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I almost hate to say this because it is so much work - but FOOD is a big question I get from people - a guide to picky eaters - I have had 2 -3 friends who want to go but have children that do not eat a lot of different things and they were really interested in where to eat that made sense. Also the whole disney dining plan thing - I know NOTHING about it but I get asked by people a lot of is it worth it...

@Craig Culp here's my promised update: The trip went amazingly well! We did everything we wanted to do, and were able to do our favourites multiple times (including Star Tours 5 times!). I found I was able to be much less rigid with scheduling because of the unofficial lightning lane 2-hour leeway. So we took our time at dining reservations. Even then, Tusker House, Sebastian's, and Rodeo Roundup only took about an hour. We spent almost 2 hours at Biergarten, much of that on the dance floor, and about an hour and a half at Space 220 Lounge. I highly recommend Biergarten and Space 220 for the ambience. The food was fine everywhere, but the only really great food we had was at Space 220. I was shocked by how much we were able to do by using good lightning lane strategies and optimized scheduling. I didn't even have to spend much time on my phone. I might go into more detail on this in a separate post.

Yeah the real trick is figuring out when they release new lightning lanes. I did it by inspecting the graphs on thrill-data.com. I then set alarms on my phone for when to book. It worked every time, and I only needed to spend a few seconds on my phone.

They all sound like great ideas. I don't know how this would work, but something that would be useful for people who aren't regulars would be which route to take to get to the key locations in the parks. Obviously I know you can look at the map, but sometimes translating that to what's actually in front of you isn't as easy as it sounds. I can recall a couple of times we were at the front of early entry, ready to head to Rise of the Resistance or Flight of Passage having not been to the parks for over 10 years suddenly panicking because I didn't actually know which direction to go in!

Tusker house is characters - so you may be there over 90 min to SEE all the characters - could you make it faster maybe - but in general we have never done less than an hour on any sit down place. Biergarten with no characters you are in control - so that might be the win for you!

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I've been able to shift my plans around to allow for 90 minutes at all my ADRs. The one exception is our reservation for Space 220 Lounge which allows for 75 minutes max if we decide we want to catch the 6:45pm On Broadway concert. Do the characters keep you captive though? Couldn't you just leave when you want? (I don't think it will matter to my kids if we don't see all the characters)

Thanks for finding that. Yes it does answer my question. I couldn't find anything this definitive when I searched.