D23 Wrap Up Review

Just have to say as a consistent expo guest through the years - for the average guest (non eBay flipper // non crazy exclusive focused - this expo was without a doubt a 110% win. No waking up early and queueing for hours (sitting on some awful concrete floor for hours and hours) before the event like in years past, (I’ll admit) that reservations for panels were fairly pointless - got two good resys and ended up stand by for both because we missed our check in 30-45 minutes before time and got in middle of the pack, standby, on each. Virtual queues worked for those that were half way familiar with any Disney VQs, and if you aren’t willing to invest and buy in to learning the system at this point, you got what you got. We attended for the full 3 days and got MOG, Walt Disney Company Store, and Marketplace without much effort - had to set an alarm for 3:58 and hit two buttons and all good - if you think that’s harder or more strenuous than the previous expos you are crazy. There were 12,000 every night at the Honda center - if you think you are just going to waltz in and get everything you want, you haven’t done enough research and you don’t realize you are at an exclusive event. I could go on and on, but at the end of the day this was a massive win for the AVERAGE (not trying to profit off the event) d23 Expo guest compared to years past.