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86. How to Tackle Rope Drop at Disney · Mom Street USA

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Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama.
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And for this episode of Mom St. USA, we are going to be
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revisiting a topic that we actually discussed about 5:00 or
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so months ago here at Mom Street.
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But we've got some new things to talk about and some new updates
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and that is early entry and rope drop at the Disney parks.
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So that is our topic for today. Like I said, Kate and I
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discussed this not too long ago, but there's some new strategies
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and some new kind of setup for some of these theme parks.
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So wanted to come with to you guys with some updated
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information regarding all of that.
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So before we hop in just some a quick rundown of what early
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entry and rope drop are in case you are unfamiliar or haven't
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heard or are new to this whole Disney Parks thing.
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Early entry is what Disney calls the time that resort guests get
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before the official park opens. So at if you are staying at a
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Disney resort, that would be any of the resorts on property at
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Disney World and the what three I think it is on property at
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Disneyland, you will get early entry, which is a 30 minute
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period before official park open that you will have access to the
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rides. So you'll hear me use that term
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throughout the evening tonight as we talk about the difference,
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different strategies for early entry.
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And you'll hear me talk about kind of on property versus off
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property because there are some differences in strategies when
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it comes to utilizing rope drop and early entry for that.
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So again, early entry is that extra time that you get if you
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are a resort guest, rope drop is basically just park open.
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It's when the, you know, for years and years and years,
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Disney had official rope drops, quote UN quote, where they would
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have cast members with ropes across a lot of the different
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pathways and things that you can find to gain access to those
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rides throughout the park. And rope drop is literally what
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it sounds like. It is the act of them dropping
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the rope to allow people to go through.
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So you'll hear kind of both of those terms used in this
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episode. So I wanted to make sure you
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kind of had an idea about what we were talking about so that
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way you can kind of stay on the same page as we go through each
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of these. Today's episode is going to
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focus on Disneyland and Disney World.
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We're not going to talk about overseas parks for this one,
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just wanted to focus on the US based parks.
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We did cover this in episode 69, so not too long ago.
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And the majority of what I'm going to talk about for
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Disneyland is still the same as what we talked about in that
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episode. But a couple of the parks for
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Disney World have had some pretty significant changes to
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either their early entry process or their rope drop process.
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So wanted to bring you guys that updated information so that you
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could best prepare for any upcoming trips that you may
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have. All of that being said, let's
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kind of hop into some general tips.
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One more thing I do want to mention is that we are going to
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talk a little bit about Lightning Lanes in this episode,
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but we are not going in depth. So this is not your guide for
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what to do with lightning lanes, how to do them, those types of
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things. I am planning to do an another
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refresher on Lightning Lanes and AQ and a here coming up in about
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a month or so. So we'll tackle all of the
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logistics of that in in a few, a few episodes down the line.
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But you will hear me mention some some strategies for
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lightning lanes just because a lot of this information for
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early entry and rope drop really can be swayed one way or the
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other by whether or not you are utilizing those lightning lanes.
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So I can't completely leave it out, but I'm not going to go
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super in depth with the lightning lanes for this
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particular episode. Now a couple of general tips for
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if you are planning to utilize early entry and planning to be
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at the parks for rope drop. Let's talk about those.
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First of all, you got to get some sleep.
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Those are going to be early mornings.
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If you're trying to do rope drop, you know you're you may
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have to plan accordingly to not be out for an evening show the
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night before you're planning on doing a big rope drop.
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It depends on your group, depends on how much sleep you
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need, depends on if you are early risers or not.
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But definitely planning out at least a little extra sleep
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before you need to get up early for that rope drop plan.
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The other thing that I will say is prepping the night before can
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be massively helpful. So depending on again, your
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party, your travel group, that could be laying out clothes for
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you, for your other adults, for your kids in your group, that
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could be being sure that your park bag is packed and ready to
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grab so you're not running around the room scrambling to
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find things in the morning, setting out things for breakfast
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if you're able to. So if you're doing granola bars,
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pop tarts, easy muffins, something quick to grab, kind of
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setting that out and prepping that the night before can be
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helpful. Also prepping your coffee.
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I know that's something that I, we, a lot of us do probably well
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at home, but maybe not so well at Disney or when we're on
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vacation. But prep your coffee so that way
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you can just hit start in the morning and you won't be stuck
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waiting for your coffee to brew before you want to get out the
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door. So those are kind of my night
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before suggestions. If you're planning to do an
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early morning for a rope drop, another suggestion that I have
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is give yourself more travel time than you think that you
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will need. Getting to the parks from your
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resort, whether you are on property, off property, no
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matter where you're staying, can take longer than you think.
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Because not only do you have to factor in drivetime, which is
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fairly easy to do with all of our technology and maps and
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things like that, but you're going to have to factor in
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parking time. If you're parking and if you're
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driving and parking, walking time from whatever transport
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you're taking, whether that's the bus, a sky liner, a car,
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that walking time. And then also security time.
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Because every theme park has those security gates that you
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will have to go through before you can get into the park.
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So factoring in extra time to be able to, to handle all of that,
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especially when it's a really busy season like the holidays,
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you really want to make sure you give yourself enough time.
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Another suggestion that I have is when you are looking for your
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rope drop ideas and we're going to talk about strategy and what
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what rides I suggest and my thoughts and things like that
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here shortly for each park. But you really need to have like
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an ABC plan, right? You need to have OK, top choice
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plan A, we want to go here and then here and then here.
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OK, maybe your top ride is the line is too long by the time you
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make it through security and through the gates and you have
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to pivot. You want to have some backup
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plans to pivot because standing around during early entry and
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having to make a decision in the moment is not only stressful,
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but it wastes time. Your time in the morning when
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you are getting to the parks can be so beneficial to getting
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through a ton of rides. The first, I'd say 2 hours that
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a park is open is really your best time to get through a ton
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of attractions and knock a bunch of things off your list.
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So making sure you have those plan A, Plan B, plan C can
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really help you not waste time and just go, OK, that didn't
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work, pivot to Plan B and so on and so forth and that will make
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it so much easier. The other thing is with those
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plans, when you physically get in the park and you're lining
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up, queuing up, ready to go, you need to put yourself in a
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position for success. So know where you're going, know
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what ride you're trying to get to, know which area you need to
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kind of set yourself up for success.
