For $69 per adult ($49 for children ages 3-9), guests would get into the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland up to 75 minutes before the official park opening. The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Peter Pan's Flight and the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh would be open for participating guests to ride, and the Village Haus would serve a buffet breakfast that would be included in the event price.
The event briefly showed up in the listings on Disney's website this morning, before disappearing. However, the presence of the event on an official website strongly suggests that this is something than Disney plans on releasing, even if it has not done so yet officially.
The breakfast would include a selection of scrambled eggs with toppings, fruits, pastries, and Mickey waffles. And the event would not take place on mornings when the Magic Kingdom offered Disney's hotel guests Extra Magic Hours before park open.
This would not be not a hard-ticket event, so guests would need to purchase park admission in addition to the event ticket. Perhaps the best way to think of this as a character breakfast with the three rides as the attraction, instead of the character meet and greets. Comparing this with the popular Crystal Palace character breakfast in the Magic Kingdom, you're looking at about an extra $40 over that price for Fantasyland extra-ride time instead of meeting Winnie the Pooh and friends.
Still... the Mine Train and Pan are two of the Magic Kingdom's longest wait-time attractions and two of the more difficult FastPass+ reservations to obtain. This event would allow visitors to knock out both of those attractions before the day officially began — and without having to spend any of your three advance FastPass+ reservations to do it. That is the value that guests would be paying for here.
So if Disney ends up making this event available, the best way to get full value from it would seem to be by arriving early enough to check in and walk back to Fantasyland right at 7:45am. Then, hit the Mine Train, Pan, and Pooh — in that order — going for a second or third ride on each, if desired. The exclusive ride time ends with park open at 9am, but the breakfast buffet would remain available until 10am.
I'd recommend riding until around 8:30 or so, then taking advantage of the breakfast buffet. Start early enough so that you can be done eating before 9am so that you can be ready to get in line for Princess Fairytale Hall or to walk over to Space Mountain, to beat the rush of visitors entering the park from Main Street.
That way, you get a full breakfast, knock off two of the park's hardest "gets," ride a third popular attraction and get a head start toward the line for one other popular ride... all before the park opens. Whether that's worth $69 (or $49 per kid) is up to you.
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Looks like Disney has jumped the shark (or "jumped the Bay Lake wave maker").
We haven't done any Orlando in 3 years. We are honestly tired of Disney, going around 5 times between our twin daughters ages of 4 - 10.
This year we are adding 3 days at universal before our regular full week vacation. We are staying onsite so we get the line pass.
Maybe this is something else that Disney might consider, making different types of passes available to their guests at different levels of accomodations.
I mean, "jumped the shark?" Really? Paying a price that costs less than Universal Express to ride two rides that, while good, aren't long enough to justify their wait times, is "jumping the shark?" Really?
Look, I know that a lot of people don't like FP+, but do understand that there's also a lot of people who prefer the new system. Not that the old system was bad, it was just way too corruptible. Too many people were abusing it, being totally inconsiderate of other guests and destroying the purpose of creating the FastPass in the first place (this was especially true with the disability pass). And personally I'm quite suspicious of the people who claim that they were visiting during off-season and are only able to get in about 5 rides. I'm a Floridian and on an average visit to MK I can do Jungle Cruise, Tiki Room, POTC, Splash Mountain, BTMR, Haunted Mansion, Small World, Peter Pan, Philharmagic, 7DMT, Little Mermaid, PeopleMover, Space Mountain and Buzz Lightyear all in the same day. A couple of them I even get to reride!
And then about the prices. Obviously, Disney's expensive as he'll. If anyone says Disney is cheap, they are probably rich enough to make Bill Gates jealous.And in some cases this pricing is just ridiculous (Seriously, why charge full price for a park with so many closed attractions?). But I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. I often overhear my friends talking about going to Disney, and most of them come from an average Middle Class background. I'm also Middle Class (though admittedly I am a bit on the higher spectrum of Middle Class). And there are periods where I'm visiting Disney on a monthly basis. And the vast majority of the people I see at Disney don't really seem to be the privileged Upper Class that most people claim Disney's been gearing more towards nowadays. In fact, the crowds I see at Disney are almost the exact same crowds that I see at Universal. The only difference is that I see more teenagers and college students at Universal and more little kids, senior citizens, and disabled people at Disney. But even then, I still see a lot of teens at Disney and a lot of kids, elders and disabled people at Universal. A lot of times, I will take extended breaks from Disney and divert my attention towards Universal, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens; but not because Disney drained me dry, but because I think they are really great parks and I don't think it would be fair to spend all my time at Disney.
And listen Universal fans, I get it that there's a lot of really annoying Disney fans out there, but you guys aren't much better. If you think Universal is better, that's fine, but please stop forcing down your opinions on us. Because, believe it or not, not everyone who visits Universal sees it as the Holy Grail of theme parks. And you have to respect that.
I Respond: It's three rides.
66.87.122.141 writes: "... that, while good, aren't long enough to justify their wait times ..."
I Respond: In your (not so) humble opinion.
Disney do already offer VIP services where you can do all the family rides in three of the parks or all the thrill rides. These are $299 plus park admission. Considering that gives front of the line access plus private transport between the parks for seven hours and table service lunch it's not that bad a deal.
I respond: I know it's three rides. But I understand the misconception. I specifically said "two" because I was specifically referring to Peter Pan and 7DMT due to their 60+ minute wait times. Winnie the Pooh's wait times are never quite as bad.
TH writes: "In your (not so) humble opinion."
I respond: "humble" wasn't really what I was going for. If what I said somehow offended you in any way, I'm honestly sorry. If you think Peter Pan and 7DMT are worthy of their wait times, nothing wrong with that. In fact, I praise you for having a greater deal of patience than I do.
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