Due to the huge popularity of the Anna and Elsa Meet and Greet at the Magic Kingdom, Rope Drop is nothing like it used to be. Currently, hundreds of extra people are arriving at Rope Drop in hopes of securing a spot in the Frozen line. Cast Members are on hand to escort people slowly down Main Street in an organized fashion when the parkĀ opens.
Ropes for other lands have remained in place and guests can navigate to those ropes as they near the end of Main Street. The Welcome Show also continues to perform at approximately 12 minutes before scheduled opening time.
Since the huge influx of people are all destined for the same attraction, it has not negatively impacted the wait times throughout the park. It has, however, increased the stress level for those trying to make it down Main Street to other lands.
To give you an idea of how crowded it is, check out the video below.
Marissa says
Are they still closing the Standby line once filled & issuing return tickets or was that only a trial?
Jessica Berggren says
My five year old daughter and I did this “rope drop” in the beginning of June. We were the third family to arrive at WDW and were literally at the front of the rope. Unfortunately, although we were told to walk many, many times by the cast members, this did not happen. Even though my daughter wore her tennis shoes under her costume and we were at the front in the beginning, people really didn’t respect the fact that we had arrived way earlier than they had and between the adults with strollers and those that chose to push their way ahead, we managed to get into a forty-five minute wait line to see Anna and Elsa. Now, that doesn’t sound bad considering that same line was at five hours by the time the park had been open twenty minutes, but it really gets me angry when I know that we arrived almost two hours before the park opened and my five year old and I patiently waited and followed the park’s rules of walking in an orderly fashion. To me, we should have been third in line, but I guess it was a good example to my five year old that life isn’t necessarily fair, even at the Happiest Place on Earth.