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

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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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docnabox3 minutes ago

I get more of an "Oh good, it is almost over" feeling

gerarar4 minutes ago

Disney adding Walt and more to Disney Enchantment wasn't a move to salvage and save it. It was already decided at that point that it was going to be replaced with HEA. The new intro was added in August 2022 and less than a month later it was announced at D23 in September that HEA would be returning. We also know that Live Entertainment had about a month to add that new intro (quote from one of the people that work on the projections) and rework the pyro. It was just done to simply appease fans and do something meaningful for the 50th (or whatever remained of the "celebration"). I would say it did work even though nothing at that point would save DE from being replaced. They didn't have to, but they did so anyways.

Sirwalterraleigh5 minutes ago

Not sure anyone is gonna care

Sirwalterraleigh5 minutes ago

And that’s working so well their products are being rejected in a good economy over the last year to a level NEVER seen in corporate history “Pay no attention to the fire behind the curtain”

Sirwalterraleigh7 minutes ago

D’Amaro is a puppet…a tool Every P&R head is. It’s been decades of this. Not his fault…it’s the design of the job. P&R head is high profile and meant to run interference for the most dedicated fans as the egomaniac in the C-suite with all the budget say does what he wants. Same as it has been since the pressler days.

shambolicdefending9 minutes ago

IMO, the recent pattern at Disney seems to be blaming the consumers for not liking their "magical" products enough. Especially since the old version of this attraction was viewed as "troublesome," it won't be hard for them to promote the narrative that the ride is perfectly fine and it's just the old, irrelevant, unmodernized crowd trying to poison the well.

drizgirl11 minutes ago

Nailed it.

Sirwalterraleigh12 minutes ago

…about the same chance they fix imagination after Eisner had the ride stopped and stormed off in 1999… …so “not looking good”

davis_unoxx37 minutes ago

“We’re almost there” Honestly I’m glad this ride is getting the bashing it deserved, people that said this wouldn’t live to Splash were called horrible things for years, said we only had issues with the new ride because it was about Tiana…

Starship82439 minutes ago

Although I don't have the same distain for this ride that a lot of people on here have I will admit the ride has significant glaring problems. What do we think the chances are that if guests don't like this they go in and try to fix it by say adding in more AAs to fix the deadspace and screens and adding in some sort of danger before the drop. The problems with this ride in it's current form are very easy to fix. It wouldn't be the first time we've seen Disney change something because of intense backlash, just in the last couple years we saw them add the Walt intro to Enchantment half way through it's run to try to salvage it. I mean it didn't work but at least they tried.

Clamman7342 minutes ago

In Splash, you get that "uh-oh" feeling going up the lift hill, with this it seems like you get an "oh ok" feeling.

MerlinTheGoat49 minutes ago

Naveen is only in the finale, he is otherwise entirely absent from the ride. At least WDW's version. He was present in a piece of art for the version at Disneyland, a unique scene with him and Tiana (with her holding a lantern) in a boat. This was not built at WDW however. It remains to be seen whether Disneyland will have any significant differences in their version of the ride. A while back, it was stated by Splash Mountain Archives (who has been a very reputable source of info for this project) that this piece of art would be located in the former Laughing Place flooded cavern at Disneyland. Reason being that there was already an existing boat prop there occupied by a figure of a dog, so they wanted to reuse the boat for a new scene. However, i'm unsure whether this is still the plan currently. WDW's version did something extremely different with this entire underground area. Choosing to have guests shrunken down to the size of small critters and have gigantic scenery, frogs and fireflies. If they replicate this same scene at Disneyland, then it would not make any sense for this scene with Tiana and Naveen to be down there anymore.