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wareagle57 said:
When it's been empty in the past and that's the expectation, I think people have a right to be disappointed or even mad. This isn't like a party where you are paying for all the extra offerings. The selling point of this ticket is literally low crowds. When I first saw videos of the park at past events I was really jealous and wanted to be able to go one day. But now this clearly won't be worth it to me. Having the park empty was more of a selling point than non-existent lines honestly. But at the very least I'd expect literally zero wait everywhere we go, with maybe the exception of Mine Train and Space, which should still be a virtual walkon. If they are going to cheat the rest of us out of park hours so they can sell a 2nd ticket, at least make the event worth going to. This is just double paying to have average crowds from 5-10 years ago.
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The insult to injury, this year they didn’t let guests in as early as previous years. I know the official start time is 7:00 pm. I’m glad they let us in at 6:00. But when they let guests in at 4:00 the last two years, one can’t help but be a little disappointed.
 
wareagle57 said:
I only know about it because of my gf (who is not a teenager, but is a girl). I still don't really understand it. You're in Disney World. Surely there are more popular places to take an Instagram picture. I had no idea it was popular enough to get a magic band.
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There are several WDW walls where people take photos. I’m not exactly sure why walls are popular though. I’m surprised Disney hasn’t put a photopass there yet.
 
Roxyfire said:
Regarding the Purple Wall magicband, it's finally happened to me.
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MommaBerd said:
The insult to injury, this year they didn’t let guests in as early as previous years. I know the official start time is 7:00 pm. I’m glad they let us in at 6:00. But when they let guests in at 4:00 the last two years, one can’t help but be a little disappointed.
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This is not the cynic in me - but the realist - you KNOW if this event is selling out, they will tweak it more in there favor. Either reduce benefits or raise the price - or both.

I still don't get why this is so great - we just got back from a trip during President's Week / Pricness 1/2 marathon. Crowds were pretty high -not holiday high, but certainly higher than any of the weeks they were offering the After Hours event. We went 8 AM on SATURDAY (NOT EMH - just regular park opening) and knocked out like 12 rides in 5 hours. Did 7DMT, Little Mermaid, HM, JC, BTMRR, & Splash with basically walk-on by 10 AM. Then with our FP we continued and did Peter Pan (FP), 7DMT (FP-again), IaSW, Philharmagic, Pirates (FP), Tiki Room with a 45 minute break in there to eat our lunch at PVH. We basically did everything in the park we wanted except Tomorrowland and left the park at 1 PM with a FP in hand for Space Mountain later in the evening. It cost me NOTHING extra. Why in the World would I spend $119 extra (sorry - $380 for 3 people with tax) for something I experience for nothing? :confused3 Like we really couldn't have ridden rides faster than we did those first 2 hours - literally walking from one ride to the next. OK - the 7DMT took about 10 minutes to load at rope drop - Little Mermaid for instance they still make you spend 5 minutes walking through the entire queue.

I suppose skipping rope drop = $119 per person value? :goodvibes
 
skier_pete said:
Yes - we are planning on using a similar technique going forward. Multiple trips in 12 months, followed by 12-18 months of not going, then mulitple trips again. When you look at the way the ticket pricing is going, a 4 day park ticket costs about 60% of an AP, more if you have access to the Gold AP.
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We do this exactly. It means we'll miss some big things (we won't see toy story until star wars is done or nearly done), but we do get all of the festivals/seasons.
 
rteetz said:
There are several WDW walls where people take photos. I’m not exactly sure why walls are popular though. I’m surprised Disney hasn’t put a photopass there yet.
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Photopass pops up there from time to time
It was a designated location during PhotoPass Day 2 years ago

Taking pictures at the various walls around the parks isn't anything new, but it's been more of an insider thing until recently when Disney picked up on the trend and started featuring the locations on the blog and making merchandise. It's built off the trend from cities that have wall murals (Houston is one of the most popular ones)

The Purple Wall is definitely the most popular, but the bubblegum wall in Epcot and the Mossy Wall in DAK are also common. Disneyland has their own blue wall as well.
 
OhioStateBuckeye said:
Purple wall photos don't shock me. In today's world a good percentage of people are very interested in posting photos of themselves to social media.

I'm actually more shocked that Disney marketing has timely caught onto a popular social media trend and is actually capitalizing on it.
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But my question is....is there an actual purple wall somewhere? lol. I've been racking my brain trying to think about where this purple wall might be and all I could come up with is the new color they painted those rocks at the entrance to Tomorrowland :scratchin I think I'm going to have to go to urban dictionary on this one lol

UPDATE: THERE IS A WALL PEOPLE hahahaha....google is my friend: https://style.disney.com/living/2017/01/13/walt-disney-world-walls-instagram-ootd/
 
skier_pete said:
This is not the cynic in me - but the realist - you KNOW if this event is selling out, they will tweak it more in there favor. Either reduce benefits or raise the price - or both.

I still don't get why this is so great - we just got back from a trip during President's Week / Pricness 1/2 marathon. Crowds were pretty high -not holiday high, but certainly higher than any of the weeks they were offering the After Hours event. We went 8 AM on SATURDAY (NOT EMH - just regular park opening) and knocked out like 12 rides in 5 hours. Did 7DMT, Little Mermaid, HM, JC, BTMRR, & Splash with basically walk-on by 10 AM. Then with our FP we continued and did Peter Pan (FP), 7DMT (FP-again), IaSW, Philharmagic, Pirates (FP), Tiki Room with a 45 minute break in there to eat our lunch at PVH. We basically did everything in the park we wanted except Tomorrowland and left the park at 1 PM with a FP in hand for Space Mountain later in the evening. It cost me NOTHING extra. Why in the World would I spend $119 extra (sorry - $380 for 3 people with tax) for something I experience for nothing? :confused3 Like we really couldn't have ridden rides faster than we did those first 2 hours - literally walking from one ride to the next. OK - the 7DMT took about 10 minutes to load at rope drop - Little Mermaid for instance they still make you spend 5 minutes walking through the entire queue.

I suppose skipping rope drop = $119 per person value? :goodvibes
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Many people want the “empty park” experience and have that at night. For me, DS11 *really* wanted to go back to MK, but we had no trips planned. DAH nights were announced prior to Christmas, so this became his Christmas present (OK, mine, too!). So, we went down for a quick trip. (This is the Cliff’s Notes version.) Also, I bought the tickets at the AP price of $89. I would not have paid full price.

It was fun treat to do once (not gonna lie - it was great to get “free” ice cream, popcorn, and drinks), but as I said, it was a bit too crowded for my taste.

I get your point - I really do. But sometimes there are certain situations where it “makes sense” for people or it just seems like a fun, novel experience.
 
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