I was in the single rider line for millennium falcon, and was with a super kind family of 5 who asked me whether I’d done pilot before (I hadn’t) and they let me fly as the pilot! I was so happy, thank you to that family for making my day

We recently were talking to a CM that used to work in undercover (plainclothes) security. Catching the people behind some of those pizza flyer scams was one of the assignments they worked on...Very interesting, all of it.

I convinced my wife on our last trip not to do park hopper. We did 9 park days, one park at a time. We found we rushed less, saw more and our enjoyment level was enhanced. We did three days in Epcot. On all three days we walked around world showcase three times to space out food (we were there during food and wine) and attractions. The only way it could have been better was if they still had all the activities at Journey to Imagination! We stopped wanting the dining plan because we kept over eating and we still would finish our trip getting a bunch of snacks to bring home. We didn't do it on the last trip and we felt we were better off for it.

OMG The pizza flyer thing. We had those at the AoA back in 2015. And the last time we stayed in Florida (off Disney property), we discovered a pizza flyer while we had been at Old Town for an hour, and we took it down to the front desk the next day. The hotelier told us he was glad we didn't fall for the scam and that the people delivering the flyers are looking to also break into rooms and have even pointed guns at him when he tried to get them to leave. These pizza flyer guys are some scary people. It's even more than just stealing credit card info.

I think the general rule for single rider lines is...if the rides seats are in rows of three you are going to get in much quicker as statistically groups are in even numbers of 2 or 4. However (such as Aerosmith) where rides are 2 seat rows, it is going to take much longer!

The worse used to be those idiots that would sit in the parks with their binders full of pins and they'll try to get you to buy a more valuable pin and trade you a cheaper pin.

Thank you! I'm headed to DW for my first time since I was 15 and I planned everything alone. Your content has been really helpful through the process! 30 days to go. 🎉

If you are military, buy the military discount tickets through Shades of Green. Best ticket prices and no tax

Funnily enough, I actually watched this video just after rewatching Last Week Tonight's video on timeshares. It's surprising how parasitic and underhanded those can really be.

I would love love love a full long long Ultimate Video of Disney Dining Plan: Snacks, Quick Service and Sit Down, and those Signature Dining with two credits to watch out for! I have been watching you guys since 2016! I love you guys.

One of those never expire tickets were those given out on 9/11. They had large quantities made in the event they should ever need to evacuate a park, and kept them locked up in a safe. It was pretty impressive how they were able to successfully evacuate everyone within 30 minutes. Of course, in an age of no smart phones, expensive mobile phone minutes, and long distance and roaming fees, I’m sure guests were pretty confused and angry as to why they all had to leave. There was no time to explain. They had no idea what truly was happening until they saw it in TV or heard about it on the radio.

I've been watching your videos for at least a few years now. It's somewhat specialized, but I would love a review of some of the more wheelchair accessible dining locations. It came to mind during this video because it mentioned getting "upstairs seating", which I'm guessing wouldn't be as accessible.

I went to Disney and Universal this August, and I have to say I have been to Disney back in 2000 it was better then not so magical for me this time. Absolutely Loved Universal if I go to central Florida again will just do Universal and other attractions in the area, but I think I won't be back to Disney World

Last time I used the single rider line at RRC it worked out great but it was also spring break. Super crowded, stand by line was at 100 minutes I think. I ended up waiting 30-45 minutes for single rider. Not super fast but definitely better. The single rider for Millennium Falcon, however, I would not recommend. It has always gotten me on the ride super quick but you miss all of the preshow and most of the super cool details that most people are there for. I don’t mind not getting a pilot seat personally - I’m not a gamer and I don’t want to mess up someone else’s ride through by crashing into everything.

