Magic Kingdom's Lightning Lane Premier Pass Sells Out for Two More Dates, Including Valentine's Day

Feb 07, 2025 in "Disney Genie"

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Posted: Friday February 7, 2025 9:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

For the third time in recent weeks, Magic Kingdom's Lightning Lane Premier Pass has sold out—this time for February 15, 2025 at $379 and February 14, 2025, at $399.

Lighting Lane Multi Pass and Lighting Lane Single Pass remain fully available at all parks on the same dates.

Guests entering the Lighting Lane at Seven Dwarfs Mine Train in Magic Kingdom

Why Are Premier Passes Selling Out at Magic Kingdom?

Lightning Lane Premier Pass is a one-day pass that grants one-time access to every available Lightning Lane attraction in a single park, without requiring guests to select return times in advance. Unlike Lightning Lane Multi Pass, which allows guests to book up to three Lightning Lane attractions at a time with scheduled return windows, Premier Pass offers complete flexibility—letting guests enter any Lightning Lane queue at their convenience throughout the day. Meanwhile, Lightning Lane Single Pass provides access to just one high-demand attraction per purchase, such as TRON Lightcycle / Run or Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, making it the most limited option.

Magic Kingdom has consistently been the first and most frequent park to sell out of Lightning Lane Premier Passes. Several factors are likely contributing to this pattern:

Ride Selection: Magic Kingdom has more Premier Pass-eligible attractions than any other park, including TRON Lightcycle / Run, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Space Mountain, and Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
Increased Awareness: Now that Lightning Lane Premier Pass is available to all guests, more people are factoring it into their trip planning, leading to higher demand and faster sell-outs.

How Are Other Parks Affected?

So far, Magic Kingdom is the only park seeing regular Premier Pass sell-outs, while passes remain available at EPCOT, Disney's Animal Kingdom, and Disney's Hollywood Studios.

While Hollywood Studios may be the next park to see increased demand, its lower ride count compared to Magic Kingdom means its Premier Pass is not selling out as quickly.

What Happens Next?

With more sell-outs occurring outside of major holidays, the question now is whether Magic Kingdom's Premier Pass availability will remain unpredictable or if it will become a consistent sell-out even on lower-priced days.

Guests planning trips should purchase as soon as their window opens to avoid missing out.
If sell-outs continue, Disney may adjust pricing to further control demand.
Watch for trends at Hollywood Studios—if Magic Kingdom keeps selling out, Studios may follow.
View 21 Days of Upcoming Lightning Lane Multi and Single Pass Prices in Advance.
Guide and FAQ to Disney World's Lightning Lane Multi Pass, Single Pass and Premier Pass

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MickeyLuv'r14 hours ago

Yes. Posted wait times can be off significantly at any time of day.

Disstevefan116 hours ago

If @lentesta says todays posted wait times are more accurate (however they are doing it) I wont dispute it. Len is the king of data. If I understand it correctly, Len has folks in the queues actually measuring times. I apologize for my confusion.

Chi8416 hours ago

🤔

celluloid16 hours ago

Disney spent over 2 billion on I fasteucfure for things including g magic ba da during MDX era. They made many guests a moving RFID as well. A lot of data can and was collected as that was the main goal of the investment. You could easily project a decently accurate wait time at any given moment.

Chi8416 hours ago

Okay but Len said he was sure the MagicBand tracking issues have been solved and it seemed to him the wait times are more accurate than pre-pandemic. And you responded with: That makes no sense, which is why people are questioning it.

Disstevefan116 hours ago

What? They aren't. They are just estimating wait times and coincidentally the estimated wait times are usually longer than the actual wait times.

Chi8417 hours ago

So how did things get more accurate after the pandemic?

Disstevefan117 hours ago

Its totally normal for different folks see different things in posts. The way I read it, Len was able to get this info because (sadly) the folks he was talking to were free to talk because they were laid off because of the pandemic, very sad. The way I read it, despite putting development effort into using RFID sensors embedded in the lines the sensors were picking up folks in multiple queues. Len said apparently nobody calibrated them, or they didn't check too closely. I don't know, my speculation (and only my speculation) is they gave it a sincere try and couldn't get it to work. It sounded like to me, like they were trying (pre pandemic) to accurately calculate standby times using technology and sincerely devoted resources to this effort. They couldn't get this method to work, not because of the lay offs, simply because they couldn't get it to work after sincerely trying to get it to work. I guess today its just cheaper/easier to simply over estimate wait times. ;)

LittleBuford17 hours ago

Why bother posting at all if you’re not going to respond in good faith?

Disstevefan117 hours ago

Do you mean the first sentence about the 30k Cast members?

LittleBuford18 hours ago

Did you read his final paragraph?

Disstevefan118 hours ago

Wow, it sounds like they were trying (pre pandemic) I guess today its just cheaper/easier to simply over estimate wait times ;)

RememberWhen18 hours ago

Interesting. I hadn’t thought about the overlap of different rides with the same sensors. It would be crazy for them to let all that data go to waste.

peter114351 day ago

Yep. There were significant challenges and growing pains. But the Magic bands are used to capture wait time data now. Although this data does not directly control posted wait times in the park or the app.