Everything Virtual Queue - Please Read Posts 1 and 2

[jenhelgren]

Can anyone guess at the chance of being able to pull GotG ride time during the 7 am window for Friday 11/4? It is a race weekend during F & W and touring plans shows a 5 for crowds. My daughter and I will be participating in our first ever Run Disney event, the 5K at Epcot that morning and she wants to ride GotG SO bad!! If all goes according to plan, we should be done running by 7 am but I dont want worrying about the virtual que to distract from our Run Disney experience. We havent done parks in a few years and have never tried for a virtual que. If there is a really small chance of even getting a ride time, I may have to try to talk her into not even trying until the 1 pm time slot but depending on how tired we are, I'm not sure how that will work either.

If there are any Epcot pros out there who want to guess at the probability of us (party of 2) getting a time slot at 7 am or 1 pm and what ride time to expect that would be awesome for my attmpt at last minute planning

 

[hcortesis]

Can anyone guess at the chance of being able to pull GotG ride time during the 7 am window for Friday 11/4? It is a race weekend during F & W and touring plans shows a 5 for crowds. My daughter and I will be participating in our first ever Run Disney event, the 5K at Epcot that morning and she wants to ride GotG SO bad!! If all goes according to plan, we should be done running by 7 am but I dont want worrying about the virtual que to distract from our Run Disney experience. We havent done parks in a few years and have never tried for a virtual que. If there is a really small chance of even getting a ride time, I may have to try to talk her into not even trying until the 1 pm time slot but depending on how tired we are, I'm not sure how that will work either.

If there are any Epcot pros out there who want to guess at the probability of us (party of 2) getting a time slot at 7 am or 1 pm and what ride time to expect that would be awesome for my attmpt at last minute planning

Just returned from a week. We never missed out on GOG VG. Got it 5 times without fail. Used WiFi in Beach Club Villas. Very simple to do.

 

[jenhelgren]

Thats encouraging!! Were all your attempts at 7 am? Were your return times around the same time of day or all over the place? I know I am going to need a break after getting on the Disney bus at 3 am for the 5K, just not sure how to make a plan without all the details, lol

 

[scrappinginontario]

Thats encouraging!! Were all your attempts at 7 am? Were your return times around the same time of day or all over the place? I know I am going to need a break after getting on the Disney bus at 3 am for the 5K, just not sure how to make a plan without all the details, lol

I think flexibility and willingness to change as needed will be key. There’s no way to make a definite plan with so many moving pieces.

 

[gharter]

Just returned from a week at WDW. The VQ for GoTG goes at least as fast as Remi or FoP did. At 7 am, the VQ was full in under 3 seconds. We missed day 1 and got in at the 1 pm drop (seems to be slight less demand at 1 pm, but still fills fast). Day 2 and 3, I moved closer to the window, shut off wifi and got in both times at 7 am.
Don't believe the approximate boarding time. We had a time of 5 pm and loaded at 2 pm. Another day was 11 am and we were on at 9:30 . Day 3 was 1pm and we loaded at 11 am. so watch the screens closely on MDE.

 

[wdw_dine_junkie]

I would recommend trying for a VQ as the return time is not reinforced so you can return anytime at all after your group is called.

If you don’t get a 7AM VQ you could try again as soon as you land but, the 1:00’s may be gone by then.

If it were me if I was not successful at 7AM I think I’d purchase an ILL$ if you really want to ride.

I can attest to them not enforcing the number, as long as your group is called. Last week due to some travel circumstances, our boarding group 17 was called at 9am and we arrived at 5:30pm. No issues. So just grab any boarding group you can get.

 

[glamdring269]

So let me preface this by saying our trip is Oct 2023 so we might not even have a Virtual Queue at that point... and sorry if I overlooked this somewhere. Tried to scan the first few pages.

If I'm reading all of this information correctly am I correct in assuming that if you are only visiting Epcot via park hop then you will likely never get a BG? If I understand all of the new rules correctly you cannot enter the 2nd park until 2pm. The 2nd VQ drop is at 1pm. So more than likely those will be gone by the time a park hop can occur. Meaning your only way to ride is via paying?

Just curious. Our usual F&W strategy is to rope drop the non-Epcot parks and hop to Epcot in the evening. There are so few rides in Epcot that we just knock those out throughout the week based on how we're feeling. I'm not going to change our strategy for a single ride so just wanted to double check.

 

[Tom_E_D]

So let me preface this by saying our trip is Oct 2023 so we might not even have a Virtual Queue at that point... and sorry if I overlooked this somewhere. Tried to scan the first few pages.

If I'm reading all of this information correctly am I correct in assuming that if you are only visiting Epcot via park hop then you will likely never get a BG? If I understand all of the new rules correctly you cannot enter the 2nd park until 2pm. The 2nd VQ drop is at 1pm. So more than likely those will be gone by the time a park hop can occur. Meaning your only way to ride is via paying?

Just curious. Our usual F&W strategy is to rope drop the non-Epcot parks and hop to Epcot in the evening. There are so few rides in Epcot that we just knock those out throughout the week based on how we're feeling. I'm not going to change our strategy for a single ride so just wanted to double check.