When I was staying at Disney last, somebody hurriedly shoved the pizza flier under the door. At first, it scared me, then I saw the flier, and it was using some of the most ridiculous stock pizza images ever on it. I decided to look them up online, and it was a huge scam. The pizza place had gone through three different name changes in the past 2 years and the pictures of food were horrible. One person wrote a review and showed their spaghetti and meatballs they ordered. They had 1 pathetic meatball in their spaghetti without any sauce. The pizzas looked atrocious as well. After, they all complained that they were charged crazy high fees for their food. Never use these fliers, they're awful.

When I did Rocking Rollercoaster as a single rider, the wait time was 1 minute. By the time I made it to the front I was on. The standby line was like 45 minutes.

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DFB is AWESOME. Thanks AJ. We've always had good results with single rider lines, whether at WDW or DLR. Last time we did Smugglers Run (I think it was DLR), my adult son and I were in the single riders line and ended up together, both sitting in the front seats. The family of 4 we were with, had little kids who didn't want to do it and the parents wanted to stay close to the kids. Sometimes you just get lucky. Also we've always had great luck with single riders at the Matterhorn and Radiator Springs Racers. (Yes Disneyland Resort is our favorite to visit, plus the flight from Colorado is way shorter.) Finally, even though they are costly, we have to do park hoppers, for the simple reason that we almost always want to spend at least part of every day (usually after dark) at Magic Kingdom/Disneyland Park.

A big scam is paying for a perferred parking spot. So many days its maybe 100 yards closer. Not worth $20.00 extra.

We used the single rider line at smugglers run once knowing we wouldn't be the drivers. ( we didn't want to). No one else wanted to drive so we got stuck driving. We crashed that spaceship multiple times

Pin trading went downhill when social media kept saying get the cheap in bulk to start kids out trading. Another thing social media killed.

Mobile Ordered a whole pizza at Art of Animation, $21 dollars not too bad.

I used to stay on I-drive a lot when visiting Orlando and it was not uncommon to return to my hotel room and find a half dozen or more of those flyers under the door. I asked a desk clerk once about them and she said yeah they were a scam to get your credit card number and to just trash them. You can report them to the hotel front desk if one comes under your door while you are in the room but most likely they will be gone before the police get there.

My best research or resource is Disney Food Blog and All Ears Disney. I appreciate them both. Hoping to go the 1st weekend in October. Hopefully I get to see some of you guys and personally thank you.

Ugh yes to the park hopper part! Of course it's important to consider if it's worth the cost for your party. But, if you're skewing more towards yes, definitely get it before you start your trip. Did a 4 day trip last year but didn't get it until day 3 and ended up paying full price... total bummer.

Annual pass holder here. I’ve used single rider line at the Aerosmith coaster hundreds of times and never waited longer than 30 minutes

One of the worst scams is the limited virtual queue forcing you to buy a fast pass if you are not awake at 7am and lucky enough to get a place. Had to spend $40 dollars on 2x fast passes to ride Tron once! Thats after paying £630 for 2 week Disney passes per person! Total rip-off. Plus the Tron coaster is awful, if this happens to anyone else then I recommend just not riding it, total disappointment of a ride.

This brings to question how Disney prices their park tickets. I wonder if they factor in how long the park is open when setting the pricing. Seems a bit unfair, especially when there is no guarantee that crowd levels will be lower on days when hours are cut short.

The Fast Pass was a great idea. You don’t wait a long time for the ride.

One of the problems with pin trading is frequently the pins you have to select from are ones you can buy yourself. When Disney first started pintrading, some cast members would get unique pins that were not available for purchase. They were required to trade these. At that time you could find some really unique pins. We have a collection of pins that are movie posters from many of Disney’s animated movie made before the 80s. It was worth trading to get hoses pins. What I see now are just ordinary pins. Be aware that pin trading can be an expensive hobby. Don;t spend the money unless the pin is something you really like.

Jeez I haven't been to Disney in years and it seems it's all gotten so complicated and expensive almost not even worth it.

appreciate the video. Nothing in the world should be this complicated, shame.

i have never heard of disney tickets being sold on ebay...that is super sketchy ...

