Hope this thread can help with my FP/MP strategy - I'm planning a non-holiday weekday visit and what all the crowd calendars say will be a low-to-medium attendance day. We're just doing Disneyland.
So, there will be two of us, one who is a huge Star Wars fan who is also a Disneyland first-timer. I'm local, but don't get to attend a lot, and haven't been since Galaxy's Edge opened. My initial plan was to enter the park pre-rope drop, get a boarding pass, and then head to Smuggler's Run while getting a MP for Indy. However, I've heard the Smuggler's Run really gets busy at rope drop, but wait times decrease later in the day, so it's smarter to head to Indy, get a MP for Space Mountain, and hit some other big rides and come back to SR later in the afternoon (we also have an Oga's reservation at 3pm, so maybe after the reservation). Of course, we'll hit RotR whenever our boarding group is called.
However, I got all this advice before Rise of the Resistance opened. I'm wondering if having a large group of people attend rope drop has affected my strategy. Are more people heading to SR first thing in the morning? Should we fight through the crowds and head there first thing, or is it still smarter to get to Indy and Space Mountain first? I guess the advantage of getting to SR first thing is that we can easily get FastPasses for Indy and SM later in the day, and even SM has a single-rider line. Also, I would love to do SR multiple times if possible to try all the different positions, so we can also come back later in the day when the line is shorter. However, if Galaxy's Edge is just insanely crowded in the morning, maybe it really would be better to wait until later.
Anyone have any thoughts? For reference, the Disneyland first-timer and I are both WDW veterans, so we know there are some duplicates we can skip (Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, etc.) and some other new or totally different rides we need to get to (Matterhorn, Pirates, Indy, and some of the smaller Fantasyland dark rides).
