Ok today epic round up looks like the crowds where crazy monsters reached up to 170 wait time stars dust reached up to 80 minutes also ministry opened at 4pm for tms only u had to show your tm id to get in restaurants were at capacity all day and that’s it.
Yeah-- Saturday seemed to be the biggest crowds so far, but there was a LOT of downtime all over and long waits for things that were open. The parking lot seemed to be near capacity (but there are areas still closed for construction).
Meteor was closed for the third day in a row that I had seen, so Oak & Star and Pizza Moon were packed at meal times. Long waits to get drinks at Celestiki, Zenith, and Plastered Owl, as well as Burning Blade and the Potter area bar. If you're a frozen drink person the Drinks at Celestiki were quite popular and quite good. They were also fairly strong. I had a frozen margarita, and my husband had a mudslide and both were great.
The line for the mac and cheese cones in HTTYD was huge all day and they created a queue area for it with temporary tensabarriers.
When we tried to check out Ministry's queue, even it was closed but that seemed to be for a film crew.
People are buying TONS of merch from what I've seen, and Captain Cacao plush appeared to be completely sold out with only backpacks left in Moonship.
It was interesting to see people dressed in Potter outfits (just like the other parks), but also lots of people in Nintendo outfits of all kinds, a few goth/Dark Universe people, and even a bunch of people with furry boots and other HTTYD style outfits. All four IPs seem to have really devoted followings, so for anyone who questioned the choices made it's now obvious they all have that Potter potential for merch/food sales.
I was fortunate enough to get five visits in during the TM Family Preview, and it was great getting to see things being fixed as they learn more about the park and how it works. I'm working on posting a full photo trip report in the coming days.
So far my biggest criticism (and an easy fix) is the traffic flow in all the portals. Only HTTYD has an exit sign (and it's small), so at each portal the majority of guests exiting are going back out through the portals which causes issues. They really need signage and a TM directing guests to exit through the exit paths. Those portals are narrow enough for guests entering, but having two way traffic is a problem.