Walt Disney World has shared new particulars concerning the digital queues for each TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. This submit covers specifics, plus what it’s essential know if you wish to try to attain BOTH boarding teams in a single day.
Disney beforehand introduced that TRON Lightcycle Run will use a digital queue when it opens in Tomorrowland at Magic Kingdom on April 4, 2023. Guests might want to use the My Disney Experience app to enter the digital queue for this attraction, as a standby line will NOT be accessible.
If you’ve visited Walt Disney World in the previous few years, you’re in all probability accustomed to how this all works. Virtual queues are actually nothing new at this level, with TRON Lightcycle Run being the fourth new attraction at Walt Disney World to make use of one. Prior to this, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance used one from December 2019 till September 2021. After that, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure used one from its opening till early final 12 months. Just a few months later, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind debuted with its personal digital queue.
To that final level, Walt Disney World has confirmed that the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind digital queue will proceed for use even as soon as TRON Lightcycle Run opens. This comes as an absolute shock to us, marking the primary time that Walt Disney World has concurrently used digital queues for 2 totally different points of interest. As you may see from the timeline above, prior digital queues have been retired shortly earlier than the opening of the subsequent new rides.
Honestly, we’ve been anticipating the Cosmic Rewind digital queue to be retired for some time. We first wrote concerning the declining demand for it final July, and predicted it could be retired by the beginning of the August low season. When that ended up being improper, we moved that prediction to mid-January…then shortly earlier than TRON Lightcycle Run’s opening.
The causes for these digital queues have diversified, and implementation has not been throughout the board for all new issues at Walt Disney World. Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, for instance, didn’t use one upon opening. This was regardless of hitting triple digit wait instances with regularity after it debuted (though that was minimize quick with the closure of the parks solely a pair weeks later).
In a nutshell, there have been two the reason why new points of interest use digital queues at each Walt Disney World and Disneyland: reliability and area. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance was (and nonetheless is, albeit to far lesser diploma) unreliability and plagued with every day downtime. It usually closed for over an hour at a time, and the digital queue meant ‘pulsing’ demand and fewer queue-clearing.
Reliability has additionally been a problem with different new rides, however nothing actually exterior the norm. Rather, the explanation each different attraction since has used the digital queue is because of a scarcity of area. Either in accessing the attraction (the Rat Ride and TRON have been each shoehorned into areas and have tight entry corridors) or inadequate indoor standby queue size (Cosmic Rewind). In the case of Cosmic Rewind, there truly is lots of area alongside the facet of the constructing for an overflow queue.
As famous above, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is the one attraction utilizing a digital queue at Walt Disney World, and it’s additionally the newest addition. Our recently-updated How to Ride Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT explains the best way to be a part of that, demand and typical availability, velocity technique, and extra.
With that in thoughts, for newcomers to the digital queue ‘scene,’ listed here are the newly-released particulars from Walt Disney World concerning the digital queue for TRON Lightcycle Run…
Guests will need to have legitimate admission and a theme park reservation to hitch the digital queue. There will likely be 2 every day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for TRON Lightcycle Run:
- 7:00 AM (Guests don’t must be within the park after they be a part of, however will need to have a theme park reservation for Magic Kingdom)
- 1:00 PM (Guests should be in Magic Kingdom park to hitch the digital queue)
Now let’s flip to the official specifics from Walt Disney World to ‘prepare’ for the TRON Lightcycle Run digital queue…
Before Your Visit – Make positive you’ve got the My Disney Experience app, with notifications enabled so that you obtain essential updates concerning the digital queue—together with callback particulars and every day distribution instances.
Get Ready to Join the Virtual Queue! – On the day of your go to, you will have the chance to hitch the digital queue at every day distribution instances, that are topic to alter or cancellation as availability permits. Distribution schedules will likely be accessible within the My Disney Experience app. Follow these steps to hitch the digital queue:
- Step 1 – Check Availability: Log in to the My Disney Experience app at one of many distribution instances. Select “Virtual Queues” on the house display to view the present standing and subsequent steps for becoming a member of a digital queue. The app will point out when there is no such thing as a availability for a selected distribution time, or if a backup group is out there.
- Step 2 – Enroll Your Group: As lengthy as your Disney account is linked to your group’s park tickets, and everybody has legitimate admission and park reservations for the park you’ll go to, you may enroll everybody within the digital queue on the identical time (topic to availability).
- Step 3 – Enjoy the Experience: If your boarding group is known as to return, you’ll obtain a notification through the My Disney Experience app. Then, head over to the doorway of the expertise inside your designated return window.
If you’ve ever used the digital queue for the trio of Walt Disney World headliners that beforehand or at the moment use the system, you’re undoubtedly accustomed to this course of–and to a larger diploma than what Disney describes.
And in actual fact, Walt Disney World’s official insurance policies virtually actually aren’t 100% right. Although not but confirmed for TRON Lightcycle Run, it has by no means been the precise coverage that it’s essential be within the park for the 1 pm entry time. Everyone in your social gathering does have to faucet into Magic Kingdom in some unspecified time in the future earlier than 1 pm with a purpose to “unlock” entry to the digital queue at 1 pm. Meaning you may arrive for park opening, stroll over to Steakhouse 71 on the Contemporary for lunch, and check out at 1 pm out of your desk.
