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What to Expect From “Happily Ever After” – Magic Kingdom’s New Nighttime Spectacular

By now, you’ve probably heard the “Wishes” nightly fireworks spectacular at the Magic Kingdom is going away, with the last performance scheduled for May 11.  For over 13 years, Wishes has been a “must do” for anyone doing a Disney World vacation.  Narrated by Jiminy Cricket and featuring a flying appearance by Tinkerbell, Wishes was spect

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

6. Check Back One of the best things about visiting Hollywood Studios is that the wait times vary greatly and quickly.  There have been times we have walked past Great Movie Ride and the wait is 45 minutes, but we check back two hours later and the wait has dropped to less than 20 minutes.  We like that this is true since it adds an eleme

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

5. Character Interactions You’ll definitely want to build some time in your schedule to do some character interactions because there are so many unique opportunities at Hollywood Studios.  At Star Wars Launch Bay, you can meet Chewbacca or Kylo Ren, as well as recent addition BB-8.  You also have Sorcerer Mickey, Minnie, Moana, Disney Jun

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

4. Fantasmic! Dining Package We love the Fantasmic dining package because it allows us to have a meal in one of the great restaurants at Hollywood Studios – Mama Melrose’s, the Hollywood Brown Derby, or Hollywood and Vine AND get preferred seating for the nightly showing of Fantasmic! Guests will receive tickets that grant them seats in t

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

3. Times Guide for Entertainment Between your journeys across the park, guests will pass many, many, many entertainment options. Depending on the time of the year that you choose to visit, the times of these shows vary, so we always recommend picking up a Times Guide so you can know when the slate of shows are performing – the Indiana Jon

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

2. Tiered FastPass Decision As we mentioned in the previous tip, you must make a FastPass decision when touring Hollywood Studios. We tend to choose Toy Story Midway Mania because it usually has the longer wait time and we have been able to cut the wait time on Rock and Roller Coaster by either hitting it first thing before lines are too

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

1. Rope Drop Being able to ride all of the popular attractions, as well as the thrill rides at Hollywood Studios requires that you get to the park at rope drop. Since Hollywood Studios utilizes the tiered FastPass distribution system, guests are forced to choose between two very popular attractions: Rock and Roller Coaster and Toy Story M

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The 6 Tips to Making Your One Day Touring Plan for Hollywood Studios

Even though Hollywood Studios is going through a transformation, there is still much to see and do when visiting Hollywood Studios.  Given the unique nature of the park, you can definitely tackle the entire park in one day, but you need to make a specific plan to make sure you get to everything.  Here are the six tips for coming up with y

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