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Know where the stroller parking is.
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If you've got kiddos and strollers that are going with
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you and you know that OK, we want to hit Space Mountain
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first, know where you're going to dump your stroller so that
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way you're not wasting a ton of time getting in and out of the
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stroller before you get into the queue for that particular
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attraction. Just as an example.
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This can also help you avoid backtracking.
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So if you know that during, I'll just keep using this Magic
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Kingdom example, which will again, we'll talk about the
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parks here shortly. But that way if you know you
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want to hit, let's say, Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear and
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Winnie the Pooh during your early entry, you know what makes
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sense to go where. So that way you're not doing a
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ton of cross back tracking, especially if if you've got
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things in different spaces in the parks, different lands,
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different areas, you want to kind of cluster them together to
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help you avoid that. Knocking out an entire land or
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an entire half of the park or or section of the park on the map
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is really beneficial during your early entry time because then
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you don't have all that extra walking later in the day to try
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to backtrack and go back to where you were originally like
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first thing in the morning. So those are just kind of my
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overall general tips when it comes to rope drop and when it
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comes to early entry. But now let's jump into the
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parks and the the previous episodes that Kate and I did
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this, we did some really in depth stuff on, especially on
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Disneyland. Not a lot has changed at
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Disneyland. So I'm going to go over it
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again, but it's not going to be maybe as in depthly as we did
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before just because a lot of this is pretty standard for
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those parks out on the West Coast.
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So let's talk about Disneyland, a couple things about each park.
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We'll go over kind of a general idea of when I suggest you
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arrive. This can all vary greatly based
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on how busy the parks are, what time of year it is.
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Those types of things can all have an effect obviously on the
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crowds and what time you should arrive.
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But generally speaking, I'm going to give you guys some tips
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for easily on the crowds and what time you should arrive.
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But generally speaking, I'm going to give you guys some tips
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for each park and then talk about where I would go if I were
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utilizing early entry and then where I would go if I'm
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utilizing rope drop as a non resort guest.
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So for Disneyland, I suggest that you get there at least 45
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minutes before whatever time it is that you have access to the
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park. So you want to give yourself
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plenty of time to get in, get ready to go.
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So that way you can again, position yourself accordingly.
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So whichever side of the park you are planning to go to, you
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are ready to go at the correct time so that you do not miss
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that early entry access time for that.
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Or rope drop if you're doing rope drop for for park or non
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resort guests. Sorry if you are utilizing
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lightning lanes. The lightning lanes out in
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Disneyland are different than Disney World.
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So talking Disneyland, you will purchase your lightning lanes
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and book your first one as soon as you have tapped into the
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park. Keep in mind, if you have a
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large group, you need to make sure that you are that everybody
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has tapped into the park and that everybody's ticket has been
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scanned on your app. So you can book for more than
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one or for your whole group at one time.
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As far as order that you should book your lightning lanes again,
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going to briefly go over this. We have to touched on this
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before, but if you're booking Lightning Lanes for Disneyland,
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my suggestion to you is book Indiana Jones first, then
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Matterhorn, Smugglers Run and Big Thunder Mountain and then
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kind of go about your day from there depending on what rides
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you're able to do standby or during this rope drop time
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period. So those are my suggestions for
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the order for Lightning Lanes. Again, you book them one at a
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time out in Disneyland. Still for the single pass rides
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out there, Rise of the Resistance is the one that you
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have your single pass for. So if you choose to purchase
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that, if your budget allows, that is your option and you
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would do that again as soon as you tap in.
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So let's talk about rope drop and early entry.
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Your best use of time early in the park at Disneyland is to go
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to your Fantasyland area. Mostly because if you are using
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Lightning Lanes at Disneyland, the majority of the rides in
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Fantasyland do not have Lightning Lane access.
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Their queues are not set up to be that way.
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They don't have enough space for any additional lines, so they
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are not included in your Lightning Lane multi pass out in
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Disneyland. So I always suggest that you
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head there first to try to get a lot of those out of the way
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because there's just no option for helping you make those lines
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shorter. And again, that goes for
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Lightning Lane. No Lightning Lane, you know, or
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whether or not you are utilizing early entry.
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Fantasyland in the morning is going to be the best place for
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you. I'm going to give you kind of
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two different categories of the rides that I would prioritize.
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Dependent land in the morning is going to be the best place for
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you. I'm going to give you kind of
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two different categories of the rides that I would prioritize
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depending on your situation. And then you can kind of mix and
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match, mix and match and pick and choose what makes sense for
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your group that is visiting Disneyland.
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So if you've got non thrill seekers or a bunch of small
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children with you, I would suggest in the morning first
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thing again, you'd utilizing early entry or getting there
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right at rope drop. You're going to want to visit
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Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, Snow White, the Carousel, Mr. Toad,
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Casey Junior, and then Small World.
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So you're knocking out that fantasyland section that we just
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talked about. I'm getting a lot of those done
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early on. That way you get through as many
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as possible before those lines get too long later in the
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afternoon. Now if you are a group that has
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older kids, teens, or thrill seekers that are tall enough to
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ride things, your early entry and or rope drop time is going
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to look a little bit different out of Disneyland.
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My suggestion for the the order that you do the rides out there
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would be to go to Space Mountain first.
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So that's going to be your first one that you hit.
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If you are a thrill seeker, then Matterhorn, Indiana Jones, Big
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Thunder Mountain Pirates, Haunted Mansion and Star Tours.
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Now that list just kind of have to take a look at the list,
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figure out what makes sense for you.
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Because if you're someone utilizing lightning lanes, you
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heard me say earlier, Indiana Jones, Matterhorn, you know,
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those are two of the the ones that I listed earlier for
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lightning lanes. Those are also two of the ones
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that I listed on that priority list.
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So just pick and choose what makes sense and skip over the
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ones that you know you're going to have lightning lanes for,
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especially early in the morning. So again, you could also still
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do them during your early entry and rope drop time and then do
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them a second time with a lightning lane if you chose to
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later on in the day as well. So a couple different options
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for that if you are looking to hit some of those more E ticket
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or thrill seeking attractions at Disneyland.
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So that kind of in a nutshell is my suggestion for Disneyland.
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Again, Fantasyland is really important.
