I think it opens before the park, but it's not like at WDW. I think it only opens 20 or 40 minutes ahead, and you don't get the opportunity for photos like you do at WDW.
Hmm, but could you have made your reservation 15 minutes later or something so that you DID have time for those pictures? Or would they not have let you in at that time?We were let in with the Magic Morning visitors, so it wasn't really empty. We were let in pretty much at 7 and by the time we walked down Main Street, we didn't have a lot of extra time.