I went to the Moonlight Magic on 6/16, the character meet & greets were the same as the first Moonlight Magic at Hollywood Studios. A review of the event with details of the snacks, meet & greets, etc here:
https://dvcfan.com/2022/05/31/disneys-hollywood-studios-2022-dvc-moonlight-magic-review/
I'll caveat my comments by saying it is a "free" event, so please take any of my complaints or negatives with a grain of salt - at the end of the day this is an event that DVD doesn't have to do and is a thank-you to DVC Members. Overall I enjoyed the event and I would definitely attend another one.
Positives:
1. Some good character Meet & Greets and Photopass opportunities; My longest wait (over 30 minutes) was to see Chewbacca and R2-D2 but seeing a real rolling around R2 was awesome. Got a photopass picture with lightsabers with hardly any wait (normally you wait awhile for these). The Goofy dance party was pretty cool, they had Goofy and Max doing their dance from the the Goofy movie too. Goofy/Max are on stage, so you can't go up close to them - but Darkwing Duck and Launchpad were in the "audience" for pictures. We also got pictures with Woody and Jessie and then Buzz, both had much shorter waits than Chewie / R2.
2. Ride waits were pretty short, but I didn't ride RoTR so don't know the wait time for that one. Smuggler's Run had a 15-20 minute wait at the beginning of the night, Slinky was down for an hour or so - but even with that we didn't wait very long. Posted 40 minute wait, but I think it was more like 15-20 mins. MMRR was a walk on at midnight.
3. We arrived at around 7:30pm (entry started at 7pm) and getting in was not too bad of a wait, less than 5 minutes and things seemed very organized. I feel like there may have been some adjustment at the first few Moonlight Magic events, but things went really smoothly for us.
4. Acquiring popcorn buckets was really organized and easy - Pizza Rizzo was setup to distribute buckets and there were plenty of people working and plenty of buckets and boxes of popcorn. There was no wait for me when I got there. Huge kudos as this was a big issue at the first Epcot event.
5. DVC CMs seemed super happy to be there and I love it.
Negatives:
1. I prefer the free Quick Service Meal over the Snack vouchers, long waits for snacks everywhere I went - ended up waiting in a ~20 minute line at the end of the night and used all of the snack vouchers for 6 Jack-Jack Num-Num Cookies lol. With the QS meal, the lines were long, but once you got your food that was it. I only was able to attend 1 MM before the pandemic, but you showed up - ate and by then the event started. At HS the lines for every snack cart just felt long and people were spreading out the vouchers to multiple locations. This is probably my biggest nitpick about MM, but it is a nitpick.
2. They were out of the free Mickey Bars when I went to get one around 10:30pm.
3. Slinky was down for an hour (Can't really control this though).
4. Some character meet & greets were still distanced - while others weren't. I don't understand why this is? Darth Vader and Rescue Rangers were distanced.
5. Wait times aren't posted in the app so you have to look at the boards or at the actual ride. Wait times seemed to be really inflated (to try to dissuade you from riding?) Toy Story Mania had a 35 minute posted wait time but it was a walk on. If you have
DAS, the inflated wait times were annoying, they were doing paper ticket DAS, but sticking strictly to the posted wait time (not even a 5 minute early courtesy). Better to just use the standby line than to try to use DAS.
Overall - it was a great event. I am so happy Moonlight Magic is back!
