How Disney Annual Passholders Can Join the Tiana's Bayou Adventure Previews Without a Magic Kingdom Reservation

May 17, 2024 in "Ticket Annual Pass - Disney Incredi-Pass"

Posted: Friday May 17, 2024 7:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

If you're a Disney Annual Passholder, you want to be among the first to experience new attractions. With the upcoming previews for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom, you may have missed out on getting a Magic Kingdom park reservation which are all now at capacity. Don't worry! There's still a way for you to join the early previews.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure previews are scheduled for June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, and 20

Preview Dates and Current Reservation Status

Tiana's Bayou Adventure previews are scheduled for June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, and 20. Magic Kingdom park reservations for these dates are at capacity, but there are still opportunities for Passholders without a Magic Kingdom reservation to participate.

Virtual Queue System

To join the Tiana's Bayou Adventure previews, Passholders need to join a virtual queue via the My Disney Experience app. The queue opens twice a day at 7:00 am and 1:00 pm. Here's how you can make it work without a Magic Kingdom park reservation:

7:00 am Virtual Queue: This queue is only available to those with a Magic Kingdom reservation. If you don't have a reservation, this slot won't be accessible.
1:00 pm Virtual Queue: This is your key to joining the preview without a Magic Kingdom reservation.

Steps to Join the 1:00 pm Virtual Queue

Park Reservation for Any Other Theme Park: Ensure you have a park reservation for any other theme park (Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, or Disney's Animal Kingdom) on the day you want to visit Magic Kingdom for the preview. Note that you do not need to have entered a theme park to be able to request to join the virtual queue at 1:00 pm. Without a reservation at a park, you will not be able to join the virtual queue.

Join the Virtual Queue: The 1:00 pm virtual queue will be available to Passholders with a park reservation to any theme park for that day.

Preparation (12:50 pm):

Open the My Disney Experience app.
Navigate to the "Virtual Queues" section.
Confirm your party members are correctly listed.

Execution (1:00:00 pm):

At precisely 1:00:00 pm, tap the "Refresh' button, immediately followed by the "Join Queue" button. Both buttons are in the same position on the screen. Do not use pull to refresh as it is too slow.

Head to Magic Kingdom

In most cases, you must enter the theme park where you made a reservation before visiting Magic Kingdom.

Note that you can enter Magic Kingdom on June 13, 14, 17, 18, and 20 (weekdays) after 2:00 pm without visiting another park first. For the preview on June 16 (weekend), you must enter the park for which you made a reservation before park-hopping to Magic Kingdom.

After Securing a Place in the Virtual Queue

You will receive a notification in the app when it's your turn to
Once notified, you will have a specific time window to arrive at the attraction. Be prompt!

Important Tips

Plan Ahead: Make your park reservation for another park as soon as possible. Reservations can fill up quickly, especially during preview days.

Be Prepared: Ensure your My Disney Experience app is updated and you're logged in well before 1:00 pm.

Timing is Key: Be ready to join the virtual queue exactly at 1:00 pm; preparations should begin a few minutes before to ensure you are ready. Set an alarm or reminder to help you stay on track, and use another device, such as an Apple Watch, to precisely time your actions.

Preview is Not Guaranteed: Joining the virtual queue does not guarantee the ability to participate in the preview. Boarding groups for a virtual queue are limited, subject to availability, and not guaranteed. Not all boarding groups may be called to return based on the attraction's availability.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure preview

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Tony the Tigger21 hours ago

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19p3p4EG5E/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Tha Realest13 days ago

Okay. I experienced TBA in person last night (DL version). You can search my posting history here to see I was not a fan of this project, from conception to execution. That said, I give this a 9.5 / 10 upon experiencing it in person. I have some slight knocks which I’ll detail in a moment, and a slight caveat to say that I do thing it was conceived and intended for the DL setting vs WDW. Placement: 10/10. It felt it belonged organically. We did not arrive in that area of the park until after dusk, and it looked beautiful. Experience: 10/10. I was utterly charmed by the general experience of it. Story: 8 / 10. That said, the presentation of the story you were “in” felt very forced notwithstanding the fact you were spoon fed it throughout. AAs: 9.5 / 10. Most everything was functioning properly. Tiana sitting on (Louis? A log? We went by very quickly) wasn’t moving, but that was the only problem. Also very noticeable was the felt material that constitutes Louis - as we passed him, my son said, “Is he a stuffed animal?” As he said it my mind went to Lotso Huggin Bear vs Louis (especially when you see him in more reptilian form earlier in the ride). Finale: 9 / 10. There is a tough incongruency throughout the ride between the video animations and the AAs. The AAs by themselves are great and nice realizations in three dimensional space of the characters. Their movements are fluid and look great. But when placed adjacent to much more vivid and fluid animations, it makes the (admittedly impressive) AAs look more stilted and mechanical than they otherwise would appear. Conclusion: 9.5 / 10 (don’t try to add up the subcategories - I’m not sure how I weight them respectively). Overall, very impressed in a way that overcame my priors. I can see how the DL version comes off better than the WDW version as you’re whisked through there so quickly there is not a lot of time to process the shortcomings in real time. Did not get a sense of boredom riding it. A very pleasant experience which I will gladly do again.

SamusAranX23 days ago

….by the Imagineers? lol

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ23 days ago

That would have required an inordinate amount of thought and imagination.

SamusAranX23 days ago

I always said that they should have done a Tiana’s Western Expedition fusion sort of ride. You can still have the missing ingredient theme, she’s hunting out west with her New Orleans pals, only to find a familiar face from the past has also followed them….

Tony the Tigger23 days ago

We’ll have to wait for him to explain how it works. Seemed pretty busy today. I’m sure there is a reasonable reply on the way.

Brer Oswald23 days ago

Does he have someone conducting exit polls in the gift shop? Funny, nobody asked me of what I thought the 3 times I went on the ride.

Brer Oswald23 days ago

It was always going to be a weird fit. You’re taking a rustic cavernous structure themed around small woodland critters and shoving humans in their place. Granted, they could have done a better job with it than they did. What we got was basically the worst case scenario. I doubt they’ll fix it so long as it’s “serving its purpose” as a flume ride.

SamusAranX23 days ago

Disney isn’t retooling it unless the next CEO decides to pull a drastic (positive) culture shift of even higher, well placed investment. Think ala Igers original mandate to correct their “brand withdrawals”. Which he did with DCA. Then they promptly decided to completely overhaul their overhaul.

TrainsOfDisney23 days ago

Agreed. Not sure why we have to settle for “bushes” at Tiana, “snowflakes” at Frozen, and plastic “fish” at mermaid.

RosR923 days ago

I feel like they don’t even have to do that much if they really wanted to do the bare minimum, like even just add a few basic sets so we’re not floating by nothing for 90% of the ride. Like I can’t imagine making and placing a couple little critter houses is that hard or expensive

TrainsOfDisney23 days ago

If they ever rework Tiana it still has lots of potential- it’s not terrible.

TrainsOfDisney23 days ago

any guest rating is tricky - if I leave a Broadway show and someone asks me for a poll right after I would certainly rank it very high even if it was just average. (An average broadway show is still excellent). But will I revisit the same broadway show multiple times on future visits? That’s another question.

HauntedPirate23 days ago

4.5 from guests, based on what Len stated previously (and the same ratings they got for Splash) vs. 4.3 on the site is something being "easily skewed"?