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

[Mr. Sullivan]

Wait times have been reasonable and not because it isn’t getting attention. People are flocking to it. This thing just seems to have better capacity than I thought, and the CMs are clearly working very efficiently to get trains dispatched quickly.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I am not sure if we've discussed the estimated capacity, but I always figured it was a beast, kinda like Big Thunder? @wdwmagic @lentesta

 

[Disney Analyst]

Sept 22, 2021 was last day of ROTR VQ
Oct 1, 2021 was first day of Remy VQ

About a week or 8 days of no VQ. Last time WDW had no VQ was Sept 30, 2021.

Okay so as that was barely a break, there's basically been a Virtual Queue in place for most guests vacations since... 2019?

 

[UNCgolf]

Strange that TRON is getting longer waits than Cosmic Rewind. I'm not exactly a big fan of Cosmic Rewind but it's certainly a better ride than TRON, and Magic Kingdom has even more to do than EPCOT.

That said, they're pretty close so it's probably meaningless. It's not like TRON is at 90 minutes and CR is at 45.

Also, I'm not sure why anyone thought it would get waits like Flight of Passage. There's a number of reasons that wasn't going to happen (barring the park being absolutely slammed with long waits everywhere).

 

[Disstevefan1]

Strange that TRON is getting longer waits than Cosmic Rewind. I'm not exactly a big fan of Cosmic Rewind but it's certainly a better ride than TRON. And Magic Kingdom has even more to do than EPCOT.

That said, they're pretty close so it's probably meaningless. It's not like TRON is at 90 minutes and CR is at 45.

Also, I'm not sure why anyone thought it would get waits like Flight of Passage. There's a number of reasons that wasn't going to happen (barring the park being absolutely slammed with long waits everywhere).

MK is always more crowded than EPCOT.

Also what's the throughput of each ride?

 

[UNCgolf]

MK is always more crowded than EPCOT.

Also what's the throughput of each ride?

I think CR's theoretical hourly capacity is several hundred higher than TRON, which would have an effect, but not necessarily a huge one -- people are still generally choosing whether to get in line based on the posted wait, not on how many people they think may be in line in front of them.

Still a factor though.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

From what I could find, the hourly capacity of Cosmic Rewind is 2,000 and for Tron it is 1,680, so definitely less, but not half or anything like that

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I think an interesting study would be on how virtual queues impact the mentality of a theme park guest, especially at Disney where people can be competitive and people feel like the *have* to do the popular thing, which makes them work to ensure they do it, which makes it more popular, etc.

Does just the fact something have a VQ trigger something so people feel they have to put in the effort to get one and then when they have one figure they will use it whatever the wait is, whereas if the same ride didn't have a VQ they wouldn't wait in the line?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I'm not exactly a big fan of Cosmic Rewind but it's certainly a better ride than TRON, and Magic Kingdom has even more to do than EPCOT.

I think I prefer tron but I’ve only ridden once on each and on 2 different trips.

Current wait for cosmic is 60 minutes and frozen is 145. So there’s that. Haha

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Strange that TRON is getting longer waits than Cosmic Rewind. I'm not exactly a big fan of Cosmic Rewind but it's certainly a better ride than TRON, and Magic Kingdom has even more to do than EPCOT.

That said, they're pretty close so it's probably meaningless. It's not like TRON is at 90 minutes and CR is at 45.

Also, I'm not sure why anyone thought it would get waits like Flight of Passage. There's a number of reasons that wasn't going to happen (barring the park being absolutely slammed with long waits everywhere).

I thought it would have higher waits at least today/for the near term as people would want to take advantage of it and try to get multiple rides in ... the fact there are the multiple songs can make it feel like something to achieve to get them all (or at least multiple one) ... but maybe the fact it has been open for 3 year snow so the people that care about such a thing likely have gotten all the songs at this point.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I think I prefer tron but I’ve only ridden once on each and on 2 different trips.

Current wait for cosmic is 60 minutes and frozen is 145. So there’s that. Haha

I love the launch to Tron, especially if in the front but after that, not a ton to it. Still a fun ride but I prefer Cosmic Rewind, just more "fun" to me and love the music

I think they are both good additions though

 

[James Alucobond]

I honestly prefer TRON as well in spite of being able to acknowledge that it’s not necessarily as “fully featured”, as it were. I just find the ride experience way more pleasant.

 

[peter11435]

Current wait for cosmic is 60 minutes and frozen is 145. So there’s that. Haha

Cosmic Rewind also has a much higher capacity and a height requirement.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Cosmic Rewind also has a much higher capacity and a height requirement.

Which is all the more reason it doesn’t need to be on VQ! Which was my point ha.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Current wait for cosmic is 60 minutes and frozen is 145. So there’s that. Haha

If there is any IP that needed a high capacity ride its Frozen, NOT this low cost, low capacity overlay.

 

[UNCgolf]

I thought it would have higher waits at least today/for the near term as people would want to take advantage of it and try to get multiple rides in ... the fact there are the multiple songs can make it feel like something to achieve to get them all (or at least multiple one) ... but maybe the fact it has been open for 3 year snow so the people that care about such a thing likely have gotten all the songs at this point.

I think that's a big part of it. It's already been open for three years. If it was brand new it probably would get longer waits for the first couple of months.

I expect it to be around 60 minutes most of the time, though. I'm sure it'll get higher at times, but I'd be very surprised to see it get 150 minute waits outside of extreme circumstances.

 

[peter11435]

Which is all the more reason it doesn’t need to be on VQ! Which was my point ha.

Agreed.

 

[wdwmagic]

Here are the afternoon wait times for the new standby lines