Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind's Virtual Queue drop availability shifts to a new pattern in recent days

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Tuesday August 9, 2022 2:00pm ET · "Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind"

The virtual queue availability for EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind has recently shifted, bucking the trend that has remained mostly steady since opening.

For the second consecutive day today, the 7am virtual queue distribution has lasted longer than the 1pm distribution. Today's 7am drop reached capacity in 32 seconds, with the 1pm drop completed in 26 seconds. Yesterday saw the morning reach capacity in 11 seconds, followed by just 9 seconds in the afternoon.

Over the past month, the 1pm distribution has been available for upwards of a couple of hours. It is too early to say if we are seeing a long-term shift, but if you are planning a visit to EPCOT in the coming days, be aware of the recent trend, and don't assume that the afternoon distribution will be available for an extended period.

In addition to the distribution shift, the ride has been seeing some lengthy downtime over the past week. Saturday saw the ride closed for a third of the day, and there have been numerous reports of the teleportation pre-show being skipped entirely, and guests walked through the rooms to the loading station.

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↩ replying to gerarar
Looks like another awful day. Hope they can eventually pull it together. For a while, it seemed like it was very efficient at burning through boarding groups.
1pm drop lasted for 25.528 secs.

Up to BG 51 called at 1pm, 16 less than yesterday.
Yikes!

For the fifth time ever and for the second consecutive day in a row, the 7am drop (31.708s) lasted longer than the 1pm drop (25.528s).
They seem to be having serious problems with reliability right now.
I find it very disturbing that peope believe 1000's of line slots are gone in 10 seconds or less. How about Disney come out and admit they are doing this to sell $25 a person line access.
↩ replying to gerarar
:arghh:
I would like some better statistics by late September please. (You're in charge of that, right? ;) )
↩ replying to mwlillie
Didn't we all think the numbet of slots available at 1p was a function of ride reliability and lightning sales?
↩ replying to mwlillie
Even before paid ILL, Rise would go at 7am in a matter of seconds when it was a VQ ride.
↩ replying to SingleRider
Please stop using logic. Some on this board simply will not stand for it.
Final Day 75 Stats (8/9):
7am: 31.7 secs
1pm: 25.3 secs*
*fifth time ever 7am drop lasted longer than 1pm drop

BG 151 (-2) is the last BG called for the day.

Average pace: 4-5mins/BG

Notable 15+ min stoppages today:
9:35 - 11:15am
12:00 - 12:57pm

That does it for Day 75 of GotG: CR!
7am drop lasted for 25.348 secs.

BG's 1-20 called at 8:11am as part of the initial wave.
↩ replying to JusticeDisney
Agreed. Common Sense and Logic is the bane of Disney Park Operations!
↩ replying to raymusiccity
WDW is far from perfect, but it’s nowhere even close to as bad as the whiners here make it seem.
↩ replying to JusticeDisney
So right. I should have included the whiners. We just visited WDW in March. Our party of 14 had an awesome time!. Looking forward to our trip to Aulani in October.