Disneyland Resort

[BriefCasey]

I'd personally recommend a different approach: Haunted Mansion Holiday, then Tiana's, then Runaway Railway. I'd try for Rise later in the day once a bulk of the park has had a go at it.

I'll consider that, I've yet to do a nighttime ride on ROTR for that matter. It'll definitely be a plan B if ROTR doesn't open with the park.

 

[Jake S]

I'd personally recommend a different approach: Haunted Mansion Holiday, then Tiana's, then Runaway Railway. I'd try for Rise later in the day once a bulk of the park has had a go at it.

This is what I would do with the caveat that (in my experience) Runaway Railway’s queue is typically pretty manageable. I’d do Mansion, Tiana’s and then see what Rise looks like before moving on. Maybe even hit Big Thunder and then check the Rise wait again.

 

[Rideguy70]

Our plan is to keep an eye on the app and wait for ROTR to go down. It nearly always does, usually in the afternoon. Then go and wait for it to reopen, and you'll be nearly in the front of the line and get on with minimal wait.

Granted, it may not work, but it's worked for us about 4 out of the last 5 visits. Typically nowadays, it usually only breaks down for about 30-45 min before it reopens.

 

[BriefCasey]

This is what I would do with the caveat that (in my experience) Runaway Railway’s queue is typically pretty manageable. I’d do Mansion, Tiana’s and then see what Rise looks like before moving on. Maybe even hit Big Thunder and then check the Rise wait again.

Would I be looking for if the wait time for ROTR is within an hour or less?

 

[Jake S]

Would I be looking for if the wait time for ROTR is within an hour or less?

Yeah, that's usually what I do. It'll be interesting to see what the crowds are like this weekend given that it's the start of the holiday period, but we've had good luck on Sundays in late morning or midafternoon.

 

[chris.g]

Going next month and extremely bummed to learn no holiday variation of WoC this year? What the hell.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Going next month and extremely bummed to learn no holiday variation of WoC this year? What the hell.

Yeah, same

WOC newest show is fine and even the holiday isn't amazing...but still its the holidays if the parade can come around for 30 years its weird to skip this

 

[deadbydawn]

Our plan is to keep an eye on the app and wait for ROTR to go down. It nearly always does, usually in the afternoon. Then go and wait for it to reopen, and you'll be nearly in the front of the line and get on with minimal wait.

Granted, it may not work, but it's worked for us about 4 out of the last 5 visits. Typically nowadays, it usually only breaks down for about 30-45 min before it reopens.

This worked for me great one of the last times I was there. We stood around for about 10/15 minutes and the ride was back up and we walked right on. Obviously not always the case, but it can work!

 

[Jerroddragon]

Also note for those going on Star Wars ROTR

The Time listed is what you will wait until your getting on the Ride part of the attraction, meaning The Ray room and other pre show stuff is apart of the wait time. So FYI on both planning for time and also if its 45 mins even...Then should be 30-35 mins before your in the Ray Room

Also may the force be with us and next weekend it somehow not rain at the parks

 

[Jerroddragon]

I went to Disneyland on Friday, it was busy but here is what I got done with LL from 7:40 AM until 1:20 AM.

Picture with Minne Mouse
HMH
Tia's Bayou Adventure
Winnie the Pooh Ride
HMH a second time (using LL)
Pirates
Train to Toontown
Roger Rabbit
Meeting Donald Duck
Mickey House/Meet and Greet
Small World Holiday
Buzz (using LL)
Dapper Dans
DeadPool Show
Encanto Show
Garden Area Music Show while eating lunch
Encanto Second Time
Monster Inc
Dead Pool Second time
Philharmagic
Zootipia Meet and Greet
DCA Holiday Mini Parade
Joy Singing Group (in Hollywood area)
aztec dancers (while eating food)
Coco Show
Small World Projection Show Tapestry of Happiness
Star Tours (LL)
Star Wars ROTR (LL)
Star Wars Falcon Ride (LL)
Star Wars Projection Show
Big Thunder Mountain (LL)
Tea Cups
Fireworks in front of Small World
Small World Holiday at Night (LL)
Small World Projection Show Holiday Show
Alice in Wonderland
Fantasmic
Casey Jr at night
Pinocchio's Daring Journey
Matterhorn (LL)
Dumbo
King Arthur Carrousel
Snow White
Peter Pan

4 Character Meet and Greets
24 Attractions
15 Shows (2 of which are repeats, 13 different shows)
16 Hours and and 40 mins in Park

 

[Rideguy70]

That's an impressive list!

Last few times I've gone, though, I don't even get LL anymore. There's just not that many rides I go on that require it, or can't be ridden with strong planning or use of SR.

Speaking of which, anyone know if Space Mountain is using SR again? It keeps going back and forth. I heard Indy is back to having SR?

