Quick Question About Morning EMH, & What to ride FIRST (and second....and third)....

[Theporembskis]

OK, our old family plan was always to make a bee-line down mainstreet as soon as the Good Morning show was complete and ride Dumbo, then Peter Pan, then Snow White, then Pooh. Now that Snow White is closed and Dumbo has moved to Story Book Circus, do we just start with Peter Pan, then Pooh, then head back to Dumbo? What does everyone do first, FIRST thing in the morning before the park gets packed?

[WALL-E]

Peter Pan first for sure IMO.

[crazybones27]

I would say since both Dumbo and Pooh have fast passes I'd grab a fast pass for pooh on your way to Peter Pan and ride that first. Dumbo your kids can play in the play area while you wait with your pager to ride I think that can probably wait. Granted we haven't been in the new play area for Dumbo so I have no idea on the wait times, but in my experience Peter Pan is always such a long line that I'd try and get that out of the way first .

[Phylers]

Wait for Dumbo, and I'd say wait for Pooh, since it's an interactive queue now, but get Peter Pan out of the way. I repeat - GET PETER PAN OUT OF THE WAY! Peter Pan is a great ride - the effects are striking in how simple yet effective they are - and deserves the attention, but the line is slow, long, and one of the most boring lines around. It's the old-school up, back, up, back tight snake with little to no air flow, as it's tucked against the building. The air that does flow is the smell of the soon-to-be-moved bathroom.

So yes, ride Peter Pan first. Maybe do it again. Beyond that, I'd shoot for longer queues with more boring waits - knock out Splash or Space Mountain, maybe hit Pooh and/or Dumbo, just in case.

[little miss vinyl]

I'm glad this info/question was posted. We never have a clear direction when we go into MK after the morning show/rope drop. (I always make a run in the emproium to glanse at their trader box as we head down Main Street.)

[rogpalmeruk]

I think the Peter Pan ride is roughly the same as in DLP where you wizz around the air looking down on models etc.... i thought it was ok but it was the middle of winter and walked straight on...maybe its more of a kids ride as I certainly wouldn't wait in line for it. ...

[little miss vinyl]

I think the Peter Pan ride is roughly the same as in DLP where you wizz around the air looking down on models etc.... i thought it was ok but it was the middle of winter and walked straight on...maybe its more of a kids ride as I certainly wouldn't wait in line for it. ...

MY kids LOVE LOVE LOVE this ride. It is simple yet very effective in telling the story and being on a ship sprinkled with a bit of pixie dust. You use your imagination!!

This ride has not been updated or changed (modernized) and I think that is part of why it is so popular. It taqkes me back to my own childhood where my dad would ride with me and my siste,r and we were afraid we'd fall out of the ship and not fly b/c we were not sprinkled with pixe dust only the ship.

[crazybones27]

I think the Peter Pan ride is roughly the same as in DLP where you wizz around the air looking down on models etc.... i thought it was ok but it was the middle of winter and walked straight on...maybe its more of a kids ride as I certainly wouldn't wait in line for it. ...

I don't think I have ever seen Peter Pan as a walk on ride ever. The one and only time we've been on it was in 2010 during the MNSSHP. We hit it while everyone was watching Fireworks and we still had a 15 minute wait which for Peter Pan is really good

[LindsayinNJ]

I don't think I have ever seen Peter Pan as a walk on ride ever. The one and only time we've been on it was in 2010 during the MNSSHP. We hit it while everyone was watching Fireworks and we still had a 15 minute wait which for Peter Pan is really good

I caught it as a walk on during MNSSHP during the first parade.... Another reason to love that party!

[Theporembskis]

Yeah, I'm really second guessing the idea of blowing off the shops to hit everything behind the castle first thing in the morning now the "everything behind the castle" isn't so much right now.

[little miss vinyl]

btw, are you going soon? We'll be in WDW Aug 12- 19.

