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After officially being the longest-running Virtual Queue in Disney World ride history, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will soon switch to a standby queue.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
This means that riders will no longer have to try to snag a spot in the Virtual Queue on the My Disney Experience app at 7 AM and 1 PM, but instead will be able to join the regular line at any time.
Sometimes you can’t just walk up to a Disney World attraction and get in the queue.
Virtual Queue sign up
If a Disney ride has gone down and the queue has needed to be evacuated, you won’t be able to stand in line to wait (though you can stand around the ride if you’d like, but we don’t recommend that if the Cast Members are hinting that the ride could be down for awhile). However, there are a handful of Disney World rides that have what are called Virtual Queues, and you must enter one of those to be able to ride. If you’re heading to the parks this year and haven’t been in a while, these are the only rides we expect to continue using Virtual Queues this year.
We are less than two months away from the start of 2025!
Magic Kingdom
Disney World will see significant changes when the new year rolls around. The first round of closures will hit DinoLand U.S.A., and we can expect to see construction start on projects in all four parks. So many new offerings will open, including two new lounges, Test Track 3.0, Zootopia: Better Zoogether, Disney Starlight, The Little Mermaid—A Musical Adventure, and the Disney Villains stage show. Whew! That is a lot of change in one year!
While Disney World is the one calling the shots on changes, we want to throw our hat in the ring as we hope these four things change in Disney World in 2025!
The sun is shining, the tank is clean, and you are ready for an amazing day at Disney World!
Hollywood Studios
But then your phone lights up with a notification that no one wants to get. While there are LOTS of notifications we would love to see on our phone (you got upgraded, free food for everyone, etc.), there are also a few notifications that we would rather not see.
Have you ever had one of those moments at Disney World where you thought, “Wait, can I really do this?”
EPCOT
If you’re a Disney World Annual Passholder, then you know there are a few tricks that can make your park-hopping adventures a little smoother. But every once in a while, you discover a hack so good, you’ll wonder how it’s even allowed. Well, we’ve got one of those for you today, and trust us, it’s totally legit!
Do you like character meet-and-greets at Disney World?
Chip and Dale in Dinoland!
It’s always tons of fun when you get to meet your favorite characters and have a fun conversation with them! Disney brings them from the big screen to real life, and it’s always so exciting. Most recently, we’ve even gotten to meet some of our biggest heroes from Marvel comics and movies. Most of these Marvel characters are over in Disney California Adventure on the West Coast, but now a popular Guardian is dancing his way around EPCOT!
Listen, we get it. There’s one reason you’re hyped about your upcoming trip to EPCOT — Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind!
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
We’re here for it too! Getting to save Earth with our favorites Rocket, Groot, Drax, Gamora, and Star-Lord is such a rocking dream come true. But what happens when you’re hyped to experience the ride and you’ve got your Lightning Lane all set, and then the ride goes down? Let’s talk about it!
Disney ditched its Genie+ service earlier this year, and it was replaced with Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass.
TRON Lightcycle / RUN Lighting Lane
Although the new service is, more or less, the same, it also offers the option to pre-book Lightning Lanes BEFORE your Disney World trip (seven days in advance for those staying at Disney World hotels and three days in advance for everyone else). The pricing for Lightning Lane Single Pass has remained similar to that of the Genie+ individual attraction selection, but we just noticed that a price increase is on the way!
Were you in EPCOT on September 21st?
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was celebrating the special day with some Earth, Wind, & Fire by blaring ‘September’ through the ride all day long! It was a fun way to celebrate one of Star-Lord’s (a.k.a. Peter Quill) favorite songs from his childhood cassette tapes. Speaking of Star-Lord, if you love Guardians of the Galaxy, you might be excited about this new Disney announcement!
When it comes to ranking the popularity of the Disney World parks, EPCOT doesn’t usually make the top of everyone’s list.
EPCOT
Sure, it’s popular right now thanks to the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival (and you can read ALL about that here, as well as read all our food booth reviews), but today, EPCOT is popular for an entirely different reason. So, what’s going on? Why is EPCOT the ONLY park that’s sold out today when it comes to park pass reservations? Well, we think we have a clue.
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