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    Quote Originally Posted by dznyphreak View Post
    Were WoC Fastpasses still being distributed at the times you walked by?? Or did they just shut them down after WoC was booked?

    I know for a fact that, while WoC Fastpasses are available, all of the GRR machines are used solely for that. I think they switch them back after that point, though.

    We checked as late as 4:30 in the afternoon and it looked like WoC fastpasses were still being distributed. The fastpass return time for GRR on their 'clock' was always blank.

    As much as we wanted to ride GRR, I didn't want to stand in line, in the heat, for up to and over 45 min .
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by gueroortega View Post
    I was there Tuesday night . They added a 3rd show at 1115pm. It was that packed at Ca Adv. I was not ready to stand in the World of Colors FP line for 2 hours. Instead me and my wife found a spot to the right of Mickeys Ferris Wheel... It was an awsome spot with only about 5 other familes.... We go to enjoy the show with out the hassle. Hope this helps.
    Thanks, this is just the kind of info I am looking for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by soccerlady16 View Post
    And lastly, I assume our APs have to be scanned at the Main Gate to be able to get a FP, right? If so thats kinda of lame.
    It isn't lame. The reason is very simple. If people could get tickets without media, just imagine the "sales" on eBay/Craigslist. It was bad enough last summer when a few were selling "blanket space" to Fantasmic!.
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    People were selling blanket space to Fantasmic? Seriously... what are these people thinking? I had not heard that before. I can't give enough

    They did shut that down, right?


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    I was there late Monday afternoon and made it a point to get a WOC fast pass (fp) first thing. As you approach the GRR fp machines you will notice a line (there was some confusion as to whether or not this was the line for the ride itself or the fp line; afterall, it was a hot day). My friend and I arrived at the GRR fp machines at 04:55 PM where cast members took our annual passes and inserted them into the machine (no self service). The assigned group was "Red" with a showtime of 11:15 PM, which was the third showing of the evening. The return time was somewhere between 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM. As you can tell, there is still lots of hype around WOC because a nearly 5 PM arrival put us in the last show. Once we arrived for our return time we were herded into the Redwood Creek Trail area until about 10:50 PM where they escorted us back out and into our designated viewing area (fyi, they check your fps constantly so have them out handy). Overall, the process was pretty smooth and well coordinated as we got to enjoy the show without getting nearly trampled or pushed around like for Fantasmic. Hope this helps!


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    Quote Originally Posted by currence View Post
    I think that for the foreseeable future, if you want to see World of Color without getting there in the morning, your best bet is the $15 fastpass... I mean, the Picnic lunch with "preferred" standing areas.
    From what I was told by a CM, the picnic meal basically gets you the fastpass without having to wait in line for it (at the fastpass machines at Grizzly River Run)!! Unfortunately there is NO preferred viewing!! When we went the picnic meal people and fastpass people were in the same line for the show!! What will get you a better spot is being in the front of the line!!

    According to the CM, the Ariel's Grotto/Trattoria dining package does not have preferred viewing either? You line up with picnic meal people and fastpass people!! All you get is a better meal!! But...I have read reviews here where people have stated that there was a separate "preferred viewing" line for the dining package??

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    The fastpasses for Trattoria definitely said "preferred seating" on them as of Monday, and had a separate line that got in the park first. Can everything change? Yes, of course. But there definitely was a difference between the two on Monday. It sounds like on opening day there was no such distinction, which caused many of those issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iLuvDisney26 View Post
    From what I was told by a CM, the picnic meal basically gets you the fastpass without having to wait in line for it (at the fastpass machines at Grizzly River Run)!! Unfortunately there is NO preferred viewing!! When we went the picnic meal people and fastpass people were in the same line for the show!! What will get you a better spot is being in the front of the line!!

    According to the CM, the Ariel's Grotto/Trattoria dining package does not have preferred viewing either? You line up with picnic meal people and fastpass people!! All you get is a better meal!! But...I have read reviews here where people have stated that there was a separate "preferred viewing" line for the dining package??
    That's what I remembered too. I found one of those posts.

    Viewing sections for the picnic meal are BLUE and YELLOW
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    I hope that's still true, mostly because that's what I've been telling my friends! I'd hate to steer them wrong.

