Now if that stand by viewing area would have been completely full, we would have had to go wait around the side of little mermaid past the entrance, and then got there as quick as we could. there was plenty of room right up to the beginning of the show, it was a cloudly cool showery day, and it was drizzling while the show was on so that probably helped it to be quieter.

 

[czmom]

Thanks for letting us know how it worked last night. That would be great if they stayed consistent with an actual line for the reserved dining!

Did you happen to notice if the blue and yellow FP sections also had separate lines?

We are doing the 8:15 show on a night where there is a 7:00 AP viewing, so I appreciate your insight.

 

[mom2rtk]

I'm still looking for clarification. I think I was confused.

If a given show is part of the AP LTM, is it completely unavailable for the general public? The night we want to go is 12/6 and the shows are listed as 9 PM and 10:15, but I see on the LTM info page that the 9 PM show is part of that promotion.

That would be very disappointing as I'm just not up for the 10:15 show. 9 was pushing my luck. This is really just seeming like way too much work.

 

[cali_crafter]

You can't get into the regular show area during the AP show but you can watch from further back. There's a roped off area behind a walkway where people gathered.

We went last night in yellow section. AP was at 7, we were at the 8:15 show. It went smoothly, we lined up by jumping jellyfish around 7:30 and were pretty close to the front of the line. We went to the wet area front rail since it was raining anyhow! I think the crowds were probably less since there were two shoes but I don't have anything to compare it to.

Make sure to look for the actual line. Jumping jellyfish was printed on our fast pass but we wasted time hanging out by the sign that said yellow entrance by the show area before we realized the line actually started elsewhere.

 

[mom2rtk]

You can't get into the regular show area during the AP show but you can watch from further back. There's a roped off area behind a walkway where people gathered.

We went last night in yellow section. AP was at 7, we were at the 8:15 show. It went smoothly, we lined up by jumping jellyfish around 7:30 and were pretty close to the front of the line. We went to the wet area front rail since it was raining anyhow! I think the crowds were probably less since there were two shoes but I don't have anything to compare it to.

Make sure to look for the actual line. Jumping jellyfish was printed on our fast pass but we wasted time hanging out by the sign that said yellow entrance by the show area before we realized the line actually started elsewhere.

Well, I was afraid of that. And now I'm totally ticked off. They need to take that 9 PM show off of their general public calendar!

Thanks for that confirmation. We are trying hard to get a good spot to view the show. I'm not interested in watching from way behind a bunch of people.

I'm curious now..... did they not sell any dining packages for this show? Or are the dining packages still able to get in?

I guess my Limited Time Magic for the week is that I get fewer offerings of WOC. This promotion just keeps getting better.

 

[ksromack]

We have our dinner reservation at Ariels at 5:30 WOC dinner, the show is at 8:15 there is an annual passholder show at 7. I will do my best to pay attention take in as many details as I can about lineups, how soon you have to be there etc. I hope they have changed it to an orderly line into the viewing area, that would be such a major improvement. I also did not know whether to do the annual passholder show, or the dinner for best viewing, but we wanted to eat at Ariels anyway so we went with that for now. maybe we will try out the passholder event on Friday as well and see the difference. I will try and make a report tonight when we get back.

I will be waiting patiently for your report on this subject! I currently have Carthay Circle reservations for lunch for the 8:15pm WoC reserved viewing.....but I'm not crazy about the prix fixe menu. I was wondering the same thing as the other poster. I think we could go to the 7pm AP LTM showing of WoC AND still have lunch at Carthay Circle but we'd be able to eat off the regular menu (and I think we'd actually be spending a little less money). I'm so curious about the line/crowds for the AP WoC show!

 

[butterflymouse]

Our trip is just in a few days! YAY!

We're driving down from Northern California Sunday morning. We'll be getting annual passes, so we will be entering the park probably around 3 or 4 on Sunday evening. I'm trying to figure out if it is better for us to try and catch the late showing of WOC on Sunday or get fastpasses for the show on Monday. We need to see a different night show each night because Wednesday, our last night, we will be joined by friends and we intend to let them choose the night show they'd most like to see.

I just don't know. The indecisive side of me is really coming out on this issue. LOL!

 

[jitterbug]

Just wanted to report back on our WOC experience for this past Monday. We had lunch reservations at WCT for the WOC lunch package. Food overall was okay. Soups were tasty, salad was fine, lasagna was good, potato gnocchi not so much (i didn't care for the crab in there), and the tiramisu in the dessert assortment was good. You get 10% off with your Disney Visa!

I think because of the AP 7:00 WOC show, the lines for the public 8:15 WOC show could not queue up till a little later, which was nice and allowed us more time to do other stuff than waiting in line. I'm not completely sure on the timing, as my DD had to use the potty when the AP WOC show was still on and when we got back, our group was in line already. I should've looked at my watch, but I think maybe 7:30/7:45 was the line up? I did not see signs, but lots of ropes, so i'm guessing they had to ask where to line up. As it turned out, the line up for reserved dining was on the Little Mermaid side of the walkway across from the middle of the viewing area. Does that even make sense? Anyway, they had to stop cross traffic as they led us across to the viewing area. And we totally lucked out being close to the front of the line and snagging a rail spot for our group, which included 4 kids and 2 vertically challenged moms, so being at the rail was our priority. That was the BEST EVER!! Oh, if you are in the reserved dining section, and you want to get to the rail quickly, be prepared to go down the stairs with your stroller. I'm sure there was a ramp to get there, but we didn't want to "waste time" with that. The stairs aren't full height and we had big wheels on the stroller, so it wasn't bad at all.

THANK YOU THANK YOU to all (especially HydroGuy!) who have shared so much to help us find that sweet spot to see WOC!!

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Just wanted to report back on our WOC experience for this past Monday. We had lunch reservations at WCT for the WOC lunch package. Food overall was okay. Soups were tasty, salad was fine, lasagna was good, potato gnocchi not so much (i didn't care for the crab in there), and the tiramisu in the dessert assortment was good. You get 10% off with your Disney Visa! I think because of the AP 7:00 WOC show, the lines for the public 8:15 WOC show could not queue up till a little later, which was nice and allowed us more time to do other stuff than waiting in line. I'm not completely sure on the timing, as my DD had to use the potty when the AP WOC show was still on and when we got back, our group was in line already. I should've looked at my watch, but I think maybe 7:30/7:45 was the line up? I did not see signs, but lots of ropes, so i'm guessing they had to ask where to line up. As it turned out, the line up for reserved dining was on the Little Mermaid side of the walkway across from the middle of the viewing area. Does that even make sense? Anyway, they had to stop cross traffic as they led us across to the viewing area. And we totally lucked out being close to the front of the line and snagging a rail spot for our group, which included 4 kids and 2 vertically challenged moms, so being at the rail was our priority. That was the BEST EVER!! Oh, if you are in the reserved dining section, and you want to get to the rail quickly, be prepared to go down the stairs with your stroller. I'm sure there was a ramp to get there, but we didn't want to "waste time" with that. The stairs aren't full height and we had big wheels on the stroller, so it wasn't bad at all. THANK YOU THANK YOU to all (especially HydroGuy!) who have shared so much to help us find that sweet spot to see WOC!!

The stair/stroller advice is actually really helpful. I'll DH deal with getting it down and I'll carry the little one.