My goodness. There is so much to think of when you go to Disney

Pin trading.... If you are a Disney Movie Club member, then you have access to some of the least expensive pins available. With the added bonus of free shipping. And they tend not to be as common as those sold in park. With the advent of Disney+, I have not actually bought a movie on the DMC in years. But, I maintain my membership in order to restock my traders. I live in Florida and am an Annual Passholder. So I visit frequently. I also have an extensive pin collection. These pins trade one-for-one with any other pin. Regardless of value. So I almost always come out ahead. So much so that I've occasionally just given a pin to some kid who has shown an interest in my DMC traders. Cuz it's Disney. And seeing a kid's smile just makes the day better.

This lady my mom worked with told her she got an amazing deal for a package vacation from Canada to WDW. $250 per person including flight, 4 nights at boardwalk, 4 day passes including park hopper lol. This was before the internet so it wasn’t so easy to verify things. Anyways turns out she was stealing from the company my mom found out later and had to give a statement. Trip was awesome though lol.

I found the "all you can eat" are a scam unless you ncan stand and go to the buffet table yourself. Your wait3er only serves you twice then disappears until it is time to charge you.

The power of FOMO compels you!

I’m not even planning on going to Disney but I enjoy these videos.

Genie + works the best for us so far at Hollywood Studios! We got there at 10am yesterday and rode everything except ROR by 2:30pm, all with lightening lanes included with Genie+! It was awesome!!

Disney is the biggest scam at Disneyworld.

Thank you, DFB! Your videos are always super helpful for my upcoming trips 🙏🏼

I have an annual pass that I got for buying into DVC back in the early 2000s. It has no expiration date on it and has been in my wallet waiting for the right time to use it. Even though we have been many times it has not been that time yet. I actually got 2 and used 1.

2 yrs old he 51 now. I don't spend money where I think a scam.

The must buy for everyday of the trip is why I refuse to do the park hopper, unless you are only there for a day or two. If I'm there four days I would rather spend a full day in each park individually and do all it has to offer rather than hop from park to park every day and waste valuable time exiting one park, then getting between the parks, and entering a new park. I'd rather save the one to two hours by enjoying the park I'm in. That's just me. Others may very well enjoy hopping to break up their day. Also-- Disney is one of the few trips where it is much more convenient and safer to do everything through Disney or an accredited travel agent. I feel safer trusting Disney itself than buying tickets through EBay or something just to save a few bucks.

I’ve seen so many Oogie Boogie scam tickets on eBay

Who are the desperate fools trusting eBay for theme park tickets? That's a TERRIBLE idea.

Another Wording that for me that really made me sad, if you get the Disney Dining Plan, you are no longer eligible for any discounts. 😢

My zombie mickey popcorn bucket was completely worth it ! 😂😂

I wish I could be a kid again. I can't go back to when I didn't have that feeling of Disney being dystopian.

DFB guide is the best Disney blog , very clear info and good tips

I did test track single rider with my kid and we were in the same car and half the wait time.

Watch out for purse snatchers in the washroom, don't hang your purse on the washroom door

Smugglers run in cockpits really should be designated per party. The first time we rode we were paired up with another couple, and that couple really pressured us about how good we were at video games because they were in the back and we were pilots. So much so that my best friend didn’t want to be the pilot again when she had the option because she felt she was impacting other guests experiences. And it’s not like it doesn’t function when you don’t have two other people in the back of the room because later on on the trip we wrote it again with just our party because that was how the cast member chose to split it up. And I understand nobody wants to spend any longer in line and they have to but if you’re gonna spend that time in line, when did you wanna have the most fun experience and not be at the mercy of a five-year-old being the captain? And I say that, because my five year old literally didn’t get dedicated as the captain at one point. I don’t know maybe it’s just me.

I’m going to Disney in early November. This video was interesting.

