Walt Disney World will close the virtual queues for two of its most popular rides next week.
Starting Tuesday, February 25, EPCOT's Guardians of Galaxy's Cosmic Rewind and Magic Kingdom's Tiana's Bayou Adventure will be available via free standby queues in addition to their paid Lightning Lanes.
That means no more logging into the official Disney World app at 7am to try to claim space in a virtual queue. Instead, fans can rope drop these parks to try to get a walk-on experience for the attractions. And even better - with the virtual queue and its rules out of the way - same-day re-rides will be available for these attractions, for people willing to wait in the standby queues for another go.
Guardians and Tiana's were the only two attractions at Walt Disney World still using a virtual queue system. Disney often deploys virtual queues for major new attractions, in order to prevent the build-up of large physical lines of guests that spill out into surrounding areas of the park. With a virtual queue, only a select number of guests are called at a time to wait on site to board the ride.
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Hopefully, all the kinks have been worked out as both of these rides still seem to have quite a bit of down time. When that occurs the stand by line becomes a stand still line as you watch all the missed Lightning Lane customers load.
It's ridiculous that Disney utilized the GotG:CR VQ for nearly 3 full years. If a ride cannot meet anticipated demand after the initial surge of interest, then WDI needs to question why they cannot design attractions with greater capacity or build additional attractions to take the pressure off the headliners.
I can see the use of a VQ over the first 4-6 months of operation (or slightly longer based on the timing of the attraction's debut and peak attendance seasons), but it really feels like Disney was utilizing the VQ system to generate revenue from LL instead of using it as a crowd control system.
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Finally. Just in time to set a precedent that Epic Universe is NOT in a position to introduce or defend as industry wide best practices. I want to stand in line. It weeds out the weak. I might be able to get all of the Guardians songs in one day. There is no world where i would have only been on Guardians once in my life.