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26 Sep 18, 02:46 PM |
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Disney to Expand Early Morning Magic
Starting on 2nd Dec, Early Morning Magic will be bigger and better than ever!
The number of attractions available for you to experience will double, with returning favourites Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, as well as attractions new to the event – Princess Fairytale Hall, "it’s a small world", Mad Tea Party, Under the Sea – Journey of the Little Mermaid. The morning also includes scrumptious breakfast at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe that comes with cheese and cured meats, scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes, pancakes and more. Breakfast runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and exclusive event-only access to the attractions lasts from 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. This newly expanded Early Morning Magic will take place select Tuesdays and Sundays and will cost $79 for adults and $69 for children (regular theme park admission is also required). Admission will be limited, so be sure to book your reservation as soon as possible!
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27 Sep 18, 10:04 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Jul 15
Location: Merthyr Tydfil
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Honeslty, this is only for the rich it seems ! Cant see an average family of 4 doing this
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27 Sep 18, 10:16 AM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Oct 09
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You have to remember that Disney is a business !
Looks good and a chance to mooch about without the crowds. Disney332
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27 Sep 18, 10:56 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Jul 15
Location: Merthyr Tydfil
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I dont know see. $79 is very steep and you have to pay for a park ticket aswell. I dont know, but I do know... its not for me
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27 Sep 18, 11:20 AM |
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Just under $300 extra for a family of four for a days early admission ? WOW
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27 Sep 18, 11:29 AM |
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Excited about Disney
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Don’t forget you get breakfast too! , or will that be extra! 😬
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27 Sep 18, 11:53 AM |
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I don't see this as much of an expansion or upgrade.
I did EMM twice last trip (it was just my son and I so relatively cheap way to avoid rope drop - no way I would fork over the cash for the whole family). Tea Cups was already open (I heard before going that was often the case)... and let's be honest - how many guests paying extra to access the most popular rides are actually going to go on IASW before the park opens? That would be a huge time drain even as a walk on. Breakfast used to be served in Pinocchio Village Haus, which was centrally located to both SDMT and PP - the two attractions that people are using EMM for. Location-wise switching to Cosmic Rays is an inconvenient downgrade in my view. May seem like a small detail - but when paying that much for early access... every minute counts. Despite the addition of Little Mermaid, Tea Cups and IASW - 99% of the EMM guests are still going to focus primarily on PP and SDMT. So Disney added a few attractions that most guests won't bother to visit during EMM, and moved the breakfast farther away. I don't see anything here that qualifies as an improvement. |
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28 Sep 18, 12:54 PM |
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I completely agree with all of this.
First of all, two of the three attractions they’ve added are usually walk-ons early in the morning anyway, and IASW (and Mermaid to a lesser extent) are fairly long rides so are going to use up quite a bit of EMM time without really providing much of a benefit. If you can ride teacups or JOTLM with a five minute queue at 9.30 during regular admission, why would you do that during EMM rather than take advantage of short lines for Mine Train and Peter Pan? It definitely feels to me that Disney are doing this to increase the capacity of the event so they can sell more tickets, but in reality it could mean longer lines at the two event headliners. Moving the breakfast to Cosmic Ray’s is going to mean an extra couple of minutes walk and having done EMM twice, I already felt really conscious of how precious time was and did a lot of watch checking. We have done EMM twice. The first time in May 2017, we felt it was really worth it and I recommended it here on the Dibb based on our experience. We did Mine Train around eight or nine times and literally walked on every time, the train was half empty and the CMs let us choose the back row each time. Then we would come out of the exit door and straight round through the FastPass entrance door again without even having to walk all of the way out of the exit. We also did a ride or two on the other rides included, and felt the breakfast was good value. This year, in August we did it again and had such a different experience. First of all, Mine Train was down for the first half an hour or so of the event’s operation which obviously didn’t go down great with people. To Disney’s credit, they did say we could continue using the wristbands in the FastPass line until 11 am to make up for it, but we had other plans elsewhere at the end of the event so that didn’t benefit us. The main issue this year though was that there were definitely a lot more people at the event. I don’t know whether we just went on a very quiet day the first time and the event had not sold out, or whether they have upped the number of tickets available, but it was quite a different experience. Again, we had one ride on WTP and PP but the number of times we were able to ride Mine Train was fewer within the same time period (I think it was five). That is partly down to it not being operational at the beginning of the event, but we did have to wait in line for a few minutes every time we re-entered (around five minutes I would say, maybe a little less once or twice). When Mine Train initially opened that morning (late) and everyone headed there, we weren’t surprised there was a wait, but an hour later there was still a wait, and this time they didn’t open the barrier so you could walk straight back round to line up until towards the end of the event. They couldn’t because the line went outside the FastPass entrance door for much of the event. We heard a few people saying they were surprised they were having to wait in line, one or two directly to CMs, and yes obviously it was only a few minutes but you don’t really get that long when you factor in breakfast before 10 and the fact that after 9am, regular park guests are able to ride it too. It’s definitely not a cheap event and for us, the value was so much lower this time because of the different experience we had, yet the price we paid was pretty much the same. I definitely would not pay for this event again.
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27 Sep 18, 12:02 PM |
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For anyone you doubting this it really is worth every penny .we were a family of 5 in case you wondered and everyone got value from it and raved about it afterwards . A bog breakfast is around $25 each and you get a lot more choice with this , plus you get into the park and ride everything available . We did mine train 10 times and the kids loved it . There are very few people who do this (we counted about 30 ) so you basically have the area to yourself . We did they rides up to 9 am then went across to sis e and were first in the queue then went for breakfast . I can see why they have moved it as most people eat after 9am and move to other areas of the park . Just my opinion .
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27 Sep 18, 12:58 PM |
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We did this in 2016 and thought it was worth it. There was 7 of us, 4 adults and 3 kids, to see the kids faces running off of mine train then straight back on again made it worth it for that alone. As well as the other rides the breakfast wasn’t bad either. You can just pop in for a coffee and a pastry and then go back again for whatever else you fancy after doing a few more rides. We are doing this again in a few weeks with my daughter and her family, for 2 of her children this will be their first time to Disney and first Magic Kingdom day, I can’t wait to see their faces!
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