July 17th Expectations...

[Darkbeer]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Dare I say this? - I do not expect DL to hit capacity on July 17.

There are geeks-a-plenty, but our community is still a small one park-attendence-wise

See May 5th, all 4 AP types are valid, but since it is a mid week day during normal school period, even with all the advertising, I think the attendance will be about 40 to 50 thousand...

Now, July 17th...

A Sunday during peak summer.

The Disney owned hotels are already sold out.

The only AP that is valid is the Premium, though I presume that many AP holders will buy a blockout pass.

Much advertising, starting with the May 5th event...

The ACTUAL 50th anniversary.

The big keys, is SUNDAY and JULY, a day that normally gets around 50,000+ without any type of special event, now all we need to add is about 25,000 more to create a sellout...

And lets see, last I heard, there are around 600,000 DLR AP holders, if just 10% show up, we are already over capacity once you add the summer vacationers with their ParkHoppers....

I will be REALLY surprised if it doesn't hit capacity... Heck, I think DLR hit capacity 3 times during the Christmas Holidays, and could have had a few more capacity days if it wasn't for the weather... And that is without anything more special than days off school, and a special parade and fireworks....

I would be prepared....