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And then for your thrill seekers, Space Mountain,
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Matterhorn, Indiana Jones, Big Thunder Mountain.
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So kind of just hitting the highlights of those big coaster
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style rides out there at Disneyland.
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Now California Adventure has its own set of of information that
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you need to know if you are visiting there.
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Again, you're going to want to arrive to California Adventure
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about 45 minutes before you can gain access to the park.
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That's to give time for you to go through security to get
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queued up at the gate. Figure out what you need to do
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again once if you are utilizing lightning lanes.
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Once you tap in and your whole party has tapped into the park,
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then you are able to start to book those.
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There is a virtual queue at California Adventure that is one
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of the only parks currently in the US that is utilizing virtual
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queue. And we'll talk about that more
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in Disney World here a little bit later.
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But there is the virtual queue for World of Color, which is the
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nighttime show at DCA. And the World of Color virtual
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queue drops at noon and it gives you a specific viewing area that
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you have kind of like reserved then.
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So definitely suggest doing that.
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It is free, anybody can do it. You just have to hop on your app
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at noon on your Disneyland app to join that for your group.
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Now if you are utilizing Lightning lanes at California
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Adventure, a couple just notes on the lightning lanes that I
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would suggest you look into first.
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As far as booking, I would grab a time for Guardians Mission
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Breakout first if you're utilizing Lightning Lanes at
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DCA. After that I would look at Web
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Slingers, Toy Story, Midway Mania, and Sauron.
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So that's kind of your short list.
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Again, there are more attractions other than that, but
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that's kind of your short list for priority for Lightning Lanes
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at TCA. As far as single pass goes,
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Radiator Springs Racers does have a single pass option there.
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So if that is something that you are budgeting for or you want to
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purchase, you will again do that as soon as you tap into, as soon
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as your whole party has tapped into the park.
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Just a word of caution for rope drop with DCA.
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You will hear a lot of people talk about rope dropping
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Radiator Springs Racers. That is your big ticket
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attraction back in cars land. I don't necessarily agree with
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that suggestion because a couple things everyone goes there so it
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immediately the line gets crazy long.
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It is also one that does not always actually frequently does
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not open on time. It's very slow to wake up in the
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morning. So keep those things in mind
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because you may get there. I talked about having plan A,
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Plan B, Plan C, you may get there and you may have to
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immediately pivot if it's not open.
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So plan accordingly. Make sure you know what you're,
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what you're thinking and what you're doing.
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The nice thing is at Disneyland in general with those two parks,
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it's easy to hop between the two.
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So that may help you out. With something like Radiator
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Springs Racers, because it does have a single rider line.
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So if you are a person who is able to or a group that doesn't
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mind, you know, if you've got a bunch of teenagers and adults
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you don't mind riding separately, that's a great
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option. Or riding it at the very end of
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the night, if it's a night where you've already seen the night
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time shows or you don't plan to see the night time shows for
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that evening, you can jump in line kind of close to park close
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to help alleviate some of the weights that you would have for
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that one. But now let's talk about what
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rides to prioritize. Again, this is regardless of if
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you're using lightning lanes or not.
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So if you have some of these booked for lightning lanes, then
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you don't need to necessarily rope chop them unless you want
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to do a second ride for these. But this order would be what I
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would suggest when it comes to rope drop or early entry
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depending on when you're entering the park.
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First ride you're going to want to do is Web Slingers, then head
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to Soren and then you're going to head over to Cars Land to hit
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Mater's Junker Jamboree and Luigi's Rollican Roadsters.
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Again, we are saving the Radiator Springs Racers for
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either later in the day or a single rider later on.
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And then after Luigi's you're going to do the Pixar pal around
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Toys R, Midway Mania and a credit coaster and then go from
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there. Just a note that you did not
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hear me mention Guardians Mission Breakout on that list.
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And that would be because I highly suggest if you have not
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purchased a Lightning Lightning Lanes and you're not planning to
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use a Lightning Lane for that, I would wait on that until the end
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of the night. So you may have to kind of
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decide, you know, if you are going to be doing just a single
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pass for Radiator Springs Racer, then Guardians would be your
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last ride. If you're not, then you just may
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have to kind of pick and choose and decide, one, what your
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budget will allow you to do and then two, which of those is most
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important if you only have one evening in DCA.
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Just a lot of things to consider when it comes to logistics for
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those rides. So all of that being said,
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that's kind of in a nutshell suggestions for what order to
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book your Lightning Lanes and what order to go to the
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attractions early on in Disneyland parks.
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Let's hop over now to Disney World, which has a lot more
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logistics to talk about. So we'll we'll hop into that
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here now. All right, so we are going to
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start with the park that I feel like has had the biggest change
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for their early entry whole situation, and that is Magic
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Kingdom. So let's talk about Magic
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Kingdom at Disney World. They recently adjusted the way
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that they are doing their early entry.
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Now we don't know if this is permanent.
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We don't know if this is just for the season because we're in
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the midst of kind of spring break into summer season.
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We're not really sure. So at the time that I am
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recording this, this is what I know starting basically when the
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when Main Street opens, which is typically 75 minutes before
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posted park open time, you still scan in as a resort guest in the
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same space that you were kind of on the Tomorrowland side of the
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hub. But after that you can go get in
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line for whatever attraction it is that you are planning to ride
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first. So previously they they had two
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holding areas. You would scan in on that side
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of the hub and then they would hold you either at the
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Tomorrowland Bridge or the walkway between Tomorrowland
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Speedway and Cosmic Rays. Those were the two holding
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places that they used to use. That is no longer how they are
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doing rope drop at Magic Kingdom.
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You now have the ability to go to the attraction that you are
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planning to rope drop. So this kind of drastically
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changes the way that rope drop looks for early entry.
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We're talking about early entry because you don't necessarily
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if, if you're not there at that point in time, it may, it may
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affect those wait times for some of those big attractions that a
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lot of people like to utilize early entry for.
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So that being said, your group is going to have to decide just
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how early you think you are able to be at the parks.
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Because you've got to realize if the park open is posted at 9:00
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AM, that means that early entry for resort guests will be 830.
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But starting at 7:45, you can get in line for rides.
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So that means that you're going to want to be in the park at or
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at the gates, I should say at least 30 minutes prior to that
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happening. So basically there's not a
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second holding pattern that happens for those for the rope
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drop for early entry guests anymore.
