I don't think anyone has given a 9:00 opening report yet, so here's our experience from Sunday, July 9 - 9:00 opening with no EMH:
I planned all along to get an uber, so I ordered one from the resort (SSR) at 7:40. As I was waiting on the uber, an AK bus pulled up but I waited on the uber since I already had him on the way and the bus would have still stopped at a few other internal bus stops on the way. I arrived right at 8:00 and got dropped off as close as you can get, which was nice. My daughter was already in the passholder line so I was a little closer than I would have been otherwise if she hadn't beat me there. All lines went back to at least the back of the ticket buildings by then.
Right at 8:20, they started scanning tickets and letting us in. We had great luck in our passholder line, definitely moving faster than the other lines. Our theory was that passholders would be more likely to know how to handle the ticket scanning process, and I think we were right. There were lots of big tour groups and those sometimes seemed to get hung up, along with families getting into a park for the first time and having trouble with fingerprints, etc.
Anyway, the group was walked all the way back to the bridge right past Tiffins. I believe they stopped the group right at the mid-point of the bridge. We were right at the start of the bridge. We watched as the area behind us got more and more full, finally filling up to where we couldn't see the end.
Right at 8:40, they started walking us all the way in. They directed anyone going to NRJ to the left and everyone else (at least 95% of the group) to the right toward FOP. It was extremely orderly - no running, no cutting in line unless someone stopped to take a picture, etc. Our group did stop at the FP entrance to start the clock on my daughter's disability pass (she was injured the day before we left and couldn't stand still for a long wait), and then got back in the standby line and walked on toward the ride. Activating the disability pass only took about 30 seconds but a good number of people passed us while we did that.
I didn't keep track of exact times for anything after that, other than looking when we exited and seeing that it was 9:07.
We then went to NRJ which posted a 30 minute wait, with touring plans saying that it would be 20 minutes. We rode standby, and the wait was at least 30 minutes, but probably no more than 35 max.
The kids then rode again with the disability pass and I grabbed some excellent oatmeal from the canteen. It was right at 10:00 that they entered the line for FOP the second time.
Bottom line for us: Even though you still have to wait a good while, it was worth it for us to get there at least an hour early for the regular opening. FOP is AMAZING and well worth doing, but I can't fathom waiting in any line for 2+ hours. It was so much easier for us to wait about 45 minutes, but have it staggered between waiting to get into the park, then at the bridge, and then just a little in line. If I were to go back again for a 9:00 opening, I'd do it exactly the same way, except possibly shoot for getting there at 7:50.
Y'all have fun! FOP is truly astronomical.