[freebird299]

I like the Peter Pan idea, but I'm traveling with my daughter age 19. Would this still be a good strategy? Don't do Splash Mountain. What would you hit next?

[Theporembskis]

btw, are you going soon? We'll be in WDW Aug 12- 19.

We're going around Thanksgiving, so we're just planning ahead!

[vinylmiss]

What about Haunted Mansion?

[rogpalmeruk]

I always head straight down main street without touching a shop...there is enough time for shopping later on the way out or later in the day, you see all these families in main street going into shops straight away, probably because its their "first" day....by the end of a holiday I usually find shops lose the appeal .... i usually always headed straight to tomorrowland/discovery land first

[little miss vinyl]

I always head straight down main street without touching a shop...there is enough time for shopping later on the way out or later in the day, you see all these families in main street going into shops straight away, probably because its their "first" day....by the end of a holiday I usually find shops lose the appeal .... i usually always headed straight to tomorrowland/discovery land first

We only try to have one adult run into the Emporium just to look at the trade box and then continue to where ever the kids have requested, now that I think about it I think we hit Buzz, Space Mountian and then over to Pooh and the rest of Fantasyland. My kids ages and interests are different and we don't want to take time to walk from one end of the park to the other and back. We typically will ask each kid to tell us 3 rides they want to do and the navigate accordingly.

[niftyk13]

If it's a really warm day we always go to Splash Mountain first, that way we can dry off really fast in sun and not be stuck in wet clothes!

[YoungGun]

I usually do space mountain, buzz, then run over to frontierland for splash mountain to get damp to keep myself cool for a little while lol.

[Anders Limpar]

I think the Peter Pan ride is roughly the same as in DLP where you wizz around the air looking down on models etc.... i thought it was ok but it was the middle of winter and walked straight on...maybe its more of a kids ride as I certainly wouldn't wait in line for it. ...

Peter Pan's Flight was an opening day attraction at Disneyland and only missed opening with the Magic Kingdom by a couple of days in 1971. I think the ride is one that amazes everyone when they are child because it is the feeling of "flying" that creates wonder. Parents that rode the ride when they were youngsters want to share it with their kids. It is a great dark ride even though the technology is very simple and outdated quite frankly.

[Phylers]

It is a great dark ride even though the technology is very simple and outdated quite frankly.

I couldn't disagree more. The forced-perspective scene over London is among my top-five theme park experiences, and in that top five, very few rely on modern technology versus classic techniques done well and effectively. That scene should be forced-learning for all ride designers - "see this? See how simple the effect is? And it's more breathtaking than anything any of you pinheads will ever come up with in your screen-based rides."

[JasonD]

I couldn't disagree more. The forced-perspective scene over London is among my top-five theme park experiences, and in that top five, very few rely on modern technology versus classic techniques done well and effectively. That scene should be forced-learning for all ride designers - "see this? See how simple the effect is? And it's more breathtaking than anything any of you pinheads will ever come up with in your screen-based rides."

This, the Haunted Mansion ghosts (Dining Room and hitch hikers) and the Pirates of the Caribbean projection are among my favorite effects in WDW.

[Anders Limpar]

I couldn't disagree more. The forced-perspective scene over London is among my top-five theme park experiences, and in that top five, very few rely on modern technology versus classic techniques done well and effectively. That scene should be forced-learning for all ride designers - "see this? See how simple the effect is? And it's more breathtaking than anything any of you pinheads will ever come up with in your screen-based rides."

I have loved Peter Pan's Flight since I was a little kid and still do. It is also one of my favorites. I wasn't criticizing the fact that the ride uses outdated technology I was just pointing out that it does. I don't care that a bicycle chain with fluorescent paint isn't the most cutting edge thing in the world, it looks awesome.

[Tooie]

my family always goes straight back to fantsayland and get that land done first then we hit up tomorrowland then adventureland and so on, i have not been to wdw since summer of 2009 and we are finally going back this fall. im deff thinking we will hit fantsayland first still and then the story book area/ mickeys old toon town fair.