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So keep in mind Tomorrowland and Fantasyland are still the
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sections that are open for early entry guests.
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Frontier and Adventureland. Frontierland and Adventureland
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do not open still until official park open which would be your
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non resort guest rope drop. So park open rope drop is still
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the Frontierland and Adventureland side.
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Another note that if you're thinking about early entry
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attractions, Tron, which is a big attraction at Magic Kingdom
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does not open for early entry. So you've got a lot of decisions
26:19
to make it Magic Kingdom when it comes to your early entry
26:22
strategy. The other thing to note is there
26:26
are no more virtual cues being utilized in Magic Kingdom.
26:30
So previously when we talked about this, there were virtual
26:33
cues there. Tron had one, Tiana's Bayou
26:37
Adventure had one. Those have now gone away.
26:40
So everything is standby or lightning lanes of varying kinds
26:45
at Magic Kingdom. So if you are using lightning
26:49
lanes, let's talk about a a very brief strategy for lightning
26:56
lanes. Remember that Lightning Lanes at
27:00
Disney World are now booked ahead of time.
27:04
If you are a resort guest, seven days ahead is of your check in
27:08
day is when you can book. If you are a non resort guest,
27:12
three days ahead of your first park day on your ticket is when
27:16
you will be able to book. So the biggest key especially at
27:22
Magic Kingdom for lightning lanes is you are going to be
27:26
able to utilize these lightning lanes probably the most at Magic
27:30
Kingdom of all of the parks. So you want to get your times
27:33
that you pre book to be as early as possible.
27:37
That being said, if you remember there are tears setups for the
27:40
rides for your lightning lanes at Magic Kingdom.
27:43
My suggestion for what I have seen with Lightning lanes at
27:47
Magic Kingdom is for your tier one pre booked ride I would
27:52
choose either Peter Pan or Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
27:56
Those would be my 2 top choices for tier one.
28:00
For Tier 2 my top choices would be Buzz Lightyear, Haunted
28:05
Mansion, or Pirates. So you can book 1 tier one and
28:08
two tier twos for your multi pass at Magic Kingdom, but those
28:13
would be the ones that I would choose from.
28:16
And that's going to depend greatly on who is travelling
28:19
with you. You know what your interests are
28:23
for your travel party, all those types of things.
28:26
If you're looking at single pass options for lightning lanes,
28:29
that would be 7 Dwarves, Martin Train, and Tron.
28:32
So even though Tron is not open during early entry, another
28:36
option you do have is that single pass.
28:39
Again, depending on your budget and the wants and needs of your
28:42
group. So let's talk about if you are
28:46
utilizing early entry, where should you go?
28:50
So on property early entry suggestions for where to head if
28:57
you've got small kiddos that are not thrill seekers that just
29:03
want to do all the dark rides and and the a lot of the stuff
29:06
in Fantasyland. Again Fantasyland is super
29:09
popular just like at Disneyland. At Magic Kingdom same thing,
29:12
although most of the attractions for Fantasylands have lightning
29:18
lanes at Magic Kingdom which is different than Disneyland but
29:22
small children. For early entry, I would suggest
29:25
Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh and Buzz Lightyear as some good
29:29
options for your early entry time.
29:33
And that may depend also on what you're doing with the thrill
29:36
seekers in your group. So you may want to pick
29:38
something that's kind of close by for the non thrill seekers to
29:41
do while your thrill seekers do a big E ticket attraction.
29:45
Now your thrill seekers, again, early entry, we're talking
29:49
Tomorrowland and Fantasyland. You have kind of three options
29:56
to start with. You can do Space Mountain.
29:59
That is logistically probably your easiest option for rope
30:04
drop for your thrill seekers for early entry.
30:08
Now you can, if Tron is a big deal for you, you can go and
30:14
queue up for Tron, keeping in mind that you are going to be
30:21
waiting 75 minutes for that queue to open.
30:26
Do I think that's the best use of your early entry time?
30:29
No, but do I understand that there are people that will
30:33
choose to do that? Yes.
30:36
I would suggest figuring out your budget to get that single
30:39
pass for Tron because that's going to be the easiest way for
30:43
you to ride it without wasting an hour plus of your day at
30:46
Magic Kingdom. The other option that you have
30:49
would be to go to 7 Dwarfs. That is a very popular rope drop
30:53
attraction for early entry, but it is definitely an option.
30:58
Typically speaking, if you are not queued up early for seven
31:05
dwarfs, you're still going to be waiting 45 minutes to an hour.
31:09
So again, you just have to kind of decide about with 7 dwarfs,
31:13
do you want to budget accordingly to be able to get
31:18
that single pass for seven dwarfs or do you want to wait in
31:22
line? Couple different options again,
31:25
Tron Space Mountain 7 Dwarves Space Mountain would be what I
31:28
personally would do because I would likely budget for Seven
31:32
Dwarves and Tron If I want to ride them I would budget for
31:35
that single pass. For those.
31:37
After that, I would highly suggest heading over again.
31:41
Now, this is a little tricky because Big Thunder Mountain is
31:44
currently closed at Magic Kingdom at the moment that we
31:47
are recording this and is set to be closed for the rest of of the
31:51
year. But that being said, that would
31:54
be my option for after the ones that I just talked about.
32:00
So I would do something like Space Mountain, maybe hit one
32:04
more ride on the way over and then hit Big Thunder Mountain
32:08
and go from there. Without Big Thunder Mountain
32:11
being open, you really just have to decide what makes the most
32:15
sense kind of geographically and logistically for your group
32:21
based on what your first rope drop early entry ride is.
32:26
And I hope that makes sense. I know it's a little
32:28
complicated, but that's just kind of the nature of the beast
32:31
when it comes to early entry at Magic Kingdom if you're trying
32:35
to get those big throw rides in. Now let's talk about if you are
32:39
staying off property and you are utilizing rope drop at Magic
32:43
Kingdom. So rope drop at Magic Kingdom is
32:46
at park open and that is when you will have a standard rope
32:50
drop over at the Frontierland and Adventureland side of the
32:53
park. That is for any guest that does
32:57
not have access to early entry. That is your official rope drop
33:00
for the park open. If you have small children, you
33:04
are off property and you are utilizing the official rope drop
33:09
park open time. My suggestion to you would be
33:13
Jungle Cruise first, then Pirates and then while you're
33:16
over there I would do Alad Aladdin's Magic Carpet so you
33:20
don't have to backtrack and do that later.
