Operating hours at Disney's Hollywood Studios extended for February

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Saturday January 25, 2020 8:16am ET · "Disney's Hollywood Studios"

More early mornings have been added to Disney's Hollywood Studios for February 2020.

The first three days of February open at 7am, with the remainder of the month opening at 8am (previously 9am). You can see the updated operating hours on our Walt Disney World calendar.

Disney moved to early openings at the Studios alongside the opening of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, which continues to use virtual queue boarding groups which reach capacity very quickly after park opening. To read the latest on boarding groups, head to our forums which have daily updates on the process.

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↩ replying to MiddKid
There is no fixed times they add FOs. Usually between 12 and 72 hours after the park hours are updated.

However some dates have had FPs added already, in fact some had already been added by the time you posted. Keep checking!
↩ replying to nickys
As best I can tell, they only released more times for TSM and RNRC for these days. Has anybody seen a slinky dog for the first hour of opening yet in February? I have one for later in the day that I've been hoping to move up. I saw the other fastpasses open up in the middle of the night, roughly 12 hours after the park hours changed. Since then there has been little or no movement.
↩ replying to pdude81
I’ve seen the same thing reported elsewhere too.
↩ replying to pdude81
Can confirm. I've been checking quite regularly hoping for SDD FP to open up in the new morning hour(s) and haven't seen it.
↩ replying to pdude81
We were looking to do the same thing for our February trip, and stayed up just about all night UK time (probably until just before the 12 hours you noticed) in order to try to move our Fastpass, but was unable to - when we then checked the next morning UK time (around the 12-13 hours later mark), it looked as though the SDD must have already gone, and just TSM and RNRC were available.

Makes it better that it now looks like I didn't just miss it, but annoying that we wasted the time for something that would not be released...
↩ replying to djlaosc
I think they’re releasing them in batches. I don’t think they released Fps for ToT either.
↩ replying to pdude81
It would kinda make sense not to release Fastpasses for SDD for the first hour of operation if their goal is still to distribute crowds. SDD will have a full Line within 10 minutes of park opening regardless or if they give it FP or not. On the contry, pulling more people away from SDD and to TSM, AS*S, ToT, or RnRC for the first hour might actually help that line.
↩ replying to Purduevian
I agree that it makes sense for crowd distribution. I just have never known them to not have FP for this at park open before. The reason I keep checking back is because I don't think they ever released 8am Star Tours, ToT, or ASS. Just seems disjointed and that they'd at least release them for the rides that don't get huge lines.
↩ replying to pdude81
Yeah, not saying they will do that. However it would make sense to me if they did. Imagine Magic kingdom not having FP+ for Seven Dwarfs, Space, Thunder, Pan, and Splash for the first hour of the day. Add extra fastpasses to rides with greater capacity, and lower morning waits such as Mermaid, Pirates, Small World, ect. In theory this would help spread the crowds more as people don't want to miss their fastpass reservation.
↩ replying to Purduevian
Am I remembering correctly that when the Frozen ride first opened it didn't have FP in the first hour? I wasn't there at the time, but I thought I read that somewhere. I think that would helpful for crowd flow and a nice benefit to rope droppers. There's really not a need for FP at most rides in the first hour anyway.
↩ replying to rowrbazzle
I don't think Frozen opened until WS opened in the beginning. (11am?) It's been a while though. Did they not have FP until noon?
Checked early this morning when I woke up and nothing yet, but after I drop my son off at school it seems like they were released and instantly gone. Only a little bit left in the afternoon that I could find
Hopefully some of you have better luck. Keep swiping and refreshing as availability is fluid while people move there fast passes around
↩ replying to pdude81
It opened at 9, but without fastpass until 11 or noon.
↩ replying to pdude81
I grabbed FP for SDD for Feb 3 & 4. But 5, 6, and 7 were gone.

Maybe they only released a few days?

And thanks for the heads up!!