Walt Disney World to Raise Lightning Lane Attraction Prices for TRON, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

John park hopper1 hour ago

Remember you are the magic raising prices is pure Disney greed

GhostHost10002 hours ago

So glad they are raising prices. So many feel like they aren’t paying enough these days for all the magic and attraction downtimes

monothingie3 hours ago

Parks are empty and a lot of guests are figuring out they don’t need LL, which breaks LL pricing models. So Dynamic pricing isn’t effective and since FOMO or low information guests can now book LL days in advance, just charge the max. What a failed company.

DCBaker3 hours ago

Lightning Lane Single Pass pricing has started to creep above previous highs on October 18 and 19: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: $13 (previous high was $12) TRON Lightcycle / Run: $21 (previous high was $20) Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind: $18 (previous high was $17) Avatar Flight of Passage is also higher at $17, but according to Thrill Data, it reached that price once in 2023.

arich3521 hours ago

Seems like this system is a lot tougher to get random times during the day. Trying to get Frozen or Remy to pop up for this evening, it has happened a few times but when I click on it and select the guests and press continue and just keeps bringing me back to the select guests screen. I assume that means someone else got it already but never had that issue with Genie+

nickys7 days ago

I remember our first onsite visit staying at BC when FPs were paper passes. We didm’t realise you were all supposed to tap in to the parks first. Left eldest son sleeping and headed to Soarin to get a later FP. Of course it wouldn’t give me an FP on DS’s ticket. Luckily a CM took pity on us and got one for him.

Purduevian8 days ago

Yeah, not saying anyone would actually do this, but you could have in theory saved $9 per person today. Although today both parks opened at 8am, so no way to do it and rope drop MK.

jpeden8 days ago

Fair - didn't think of that part.

nickys8 days ago

Except you wouldn’t be able to tap everyone into the parks.

jpeden8 days ago

I actually thought of this when I first heard how they were going to roll it out. I mean, I guess if you really want to save some cash you could have one person take everyone's MB's to rope drop AK and then meet at MK and re-distribute them but I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze here. The simpler thing would be for them to just charge the average across all four parks but they won't ever do that. I will say I mistakenly (like an idiot) booked my LL passes for the wrong date this morning (we are doing MNSSHP and then a day at EPCOT so I'm not buying LL for the party morning at MK) and I booked EPCOT for the date of the party. I called and they switched it all no issue and even got my Frozen LL at the same time I originally requested - of course I did have to pay the $3.21 difference in days.

Purduevian8 days ago

There is no guarantee that canceling your other 2 pre-books will show availability for a specific ride, but it does improve your odds. EPCOT today is open for 12 hours and gives out LLs every 5 mins for 11.5 of those hours (no new LL windows open in the last 30 mins). So, there are 230 different time slots you can get for RAT (9:00am, 9:05am, ect). Each of the other 2 prebooked LLs block 15 of those slots(if you have a 12-1 SEE LL, you can't book a 11:20am-12:40pmRAT). So, without canceling you are hoping someone else cancels RAT in the 200/230 (~87%) slots that are not blocked. If you cancel your other 2 tier 2s, you open up 230/230 slots. So, you give yourself ~13% greater chance at prebooking RAT. As soon as you tap into your first attraction, all this gets thrown out the window as overlap rules disappear.

MickeyLuv'r8 days ago

I understand the concept, but I just didn't see that kind of availability. Cancelling your passes is only going to give you a small chance of getting Rat. Mind, I'm aware of the strategy because it dates back to the days of FP+, and in the last years of FP+, it worked with FP+. With LOTS of refreshing, I was able to get more than 1 FP per hour, and able to get the big rides. I just had to have my phone out all day. (Through every queue, I was refreshing. While I ate lunch, I was refreshing. Between rides, I was refreshing. Making it work required a trade-off.) In the early days of FP+, refreshing wasn't even an option. the only way to modify a pass once you were in the park was to use a kiosk. It only worked with much-later FP+. G+ inventory also improved over time. Initially, modifying passes was not an option. Users had to cancel to rebook, and that was risky. I experimented, and had little luck. Later, it got much easier to modify G+ passes, and refreshing worked pretty well. I'm fully open to the idea of using the no-prebooks/refreshing to get passes. I have been careful - I think - to qualify my posts by saying, 'this was my experience' and 'for now.' WDW has a history of sharply limiting the total LL/FP inventory when they roll out a new version of their express pass. I can't say that will improve, but given the history, it probably will. It is also important to add, IME, this strategy tends to work much better on slower days than during busier holiday weeks.

HauntedPirate8 days ago

Ah, I did not know you could only book one initially (I did not do any of the booking for our party). Good to know... although I highly doubt I'll purchase LL again for the foreseeable future.

nickys8 days ago

It is not correct. See my reply just above.