33:22
So I would kind of hit that little pocket of rides and then
33:27
go from there. If you have Thrill seekers and
33:30
you are utilizing that rope drop time for official park open
33:35
currently, I would go to Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
33:40
If you are listening to this podcast in the future and Big
33:46
Thunder Mountain has opened again, I would hit Big Thunder
33:48
Mountain 1st and then go to Tiana's because Tiana's does
33:51
tend to sleep in in the morning. So it's really tricky right now
33:57
at Magic Kingdom that rope drop because you're better off doing
34:01
something like Pirates Haunted Mansion, taking a look and see
34:06
sometimes the line at Space Mountain will have come back
34:08
down from the early entry time and you could maybe hit over
34:12
there. So that ones a little trickier
34:14
because it really kind of depends on the day and it
34:17
depends on when Big Thunder Mountain reopens and when
34:21
Tiana's decides to wake up for the morning.
34:25
So again, Magic Kingdom is a little tricky.
34:28
You just have to have that ABC plan to make sure that you know
34:32
where you're going to pivot to if you end up needing to pivot
34:35
from your initial thoughts on rope drop.
34:39
So that is Magic Kingdom sort of the best way that I can describe
34:43
it in a general sense. Let's talk about something much
34:46
easier. Let's talk about Animal Kingdom.
34:50
As far as Animal Kingdom goes, the only things that have really
34:53
changed recently are the fact that Triceratops Spin has closed
34:59
and It's Tough to be a Bug has closed.
35:01
So they are down a few attractions over there right
35:04
now, which makes it pretty easy to navigate and truly makes it a
35:09
not a full day park. Unfortunately, when the new
35:12
stuff over there opens, it's going to be amazing.
35:14
They're going to have a ton of new things for everyone to enjoy
35:18
and experience, but as of right now, we're down to attractions
35:22
over there at Animal Kingdom. I do still suggest arriving to
35:27
the park 30 minutes before park open.
35:30
Logistically, this one is really easy to deal with.
35:32
You go through security, you go through the gate they will hold,
35:38
resort guests will go to the left around the what is that
35:43
Oasis I think is what they call it.
35:45
But that front little section where you kind of have to choose
35:48
left or right. Resort guests will go to the
35:50
left, non resort guests will go to the right to be queued until
35:55
park open and rope drop. But I would still arrive at
35:59
least 30 minutes to give yourself time to get scanned in.
36:03
You could need longer more time if it's a super busy time of
36:08
here. So keep that in mind.
36:10
If you're using lightning lanes, there are no tears at this at
36:15
this park. So for your lightning lanes, my
36:18
suggestion for the three that I would book ahead of time would
36:22
be Navi River, the Safari, and then Expedition Everest.
36:27
So those will be the three if you're planning to use lightning
36:29
lanes that I would book ahead of time.
36:31
Flight of Passage, which is your other avatar ride over in
36:36
Pandora. It does have a single pass.
36:39
I do suggest it if you're able to budget because I think it
36:42
just makes logistics a lot easier at this park.
36:45
I would say if you are able to purchase the single pass for
36:51
flight of passage, chances are really good that you don't need
36:54
multi pass at this at this park, especially being down a few
36:58
attractions. There's not a ton here that is
37:02
hard to get to if you utilize early entry and if you're there
37:05
at the park early. So let's talk about what pathway
37:10
to take for Animal Kingdom. If you are utilizing early
37:15
entry, you have kind of two options.
37:18
If you have purchased your Flight of Passage single pass,
37:21
you do not need to worry about rope dropping.
37:23
Flight of Passage and then I would go to Navi River Journey
37:28
and then the Safari. Now the Safari typically opens
37:31
about 15 minutes after official park open time.
37:36
So if you get on Navi River fairly quickly, you may still
37:39
have to wait 20-30 minutes for that the Safari line to open.
37:46
So keep that in mind. Take a look at your timing.
37:49
But I do think that's the best use of your time.
37:51
If you do not plan to purchase that Flight of Passage single
37:55
pass, you definitely are going to need to rope drop Flight of
37:58
Passage. You may still wait an hour or
38:02
so, but that is your best bet for riding that particular
38:06
attraction. After you have visited Pandora I
38:08
would again go over to the Safari.
38:12
If you are planning to rope drop flight of passage, I would not
38:15
suggest also trying to do Navi River at the same time unless
38:19
you are in and out of Flight of passage very very fast because
38:24
the safari. Once you get about 3045 minutes
38:27
into park open, your chances of seeing active animals on the
38:32
safari starts to greatly decrease as the temperature
38:35
increases. So I always suggest trying to
38:38
get to the safari as early as you possibly can just for that
38:42
alone. Your experiences will be better,
38:46
generally speaking when you can get there early.
38:51
So again, keep in mind that Safari typically doesn't open
38:54
until about 15 minutes after park open.
38:57
You can find that in your My Disney Experience app.
39:00
The easiest way is to check the map feature, click on Animal
39:05
Kingdom and then click the Safari to see.
39:08
When you Scroll down it'll show you the hours for the day.
39:13
So all that being said, then after you hit the safari, I
39:16
would do, I would continue your way clockwise around the park
39:20
and I would do Expedition Everest and then Dinosaur.
39:24
If you're a water ride person, throw Cali river Rapids in
39:27
there. But I would just kind of work
39:28
your way clockwise starting in Pandora all the way around until
39:31
you have finished Dinosaur. Now if you are off property and
39:36
you are planning to utilize standard rope drop at Animal
39:40
Kingdom, your best bet is going to be to head to the safari
39:44
first. Like I said, it does typically
39:47
open about 15 minutes after park open, but that means you're
39:50
waiting 15 minutes and then you're walking straight on
39:53
through that queue and getting on your safari truck to go take
39:58
a look at the animals. For off property guests, it's a
40:01
little trickier to navigate the Pandora section of the park
40:06
because you really need to hit that safari first.