    Thank you all for the posts in this thread. Based on what I'd read, I decided to go yesterday afternoon to try and score a ticket for a late show. (I would've joined my friends who got there at 10am, but alas I already bought a ticket to watch a morning screening of Toy Story 3...which was beautifully awesome.) I got to the GRR FP machines around 4:30p. There were only three people ahead of me in line while a few others were already being helped by CMs at the machines. Got a FP for 11:15p show for the red section which is frankly more that what I expected (because it could've been sold out). I swung by the machines again close to 6p and it looked like they had just closed the machines because there was a small crowd talking to the same CMs who now weren't offering tickets.

    NOW here's something new I learned, and forgive me if someone's already posted this.

    Those friends I mentioned earlier had their tickets for the 9p show. They wanted to see if I could still join them, so after a very filling dinner at Big Thunder BBQ (Our first time, and we'd all definitely go there again!) I joined them on their way to getting in line at 8:15p by Blue Sky Cellar where we found a CM manager. My friend asked whether it was possible for me to join them and within about six minutes of getting some feedback from someone else, they allowed it. Another CM escorted us to the red area together and another CM took my 11:15p ticket no problem (he didn't actually look at) for the 9p show. So that's my experience, but the new info is actually the following which the manager CM explained to us for future reference:

    If you get FP tickets early but other friends show up later to get their ticket, tell your friends coming later what section your tickets are for. Then, when they arrive at the GRR FP machines, they can tell the CMs there if they can give them X section so they can join their friends who got X section tickets earlier. Now, I assume this is helpful if everyone got FP tickets for the same time show. I make no guarantees that two groups of friends getting tickets for 9p and 11:15p shows will still get to see it together like our experience granted us. But if your group is only minutes (time estimate is totally speculative at this point) apart in arriving to the FP machines, this would take some stress off getting together to see it.
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    Wow...perhaps they should create a FP machine for the WOC Fastpass line?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mousecanuck View Post
    Wow...perhaps they should create a FP machine for the WOC Fastpass line?

    I vote for a Single Rider line!

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    Disappointed in Fastpass experience for WOC

    Just came back from a five day trip to DL. I got in line at 9:00am in the esplanade in front of DCA on Saturday June 19th. They opened the gates at 9:30 am and everyone started running or walking really fast over to Grizzly river run to get the FP for WOC. My 76 year old mother was practically mowed over. I hustled over to Grizzly river run with my kids to just get into another long line for the FPs. My mom eventually caught up with us.

    If she was there by herself or say you were disabled then people who got in line after you out in the esplanade could overtake you on the way to grizzly river run. There has to be a better way to do this. Someone could get hurt and as I stated it is not fair to the elderly or the disabled. This aside, I loved the show. We got tickets in the blue area for the 9:00pm show and I love the fact that the viewing area is not so crammed like the fireworks and fantasmic. The fps keep the viewing area open.


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    Greetings,

    My friend and I were unable to get FPS on Friday. We got to DCA and the boxes around 4pm. And they had just sold out which later I learned was the 1115pm show.

    We inquired about sitting at the bar over there at Ariel's. We got there about 750pm. They said they would tack on a 10 dollar sur charge (ea) to our bill. We said ok fine. Started at the bar got 2 drinks. Then a married couple saw that we were eyeballing the table on the railing and invited us to join them. Though this was a sideways view you still got the gist of the show, except you were able to sit and be comfortable (instead of the SRO on the main viewing area). The coupl left and my friend and I decided to stay for the 2nd show which wasn't to long of a wait. Two girls came in for the 2nd show and sat next to us. They got their bill and I overheard them saying there's the 20 dollar charge. We got our bill and noticed no charge. So in the end we didn't pay (score!).

    But if you don't want to deal with the crowds and don't mind a sideways view look into the bar seating at Ariel's for WOC.


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    Got back yesterday from 5 days at the Resort. Long story short, we managed to see the World of Color show on our last night. We got in line near Grizzly River Run around 11:30 ish am. The line was pretty long, but we were through the line in 20-25 minutes. Two of us in our party got fastpasses for 9 people. Just be sure that the tickets for everyone in your party have been scanned for entry that same day!! We got tickets for the yellow section (the middle section currently) for the 10:15 show. Blue was to the left of center, yellow was the center and red to the right of center, as you are looking at the Paradise Park).

