EPCOT Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind Standby Line and Lightning Lane status

erstwo

erstwo

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gerarar said:
1pm drop lasted for 278.611 secs, or ~5 mins.
Monday 1pm Drop Average: 46m -> 46m (+0)

Up to BG 78 called at 1pm, 27 more than yesterday.

Note: This is the last ever afternoon 1pm drop for the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind VQ.
Starting tomorrow 2/25, the ride will switch to a standby line instead.
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One- thousand and two days!?!

Thanks for sticking with us, @gerarar !! Used these posts several times over the years to help with timing when headed to Epcot. Always so appreciative of your analytics!
 
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Purduevian

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gerarar said:
1pm drop lasted for 278.611 secs, or ~5 mins.
Monday 1pm Drop Average: 46m -> 46m (+0)

Up to BG 78 called at 1pm, 27 more than yesterday.

Note: This is the last ever afternoon 1pm drop for the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind VQ.
Starting tomorrow 2/25, the ride will switch to a standby line instead.
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We all thank you for your service! We will see you in the next VQ thread haha!
 
gerarar

gerarar

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6pm drop lasted for 14352.002 secs, or ~3 hours 59 mins.
Monday 6pm Drop Average: 19m -> 20m (+1m)

Up to BG 122 called at 6pm, 25 more than yesterday.

Note: This is the last ever afternoon 6pm drop for the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind VQ.
Starting next Monday on EEH nights, the ride will switch to a standby line instead.
 
gerarar

gerarar

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Final Day 1002 Stats (2/24):
7am: 60.9 secs
1pm: 278.6 secs, or ~5 mins
6pm: 14352.0 secs, or ~3 hours 59 mins

BG 155 (+28) is the last BG called during regular park hours at 8:30pm.

For EEH, resumed at 9:25pm with BG's 161-183 with BG 200 as the last BG called for the day at 10pm.

Notable stoppages:
2:05 - 2:25pm
2:45 - 3:05pm
4:24 - 4:45pm

Average pace: 5mins/BG, 3mins/BG during EEH

VQ Drop Mean/Average:
7am: 32.2s -> 32.4s (+0.2s)
1pm: 46m -> 46m (+0)
6pm: 19m -> 20m (+1m)

That does it for Day 1002 of GotG: CR!
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And what seemed like would never end and countless perfect opportunities to switch to standby and 1002 days later...that finally concludes the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Virtual Queue system and Boarding Group distribution!
It has been a real pleasure to keep track of the VQ progress for the last almost 3 years!!

The standby line will finally open tomorrow on February 25, 2025 for all guests, with the option of LLSP for an additional charge.
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Some extra fun statistics:

7am drop
  • Quickest: Jan 8, 2025 with 1.87 secs.
  • Longest: Oct 31, 2023 with 4 hrs 8 mins
  • Highest Average of 16m on Tuesdays
  • Lowest Average of 11.6s on Saturdays
1pm drop
  • Quickest: Feb 21, 2025 / Jan 5, 2025 with 1.56 secs
  • Longest: Nov 30, 2022 with 7 hrs 30 mins
  • Highest Average of 2hrs 44m on Wednesdays
  • Lowest Average of 46m on Saturdays & Mondays
6pm drop
  • Quickest: Sept 23, 2024 with 2.2 secs
  • Longest: Nov 15, 2023 with 3 hrs 59 mins
  • Highest Average of 3hrs 59m on Mondays (one data point)
  • Lowest Average of 20m on Mondays
Fun Facts:
  • There was no morning 7am and afternoon 1pm drops on Sept 28-29, 2022 due to Hurricane Ian park closures.
  • There were no morning 7am drops on Oct 10, 2024 and afternoon 1pm drops on Oct 9-10 due to Hurricane Milton park closures.
  • There were 1002 days with a morning 7am drop, 1001 days with an afternoon 1pm drop, and 146 days with a special 6pm drop.
Scatterplot of all the VQ drops for the last 1002 days. After about a year since the ride opened the afternoon 1pm drops were constantly staying open long. Something changed around the new year of 2024, either BG allocation, size, etc. From there the data is very sporadic but some trends still are persistent.
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TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

Well-Known Member
gerarar said:
Final Day 1002 Stats (2/24):
7am: 2.0 secs
1pm: 278.6 secs, or ~6 mins
6pm: 14352.0 secs, or ~3 hours 59 mins

BG 155 (+28) is the last BG called during regular park hours at 8:30pm.