40:10
So after you hit the safari, check the wait time for Navi
40:13
River. If it's like 2025 or less, head
40:18
over there and do that before going back over to Everest and
40:21
then Dinosaur. But if not, you may just have to
40:24
kind of. Keep an eye on the wait times
40:26
for Navi River and see what it does throughout the day for
40:30
flight of passage. May just have to kind of keep an
40:33
eye on the wait times for Navi River and see what it does
40:36
throughout the day for flight of Passage.
40:39
If you are off property and you are not utilizing the single
40:42
pass, your best bet is to get into that line like right at
40:47
park close or again, just keep an eye on the wait times to see
40:52
for that one. If you get anything under about
40:54
an hour, it's a the time to go get in line, generally speaking
40:58
for that. So that is your animal Kingdom
41:01
plan for your early entry and rope drop at that park.
41:09
Let's now to talk about Epcot. Epcot again, very similar to
41:16
what we've heard previously. However, the big, big, big thing
41:21
here is that there is no longer a virtual queue option for
41:25
Cosmic Rewind. So that virtual queue went away
41:29
the same time that the virtual queues over at Magic Kingdom
41:32
went away. You no longer have the OP mind.
41:35
So that virtual queue went away the same time that the virtual
41:38
queues over at Magic Kingdom went away.
41:41
You no longer have the the option to utilize that for
41:43
Cosmic Rewind, so that will drastically change how you plan
41:48
your early entry if you are a resort guest.
41:52
All that being said, we'll get to that here in just a second.
41:55
I would arrive to Epcot at least 30 minutes before park open.
42:00
Do keep in mind that something unique to Epcot is there are two
42:04
entry points to this park. The one is at the front by
42:07
Spaceship Earth, the big golf ball and the other one is at to
42:12
the International Gateway, which is between the UK and France
42:17
pavilions of World Showcase. So two different entry points
42:22
for your rope drop or early entry depending on what you're
42:26
utilizing. Both of those are accessible to
42:30
both resort guests and non resort guests.
42:33
Although I will say your non resort guests are typically
42:37
going to come in the front. It's a lot harder to get to
42:39
International Gateway if you are not staying on property.
42:44
The only exception to that would be like the Swan and Dolphin,
42:47
but those would be considered on property in this situation.
42:50
So typically off property, you're going to end up at that
42:53
front entrance by Spaceship Earth.
42:55
Again, no more virtual queue for Cosmic Rewind can drastically
42:59
change your approach to rope drop for this.
43:02
But before we get there, let's talk about Lightning Lanes just
43:05
briefly. There are two tiers for
43:08
Lightning Lanes at this park as well, so for tier one, you're
43:13
really choosing between Frozen or Remy's Ratatouille Adventure.
43:19
You're going to have to make a decision.
43:21
I always suggest Remy. If you are a family that wants
43:25
to do both, I always suggest booking Remy.
43:29
It is a harder lightning lane to get, it sells out more quickly,
43:33
and it is less likely to have times.
43:36
Extra times pop up throughout the day as you're refreshing to
43:39
try to modify, so I always suggest Remy.
43:42
If your group doesn't want to ride Remy, then definitely book
43:45
a frozen time for your tier one. For Tier 2, really any of those
43:50
options are are pretty equally matched for the rest of the
43:54
rides that you have as options for Tier 2.
43:57
If it's me, I'm going to be choosing Figment, Nemo, and
44:00
Spaceship Earth for my tier twos, but really any of those
44:04
are fine options for your tier twos.
44:06
Again, utilizing an early time as much as possible for one of
44:11
those Tier 2 attractions is going to help increase your
44:14
chances of getting additional Lightning Lanes throughout to
44:17
the rest of your day at Epcot. Now, we talked about no more
44:21
virtual queue for Cosmic Rewind. It does still have a single pass
44:25
option. So if you're utilizing Lightning
44:27
Lanes and you want to do a single pass option for Cosmic
44:29
Rewind, I highly suggest you do. The single pass options are
44:33
selling out very quickly, so you need to be ready for that on
44:37
your seven day out. If you are an off property guest
44:42
that's using Lightning Lanes, Guardians of the Galaxy is
44:45
likely to sell out before your three day window.
44:49
It doesn't make it completely impossible to find a time.
44:52
You will have to be on your phone refreshing and hopefully
44:56
get lucky for times to pop up for that one kind of day of.
45:01
But chances are really good for my non resort guests trying to
45:05
get a single pass for Guardians. Chances are very low
45:08
unfortunately for that one. Now let's talk about early
45:13
entry. If you are someone utilizing
45:16
early entry and you have small children, you are going to want
45:21
to hit either Remy or Frozen 1st and I would go to the opposite
45:27
of whichever 1 you have a lightning lane for right?
45:30
So if you booked a Remy lightning lane like I suggested,
45:33
then you're going to rope drop frozen.
45:35
If you booked a frozen lightning lane because you don't need to
45:39
do Remy, well then you're in good shape.
45:41
But I would do either Remy or frozen for your rope drop to
45:45
start. And then from there, it really
45:49
just depends. But I would head over to kind of
45:53
the Seas in the land area from there.
45:55
And I would hit things like Nemo, the Moana walkthrough,
46:00
Figment, that side of the park. But that's where you're going to
46:04
want to spend a lot of your times with time with your little
46:08
littles. You can also hit living with the
46:10
land while you're over there. There's lots of options and
46:13
things for your your little ones to do over on that side.
46:17
Now if you are utilizing early entry and you have thrill
46:21
seekers, you can attempt to rope drop Cosmic Rewind.
46:29
I know that it is right now the the most popular rope drop ride
46:35
probably in any of the parks. So you just really have to to
46:40
determine with Cosmic Rewind, am I buying a single pass?
46:44
Am I going to try to rope drop it?
46:47
Times for that one are still varying greatly.
46:53
Typically at rope drop for that it gets about a two hour wait.
46:59
We have seen a trend of kind of a little bit after park open, it
47:04
dips down closer to maybe 45 to an hour, but that's about as low
47:10
as you're going to find it. So some decisions are going to
47:14
have to be made based on your budget and your wants and needs
47:18
of your travel party. When it comes to Cosmic Rewind,
47:22
if you are doing Cosmic Rewind over there on that side of the
47:26
park and you want to do mission space, that's a great time to do
47:30
mission space while you're over on that side of the park running
47:33
during early entry. Now if you are off property,
47:38
let's talk about rope drop and a a pathway for you for rope drop,
47:43
for small kiddos. For rope drop, you may get lucky
47:49
and still be able to hit frozen at a lower weight.
