It was.
I will forevermore be in the habit of asking friends to give me 2nd and 3rd choices. That’s never really been necessary before. I made some judgment calls on my own but that’s hard to do!
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I am so nervous about ADRs at 60 days. I don’t think I can do a leading reservation because our cancellation policy is not the same as yours and I’d lose money. Hopefully it will be fine. I just felt more confident getting what I wanted at 180, knowing a lot of guests wouldn’t even have booked their trip at that stage.
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Yeah, we are going the last week of April and I’m having some trouble with mine. DH really wanted Homecomin’ for dinner and I haven’t been able to get it. I’m resigned to the fact that what used to be a moderate week will be probably much higher crowds.
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The others are so right about demand for this restaurant, sadly. But to add a note of encouragement, it can be done. The Mrs. and I are going the last week of April too, and I was able to get a 6pm dinner reservation at Topolinos at 60 +2 days. The wife was so disbelieving when I told her 
that she made me log onto MDE and show her the confirmed reservation. We went to Topolinos for the first time on a visit last year, but I had to use one of those “reservation finder” places (don’t recall which one) to finally get it. Go for it, don’t give up trying.
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100% this!
Look every day.
Set up TP res finder.
Check right up to the day you want to dine there - people will especially tend to cancel around 30 days out (when they have to cancel their hotel plans for refund, in many cases), and 24hrs in advance when they have to cancel dining res without penalty.
It’s never impossible until the date you want to dine there has passed
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Or even if they had booked, they might not be thinking about dining yet.
Hoping this post-pandemic travel push is over (or at least waning) before my next trip…
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OMG really? I was hoping that it wouldn’t be a super hard one since I would maybe benefit from it being towards the end of my vacation? Am I essentially in competition with anyone else with the same check in date that is staying as long as I am?
I would suggest you come over to the dark side… I mean consider a leading reservation.
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You realize that the more people who do this (and there are LOADS who do it beyond this forum), the more difficult dining reservations become, right?
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Yeah I know, I know… but it’s worked so well for me (knock on wood) 
I can testify that a leading reservation made Topolino’s breakfast super easy to get. The afternoon of 60+10 there was still a lot.
I think it is because of 60 days. At 180 if you didn’t get what you wanted then, you probably would later by using a finder or just checking often. But now people’s plans are more firm and there are more people planning at the 60 day mark. I don’t know why there should be a reservation window at all. Let people book ADR’s when they book their hotel, if they want.
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I was at Topolino’s on Sunday around 9:00. I saw a guy walk up to the hostess stand and ask if he could be sat without a reservation. They offered to sit him in the bar area. They indicated that the characters did not come directly up to the bar tables for pictures, but you could definitely still see them walking around and eat off the regular menu. So, maybe that is an option?
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Totally agree with this and I don’t like it!
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Yes there is virtually no movement anymore. I used to be confident that I would get what I needed/wanted by res finder if I wasn’t successful on ADR day. Now that it’s rare that res finder or I am able to find anything at all inside of 60
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When we arrived they had us wait in the bar area. I think they were trying to socially distance people waiting for their table. We were invisible to the characters. That was fine since we were waiting on a table. But would have been annoying if we were paying character-meal prices from the bar. We were antsy and were standing up holding our water glasses at the entrance to the bar.
I have no idea what a leading reservation even is 
Ok… I did some research on leading reservations. What’s the difference between booking a whole new reservation/separate hotel room vs just extending the reservation I have now and then modifying the reservation?
Oh sorry, that’s a good question but I don’t know the answer
(I’m actually quite a noob at all of this online ADR stuff)
A whole new reservation is easier than modifying thanks to Disney IT. Even when you modify, you are really cancelling and then getting a new one. I’d hate to put my real reservation in jeopardy. But cancelling is easy.
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