IIIIIIIIIIIIIt's ticket week, y'all!
Getting ready for that stomach-churning, anxiety-laced "Did UPS forget where I live again?" feeling.
Gonna keep reminding myself to channel Crush and just go with the flow. I'm having fun playing around with the new app, in the meantime - much better than last year's, I think. Looks like they're still filling in some stuff (can't find the Saturday night Aladdin music panel), but I like starring my favorites & getting notifications.
It's also great to see the show floor and start plotting the best routes. Looks like the MOG pin store is all the way in the back left corner. I'll need to be in and out of there by 9:50 (9:45, even better) to make the half-hour cutoff for Legends. I'll probably get in line by 5 AM, especially if they let us in the same time as overnighters. I have some good books to read, and some good TV shows to download, so 4 hours will fly by.
Also, 2 PM for overnight lines on Thursday? YEESH. I know people were unofficially "lining up" during the day anyway, but man.
I'm aiming for the bigger panels because I'd like to experience most of them for the first time. I've only ever been to the Parks panel, but it'll be cool to be part of the first-look crowd.
Here's the revised plan-ish:
Friday
9:00 Pin Store Sprint
9:30 If time, get Art of Costuming book for signing
10:30 Legends
2:30 We Love You 3000 - possible RDJ might be there? He's already in town!
3:30
Disney+
5:30 Art of Costuming book signing - Kurtti and Cline (would love to make this - we'll see)
Saturday
9:00 Pin Store Sprint? I don't know if they'll have different things each day. If not, right to the Studios panel
10:00 Studios panel!
12:30 RUN to Haunted Mansion panel (along with a gaggle of sorcerers)
3:30 Disney on Broadway panel!
6:00 Possibly Travels with Marty?
Sunday
9:00 Final show floor rush
10:30 Parks panel!
STRUGGLE HERE - There's an Art of Costuming panel, a Power Up Your Brain event with Keegan Michael Key, and the 1:30 Cosplay shot for parks/princesses (which may just be one big group photo, I'll have to see what the previous days were like).
2:00 Star Wars Inspiring Women
4:15 Character Voices
6:45 Fond Farewell
Plenty of time on Friday for show floor walking/Emporium and partner shopping, and sleep on Friday/Saturday. My masochism may lead me to reserve Oga's cantina for Sunday night (open til midnight, unlike 11 PM the following days).