    My 91 yr old grandmother is wheelchair bound, so we asked a cast member about handicapped viewing... what they do is pull people in wheelchairs or who need special assistance from the general line and have them line up apart from the general masses. Then they escort those needing special assistance to the viewing area first. The viewing are is mostly handicapped accessible. We could have been right along the waters edge, but there was already a line of wheelchairs along the edge. We noticed benches for those accompanying wheelchairs or for those people who would not be able to stand for the entire show experience (my mother being one who couldn't stand). So we asked to move to a different area near some other benches. Another CM walked us to another area, two tiers away from the lower level, just to the right of the fountain. My mother and kids sat in a bench near my grandmother, while my husband and I stood at the back of the section.

    The entire experience worked out really well, from the fastpasses, to the viewing section.

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    Party of 4 needs to be present?

    Quick question. I am sure this has already been answered, but does everybody have to be present to get a fastpass for World of Color. We are annual Passholders, but I thought I could go wait in line early while the kids and wifey stay back at the hotel for breakfast. We are not going till Spetemeber so it may not even be a problem at that time.


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    i think you can do that. but you have to have all tickets to get a FP for each person.

    i was very surprised at the ease an simplicity of getting a FP for WOC was. it was a snap!! i must of gone at a great time of the day, harldy anyone at the FP booth, of course i went on a sunday at 3pm, that is not advised if you want a earlier showing--i got the 11:15pm showing.but i never saw it at that time--i got too tired and had to go home! Either way, i bit the bullet and saw it last night for the first time near SSS. i don't advise to watch it from there either--unless u have already seen it from the viewing area, i didn't see the water screen animations--but i am a AP holder i can just go back--but for those that are visiting, i would get the FP, or get the meals that includes the FP! in the long run it's really,really worth it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KCKID2NV View Post
    Quick question. I am sure this has already been answered, but does everybody have to be present to get a fastpass for World of Color. We are annual Passholders, but I thought I could go wait in line early while the kids and wifey stay back at the hotel for breakfast. We are not going till Spetemeber so it may not even be a problem at that time.
    Not everyone needs to be present, but you would need all of the tickets/APs and each of them would need to have been used for park admission already that day. (if the WoC FO machines work like all other FP machines, which I'm assuming they do. I'm sure someone can chime in for sure)

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    Quote Originally Posted by CariBelle View Post
    Not everyone needs to be present, but you would need all of the tickets/APs and each of them would need to have been used for park admission already that day. (if the WoC FO machines work like all other FP machines, which I'm assuming they do. I'm sure someone can chime in for sure)

    you are half right!! they rest of the family does not need to be present!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by lovindisneyland View Post
    you are half right!! they rest of the family does not need to be present!!
    I never said they did. I was just pointing out that their tickets would need to have been used to enter the park already, if the WoC FP machines work like the rest of the FP machines, which I assume they do.

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    I was going to hold off for a couple months before trying WOC but I went ahead and gave it a try on Saturday. I saw a previous post about Saturday and more the most part I had the same experience. Got to the park around 830 am, waited outside the gate. 930 am gates open, mad fast pace walk to the FP queue. I was in pretty early so I think it was about a 15-20 wait and got the Blue area (which is what I was wanting).

    I went home and enjoyed my day and returned to the park around 615 pm. I had heard from friends that they tend to open the viewing areas early so I headed right over and "waited" like alot of others in the area. I was up near the front when they put up the barriers (around 700 pm) so got in near the front of the line for entry into the viewing area. Once they openend up the viewing area (around 640 pm NOT the 730 as stated on the FP) alot of people who were just walking up from being let in from the barrier decided it would be cool to just walk in past the line that had formed, luckily the people in line an attentative CM curtailed most of the "cutting".

    Got into the lower Blue "splash" section which ended up being more of a "mist" area (feel bad for those shelling out money for a plastic poncho). I was on the rail, just off center. It was a good view except for the lighting/speaker poles that some imagineer thought would be a good idea to locate right infront of the viewing areas.

    Having a premium pass it wasn;t too bad going to get my fastpass and then coming back later in the evening for the show. I would recommend getting there early to get the FP so you get a better viewing area as well as arriving early for the show itself as you will be stuck behind others if you arrive close to the scheduled entry time. Alot of things take place at the water surface or below eye level and you are gonna miss it if yer too far back.

