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Belle1217
03-06-2011, 05:02 PM
OK so I have a silly question. Is there a fantasmic show every night? On other trips to Disney I thought I remembered it playing every night sometimes twice a night. I was just looking at times and saw that it was playing one night then skipped some nights. Is this something new I have not been to Disney in 2 years so not sure if it's new or I am going crazy!! :confused:
DisneyMom12
03-06-2011, 05:31 PM
You are not crazy, it's only select nights now. I would do the dinner package to make sure you get to see it.
Altair
03-06-2011, 05:32 PM
Not anymore, it's down to two or three nights per week. Sometimes they will add a second show on nights the park is extra crowded. It's a new cost cutting thing.:(
Darbylew
03-06-2011, 05:59 PM
No the show is not every night now. They just
have it one or two times a week. It is only one
night while we are there for a week this month.
Of course we will be going to it as we did not
see it on our last trip down. :thumbsup:
Fastpasssteve
03-07-2011, 02:16 AM
If you're there for a week, you have a couple opportunities to see it. Check on the calendar for each park on the main Disney site, and you'll see when they are. We plan meals and park plans on seeing it while we're there.
Enjoy your trip.
Brian McFan
03-07-2011, 09:01 AM
We just came back and went the "dinner package" route. Right now, the shows are on Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 PM and 9:00 PM. If you don't do the dinner packagae, and want to see the 7:30 PM show, be prepared to stand in line for about 2 hrs. which is flat-out insane. The begin lining up by the Beauty and the Beast Theatre around 5:00 PM. By 6:30, it was standing room only, and that line was insane. By doing the dinner package, you enter in a separate entrance around 6:45 to 7:00 PM, and have a whole section to yourself (which is to the far right, but you can see everything). It's definitely the way to enjoy this show. Not sure how the 9:00 PM show goes, but when we were exiting, there was already a line for that one.
1mickey1minnie
03-09-2011, 02:53 PM
We just got home from WDW and saw Fantasmic for the first time. It was excellent!
What we did was watch the 5:45 Beauty and the Beast stage show then immediately headed to line up for Fantasmic. They had already opened the doors and the first 2 sections to the left were full, but we got dead center seats for the show by getting there just an hour and a half before it started.
Yes Fantasmic no longer plays every night as part of Disney's Cutbacks. Fantasmic is extremely expensive to put on every night so they cutback performances in order to increase their bottom line while continuing to raise prices :mad:
However if I do plan on seeing it during my trip I always book the dinner package. I figure I have to eat and can spend my time doing other things instead of waiting for Fantasmic for 2 hours
magicman
03-09-2011, 04:49 PM
Yes Fantasmic no longer plays every night as part of Disney's Cutbacks. Fantasmic is extremely expensive to put on every night so they cutback performances in order to increase their bottom line while continuing to raise prices :mad:
However if I do plan on seeing it during my trip I always book the dinner package. I figure I have to eat and can spend my time doing other things instead of waiting for Fantasmic for 2 hours
What is so expensive about it? There's fireworks & crew. I can't imagine the fireworks & effects being more than $1,000 so let's focus on crew.
100 Cast Members x $14 per hr x 6 hours = $8,400
That seems like peanuts in the world of multi billion dollar revenue.
Am I missing something?
KylesMom
03-11-2011, 11:40 AM
Interestingly, this thread Fantasmic (http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=171752&highlight=Fantasmic+Show+Cost) from last year speculates that a singular show could cost in the ballpark of $35k. Personally with all of the staff, pyrotechnic experts, stunt people, fireworks, etcetera, I can absolutely see that - if not more.
I would agree with one of the posts in this thread that Disney must be realizing some serious savings to have left the limited schedule in place for this long. Am I correct in remembering this started in late '08 or early '09? I remember it was close to the opening date of American Idol. :(
Disney-4-Me
03-11-2011, 06:07 PM
I can't see waiting for more than 45 minutes or so. Maybe I'm not that picky, but I thought all of the seats were good. We traveled with 2 little boys in October so we didn't want to wait more than we had to. We ended up sitting at a far end section, but we could still see everything just fine.
The number of $30,000 - $35,000 a show is the same information I have heard in the past. Not only from Intercot but from other sources closer to the park. Disney is saving a substantial amount money over the year by cutting back on performances they do the same thing at the Magic Kingdom during slower seasons with Wishes and the nighttime parade.
In the summer months there have more shows but doing the dinner package gets you in. Last year november on a ten day trip i think it was on three of the nights we were there.
The cut backs makes it way to crowded so we skipped it this year. Wish they would leave the shows the customers love alone and keep the cost cutting to things we wouldn't miss like the speedway in MK i can do that at a carnival.
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