Originally Posted By getnby Can anyone give me a "guesstimate" of what the crowds will be like on January 1st?
Originally Posted By ImTinkerbellsfan Crowded. I had a friend there last week and 2 of the days they actually closed the gates so that no more people could come into the park. The estimated number of people was around 97,000.
Originally Posted By Roger55 ^^ If I am not mistaken, 97,000 would be an all time record and I believe exceeds that maximum in park capacity for DL. Maybe, just maybe the 97,000 figure you speak of was a total "through the gate" number or a combined DL and DCA figure. Also, again if I am not mistaken, the gates were never "closed". I believe that what has been happening is ticket sales have been halted, and anyone not possesing admission already were not being let into the park. DL has been restricting ticket sales and entrance to the park every day this past week. Let's just stick with the "it will be very crowded" statement and leave it at that.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal 97K even total for the day is not something I ever experienced in my time working at the Resort. There were days, like New Year's Eve, etc. that exceeded 80K for the day (not in-Park, that number is lower). I find it VERY hard to believe that there would be a 97K total for the day. I will e-mail one of the Ops. Managers for attractions and ask her, but I'd probably fall out of my seat if that was true. But, to answer the original question. It's one of the busiest days of the year in one of the busiest years ever. But it will be fun!!
Originally Posted By imagineer1985 no way it was 97k. estimates for this week have not been anywhere near that. However I bet you that if they would have not stopped selling tickets and not restricted access on some days this past week they could have broken 100k but of course they can not do that because there is not enough capacity for the fire marshall. If disneyland is even going to break its record for attendance in the 80's it will need to add several new attractions. Replacing Country bears and circle vission does not help. And having the people movie empty does not help either.
Originally Posted By imagineer1985 Oh and to answer the original question it will probably be as crowded as disneyland can be with tickets sells being cut and entrance being limitted. whilet this may sound terribly crowded it really is not too bad all rides are running at full capacity with all the boats, trains, and starpeeders operatin to the fullest so it really helps to keep the lines moving.
Originally Posted By ni_teach It's looking like rain tomorrow. (the 1st) That should keep some of the croweds down.
Originally Posted By basas Hasn't MK had something like 93,000-94,000 in one day? Is that the all-time high for US parks?
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Maybe 97K was the total for both parks? That sounds at least possible, if unlikely.
Originally Posted By imagineer1985 An insanely busy day for MK is 110k+ THe place is so huge it has a lot of space to help capacity. While DIsneyland when compared to MK is a whole in the wall.
Originally Posted By getnby I did, in fact, brave the crowds on the 1st of january, and they weren't bad at all--perhaps the rain helped. Nothing like a rainy day at Disneyland.
Originally Posted By Lil Mermaid i was there yesterday. it was dead and then it started to rain around 2pm and then it was REALLY dead. We left then too because i was done with the rain at that point...
