OK. Here's how we did 12/23. I think we are definitely still "friends of the monster."
It was an Epcot/HS day.
7am:
I bought ROTR for 6:20pm
Son got boarding group 1 for Remy
We tried for a later time for MMRR, but it wasn't moving out very fast, so I decided to snag Test Track since it looked like MMRR would last until the next pick time. Refreshed to find an earlier time of 12:30 for TT. (Not real great since we had lunch ressies at 12:50 at Teppan Edo, but we figured we'd tap in 5 min early & be a bit late to lunch.)
-Entered park at 9:30 via international gateway and walked onto Remy.
-Decided to jump in line at Les Halles for a baguette and pastry after experiencing Remy
Ate outside before the park got really crowded in France, which it usually is.
-At 10:20 we decided to ditch the TT G+ and get MFSR before it ran out. Got 8:25-9pm return time. **But that reset my eligibility to book until 12:25 instead of 11:30, which would be 2 hours after park open**
-We instead rode TT via single rider (Posted wait 80 minutes) We entered the gift shop and each designed a car to scan on our magic bands and walked on with zero line in single rider. My dd and I were still in same car (different rows) and dh and ds were also in same car.
-Did some shopping and visited Club Cool to sample the drinks. Beverly is as delightful as ever
-At 12:25 pulled next LL for MMRR at 8:25-9:00, which overlapped with smugglers run, but I didn't want to risk it running out to refresh. It would be tight for doing both before 9pm.
-Lunch at Teppan Edo
-Ice cream in France and at 2:25 pulled LL for TSMM from 7:55-8:55.
-Back to resort for a break
-At 4:25 refreshed and pulled LL for ToT at 7:35-8:35
-5:15 headed to DHS via Skyliner
-5:35 ate mobile order from Docking Bay 7
-6:20 tapped into ROTR and checked for any last LL picks at 6:25. Star Tours was available for 6:50-7:50, so I grabbed it.
-ROTR broke down. We waited for half hour before a cast member came and told us they would issue a return later G+. I asked if we could come back a different day. CM said sure, as long as I had a reservation for the park on that day, but I'd have to visit guest relations to get it switched.
-We rode Star Tours and I headed to guest relations. Our itinerary was *super tight* so I told family to go ride TOT w/o me.
-Guest relations seemed miffed at the CM who said I could switch to another day, but did honor it reluctantly, so our ILL for that is valid for another park day. (I would not recommend requesting to do that. Had I known it would be an issue, I would not have wasted timaboutce it took about 30 minutes in line at Guest Relations.)
Once I met up with family again at 8pm we frantically did all rides in succession:
-TSMM, MMRR, then MFSR. We were off MFSR by 8:50.
If ROTR had not gone down it would have been a sweet little stack.
We had a 9:20 ressie for Oga's and it was nice to see Galaxy's Edge cleared out. Highly recommend post close reservations for there!
-got on the Skyliner to return to Riviera just as Epcot fireworks were starting, so got to see the show from the skyliner! Totally magical!
It was a crazy fun evening despite the ride break-down and trying to juggle so many overlapping LL. We managed because we are all adults/teens. Anyone with little kids or mobility challenges would probably not have been able to do it all in time.
We are still friends of the monster, but the monster definitely makes you work harder for your keep. There's no way we could have done so much without G+ and the smarts from this board.