Toy Story Land & HS strategy

[wombat girl]

As Toy story land opens at the beginning of our 2nd week - what would you all do?

Do you think that HS will be quieter during our first week before it opens - so we could go and enjoy toy story mania, star tours etc.

Then book a F/P for the slinky dog coaster for the second week and not expect to get on anything else.

Or will it be very busy for both weeks ?

any advice

[shack69]

I think your strategy is a good one as I'm sure after offical opening the park will be busy. You also find a soft opening in the week upto the offical one which would be a bonus.

[wombat girl]

Forgot to mention we will be trying to get in for the EMH that are on everyday of our last week and slightly later closing times.

[loldis]

It's very unlikely you will be able to access TSM in your first week. They're moving the entrance into TSL itself and with soft opens bound to be running, I'm guessing they'll only be using that one and closing off the old one completely. You may get lucky and get to go into the soft open though if it's not reserved for CM/AP only.

As for the park being quieter that week, think it's fully going to depend on the soft opening policy. There could be more people than usual heading over hoping to get early access, making the park seem even busier. Especially since the bulk of guests don't stay more than a week, so won't be there the following week for open. But attendance as a whole may be down if people delay their trip slightly in order to go once it's open.

[YorkshireT]

Try and get slinky fast pass, and get in for 7am to ride all the other stuff.
That’s what I am doing come 22 July.

[scoobydooby]

We are due to arrive the second week of July. I have planned two 7am openings staying until about 12pm then out and 1pm for a lunch. Then I’ve planned to go back one of those evenings for Famtasmic and another evening just for the Star Wars fireworks. I’m hoping touringplans will come up with a proposed strategy but if not I’m heading into Toy Story Land at 7am both days and will use FPP for the other attractions. DD and I plan to be at the park for 6.20am, leaving Beach Club at 6am and walking. Good luck!

[loldis]

Originally Posted by scoobydooby

We are due to arrive the second week of July. I have planned two 7am openings staying until about 12pm then out and 1pm for a lunch. Then I’ve planned to go back one of those evenings for Famtasmic and another evening just for the Star Wars fireworks. I’m hoping touringplans will come up with a proposed strategy but if not I’m heading into Toy Story Land at 7am both days and will use FPP for the other attractions. DD and I plan to be at the park for 6.20am, leaving Beach Club at 6am and walking. Good luck!

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TP is great for existing attractions, but I would ignore it for TSL that soon after opening. They won't have enough data to form accurate plans. For the first few weeks, they were advising only a 10 minute wait at FOP arriving 20 minutes after open. Which was incredibly inaccurate and upset a lot of users trusting the plan. I don't know their algorithms but presumably this would have been based on historic wait times for the entire park rather than specifically FOP. Which makes sense, as AK had never seen FOP level queues before.

Assuming you don't have a a FP for it, get there early (i.e. before 6:30am for a 7am open as you're planning) and head straight for Slinky would be my advice. Probably a coin toss on the other two for which order to do them in. Although I'd probably be happier to wait longer for TSM than the saucers, so I'd probably head to the latter before the queues shifted over. I'd still FP one of these three though, there's not that many other things to book in HS - and may depend if they change the tiers or not.