47:55
It's not a guarantee. It really just depends on the
47:58
day and what you are planning to do for the rest of your day.
48:03
So if you've got small children, you may be able to hit frozen
48:07
Remy is very unlikely that you're going to be able to do
48:11
that at rope drop for off property guests.
48:14
It's going to have an hour or more wait at that point.
48:18
So I would again suggest going over to that world discovery
48:22
section, hitting things like Nemo living with a land figment
48:26
Moana, that whole section. Again, like I talked about for
48:29
on property, really the same. A lot of those wait times in the
48:32
morning are going to be are going to be fairly low and
48:35
remain low. So you'll have it a good
48:37
opportunity to get through some of those with your littles.
48:41
If you are a thrill seeker, again, this one's really hard
48:45
and you're off property and you are not able to utilize early
48:48
entry. Cosmic Rewind is going to be off
48:50
the table for your rope drop ride because it unless, because
48:55
it typically has a very long line unless you get really
48:58
lucky. And again, there's no way to
49:00
know. It's really just going to depend
49:02
on the day. That's why I talked about having
49:03
a plan A, Plan B, Plan C So I would suggest for thrill seekers
49:07
heading to Soren first and then you can crossover to do mission
49:12
space and then Test track is another one to consider when it
49:17
reopens, hopefully later this year.
49:20
That's another one to consider for your thrill seekers because
49:24
that typically is not going to get as bad of a wait during your
49:31
early entry or during early entry.
49:33
So then trickle into having a big weight during your rope drop
49:36
time. So that's kind of the idea for
49:41
Epcot. It's a little tricky right now
49:44
with Cosmic Rewind and without having test track open.
49:49
So we'll have to do an update on that one once we see what a test
49:52
track does to to rope drop there.
49:55
So that'll being said, let's talk about Hollywood Studios,
50:00
which is arguably the hardest rope drop park, I think out of
50:06
all of the ones that we've talked about South lately,
50:11
Hollywood Studios has been going back and forth for their rope
50:15
drop early entry setup. Typically it was always that
50:20
they held you at the front gate and then they had two separate
50:24
areas, one for early entry guests to check in and one for
50:29
off property guests to check in. They have experimented with more
50:36
of a system like what we were talking about with Magic Kingdom
50:39
earlier where they will let everybody in and then you can
50:43
queue up for specific rides and specific areas and tap in to
50:48
show that you are eligible for early entry.
50:51
So right now, last I knew they had gone back to holding you at
50:59
the front gate, but it's gone back and forth a couple times.
51:03
So it may be a surprise when you get to the front gate based on
51:08
the crowds and what they're planning to do and what they
51:11
think the the what they're planning for, for crowd levels
51:14
that day. So just be be ready for either
51:19
option, which is why I suggest arriving at least an hour before
51:24
the park opens for Hollywood Studios.
51:26
That also being said, if they are holding people at the front
51:30
and it starts to get too crowded, they will open early
51:33
entry early, earlier than what is being posted for resort
51:39
guests. So I've seen it be 15 minutes
51:41
earlier, I've seen it be a whole half hour earlier than what was
51:44
posted. So you definitely want to be
51:46
there early to make the most of that time.
51:51
There are so many E ticket and throw rides here.
51:54
Rope drop is really, really dependent on what your group
51:58
wants to do and what rides they want to hit.
52:02
That being said, we talked a little bit about this with like
52:05
Radiator Springs Racers at Disney, at Disney California
52:09
Adventure. I do not suggest rope dropping
52:12
Rise of the Resistance at Hollywood Studios because it is
52:15
very slow to wake up in the morning and you all have heard
52:18
me say that before. I will continue to say it.
52:20
It doesn't like to wake up on time, it doesn't like to open on
52:24
time. It do not suggest rope dropping
52:26
it. Your best bet compromise of the
52:29
resistance. Now it does have a single pass,
52:32
but your best bet is to check for when it goes down and try to
52:36
catch it when it comes right back up so you can hop in line
52:39
and have a shorter line. If I'm being completely honest
52:41
with you, that may or may not work with your family vacation.
52:44
So decisions will have to be made about that.
52:48
But let's talk about if you are using Lightning lanes.
52:51
There are two tiers for lightning lanes at Hollywood
52:54
Studios. Tier one.
52:56
I'm always going to suggest booking Slinky Dog for your tier
53:00
one. I know there are other fun
53:02
attractions in tier one. I always suggest Slinky dog.
53:05
It's the hardest 1 to get. It sells out the fastest.
53:08
It is the least likely to have additional times pop up
53:11
throughout the day. Book Slinky dog for your tier
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one. For Tier 2 there are a couple
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different options. Summer shows.
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I don't suggest doing shows for your Tier 2 for pre booking.
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You might utilize those shows later in the day after you've
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done the rides. That's perfectly fine.
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But I do not suggest doing the shows for your pre booking for
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lightning rides. That's perfectly fine.
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But I do not suggest doing the shows for your free booking for
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Lightning Lanes. I suggest to Toy Story Mania and
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Tower of Terror as your options for that.
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So those would be your Tier 2 ones that I was that I
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personally would suggest. Now that being said, you're
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going to have to look at your group.
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You're going to have to look at what rides everybody wants to do
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to make it make sense for your travel party for that.
54:04
Again, Rise of the Resistance has that single pass option.
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If your budget allows for that, they do suggest it because that
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ride is so finicky. You never know when it's going
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to be up, when it's going to be down.
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So having a single pass for that is really the easiest way to get
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on that ride if you are able to budget accordingly for that.
54:26
Rope drop here for early entry really highly depends on what
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your group wants to do and whether or not you're using
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lightning lanes. So I'm going to have a couple
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more categories for this one because of that because it
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really just depends on your situation going into the park.
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So if you are on property and you are using lightning lanes,
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which is what I suggested earlier to do Slinky Dog, Toy
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Story Mania, and Tower of Terror as your 3 lightning lanes.
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So if you are on property using lightning lanes and you have
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small children during early entry, I suggest going to
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Runaway Railway, Alien Swirling Saucers, and Toy Story Mania.