    I thought the show was OK but not in the same leage as Fantasmic! I have no problem dedicating hours for a prime Fantasmic! viewing spot but I am in no hurry to go back, wait for a FP and then wait again for the viewing area for WOC.


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    I got to the Fastpass station at about 4pm on Saturday, and I got a Fastpass for the 11:15pm show in the yellow section. I also ended up getting a picnic meal, so I also had a ticket in the blue section for the 10:15pm show.


    I do think it's a huge mistake to have no Fastpasses available for Grizzly River, considering it's a water ride, during the peak of the summer months. They could keep just one machine for GRR and use the others for World of Color, but I don't know if there's a programming issue that wouldn't allow one machine to be separated from the others. They had signs out telling people about the World of Color Fastpasses, but there were no signs about not having Fastpasses for GRR. There were a number of people who got in line for a GRR Fastpass, not knowing they weren't available. If they stick with having them not available for the majority of the day, they really need signs for that as well. When I went by again around 6pm, the machines were giving out GRR Fastpasses, so the World of Color ones must have run out by that point.


    I will disagree with seemingly most other people that you have to get in the Fastpass return line really early and wait for a long time for the show. Having seen the show 3 times on Saturday from different angles, I really don't think the sight lines are any worse than they are for Fantasmic. Yes, there are some small water effects that are pretty low that you might miss, but I don't really think it's a big deal. More than anything, the major effects, and the most spectacular ones, are done very high up. Given a choice, I think the higher sections are better, partly because you avoid the spray, partly because of the higher elevation, but mostly because there are fewer people up there (at least in my experience) so there are fewer tall people to be stuck behind.

    For the 10:15 show, I got in line at about 9:45, after I'd seen the 9pm show, and for the 11:15 show, the line had already been let into the viewing area by the time I was ready to join it at 11pm, so I just showed my Fastpass to the CM guarding one of the entrances, and they let me through.

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    Good to know. I don't like getting to fastpass return area and sitting on the hard concrete for 1-1/2 hours.

    I have now seen it from the blue area so I would not mind seeing it from the other areas as well so I don't think I will stress so much about getting to the esplanade super early. I think if I got to the park at 10:00am I could have still gotten the 9:00pm show just not the blue area. The preshow was so cute and I could not really see Sebastian from where I was so I am looking forward to seeing it from other vantage points. I was higher up in the blue area and I could tell I was missing some of the lower level effects like the low picture screens, but your right I had no one blocking my view and it was not very crowded.


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    Quote Originally Posted by iLuvDisney26 View Post
    According to the CM, the Ariel's Grotto/Trattoria dining package does not have preferred viewing either? You line up with picnic meal people and fastpass people!! All you get is a better meal!! But...I have read reviews here where people have stated that there was a separate "preferred viewing" line for the dining package??
    You were given incorrect information by the CM. There is a separate entrance and viewing area for the Premium Dining packages.

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    Whoa!

    Reminder: This thread is for discussion of experiences with standby FastPasses for World of Color, not for dining plan packages. Please discuss those in their respective threads in this forum.

    Picnic plan.
    Table Service plan.

    Thank you.

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    We were in the park on Sunday (6/20/10) and were able to get passes for 4 of us at the 11:15 show in the blue section. We were not planning on watching the show but we were in the area around 2:30 and wanted to see if there were still fastpasses available and what the line looked like. To our surprise, there were only 5 or 6 people waiting in line so I jumped in and waited less than 5 minutes. I stood in line by myself and had all of the passports with me. The cast member that was attending the fastpass machine did ask if everyone was already in the park. The whole thing really went very smoothly from getting the passes to leaving the park. Overall a great experience!


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    Hi,

    We'll be in the park next Monday (28th).
    We weren't planning to do WOC this trip, but have sort of changed our minds.
    Picnic meals are sold out, so we may try to get a FP. We need the first showing because we're traveling with a little one.
    Can anyone give me a sense of what time the FPs for the first show are running out? Is it generally in that first rush at 10 a.m., or can you still show up thirty minutes later and possibly pick one up?
    Just trying to get a general idea of what to expect, and if it worth it for us to stand in line when we arrive.
    Thanks!


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