50-Hour Party for the 50th - What Will You Do?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

This I can't believe. Do you really think there will be 60,000 people there at 9am? SIXTY THOUSAND?

That is doubtful. But, people will wait all night because they think that is the case. Hey, have a good time! See you all at 9:30.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm still thinking about this...I mean, I'd be WAY impressed if 10,000 showed up at opening. I wonder how many were there at 9am on 05/05.

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I am NOT lining up at 2:00 am like people did on the 5th.

Aw! Where's your sense of adventure???? (Besides at home in bed like a smart person would do. )

Viva la midnight line party!!!!!

[BarTopDancer]

What I said came out wrong..

Every hotel in the area is booked. There are a ton of locals. People without rooms are driving in that night. I didn't mean the park will close one minute after opening. Being the 2nd to last person allowed through bag check before they closed it down on the 5th I can tell you a LOT of people fit in the Esplanade. A LOT.

I don't know if I am going to camp out all night, but I know I will be there for some of it. I think that that weekend will be one hellofa weekend and a once in a life time memory.

[MickeyD]

Just FYI, I just checked Expedia, there are still hotels available.

If I cared about pins, I might line up overnight, I've heard the rumor about the pins to the first 5,000 people before, and the pins do sound cool, but, as it turns out, I don't care much about pins.

It's going to be a long day in the park. I'm going to sleep that night.

[Stan4dSteph]

Currently the DL website has hours for DL of 8:00 a.m. to midnight.

MousePlanet ran a photo of the first people lined up for May 5 taken at 11 PM on May 4. I don't believe the rumor of "lifetime passes" for the first few. I would hope they would be a bit more savvy than that. Talk about recipe for a riot...

[jdramj]

Too bad they don't have the prize machine like they did many years ago. It would randomly draw a prize for you as you went thru the turnstile. I won a free soda,I think, it was a long time ago.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by jdramj

Too bad they don't have the prize machine like they did many years ago. It would randomly draw a prize for you as you went thru the turnstile. I won a free soda,I think, it was a long time ago.

I won plush Mickey & Minnie dolls. Still have them with the tags on somewhere.

Lifetime passes to the first 50 people? What a way to start the day--pushing, fighting, "but I arrived first, you just knocked me over on the way to the turnstile," "but I arrived first, it's no fair that you came empty-handed so you didn't have to wait through bag check," "but I'm an AP, dammit," "but I was first in the monorail entrance line and I've been here since 2 AM; how come I didn't get one?"

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Aw! Where's your sense of adventure???? (Besides at home in bed like a smart person would do. )

Viva la midnight line party!!!!!

Oh, believe me, I will stop by the midnight party before retiring to slumber some where TBD. But, I have spent too many nights of my life "camping" in unofficial campgrounds to do it again. I found the easier, softer way to be much more fun in the long run. Experience has taught me much and now I am old and wise and don't want to be awake for many, many hours on the hard, hard ground.


Besides, they are not giving away cars like they did in the past. Pins be damned.

[mamabot]

The number I heard for May 5th is that 35,000 entered the park in the first 3 hours that the park was open. They did not reach capacity on May 5th, according to a Security CM.