Plan Ahead with Lightning Lane Entry at Walt Disney World Starting July 24

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Great idea. I was thinking along those lines. Even with Premier at Epcot, we do enjoy GOG quite a bit!

Remember that Cosmic Rewind is LLSP— so you can just buy that in advance along with Pandora’s LLSP. Also, my pro tip is to avoid doing Cosmic Rewind after about 7PM, the LL often gets very long in the evening.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Remember that Cosmic Rewind is LLSP— so you can just buy that in advance along with Pandora’s LLSP. Also, my pro tip is to avoid doing Cosmic Rewind after about 7PM, the LL often gets very long in the evening.

We skip the single passes and prefer to do standby for Cosmic Rewind in the evenings when the intentionally inflated wait times cause the actual waits to decrease significantly.

We rode it 3 times last week. Posted wait times were 85, 65 and 55 with actual waits of 45, 40 and 30.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

We skip the single passes and prefer to do standby for Cosmic Rewind in the evenings when the intentionally inflated wait times cause the actual waits to decrease significantly.

We rode it 3 times last week. Posted wait times were 85, 65 and 55 with actual waits of 45, 40 and 30.

I’m glad it worked out for you, not sure what days you’re referring to because cosmic rewind was having tough operational days on Fri and Sat—we had LLSP both days where the LL was out the door (before 6pm) and they were estimating over 1h in LL, when I mentioned that I can’t stand in lines that long due to a spine issue, they suggested I just come back later or a different day.

I suppose it’s at least possible standby gets better in the evening but LL gets worse, as a lot of people with unused LL from all day pile in while the standby estimate turns sane people away (ETA, didn’t mean to imply you aren’t sane, I’d do it too if I could, but many people don’t want to wait 70+ minutes for any coaster, even a great one).

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

I’m glad it worked out for you, not sure what days you’re referring to because cosmic rewind was having tough operational days on Fri and Sat—we had LLSP both days where the LL was out the door (before 6pm) and they were estimating over 1h in LL, when I mentioned that I can’t stand in lines that long due to a spine issue, they suggested I just come back later or a different day.

I suppose it’s at least possible standby gets better in the evening but LL gets worse, as a lot of people with unused LL from all day pile in while the standby estimate turns sane people away (ETA, didn’t mean to imply you aren’t sane, I’d do it too if I could, but many people don’t want to wait 70+ minutes for any coaster, even a great one).

Those inflated wait times successfully turn away guests who aren’t familiar with the standard closing procedures. Disney does a very good job as discouraging late riders and funneling them to the gift shops then eventually the exits.

This trip, you could plan for the posted waits to be very close to double the actual wait times after about 7 pm or so. We’ve never waited anywhere close to 70 minutes for this attraction, even when the posted waits approach 2 hours.

I did look at the stats from Friday and Saturday. Friday didn’t look to bad but Saturday looked crazy.

Things were back to normal yesterday. At 8 pm, the posted wait was 85 with an actual wait of 40.