There’s something else I noticed the light sabers at each Disney park. The thing is that a lot of people would like to buy those light sabers without going to the park and for good reason they don’t want to spend $2000 to buy one item that’s only worth $250. But because Disney makes these park exclusive that means the actual price for these light sabers goes up to $600-$700 for a $250 light saber. The other problem is ordering the light saber from a third-party and then having the third-party go to the park to find that somebody had already purchased the light saber that the person online paid $700 for.

Appreciate the honesty

My parents back in 2008 got suckered into the time share thing, not with disney, but with westgate... I think my dad finally went through an exit company to get out but :/ ugh, those are obviously also a scam. I remember 2 years ago when we were in vegas when i found out my dad transferred the time share from orlando to vegas, never been more flabbergasted at my dad more than the time my parents joined an MLM

I’ve gone into pin trading withdrawal….and have ventured over to eBay…I’ve been lucky I haven’t ended up with scrapper pins.

Another thing to note about smugglers run and rock n rollercoasters single rider lines. They both have even numbered rows (two people per row). The most common group size is 2 and 4 people. So filling up even numbered rows is much less common. Whereas if you take test track for example. Test track has 3 people per row. It's a lot easier to fill in a row with a single rider in that case. But like AJ said in the video, some of these rides may seem like the single rider line isn't worth it. It is, the standby lines are just SOOOO LONG it doesn't feel like it.

Not foolproof, but the best way to tell real from fake on Disney pins is to apply a magnet. Fake pins are usually magnetic, real ones usually aren't.

You can get very good discount if you miltary active or retired. Sometime almost half.

Yeah. My mom gifted me a week's worth of tickets with no expiration date. Luckily I was the first one to go use them because we went only 2 days. Now my remaining 3 tickets are a card with my name and the tickets expire in 2099.

I have no love for The Walt Disney Company, and I refuse to spend a dime on ANYTHING Disney since they fired my little company, and a number of others, in one fell swoop in the early 1990’s. “The Happiest Place On Earth”? Hardly. Ask an employee (when they’re not at work).

I made good use of park hopping one time on my very first visit. We only had three days, so we added it on our third day. We did Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. It was great!

Anyone else think of “The Florida Project” when you saw this title? “I don’t even know what Magicbands are.” 😂

LOL I thought you meant that the park itself was the scam. (That would be right but still...) Can't get spending thousands for bad food, mediocre accommodations, long lines and other "fun". We went to Epcot one month after opening and it was so different, so visionary I almost weep seeing how it has devolved. It upheld the scientist, engineer, thinker and artist, sought to entertain and educate. Now it's simply a promotion of Disney movies with lots of kiosks pushing junk and super-expensive snacks. And of course, the constant construction.

Ha! I was wondering why Disney Studios seemed like it wasnt so crazy compared to the other parks, the park closed early that day! It was pretty great we got to ride the rides we wanted to multiple times without much wait at all.

24:29 / 26:13 SCAMS in Disney World, Disney Land and all Disney in general. Truthfully you are being scammed mostly from the company it's self. The quality of their products and the actual experience you get at the parks is not an equal value.

i did the reguler line of smuggler run as a single to be a pilot a famly of three was riding with me but i was befor them, so there boy cried and threw a tantrum because he wanted to be pilot. i got a free ride seeing he was screeeming and running around the ride yelling he wasnted to be piolt

I once had a family give me 6 fast passes for space mountian when the kiosk still gave tickets lol. Was awesome. Thank you guys 🙏

I usually have luck with single rider line. The Rockin Roller Coaster was the only time I had an issue.

speaking of the pizza flyers, early 2000s we had one under our door at the resort, DAMN that food was awful. learned our lesson.

Why on earth is in-room dining STILL suspended?

