I keep hearing horror stories from other race weekends about the expo and other things.... is wine and dine really that much smaller then marathon, princess and dark side?
FWIW 2016 got to expo around 2pm Friday maybe a 3-5 min wait to get into building with shirts/official merchandise/expo and maybe a 5 min check out wait.... first bus out of ASMo and at race start got through 1/4 character lines (Emile sans Remmy) post race did two others (Lumiere and Goofy/Donald)
Last year got to expo around 11am ish Thursday I don’t recall a wait to get physically into either building and maybe a 10-15 min check out wait first bus out of ASMo again did Chip/Dale and Donald pre race opted to not try for the other queues post as we met chef Mickey at the expo and figured we would just meet Goofy and Minnie in park later