Originally Posted By gardenrooms I need your help! We are taking a short trip to DL and will be there only the night of 8/28, then we will be returning 12/11 for several days (DS's wedding - yay!) We really want to see WOC in August, but we also want to see the fireworks. We figure WOC will stay around like Fantasmic!, but isn't the fireworks show just for the summer? Will they be doing WOC and fireworks in December, weather permitting, of courrse? Will it be just weekends in December (since we won't be there at winter break)? We're only going to be there 1 weekend and that will be a little busy with the rehearsal dinner and the wedding - oh, sorry folks, gotta leave for WOC - lol. It's been so long since I've gotten to go to DL off-season I have no idea how things work. Come to think of it, will Fantasmic! be going on in December, too? Weekends only? I know Disney won't put its schedule out and everything can change, but I'm just looking for what they have usually done and we will have to make our decisions on that basis. Thanks. If the fireworks end with the summer, are they worth it to delay our seeing WOC? (I'd pass up the fireworks, but DH and soon to be DD both love 'em.)
Originally Posted By Ursula Why not do both in the same night on 8/28? 9:25 Fireworks show and then the 11 pm WOC? (If you can get FP for the 11 pm show, that is.)
Originally Posted By Dellar411 So will they still have the late (11pm) show in Sept? I know the parks close early.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Well, I'd assumed we'd have to stand in line a long time to get fastpasses for the show (and hope we got them for the late show) which was why we were thinking of doing the dinner seating so we could maximize our park time.
Originally Posted By LuLu If it were me, I'd do the WoC dining package and not worry about fireworks or F! But that's my opinion - WoC is a whole new experience. I think everything runs every day in December. I don't know what Disney's plans are for the 3rd show of WoC. 8/28 is kinda "post-summer." Deluxe APs unblock that day. So, there may or may not be a third show... I'd hold your res for now til there's a better feel for that.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms Thanks, LuLu. Oh, I hope you're right about the every day thing. Yeah, I got my son and his fiancee the AP's as they've gone down a couple of times for wedding planning, and we're all going that weekend because of the unblocking - I suppose a lot of other people will, too, though hopefully not too many since it's so late in the summer.
Originally Posted By Moderation I am a fireworks fanatic,but even I have to say that you can't miss WOC. Bring a poncho and stand in front.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms lol, think we probably will do WOC, though thanks to LuLu's great help on another thread of mine, looks like there will likely be NO fireworks, Fantasmic! or parade during our December stay until maybe the last day - apparently last year none of these started until 12/14 (so sad - the room where we are having the rehearsal dinner would have a great view of the fireworks - but there probably won't be any regardless of the weather).
Originally Posted By LuLu I think you misread that web page. I see A Christmas Fantasy parade and Believe...In Holiday Magic Fireworks every day of December. Fantasmic! ran every Fri, Sat Sun, then every single day starting the 17th.
Originally Posted By gardenrooms I hope you're right - I figured since they didn't show any times for the parade or the fireworks till 12/16 (my 12/14 was a typo), they just had the names of the Christmas shows in place of the names of the regular shows, they weren't showing till 12/16. I misspoke about Fantasmic! (our "vacation" doesn't start till Monday, so the only thing we could see on the weekend would be the fireworks from outside the park). Thanks again.
Originally Posted By LuLu Well, I'm pretty sure once the Christmas parade and fireworks start, it's every day. I think they even have the fireworks early on CM party nights, when DL closes early (won't affect you, that's during the 1st week of Dec).
Originally Posted By LuLu Oh, and I should add, they start in mid-November. So I think you'll see them!
