One day at Magic Kingdom

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Anonymous wrote:Get there an hour before the park opens (not kidding) to be first in line. To the 7 dwarves mine train first. It's a TON of fun and will have the longest line. Then let your kid decide (but have her decide earlier, so you have a plan). Download the Disney App, it's very handy to use in the parks and gives you the wait times for all rides.

If she loves Frozen go from the mine train to the castle for their autographs (also ends up with quite the line). Get FP's for the afternoon.

I wouldn't do this. By going to the mine train line first (there WILL be a huge line there, even if you run from rope drop because of people with early breakfast reservations inside the park) you'll waste at least 90 minutes in line during the least crowded part of the day. In the time you'll spend waiting at mine train, you could ride ALL of these: Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean- all with basically no waits. After 10:30/11am, all bets are off, and the waits for these rides go through the roof. We're talking at least a 40+ minute wait to ride EACH.

Mine train is fun and all, but it's like, a 30 second ride. I'd only ride it if I had a FastPass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get there an hour before the park opens (not kidding) to be first in line. To the 7 dwarves mine train first. It's a TON of fun and will have the longest line. Then let your kid decide (but have her decide earlier, so you have a plan). Download the Disney App, it's very handy to use in the parks and gives you the wait times for all rides.

If she loves Frozen go from the mine train to the castle for their autographs (also ends up with quite the line). Get FP's for the afternoon.

I wouldn't do this. By going to the mine train line first (there WILL be a huge line there, even if you run from rope drop because of people with early breakfast reservations inside the park) you'll waste at least 90 minutes in line during the least crowded part of the day. In the time you'll spend waiting at mine train, you could ride ALL of these: Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean- all with basically no waits. After 10:30/11am, all bets are off, and the waits for these rides go through the roof. We're talking at least a 40+ minute wait to ride EACH.

Mine train is fun and all, but it's like, a 30 second ride. I'd only ride it if I had a FastPass.

I agree. Get a fast past for mine train and if you can't go straight to fantasyland at rope drop and do everything else.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get there an hour before the park opens (not kidding) to be first in line. To the 7 dwarves mine train first. It's a TON of fun and will have the longest line. Then let your kid decide (but have her decide earlier, so you have a plan). Download the Disney App, it's very handy to use in the parks and gives you the wait times for all rides.

If she loves Frozen go from the mine train to the castle for their autographs (also ends up with quite the line). Get FP's for the afternoon.

I wouldn't do this. By going to the mine train line first (there WILL be a huge line there, even if you run from rope drop because of people with early breakfast reservations inside the park) you'll waste at least 90 minutes in line during the least crowded part of the day. In the time you'll spend waiting at mine train, you could ride ALL of these: Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean- all with basically no waits. After 10:30/11am, all bets are off, and the waits for these rides go through the roof. We're talking at least a 40+ minute wait to ride EACH.

Mine train is fun and all, but it's like, a 30 second ride. I'd only ride it if I had a FastPass.

I'm the PP and we did this, on Thanksgiving day, one of the most crowded days of the year. The park opened at 8am, we were in line at 7:30am, were off the ride before 8:25am. We didn't "waste" any time. Once we got off the wait time was 90min. Around 1pm, one of the most crowded times splash mountain was a 20min wait. We did it twice within 35min (one of DD's favorite rides).

Your other plan is well and good, except those rides are no where near each other. Pan gets the same wait times as mine train (sometimes longer), so if you don't hit that first as well you gotta wait. Best to get a FP for it if you want it. Big Thunder Mountain will slowly get a line as the day grows (by afternoon it'll be an hour+).

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You'll be able to do more than 1 big ride. Don't forget some of the other tame, classic rides. Magic Kingdom wouldn't be complete without a ride on Peter Pan, It's a Small World and Jungle Cruise.