 

[Tobias]

Speaking of which, anyone know if Space Mountain is using SR again? It keeps going back and forth. I heard Indy is back to having SR?

Space Mountain's SR was plenty open when I went late October, Indy's depended on when you tried hitting it up. Closed early in the morning or late in the evening when there wasn't much of a line, but from the sounds of things it was open mid day.

 

[UNIrd]

I went to Disneyland on Friday, it was busy but here is what I got done with LL from 7:40 AM until 1:20 AM.

Picture with Minne Mouse
HMH
Tia's Bayou Adventure
Winnie the Pooh Ride
HMH a second time (using LL)
Pirates
Train to Toontown
Roger Rabbit
Meeting Donald Duck
Mickey House/Meet and Greet
Small World Holiday
Buzz (using LL)
Dapper Dans
DeadPool Show
Encanto Show
Garden Area Music Show while eating lunch
Encanto Second Time
Monster Inc
Dead Pool Second time
Philharmagic
Zootipia Meet and Greet
DCA Holiday Mini Parade
Joy Singing Group (in Hollywood area)
aztec dancers (while eating food)
Coco Show
Small World Projection Show Tapestry of Happiness
Star Tours (LL)
Star Wars ROTR (LL)
Star Wars Falcon Ride (LL)
Star Wars Projection Show
Big Thunder Mountain (LL)
Tea Cups
Fireworks in front of Small World
Small World Holiday at Night (LL)
Small World Projection Show Holiday Show
Alice in Wonderland
Fantasmic
Casey Jr at night
Pinocchio's Daring Journey
Matterhorn (LL)
Dumbo
King Arthur Carrousel
Snow White
Peter Pan

4 Character Meet and Greets
24 Attractions
15 Shows (2 of which are repeats, 13 different shows)
16 Hours and and 40 mins in Park

Love this list! Thank you for sharing.

I had sticker shock when I visited this past week and a 2-day 1 park ticket with LL came out to $403.

But honestly, we got so much done that at the end I was like yeah.. worth it. Waits weren't bad at all... worst I saw was maybe 45 minutes for some of the headliners?

Totally different from Tokyo Disney a few days prior where sure the entrance probably came out to $60 per day but wait times got to upwards of 3-4 hours for some rides.

 

[TheUniC6]

https://ktla.com/news/theme-parks/disneyland/new-bluey-experience-other-events-coming-to-disneyland-in-2026/

 

[Jerroddragon]

The Bluey show should be huge...and now I have an excuse to watch the show

 

[Viator]

Eastern Gateway is to be underway shortly! Permits are now being filed for what will be a 8 story carpark structure.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I hope it can handle the people

Mickey and Friend's doubled its parking and still closes and this is without either park filling up

So I am hoping this all helps out and works out, I have enjoyed the ease of the Toy story parking lot

 

[Evan]

Eastern Gateway is to be underway shortly! Permits are now being filed for what will be a 8 story carpark structure.

302 electric chargers.

ETA: ChatGPT helped me estimate and it figures this could be roughly 9,500-10,500 spaces.

 

[Rideguy70]

Even though I rarely post on Twitter anymore, this post seems to be getting some traction, so thought I'd share here


Did my first visit to Disney in over a year with the SoCal ticket, and it was a mixed day. I still can't believe those green barriers are there (and that cheap tent for the K9 unit!) after a gazillion years... pretty clear no Disney Exec ever comes through this way...

It was a very off and on rainy day when I visited on Saturday, but it did nothing to deter crowds. On one good note, mobile food ordering was surprisingly effective, with decent times open and available with little to no wait, even at peak times. Gotta give them that.

But we got kicked out of not one, not two, not three, but four different attractions (Pirates, Matterhorn, BTMRR twice) because the ride broke. I get it, that happens, but each time, they just dumped the entire queue with zero offers of Multi-Experience passes. Fortunately, we usually weren't more than about 1/2 through a line before that happened (so about 20min on average--Pirates was nearly close to being assigned a row, but it was also one of the shorter waits at the time, maybe only 10 min wasted that time), but multiply that by 4, and we probably wasted nearly an hour and a half of our day waiting for closed rides without any sort of customer service.

SR and Buddy pass lines mostly long. Cars SR was all the way to the entrance get at took 45 min (stand by was 150). Monsters buddy pass still took 40 min (standby was 70 at the time!). SM appeared to be about 30 min SR in the afternoon (75 standby), and at one point, Matterhorn SR line nearly wrapped back around to the main entrance of the ride! Managed one walk on SR for SM (I didn't even stop walking before I was sitting in the ride) at about 9:30pm, then went to do one more right after and was told they closed SR. Only tried Indy SR once in the middle of the day, and was told they weren't doing it.

Part of me doesn't even want to bother using the other two days of our SoCal pass, but we already paid for them, so guess we will, but this really doesn't make me miss Disney very much.