Went last night again. Biggest unpleasant shock (if you have a Diamond Elite membership): free preferred parking now ends at 11am. If you want preferred after that, you have to pay a $15 upcharge. And nowhere is this policy change written down (in fact, the app still says you need a reservation, which they stopped doing months ago). The passholder portal says "first come, first served", but the gate and a supervisor told us they stop giving them out at 11am... despite the fact that at 4pm when we arrived, there was still plenty of parking available there.... so they sort of have to get their act together there.
As for the park, it seemed pretty crowded. The queue for Conjuring was full even before it opened at 7pm. Since it was crowded and we get in with our membership, we didn't try to do everything. Trick 'r Treat continues to be a walk on early in the evening. Aftermath had a TON of scareactors, and they were very aggressive... a big improvement! Army of Dead had one scareactors in the entire first half, a bit disappointing. It also opened late at about 7:40. Saw had about 1/2 queue full, and ST about 1/3 full, so we decided to skip and do them again another night. Vault 666 still fine. Skipped all the rest. Can I also say how irritating it is that they insist you walk the entire queue for Condamned even though there is basically nobody in line, and they never shorten the queue? They really need to address that operation.
In general park news, Revolution continues with 2 train ops (so it had no wait!), and WW is still running 3 trains, so it was a relatively short wait as well. Superman still down. But gotta admit, the overall vibe of the park is still good. Really like the detail that the Plaza de la Murte scarezone had the scareactors yelling in Spanish, which is a great and hilarious touch. A new large mural has appeared in the Oz scarezone. And they continue to put out new merch. The Full Throttle Bar now has multiple TV screens showing the menu when you go in, which was much needed.