For EEH, resumed at 9:25pm with BG's 161-183 with BG 200 as the last BG called for the day at 10pm.

Notable stoppages:
2:05 - 2:25pm
2:45 - 3:05pm
4:24 - 4:45pm

Average pace: 5mins/BG, 3mins/BG during EEH

VQ Drop Mean/Average:
7am: 32.2s -> 32.4s (+0.2s)
1pm: 46m -> 46m (+0)
6pm: 19m -> 20m (+1m)

That does it for Day 1002 of GotG: CR!
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And what seemed like would never end and countless perfect opportunities to switch the standby and 1002 days later...that finally concludes the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Virtual Queue system and Boarding Group distribution!
It has been a real pleasure to keep track of the VQ progress for the last almost 3 years!!

The standby line will finally open tomorrow on February 25, 2025 for all guests, with the option of LLSP for an additional charge.
View attachment 846115

Some extra fun statistics:

7am drop
  • Quickest: Jan 8, 2025 with 1.87 secs.
  • Longest: Oct 31, 2023 with 4 hrs 8 mins
  • Highest Average of 16m on Tuesdays
  • Lowest Average of 11.6s on Saturdays
1pm drop
  • Quickest: Feb 21, 2025 / Jan 5, 2025 with 1.56 secs
  • Longest: Nov 30, 2022 with 7 hrs 30 mins
  • Highest Average of 2hrs 44m on Wednesdays
  • Lowest Average of 46m on Saturdays & Mondays
6pm drop
  • Quickest: Sept 23, 2024 with 2.2 secs
  • Longest: Nov 15, 2023 with 3 hrs 59 mins
  • Highest Average of 3hrs 59m on Mondays (one data point)
  • Lowest Average of 20m on Mondays
Fun Facts:
  • There was no morning 7am and afternoon 1pm drops on Sept 28-29, 2022 due to Hurricane Ian park closures.
  • There were no morning 7am drops on Oct 10, 2024 and afternoon 1pm drops on Oct 9-10 due to Hurricane Milton park closures.
  • There were 1002 days with a morning 7am drop, 1001 days with an afternoon 1pm drop, and 146 days with a special 6pm drop.
Scatterplot of all the VQ drops for the last 1002 days. After about a year since the ride opened the afternoon 1pm drops were constantly staying open long. Something changed around the new year of 2024, either BG allocation, size, etc. From there the data is very sporadic but some trends still are persistent.
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Thanks for all your service, was definitely helpful when prepping for trips - just fun to watch as well
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

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Purduevian said:
I personally feel like it will usually be lower than FOP due the height requirement, nausea, size of epcot, and better attraction alternatives in EPCOT vs AK.
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On the flip side I think there will be more interest in riding multiple time a day due to the song alternatives, especially for people that only have 1 day at EPCOT, etc

so will be interesting to see for sure (and obviously it will be artificially high the first couple of day)

Side note, once TT 3.0 opens there should be good spread for crowds at rope drop at EPCOT with 4 rides of interest to people and then two entrances to the park potentially dictating which rides they target, etc. Will be interesting to see patterns develop
 
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Purduevian

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monothingie said:
It's not even the longest wait in the park. The RAT has a 45 minute wait.
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There is a large amount of EE guests that get to go through the IG.
From this random awesome website I found... https://c.touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/hotels/number-rooms#gsc.tab=0

Pop, AoA, Boardwalk, Beach club, Yacht club, Riviera, Caribbean beach, Swan, Dolphin, and Swan reserve = 11,726 rooms out of the total 37,014 (~32%). Also add in the fact that these resorts have walking or skyliner access to EPCOT, I'm guessing a higher % of them make it to EE vs the bussed in resorts.
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

Well-Known Member
So about 20mins to regular park opening and Guardians with only a 50min posted wait time, less than Remy's and that is with Frozen currently down

Overall it has the 11th highest current posted wait time at WDW (Tiana's is also currently down)

Lots of low wait times so guessing after the holiday week last week this is a pretty slow week so good time to make this change

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Epcot82Guy

Epcot82Guy

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@gerarar As an admitted big detractor of the attraction (because of fit and story - not the ride) and the VQ, thank you for doing this. It's an amazing thing for a person to do on a message board like this. You should be proud of putting together a very robust, yet easy to understand, data set all this time. Thanks for being an awesome member here. :)
 

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