Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of the LP Live Item: <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Live-View-6832.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Live: 999HAUNTS: 12/31/08 3:32p DL is sold out!</b></a><div style="text-align:center"> <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Live-View-6832.asp" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="168" height="225" src="http://laughingplace.com/lp/live/0006832-956237.jpg"></a> DL is sold out!</div>
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I wonder how early they were sold out? Seems like last year it was around 2pm... Were they still parking people in the Garage?
Originally Posted By DJ7K Whats the maximum capacity for the park? I'm guessing sold out only applies to tickets left to distribute and APers are still able to go in, unless the capacity has been reached? Even though folks may leave of course.
Originally Posted By Rebekah DJ7K, It is possible for Disneyland to reach such attendance numbers that it closes to APs as well. I think they first stop selling tickets, then stop permitting APs and those with tickets from previous dates, then stop permitting access to those in Disney hotels which is pretty much closing the turnstiles -- but that's just what I've heard over the years, don't know if that is still how its done or if that's even correct as I don't believe it is something that is posted "officially". R.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Ohh nooo DJ7K - you don't want to venture into the different levels of gate closings!! LOL! The sign would definately mean they will not be selling anymore tickets. The gates will allow and disallow entry and reentry as the evening moves on - The one time we were told the were no reentry's for AP's it was suggested we wait a bit and try again. About 20 min later reentry was allowed.
Originally Posted By poohbear14 Wow! I hope a lot of those people have rooms in the nearby hotels. The fog started rolling in this afternoon and could get worse later in the night. Drive safely everyone!
Originally Posted By DJ7K Kewl, thanks for the info Rebekah GLTV and Dave. I'm also curious to know, I haven't really followed or paid close attention to this particular detail for the parks hours, but is this the 1st time Disneyland has been open til 2am for NYE? And has DCA been closing at 1am for NYE since 2001?
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Hello everyone, This picture was taken at about 3:30, so I'm not sure what time the park actually sold out. As I approached the parking attendant, I asked them if I would still be able to get into DL, and she told me that because I had a premium pass, I was ok. All other passes were not being accepted at that time. Also, for the first time that I could remember, I needed to get a handstamp in order to jump between parks and take a break from the crowds at DTD. Usually PAP holders don't need a handstamp. Thank goodness Murfsmom heard about this, or I would have been really upset that I couldn't re-enter the parks. The fog was so bad that although they did do fireworks, all you could see were little blips of color and you could hear little popping sounds. Pretty boring. As for DL's NYE hours, I can remember before DCA was built DL was opened until 5am. Then they scaled back to 3am. After DCA's birth, I think DL has been opened until 2am on NYE.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains 999 - the last 2 years I too had to get my hand stamped with my PAP. Not sure why since the computer tells them you are a reentry.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x They were making us get handstamps first thing in the morning. I got one at 10am when we went to DCA, and they were actually stamping as you went INTO DCA.
Originally Posted By DJ7K Near Christmas time of 2007 I went when I had my SCAP (SoCal AP), but it was blocked out so I got a blocked out admission/park-hopper pass and as I was heading towards the exit early in the day at DL, the lady CM offered me a handstamp or asked if I was coming back in. I told her I had a park-hopper (I don't know why I thought that would make a difference at the time, probably because it was from my AP in a way, but still silly). She told me I still needed my hand stamped. So I thought, huh, ok if she says so no problem, stamp away. Good thing she advised me! Now when I went in June last year with my Dad when my pass was good, I was able to go in and out of both parks by just showing them my AP, they scan it and that was it, they never mentioned a need for handstamping, so that's interesting. And I wasn't even a PAP, I was a SCAP! Weird! Is this usually just for NYE and other "packed" or "sold out" days? >> I can remember before DCA was built DL was opened until 5am << Heheh, not counting Grad Nite!
Originally Posted By murfsmom we met up with haunts around 6pm, and the place was a ZOO!!!!! we waited in line for the hats and noise makers, they were giving them out in the reindeer romp area, and the line was clear down to dumbo , i think. it went really fast but it was so packed and the noise was so loud we couldn't get out of DL fast enough !! my DH, haunts and i went to dt disney had a nice quiet dinner, then haunts and i headed to dca, a lot better there, when i got back to the dh hotel, we couldn't see anything, the fog was so bad, we had a park view(at least i think we did LOL) but we couldn't see a thing ,not even the sidewalk below. but they sounded great !!! we have been going to DL for years on new years and i don't remember it being that crowded in a long time !! but we'll continue to go, once a year is kind of fun to be out in a big crowd, i mean it's new years, you have to expect a big crowd !!!
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x murfsmom, I was IN that line for hats and horns!! Alex and I had gone to get hot chocolate and cookies, then got in line. We were right at the border for Fantasyland/Frontierland. When people would ask what we were in line for, we would say "hats and horns" but then we started to get silly (the people around us, too). First we'd say "Pirates" then we said "Haunted Mansion" then we said "Splash Mountain" LOL
