how close to epcot do you need to be to join the 7am GOTG que?

[buckeyegator]

how near do you need to be?

 

[vikescaper]

how near do you need to be?

You don’t need to be close to EPCOT in order to enter the queue. You have to be in Epcot for the 1 pm drop, though.

 

[monorail81]

I was 108 miles away in my living room and joined the 7:00 queue.

 

[correcaminos]

You have to have a park reservation for Epcot. I've been a far as 1000 miles away for getting VQ slot. For 1pm you have had to tap in earlier to Epcot. Once you do that you can be anywhere.

 

[esskay]

Probably shouldn't share this but if you've got an old iPhone or Android device you dont mind rooting/jailbreaking you can get apps to fake your GPS position to the rest of the OS.

May have used this a couple of times in the past when I couldn't get to a park in time...

 

[correcaminos]

Probably shouldn't share this but if you've got an old iPhone or Android device you dont mind rooting/jailbreaking you can get apps to fake your GPS position to the rest of the OS.

May have used this a couple of times in the past when I couldn't get to a park in time...

Not needed for this. The tap in for the 1pm is required and you can be outside the parks if you have. The tap in is about a ticket use, not a location. For the morning park reservations are required and that's it. I was at my home airport for one VQ sitting on the plane waiting on my 7:05am take off when I snagged a boarding group.

 

[esskay]

Not needed for this. The tap in for the 1pm is required and you can be outside the parks if you have. The tap in is about a ticket use, not a location. For the morning park reservations are required and that's it. I was at my home airport for one VQ sitting on the plane waiting on my 7:05am take off when I snagged a boarding group.

Not tried it with the current incarnation of things, good to know you no longer need to be in the parks. I can't for the life of me remember what it was it was needed for but something used to need it (I'm talking back when Fastpass+ was pretty new and MyDisneyExperience was in its infancy).

You used to be able to build bots to do things like fastpass+ reservations as well. I had one going for geting to get a bunch of reservations that would basically just sit reloading the page until a slot became available and then booked it.

 

[correcaminos]

Not tried it with the current incarnation of things, good to know you no longer need to be in the parks. I can't for the life of me remember what it was it was needed for but something used to need it (I'm talking back when Fastpass+ was pretty new and MyDisneyExperience was in its infancy).

You used to be able to build bots to do things like fastpass+ reservations as well. I had one going for geting to get a bunch of reservations that would basically just sit reloading the page until a slot became available and then booked it.

Only thing I can think of that require location now is food related. Cannot recall other location needed but my brain is not functioning from super early morning school drop offs lol

I know about bots for FP+ though I never bothered. No ride was that important to me. Similar to dining finders. Nothing is that important to me but we go often.

 

[valenrandy]

On our trip last month, I was in Houston when I joined the VQ and did another FP/G+ reservation. As others stated, as long as you have a reservation for that park you can be anywhere on the planet lol.