So I woke up 6:45am, logged in at 7am sharp and booked all my Fastpasses. Felt pretty good about everything except for Epcot.
Why oh why do they have to have Soarin, Test Track, Frozen and Illuminations all in one tier???
Like the other parks have their tiers nicely done, but Epcot is āunfairāā¦ Ok maybe unfair is the wrong word to use cause it sounds like iām whining, but I mean come on. All the best attractions under the same tier??? And we only get to use 1 of them.
Do you have Frozen fans in your party? If you arenāt Frozen-obsessed, donāt feel like you HAVE to do this one. We rode with DDs 9 and 6 and all of us were like, āmeh.ā They liked the Mexico boat ride better.
Which of those rides at Epcot should NOT be a tier-one, however? The moment they knocked it down to tier-two, that ride would be instantly swamped with people wanting the FPP. Also, the truth is, very few of the rides OTHER than the tier-one rides at Epcot are really all that worth it. So, they are essentially forcing people to choose FPP for the āmehā rides just to help āspread the wealthā, so to speak.
As Iāve presented in a separate thread, the truth is the FPP doesnāt really benefit anyone but Disney. It is only a PERCEPTION of being benefited. (There are exceptions, but as a general rule.)
Regarding Frozenā¦the entire ride is really only worth the ONE moment in the ride where you go backwards. It is admittedly quite cool how they reimagined it from the Norway ride. The rest of it is, as stated, really just worth it for a Frozen fan. (And for me, aside from making songs that stick in my head all day, I wasnāt so impressed with the Frozen story.)
This is partly why ā despite saying last year that MK was my least favourite park ā Iām spending more time at MK than any other park. Future World is a nightmare to plan. AK is easy ā you can cheat by buying the VIP tour. MK has no tiering. DHS is tough, too ā though who knows what the new rules will be.
Iām probably going to cheat at Epcot by doing the Dessert Party ā that gets you a āfreeā go on FEA, releasing your Tier 1 (in my case) for Soarinā. Test Track Iāll try and do single rider.
Thatās the point of having tiers though. Yes it sucks, but itās not unintentional, they want to spread the crowds by forcing you to choose.
FEA is crap anyway (and Iām a massive Frozen fan), and Illuminations is easily picked up as a 4th, as well as being very easy to see without a FP.
You have to go for TT above Soarin if you want to do both, as itās so often down at RD. Though TT is nothing too special either, I can drive my own car really fast.
Weāre not doing RD at Epcot either of the two days weāre going to be there cause weāre having breakfast, one at our resort (Beach Club) and one in the Epcot park. Weāre going for 10 days. But yea, Iām picking Soarin FP first because I want to do that before going to AK and riding on FoP. I have OCD that way. But the 2nd Epcot day weāre doing TT. Skipping Frozen on both days unless the wait times are under an hour.
Quick question. We donāt need a FP if weāre doing Mission Space: Green right? Just want to make sure. My friend gets seriously motion sick so I opted to do the Green side with her which is fine. Can we walk on with minimal wait? I was going to book a FP for Character Meet n Greet instead.
Green does generate a wait. Itās not necessarily as long as Orange, though itās sometimes nearly comparable. Crowd levels in EPCOT would be more determining. For example, right now, LINES is showing an estimated 17 mins for Orange, 14 for Green, on a CL7 day.
Yea I was looking at that. But I do remember one day (could have been a weekend day) where the MS Green lines were up to 60 minutes. I was thinking it may have been a fluke day or something. Iāll keep the FP for Green just in case.
I donāt know if this will help, but when I was there in October we went straight to Frozen before our first FP window ever came up and we got on in 10 minutes. Then we used our FPs for Soarinā and Test Track. Doesnāt help with your Illuminations issue, but I have a feeling if you get there first thing you can get one of them done fairly quickly :).
Not to veer off topic, but why does this terrify me??
Too true about TT being off line at RDā¦we got through the design stage, then they announced that the ride was down, and shuttled us out through a side doorā¦with a paper fast passā¦but thatās a long walk from RD to have nothing happenā¦Iād shoot for FPP for TT and RD Soarinā if youāre a fan.
this was a great video for EP RD. Weāre trying to do all, or most in one day. Staying at BW, plan is International Gateway RD, head to Frozen, then hit Soarin, both standby. Got FPP for Test Track and others all around midday.