I live in Florida, been to Disney countless times and never had an issue. Don't take the cheap route. And don't try to fit your trip into two days. A decent Disney trip is an investment. If you're gonna do it, have the funds, save your money and it'll be worth it!! Its simple, we book inside Disney when we go, we purchase our tickets through Disney, we book all our dinning and shows and all through Disney. It's more expensive, but worth every penny. And no, I don't work for Disney. I just like visiting there. The way we go is for at least 4 days so we can rest in between. One day to check in, second day one park, third day hang in hotel, and next day another park, and so on...taking the Disney buses are awesome! It's just a whole other experience altogether...

Somebody else has probably already noticed this, but that big fountain in front of the Epcot ball ( 13:48 ) looks like a huge Oreo cookie.

Great video! Thanks for these tips. I will use them for my trip.

My mom went to a timeshare spiel when we went to disney.. we had the time to care , seh got us our discounted tickets and she even got two of their "girls" to quit! hahahaha!

I think 🤔 the best thing to do with a limited Disney plush is to throw it into a bag with silica gel, wait 20 years and hope it will end up valuable

Guys, be careful. She said “Scouts honor” for Disney Genie, and from everything that I’ve experienced with a lot of Scouts, they are untrustworthy, moneyhungry, and vile. Be careful!

wow ...s cams in Disney World. Talk about leaving yourself open for litigation.

how is buying a pin for 1/4th the price a “scam” this reads more as a how to get up charged by disney rather then an actual guide to help consumers as it positions itself to be

Goin to disney next month and my buddy got a great deal at the dolphin hotel

Disney itself gives out scrappers, just know it happens

The Mickey heads on the back of the pins are starting to not go all the way to the edge for authentic pins too

This channel is SSOO paid for by Disney.

Isn’t the whole park a SCAM with 160 bucks plus for only one day entrance fees….

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Disney has words okay, the best words.. noone has words as good as them....

I visited Disney Paris in 2018 - I was suuuuper excited, I wanted to visit it for years. And I was really disappointed. No Mickey nor Miney (whatever) walking around, after EVERY ride a shop to buy merchandise.. and at the end of the park a big shop with all the merchandise combined. I don't know... the rides weren't that great (didn't except them though) and the overall design was average at best. Prices for food and beverage we're okayish. Buying a 0,5l Coke for nearly 4€ hurts, but it's doable. We stayed for two days and slept in a nearby hotel, cause the DL hotels are so expensive :/ Disneyland in the USA looks like a big deal though.

"i will trade my left kidney" little do they know I don't have a left kidney

When I went to the usa and disney (2017) I was very tired from all the walking and the same with all the group so I don't think I even got to the early close time. (It may of been an early close day or not.)

Do you have a Disney parks food guide for people with a gluten allergy? It is so stressful trying to find something safe to eat.

Best Disney World experience ever is definitely Universal Studios! The line ups are far less and I got more of an immersive experience. Disney feels more generic and the long wait times in the hot sun does not make for happy times. I managed to get on more rides at Universal Studios and overall my satisfaction was much higher. If you are really about the characters and fairy tale nostalgia, by all means go to Disney World, but if you are about fun and want to get your money’s worth head over to Universal Studios, you won’t be disappointed.

With all of the plans and programs changing 1/9 how busy do you think the parks will be the week before that? We just booked a condo for that week (non disney condo)...

Everything is so expensive there.

I have 2, 4-day passes from 1990 with 2 days left on them! I've even been to WDW a couple of times and didn't bring them. Why? I didn't want the hassle of trying to use them and I also like the feeling of nostalgia from having them. Does anyone else have older passes?

I don't mind scrappers! I only care if the pin is cute. But it is good to know I guess.i just spent 26 on 25 and kept 7 pins for my personal collection. That's a good deal even if they're knockoffs

Regarding Park Hopper, I understand that I can park hop after 2pm. Am I limited to my first park and then the second park only? Let's say I want to do Hollywood Studios and Epcot, can I jump back and forth between them after 2pm?

I like your hair however it looks like. Don't listen to the haters. Love ❤the content