It’s been practically three years for the reason that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind curler coaster opened at Epcot, and from that time till now, parkgoers by no means had a line to bodily wait in earlier than driving. Nevertheless, Disney World lastly opened up a standby line in order that visitors who need to experience the curler coaster may merely get in line and accomplish that with out extra steps. One may need anticipated the road to be insanely lengthy, however apparently not a lot.
New sights at Disney World have all used Digital Queues once they opened, however Cosmic Rewind has utilized that and solely that for its total existence, which gave visitors the choice to order a spot in line through a boarding group, to then get referred to as at any time when their flip to experience got here up. Each new attraction has used this method to deal with early crowds, however many rides that opened after Cosmic Rewind distributed with it. Many insiders have been ready for the primary standby strains to be completely insane, however they’ve truly been fairly cheap.
At one level the road peaked at round a 75-minute wait, however it has hovered round 50 minutes for a lot of the day. As I write this, as seen within the picture above the wait time for Cosmic Rewind, within the backside left nook, is 50 minutes, and the look forward to Remy’s Ratatouille Journey, within the higher proper, is an hour.
It had been advised that, on account of the truth that Cosmic Rewind is the one actual thrill experience at Epcot, the demand for standby entry could be so nice that the wait would persistently be a number of hours lengthy. There was a pervasive perception that the Guardians queue merely wasn’t constructed to deal with the huge quantity of people that would line up. The digital queue, the argument went, was merely a necessity to maintain the attraction from changing into utterly unmanageable.
Even when the road wasn’t uncontrolled endlessly, one will surely anticipate the primary day of the standby line to be busier, but that hasn’t been the case. The longest strains at Disney World in the previous few years have resulted in waits of a number of hours, however that’s simply not the case right here. Magic Kingdom’s Tron Coaster ended its Digital Queue final yr although the attraction opened a yr after Guardians. Tron’s wait occasions have additionally not been loopy, although the wait time for it proper now’s larger than Cosmic Rewind.
No person loves ready in line, however there’s one thing to be mentioned for the simplicity of having the ability to stroll up and stand round. When the Digital Queue was in place visitors have been restricted to 1 experience per day, and should you missed the window to entry the Digital Queue or just had a foul knowledge connection you may be shut out of occurring the experience totally. At the very least now anyone who needs to go on the experience has the choice.
There at the moment are no sights at Walt Disney World that use a digital queue. In truth, the one Digital Queue in use at any North American Disney park is for having access to the World of Shade nighttime spectacular at Disney California Journey. Disney World has made it clear the times of the VQ should not completed. It may, and nearly actually will, return for different new sights.