On very busy days, you are correct. On those days, all boarding groups will be gone by the time park hoppers can enter the park at 2:00. However, many people have reported being able to get boarding groups after 2:00 on less-busy days.

 

[TheOneWithTheTriplets]

So let me preface this by saying our trip is Oct 2023 so we might not even have a Virtual Queue at that point... and sorry if I overlooked this somewhere. Tried to scan the first few pages.

If I'm reading all of this information correctly am I correct in assuming that if you are only visiting Epcot via park hop then you will likely never get a BG? If I understand all of the new rules correctly you cannot enter the 2nd park until 2pm. The 2nd VQ drop is at 1pm. So more than likely those will be gone by the time a park hop can occur. Meaning your only way to ride is via paying?

Just curious. Our usual F&W strategy is to rope drop the non-Epcot parks and hop to Epcot in the evening. There are so few rides in Epcot that we just knock those out throughout the week based on how we're feeling. I'm not going to change our strategy for a single ride so just wanted to double check.

Tron will be open by the time you travel and I can't imagine they'll have two VQs running simultaneously. You're almost definitely worrying about the wrong VQ.

 

[glamdring269]

Tron will be open by the time you travel and I can't imagine they'll have two VQs running simultaneously. You're almost definitely worrying about the wrong VQ.

Oh for sure. But MK will be perfect because I'll definitely do park reservation for that one. Then again who knows! Maybe we won't even have to deal with park reservations anymore by then.........

 

[scrappinginontario]

Oh for sure. But MK will be perfect because I'll definitely do park reservation for that one. Then again who knows! Maybe we won't even have to deal with park reservations anymore by then.........

It can change but many feel park reservations are here to stay.

 

[shoegal9]

Does anyone know if you can join a virtual queue at 7 am if you haven’t yet activated your AP at guest services?

My husband renewed after our last trip in September. I want to get a boarding group at 7 am tomorrow. But I’m not sure if it will let me if his AP isn’t yet activated by then and I’m not sure we can get to guest services anywhere tonight.

 

[musicguy856]

Does anyone know if you can join a virtual queue at 7 am if you haven’t yet activated your AP at guest services?

My husband renewed after our last trip in September. I want to get a boarding group at 7 am tomorrow. But I’m not sure if it will let me if his AP isn’t yet activated by then and I’m not sure we can get to guest services anywhere tonight.

If it was just a renewal and not a new AP you shouldn’t even need to activate it - but either way as long as you have a park reservation you should be fine. I renewed mine earlier this year and didn’t need to activate the renewal. I think I read somewhere that DVC may need to activate though.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Does anyone know if you can join a virtual queue at 7 am if you haven’t yet activated your AP at guest services?

My husband renewed after our last trip in September. I want to get a boarding group at 7 am tomorrow. But I’m not sure if it will let me if his AP isn’t yet activated by then and I’m not sure we can get to guest services anywhere tonight.

This is purely a guess but, if you were able to make an Epcot reservation with an inactivated AP, hopefully you’ll be able to book a VQ too. Please keep us posted.

 

[shoegal9]

If it was just a renewal and not a new AP you shouldn’t even need to activate it - but either way as long as you have a park reservation you should be fine. I renewed mine earlier this year and didn’t need to activate the renewal. I think I read somewhere that DVC may need to activate though.

It is a renewal. We are DVC and Florida residents, but his pass is DVC. I’ll report back.

 

[Mrs.AMC]

This is purely a guess but, if you were able to make an Epcot reservation with an inactivated AP, hopefully you’ll be able to book a VQ too. Please keep us posted.

I agree
the VQ is really just looking at the park reservation more than anything
if you got a park reservation I’m also guessing a VQ will be no problem
curious to hear the results too

 

[shoegal9]

Update: you can add someone to the VQ if their AP renewal is not yet activated. Phew!

 

[Sandi]

My friend is going to a conference this week at one of the Disney Springs hotels. She and some colleagues got one of the 4:00 pm to close tickets for Epcot one day. Will they be able to try to get a virtual queue through the 7:00 am drop? For either of the free virtual queue or by paid ILL? I’m an AP holder and have never looked into this. I reviewed a lot of Disboards information and didn’t see this issue addressed.
Thanks for any help.

 

[Kingoglow]

That is a good question. Calling Disney is always the best answer.
I would think that they would be able to purchase a ILL because they have valid ticket media and presumably made a park reservation.

VQ is tricky, because you can't pick a return time. I would assume that they 'could' get in the VQ, but most likely, their time slot will be called prior to 4:00 and they wont be able to ride it while taking those spots away from others.

 

[georgina]

My friend is going to a conference this week at one of the Disney Springs hotels. She and some colleagues got one of the 4:00 pm to close tickets for Epcot one day. Will they be able to try to get a virtual queue through the 7:00 am drop? For either of the free virtual queue or by paid ILL? I’m an AP holder and have never looked into this. I reviewed a lot of Disboards information and didn’t see this issue addressed.
Thanks for any help.

I have seen reports that it doesn’t matter if you return late for your boarding group, so they wouldn’t necessarily be taking a spot from someone else If they get a time and aren't able to get to the ride until later. Still a good chance they can ride.