Same here.I have a few friends working in Forbidden Journey and none of them have heard of a December soft-opening.
I mean, if they just open Hogsmeade to help spread out the guests and get a head start on racking in the money from merchandise and food, I guess it would kinda make sense, but I sincerely hope that's not the case and they save everything for a grand opening.
I wonder how they'll handle soft opening and "full" testing? Maybe they'll only have team members & their families participate in the soft opening, similar to what Disney did with Cars Land?
Now that I think back, didn't Orlando also have a soft opening for hotel guests and some others before the grand opening of Hogsmeade, and everything but FJ was open, but they got to tour the queue?