The opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has drawn so many visitors since it opened that it substantially reduced wait times at all other Disneyland attractions.
Now may be the perfect time to visit Disneyland — as long as you have no interest in checking out the park’s Star Wars expansion.
Depending on the ride, Disneyland fans could have saved more than half an hour of wait time by visiting the park when most of the crowds were taking in the new Star Wars land. At Space Mountain, the average wait time in the first week of June 2018 was about 64 minutes but dropped to slightly under 45 minutes in the week after the Star Wars land opened.
The drop in wait times was a happy side effect to the overwhelming fan excitement over the opening of the $1-billion Star Wars expansion. The drop in wait times at Disneyland was expected, said Martin Lewison, a theme park expert and business management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York.
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