Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Virtual Queue reaches capacity on opening day

Oct 16, 2023 in "Journey of Water Inspired by Moana"

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Posted: Monday October 16, 2023 1:35pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The new 'Journey of Water Inspired by Moana' attraction at EPCOT has maxed out its Virtual Queue on day one of its official opening.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview

My Disney Experience stopped allowing guests to join the Virtual Queue shortly after 1 pm today. As of writing, boarding groups 56 to 73 are being called.

Disney says that the Virtual Queue will be used during busy periods, and a regular standby line will be in operation at other times. No Lightning Lane is available via either individual attraction purchase or as part of Genie+.

Cast Members in the area suggest that the standby line will not open today and that guests not already in the Virtual Queue will be unable to visit Journey of Water today.

Although the Virtual Queue reached capacity, it did so at a much slower pace than the 3 or 4 seconds that we have seen at TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview

To join the Journey of Water Virtual Queue, you must be inside EPCOT, and enrollment begins at 8:45 am. Unlike the other EPCOT Virtual Queue attractions, Journey of Water does not have a second Virtual Queue opening at 1 pm.

Journey of Water is also included in Early Entry and Extended Evening Hours for eligible guests staying at Walt Disney World Resort hotels.

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Chef idea Mickey`=9 hours ago

Perhaps this is just Epcot crying out I don't want this transformation that none of us asked aside minor enhancements or upgrades like Creation Shop and Connections made well better for Epcot how it was.

DisCOT_9711 hours ago

Did I ever suggest that? I simply stated that these things should not be happening within months of opening such things. Especially when you’ve made the consumer wait so long and had the park under walls for half a decade. It’s just bad show.

eddie10411 hours ago

Listen I get the complaints but I will never attack Disney for fixing or repairing their mistakes. It’s unfortunate that things are already breaking in a newly constructed area. Maybe they need better oversight on these projects or a different contractor.

Incomudro11 hours ago

They shouldn't break this fast. It's embarassing. And we're not talking about complicated AA's. We're talking about lights and a water feature. And those lights failed after one night.

eddie10411 hours ago

Things break…would you rather them ignore it?

tparris12 hours ago

All of this.

DisCOT_9712 hours ago

The problem isn’t that they’re trying to solve the issue, it’s that this park went through a multimillion multiyear “transformation” and some of the things promised don’t even fully function. That middle area has been behind walls for how long? And those new “lights” stopped working after night one…Moana isn’t even a year old yet and it’s already proving to be a maintenance workload.

KeithVH13 hours ago

Yeah! And I bet as soon as they get the Yeti fixed, they'll straighten this brand new problem ASAP . . .

Virtual Toad15 hours ago

I can't speak for others, but to me the fact that the state of "show" at Epcot is so poor now, especially when compared to what it used to be, that lack of reliability among newer effects becomes a more glaring issue when so many other effects, new and old, remain broken or in b-mode months or even years after failing. Ironic that a park systematically stripped of complex effects and moving parts over the past 25 years remains in relatively poor condition, and definitely below the baseline WDW show standards of the past, especially when there are fewer things to maintain.

monothingie16 hours ago

eddie10416 hours ago

Why do you guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs? They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.