The Lightning Lane Thread! All WDW Info Here

However, TBA has hourly drops. Becky even suggested foregoing prebooking TBA at all and banking on a drop. Depends on how important it is for you though!

4 Likes

Yes good point. Since this is the ā€œBasicā€ thread I try to avoid strategies that require more advanced knowledge, including drops, for which I refer people to La Cava. People who aren’t going to do drops will want to have TBA in hand before their trip.

3 Likes

That’s risky to me. I personally don’t like relying on drops because you have to time it just right. What if I’m on a ride?

4 Likes

As drops go, TBA has been pretty easy to get (since it is dropped hourly), but yeah – this is what I mean by sticking to basic strategies in this thread.

2 Likes

Have you found any cases other than TSM/ToT in HS where you might want to take a tier 2 prior to a Tier 1 based on availability?

2 Likes

The only one I can think of is if you want Mission Space, you might want to get it before Soarin’. But I don’t know why you’d want to do that. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :rofl:

TSM and ToT are both higher priority than RnRC, MMRR, or MFSR. Here is today’s chart so far. TSM is the fastest draw of all, behind only SDD (and Rise).

2 Likes

They really need to move RnRC, MMRR, or MFSR to Tier 2 so there are more than only 2 good
Tier 2 options.

3 Likes

I have mixed feelings about it. By having more Tier 1 attractions, the other Tier 1s are much easier to get day of. In exchange, there are a couple Tier 2s that are harder to get. But I’m not sure that’s a bad trade-off …

2 Likes

Not sure how much this helps, but we are going to WDW for a week. Plan to park hop and go to HS 4 times. I’ve purposefully scheduled 3 of those times for afternoon mainly due to the 1:17 and 3:47 drops.

I hope to really get what we need from SDD, TSM, and TOT in those drops.

3 Likes

Excellent work! :star2:

3 Likes

But maybe they can move one Tier 1 to Tier 2 (MMRR would be my preference).

1 Like

Yeah maybe one wouldn’t be too bad. I don’t know though.

1 Like

There isn’t enough attractions at HS period. So the available inventory will always be a problem until they add more demand / attraction. HS would be a great park to include all the meet and greets as Tier 2. But I fear Disney has an alternate plan of Meet and Greets. Maybe they can add a Fantasmic LL viewing area…

3 Likes

This is the difference on how G+ worked between DL and WDW. The number of attractions per park in California made up for a lot of things. Trying to make people pick the same amount at WDW from a smaller pool just tightenes availability for everyone.

4 Likes

Is it available for anyone to read? We have a Aug 23rd trip and we are scrambling to figure out how to approach LLs

2 Likes

Yes it’s the very first post in this thread. Scroll up to the top.

2 Likes

Do we have enough data to see on what day some rides sell out? For example can you get TBA or SDD in afternoon at the latest in 7+1?

2 Likes

There is a 21 day look out for LL avail shown on Thrill Data website.

3 Likes

At this link, click the attraction you are interested in. You can drill down by date to see how availability for that date has changed over time.

3 Likes

Looks like Thrill Data added some summary tables showing all attractions in each park! This is hard to read on a phone so I suggest using a desktop.

https://x.com/thrilldata/status/1821939298847092926?s=46&t=o5hb2IhktPeuVj4nnnvyVA

4 Likes