Guest previews begin for Journey of Water Inspired by Moana, Virtual Queue now open

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Posted: Sunday September 24, 2023 9:14am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney World Annual Passholder and Disney Vacation Club previews are now underway at EPCOT's Journey of Water Inspired by Moana ahead of the October 16 official opening.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Passholder previews

Unlike other recent passholder previews, guests do not have to register for a preview window but do require an EPCOT park pass reservation.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Passholder previews

Disney is using the large walkway alongside Spaceship Earth as a check-in and queue area, with guests required to scan admission media to verify passholder status.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Passholder previews

According to managers in the area, passholders can experience Journey of Water Inspired by Moana multiple times a day if the standby line is available.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Passholder previews

A Virtual Queue opened around 9:15am to provide guests with a return time. You can access it in "My Disney Experience" in the Virtual Queues tab. Managers in the area say it is unlikely that the standby line will reopen, and it will remain a Virtual Queue only for today at least. Guests can only use the Virtual Queue once per day, and guests must be inside the park to join.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana Virtual Queue QR code

Passholder previews will take place at EPCOT from park open to park close on the following dates:

September 24 to September 29, 2023
October 1 to October 4, 2023

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview

To participate in this preview experience, Passholders must have a theme park reservation for EPCOT on the day of the preview. Note that:

If your theme park reservation is for a different theme park (and not for EPCOT), then you will not be eligible to participate in a preview that day.
If you enter EPCOT without a theme park reservation after 2:00 PM, then you will not be eligible to participate in a preview that day.

An in-depth look at EPCOT's Journey of Water Inspired by Moana

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana overview

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Virtual Toad1 hour 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.

monothingie2 hours ago

eddie1042 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.

tparris2 hours ago

Especially because many new things at EPCOT are breaking and have been broken for some time now, with absolutely no clear intention to fix

monothingie2 hours ago

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

mysto2 hours ago

Private parts.

Cmdr_Crimson2 hours ago

We can call it a FAILnale!

lightningtap3473 hours ago

It was working yesterday 😕

Disstevefan13 hours ago

Let's look on the bright side, its job security for the maintenance workers......... Until Disney decides its costing too much to keep going ;)

MisterPenguin3 hours ago

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed. It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

eddie1043 hours ago

They are fixing it and that is all that matters. 🙄

monothingie3 hours ago

I don't think this should distract from the fact that it is broken...already. I believe there are other parts that are also already broken and disabled. It's not the first thing in the new Epcot that has quickly broken. But why would it be ok for complexity and reliability to mutually exclusive? Has WDI gotten so bad that they can't produce anything complicated that won't fail after only a couple of months of routine use?