This is long...
We had the 7-8 time slot this morning (Tues, 9/11) and we took a Lyft --not Minnie-- to DHS from Shades of Green, which was faster than walking to the Poly and catching the bus, but basically we'd walked 40+ miles in 2.5 days so we took the liberty of being lazy.
Lyft picked up within 3 minutes, we were walking to the bag check by 0615. Third group back in line, my magic band scanned no problem, my guest wouldn't work immediately but they had plenty of managers and plaids ready for fixing this, showed my email, then it took about a minute to fix. Wristbands on, then a few minutes before 7 (0650?) We tapped in and walked back. CMs lining the way to TSL, all fairly cheery and waving...not as much of this once in the land, which is okay, it was still dark and I know I was tired too. I did talk to the CMs doing wristbands and asked about how many guests have there been at these ...was told by Cat that she's done four previous of this event and they gave out spots for 1200 guests between the two time slots each day, but there have not been anything close to that actually attending. I'd estimate 200 people at 0700. We were the only ones on AS2, they said we could use our fp+ or save it, and that was funny since we were literally only ones there. Rode SDD 2times in a row ( exited queue) and TSM once...then it was 0715.
We did grab some food at Woody's Lunchbox...that was a little bit of a cluster even though there were maybe 6 guests ordering. Would've skipped it but after a late night at trader Sam's we needed something.
Rode TSM 2 more times without getting out if the car, could've done more but just took in the ambiance of the land. By 0740 we were exiting so we could get to Epcot and grab cutting boards....we were a bit surprised to see RD was flooding into TSL by 0740!! I could see maybe making it back by 0755 but they obviously let them in not held pretty early!
This event was overall amazing!!! So happy it all fell into olacw, since I'm already sitting at MCO to head back to ND