We didn't have the best luck last night - certainly a combo of Disney not meeting expectations, crowds, and mistakes on our part in choosing the wrong things at the wrong times.
We didn't arrive until 7:45 due to food and transportation delays, but were able to take the bypass to get to Tomorrowland without much fuss. Rode Peoplemover and watched the rest of the fireworks there. Then rode
Buzz, which kept shutting down. Then we had a
really long wait for Space Mountain (40 minutes). Snack carts were out when we got out, but the first line was huge, so we skipped it. The next wasn't as bad, so we hit that one and waited less than 5 minutes. PP was down and 7D was slammed, so we ended up waiting 25 for Pooh (probably a poor choice on my part as the little kids were still raring to go on rides at that point (we have teens). Hustled over to Frontierland for the parade and got popcorn and drinks - we weren't ready for ice cream yet.
Hurried to follow the tail of the parade to HM and walked on, PP still closed and BTMR looked like a madhouse, so went to walk on Splash and Pirates and ended up blowing my plan to get a good spot for fireworks - they were already going when we got off, and it took a few minutes of hustling to get anywhere near the castle. The Hub was completely packed! We did enjoy the fireworks while we walked, but I wish I'd done a better job of getting us in position - we should have waited to ride Pirates, but we'd been on less rides than expected at that point and I just had to try to squeeze one in.
I think it was during that walk that we spotted the first of many closed down snack carts. We were relieved to find an open one on the way back to 7D (PP
still closed!) and ate in line - maybe 25 minutes? Wanted to grab water afterwards, but most of the carts seemed to be closed on the way to BTMM - we found one, but they were out of water. Walked on Thunder and Pirates (MIL wanted to ride again, the rest of us were pretty done).
So, it wasn't bad, it just wasn't as great as I hoped, and I don't really think it was worth the steep price. Couldn't help but notice that last night sold out last week and then came available again for a few days. Not sure if it sold out again, but it sure seems like they added capacity at the last minute.