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Those are going to be your three best options for small kiddos.
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I would suggest the problem is with those 3 during early entry.
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Toy Story Mania tends to get a longer line because people pivot
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away from Slinky Dog and go there.
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So I would almost go there first and then maybe come back to
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Runaway Railway and then go to Aliens Swirling Saucers.
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It's a little bit of backtracking, but Toy Story Land
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and the Chinese Theater for Runaway Railways are not too far
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away. Hollywood Studios is just
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terrible for for Pathways and navigating anyway, so you're
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going to end up backtracking. But my suggestion would be maybe
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to do them in those orders Toy Story Mania first so you can
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skip some of those pivoting crowds and then come back to do
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Runaway Railway and then Alien Swirling Saucers after that.
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Now, if you are on property using Lightning Lanes and you
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have thrill seekers, remember we booked Slinky Dog, Tower of
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Terror and Toy Story Mania. You can do rock and roller
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Coaster as a rope drop option for early entry.
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You might as well do Tower of Terror while you're down there
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and get a second ride on that. And then after that, I would
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head probably back to the Star Wars area and do something like
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Smugglers Run to kind of round out your early entry time.
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The thing about Hollywood studios that's so tricky is
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there's not as many rides. There's a lot of characters and
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a lot of shows and not a ton of rides for littles.
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A lot of them have a height requirement.
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A lot of them are more thrill rides.
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So you just really have to keep that.
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Keep that in mind. Now, if you are on property and
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you are not doing Lightning Lanes, I would do the same thing
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that I talked about earlier for small children.
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I would hit Toy Story Mania, Runaway Railway, Alien Swirling
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Saucers for your littles. If you are a thrill seeker and
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you are not using lightning lanes and you were staying on
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property, you're going to have to rope drop Slinky Dog and
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you're going to have to be line it there and get it there very
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promptly when the early entry time starts.
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After that, unfortunately, I would suggest kind of
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backtracking all the way back towards the front of the park to
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go down and hit Rock and Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror
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after that. So those would be my thrill
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seeker options after you hit tower and Rock and then you can
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head over to Star Wars and kind of knock some of those rides out
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as well. Chances are good that if you've
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got thrill seekers, they can utilize some single rider lines
57:54
for things like Smugglers Run or Rise of the Resistance if
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they've done it before, which I hadn't mentioned earlier.
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If you're someone who has done Rise of the Resistance before,
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they do have a really great single rider option.
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I do not suggest single rider for your first time because you
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will miss out on some of the storytelling elements in the pre
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shows, but I do suggest that for people who have been on it
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before Now if you are off property and you are either
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using lightning lanes or not using lightning lanes, same
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suggestion for your small kiddos.
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Toy Story Mania, runaway railway aliens, swirling saucers.
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For thrill seekers that are off property.
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I I would suggest doing rock and roller coaster in Tower of
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Terror first because those are still even during early entry
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those still don't tend to get the crazy wait times.
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You're still going to be able to find those probably at like a 20
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maybe 30 minute wait which is not terrible.
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And then after that, head over to do something like Smugglers
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Run and check on the status of Rise of the Resistance for the
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day. So lots of different options at
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Hollywood Studios. It's really hard.
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It's a really hard park to navigate because it really
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depends on your travel party, what attractions you want to do.
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Are you using lightning lanes? Are you getting the single pass
59:19
for Rise of the Resistance? There's so many variables that
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come into it that that makes it makes that park really, really,
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really hard to to navigate, unfortunately.
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So all of that being said, that is kind of your Fast and furious
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updated guide to early entry and rope drop.
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I hope that all of that can be helpful to you.
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If you are planning an upcoming trip to either Disneyland or
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Disney World, Hopefully we touched on a couple things that
59:49
can help guide you as you are making your plans.
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I do highly suggest at least planning out your morning for
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these parks. You know, planning out the the
59:59
list of attractions. Things that are your priority
1:00:02
and working in what we talked about during this episode to
1:00:06
help you kind of figure out what order to do things in and what
1:00:09
lands to go to 1st and kind of what will be leftover after your
1:00:14
early entry time. That will hopefully help
1:00:17
formulate those itineraries for you.
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1:01:09
We love to hear from you, especially with some of this
1:01:11
Lightning lane stuff like I mentioned here in the next month
1:01:14
or so, I am going to be doing another Lightning Lane overview
1:01:18
Q&A kind of set up. So if you've got questions about
1:01:22
lightning Lanes or something that I said about lightning
1:01:25
Lanes in this episode or it doesn't make sense, please send
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me a message so that way I can make sure in that episode I
1:01:34
cover it more in depthly and go over it.
1:01:37
Lightning lanes are so tricky and they're so dependent on your
1:01:40
travel party that it's really hard to kind of give a general
1:01:44
overview. But I do the best I can to make
1:01:46
it make sense. And in that episode coming up,
1:01:50
we will go through kind of step by step what you need to do for
1:01:54
Lightning Lanes when it comes to primarily Disney World, because
1:01:58
Disneyland has been the same system for the last several
1:02:02
years. Disney World is the one that
1:02:04
keeps us on our toes and keeps changing.
1:02:06
So that is coming up in the future.
1:02:10
Now, next episode that we have for Mom St.
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USA, you're stuck with me again. Like I mentioned, our hub
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friends are currently all traveling and busy with work
1:02:22
trips and vacation trips. So I'm holding down the Mom St.
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USA Fort again for another episode.
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Next. The next episode we're going to
1:02:33
be talking about something totally random and fun, but I'm
1:02:37
excited and we're going to be talking about speaking the
1:02:39
Disney park language. So talking about abbreviations
1:02:43
and different terminology, kind of like we talked about early
1:02:46
entry and rope drop today. We'll include those in our next
1:02:49
episode, I'm sure. But we'll be talking all about
1:02:52
speaking the Disney parks language and what terms do you
1:02:55
need to know when you are planning and when you go to the
1:02:59
parks. So if you've got input on that,
1:03:01
I was, I'd love to hear it on our Discord channel.
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that there. So that way I can be I can be on
1:03:11
the lookout for it and I can include it in our next episode.
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Thank you guys all so much for your support and for listening.
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And I will catch you guys on the next episode of Mob St.
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USA. Bye everyone.