In the previous, not one of the digital queues have been geofenced or based mostly upon proximity—this performance has unlocked within the My Disney Experience app for every visitor after they’ve bodily tapped into the park’s faucet/turnstiles. You can go away after tapping in and nonetheless be a part of in the course of the afternoon entry time out of your lodge room or wherever–you may actually be inside Magic Kingdom or Manitoba, it wouldn’t matter.
The digital queue system solely validates whether or not you’ve tapped into Magic Kingdom, not your present location. It can truly be advantageous to depart Magic Kingdom noon, as that’s when crowds and wait instances are worst. If you’re like us, you additionally might desire to do lunch at a Magic Kingdom space resort fairly at Walt Disney World’s worst meals park.
Again, none of this has been confirmed but for TRON Lightcycle Run–however Walt Disney World has used this identical (inaccurate) verbiage for all previous digital queues. There’s completely no purpose to consider it should change, however we’ll affirm in some way in April. (Our guess is that Disney doesn’t make this distinction as a result of digital queues are already complicated; most park visitors in all probability received’t grasp the nuance, and as a substitute will simply be confused. But it’s good information for energy customers or followers of noon breaks!)
The remaining official coverage is that every visitor can request to enter the TRON Lightcycle Run digital queue not more than as soon as per day throughout common park hours. This final rule is technically right, however strikes us as purposefully imprecise in mild of two further quirks…
To that final level, a further alternative to request to hitch the digital queue for TRON Lightcycle Run will likely be accessible at 6:00 pm on choose dates throughout Extended Evening Hours at Magic Kingdom. For these unfamiliar with it, it is a profit for registered visitors staying at a Deluxe Resort, Deluxe Villa Resort, or different choose resorts. Guests with this profit don’t must be in Magic Kingdom to request to hitch at the moment.
These Guests will want legitimate admission and a theme park reservation for a similar park on the identical day to expertise Extended Evening Hours—or they might expertise Extended Evening Hours if they’ve a ticket or Annual Pass with the Park Hopper choice and first enter the park for which they made their reservation.
Also to that final level, it needs to be (theoretically) attainable to hitch each the digital queue for TRON Lightcycle Run and the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind digital queue in the identical day. Taken a step additional, you may do them each throughout regular working hours, plus a 3rd time throughout Extended Evening Hours at EPCOT or Magic Kingdom.
This has not been confirmed by Walt Disney World, and there’s no previous precedent for this in Florida as that is the primary time a number of digital queues have been in use on the identical time. However, it was attainable with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland and WEB Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure at Disney California Adventure when each of these used digital queues. The two coasts use equivalent infrastructure for digital queues, so it’s fairly secure to say the identical will likely be attainable with TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.
The purpose we are saying it’ll be theoretically attainable is as a result of all of it relies upon upon your velocity, demand, and and crowd ranges. We did this many instances at Disneyland, and lined ideas & methods for conducting the feat in How to Score Same-Day Star Wars & Spider-Man Boarding Groups.
While we haven’t but performed this at Walt Disney World, we’re fairly assured it’ll work there, too. There are a number of keys to success. The first is beginning at Magic Kingdom. TRON Lightcycle Run is the newer of the 2 points of interest, and can undoubtedly have increased demand upon opening. As such, you virtually actually might want to do it first.
Not solely will it’s essential do the TRON Lightcycle Run digital queue, however you’ll have to do it quick. You’ll want to attain a low boarding group and have a return time within the the primary half of the day.
From there, you’ll in all probability have to arrive at EPCOT as near 2 pm as attainable. The second digital queue begins at 1 pm, that means that there’s a full hour throughout which it might replenish earlier than Park Hopping begins. And it usually does. (This is exactly why we advocate beginning at Magic Kingdom. For at the very least the primary month that TRON Lightcycle Run is open, it’s virtually actually going to replenish proper at 1 pm, leaving nothing for the Park Hopping posse.)
However, the 1 pm digital queue for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind usually does not replenish proper at 1 pm, and even earlier than 2 pm. Going again to final July–slightly after a month after Cosmic Rewind debuted–it has had availability after 2 pm about half the time. In reality, we’ve been in a position to rating boarding teams as late as 6 pm.
This is dictated completely by demand. In different phrases, the upper the group degree, the quicker the 1 pm digital queue for Cosmic Rewind fills up. The decrease the group degree, the longer it lasts. If you’ve learn our Spring Break 2023 Crowd Calendar for Walt Disney World, you recognize that crowds are going to be various levels of dangerous till April 17, 2023. So don’t count on any of this to work till after that date.
Ultimately, we count on success at digital queue double-dipping to be attainable at Walt Disney World most days from late April by means of early June 2023. Before that, it’ll be theoretically attainable, however in all probability not truly achievable resulting from spring break crowd ranges. After that, summer time vacationer season might as soon as once more stop it from occurring. (Then once more, possibly not…it could’ve been attainable final July!)
Of course, this assumes that Walt Disney World stands agency in its choice to maintain the digital queue for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind after the height of spring break season is within the rearview mirror. While we’ve been predicting the top of that digital queue for a very long time now–and been improper repeatedly–it’s obscure Disney’s considering on this one. The digital queue contributes to congestion, decreases the probability of Lightning Lane gross sales, and provides to visitor stress. Its continued use is at odds with the Iger regime’s acknowledged priorities. (Not solely that, however there’s adequate area for standby!) Regardless, we’ll maintain you posted on what occurs, so keep tuned.
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