We went out there this morning just to check out the Grand Opening madness--I had no plans of actually getting to hogsmeade today, we walked to the park from home and got there around 6:30 am (Normally we would drive, but I'm not that crazy), at that time they had already started letting people into the park.
Once in they started directing everyone toward the left, when we got there around 6:45 the back of the line was at Thunder Fall Terrace restaurant in Jurassic Park. IT was single file at that point, but right past river adventure it was a "Wall" of people. The wall went down through the rest of Jurassic Park, snaked around the back behind the discovery center, then across the bridge up through part of Lost Continent and over to the gates of Hogsmeade.
A friend of ours decided to just camp out in the screen in Port of Entry, so we decided to go back there instead. On the way back the line was starting to enter the outdoor part of the spiderman queue, shortly after that they opened up the path back side of popeye and fed people through there along the lake. We got back to Port of Entry and got near the big screen to watch the opening event, and around 8:45 the park reached capacity and they closed the front gate. The line made it to Point of Entry, through Marvel, including the Spiderman queue, through toon lagoon, including the back pathway behind popeye, through Jurassic park, around behind discovery center... then across the bridge, through parts of lost continent.
That was not all, once they started letting people in, the line built outside from the IOA Entrance in front of NBA City, Hard Rock Cafe, through the front part of the studios across the bridge past nascar, it literally went all the way back to the Theater at citywalk outside.
I have never seen anything even close to the amount of people here today.
They are pulsing people into IOA waiting in the big line outside the park. Because the line INSIDE the park is also crazy as well.
You do not want to be there today. The excitement was contagious though.
We left after the ceremony since we've done the park earlier. Good luck to those who remained.
Wow!
