Walt Disney World Holds Onto Virtual Queue for Tiana's Bayou Adventure as Disneyland Moves to Standby

Dec 10, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

Posted: Tuesday December 10, 2024 7:15am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Starting December 10, 2024, Disneyland in California will no longer use a virtual queue for Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Guests will be able to ride using a standby queue, Lightning Lane Premier Pass, or Lightning Lane Multi Pass. This update comes just weeks after the attraction debuted at Disneyland on November 15, 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

At Walt Disney World, Tiana's Bayou Adventure continues with a virtual queue that has been in place since its opening at Magic Kingdom on June 28, 2024. While Disney has suggested a standby queue may be introduced at some point, no timeline has been announced. Notably, the attraction has operated without a virtual queue during special event evenings, including Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, where guests have been able to ride using only a standby queue with wait times typically between 25 minutes and an hour.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

Walt Disney World's extended use of virtual queues extends beyond Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT has relied on a virtual queue since its opening on May 27, 2022, now at day 925.

Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind Virtual Queue and Lightning Lane signs

Elsewhere at Magic Kingdom, TRON Lightcycle / Run has recently switched to a standby queue after more than 500 days of using a virtual queue.

TRON Lightcycle Run Standby Line

The continued use of the virtual queue for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom suggests that Disney evaluates these decisions on a case-by-case basis, based on demand and operational needs, and we could be in for a lengthy wait for a standby line during regular park hours.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Exterior and Queue

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solidyne8 hours ago

He is not saying the same thing. You deleted his next sentence. He said guests "are a fulcrum." He said it was absurd to think guest "have nothing to do" with decisions. Then he goes on to explain how guests do, in fact, factor in. You edited his post to make it look like you were saying the same thing. You: Disney does XYZ. They shouldn't do that. Poster: But ALL businesses necessarily do XYZ" You: So you agree with me! Me: Well, no, he doesn't really. By the way, I know you started using winky emojis as some defensive measure when you thought people weren't getting your jokes. But that never was the problem. It wasn't that they didn't know you were joking; it was that they disagreed with the point your jokes were making. So, you can ease up now with the winkies. People can understand jokes even if they don't like them.

Disgruntled Walt2 days ago

I like your new picture. "Quizzical Walt"

Disstevefan12 days ago

It was a necessary downgrade ;)

mickEblu2 days ago

They reskinned a jet to celebrate the reskin of an attraction where a Fox threatened to skin a rabbit.

Tha Realest2 days ago

They reskinned a jet to celebrate the reskin of an attraction.

Disstevefan12 days ago

Exactly. Exactly We agree completely. When I said this, it was absurd. I wont say that ;)

EagleScout6102 days ago

Only took them a year to get it working. Progress, I guess

DarrenD2 days ago

Rode 2x times yesterday and it was working well! The most amount of stuff I've seen working since opening :)

JMcMahonEsq2 days ago

Again, I don't get what your point is. Disney is a for profit publicly traded company. Everything decision is done for the benefit of the company/Disney. The officers of any company have fiduciary duty to make all decision in the best interest of the company. The sole purpose of any decision of a company is to benefit the company. They aren't non-profits or charities where the intended goal/purpose is to benefit a certain subset of the population. Guest/fan feelings are never a goal or why companies make decisions. They are a fulcrum to support goals. Businesses offer guest what the they want in order to make money. They don't make money in order to give customers what they want.

Brer Panther2 days ago

I know that just by posting this I'm stepping into a minefield, but I genuinely do not remember seeing any complaints, or hearing of any complaints, about Splash Mountain being problematic before 2020. At most, I saw people say "Hey, isn't it kind of funny that they built an attraction based on this movie they banned?" but I don't think any of those were meant as complaints.

Jayspency2 days ago

Most of what Disney does nowadays is mostly done based on what looks good on paper.

Disstevefan12 days ago

Can you please talk to Disney's movie business ;) OK, ok, "nothing" is an absurd term. Extreme terms like "nothing" is low hanging fruit for folks who want to argue. In my opinion, Disney makes decisions mostly for Disney and lesser for guest/fans.

JMcMahonEsq2 days ago

From a strictly authorization standpoint, of course Disney does what it wants to do. Every business does what it wants to do at the end of the day, guest/fans have no say in an operation of any business. However to say guest/fans have nothing to do with decisions is just absurd. Disney is looking for Profit. That means decisions are made to increase profits. This can come in the form of direct increase in sales, direct decrease in costs, or increasing attendance/mitigating loss through customer good will. Out of those 3 methods to achieve the goal, 2 of them are directly related to customers. You need your customers to keep coming and buying tickets to the parks and need them to continue buying things. The only way of increasing profit that isn't directly related to customers is decreasing costs, but even that has to be weighed with the idea of will decreasing cost result in a loss of 1 or 3. And the millions spent on a re-skin of Splash Mountain certainly wasn't a direct cost saving.

Disstevefan12 days ago

You can drill back on my post and I said this way before the reskin happened - I never said it was on a whim, Disney had THEIR reasons, I will attempt to guess; number one, social justice, perhaps the old animatronics and systems were getting too expensive to fix and maintain, no spare parts, must have replacement parts custom made etc. I really think they decided to expend huge dollars in labor, materials, engineering costs, to kill two birds; lower maintenance in the long run (that appears to be NOT working at the moment) and social justice. My main point of this post is, Disney does what they want to do. Their decision has nothing to do with their guests or fans. If there are guests who happen to like a given change it is pure coincidence.