TRON Lightcycle Run to begin soft openings at Walt Disney World

Mar 17, 2023 in "Tron Lightcycle Run rollercoaster"

TRON Lightcycle Run overview
Posted: Friday March 17, 2023 8:55am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced that TRON Lightcycle Run will begin soft openings before its official opening on April 4 2023.

TRON Lightcycle Run soft openings will begin March 20 through April 2 2023.

Access to the attraction will be via a Virtual Queue or Lightning Lane access via Individual purchase, using My Disney Experience. A standby queue will not be available. Each Guest can request to enter the virtual queue no more than once per day throughout regular park hours during the soft opening.

Guests must have valid admission and a theme park reservation to join the virtual queue. There will be 2 daily opportunities to request to join the virtual queue for TRON Lightcycle / Run:

7:00 AM (Guests do not need to be in the park when they join, but must have a theme park reservation for Magic Kingdom park)
1:00 PM (Guests must be in Magic Kingdom park to join the virtual queue)

A virtual queue will still be in place when TRON Lightcycle / Run presented by Enterprise opens on April 4, 2023.

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lnigo Montoya21 days ago

If this was a DAS-related need, fine. But as a DAS user, I feel accommodated enough that using this trick simply because someone wants to ride Tron at night, which is what many wish they could do as well, doesn't feel right. Just my opinion...

Andrew2521 days ago

If the parks actually provided decently covered waiting areas away from the sun, they couldn't care. Flight of Passage is mostly indoors and people don't mind waiting in that queue, but Tron/GOTG extended queues rely on small umbrellas and maybe 2 fans in total? The parks definitely need to do better in this regard. The wait from the planetarium entrance to first preshow typically takes ~40 minutes or so if the ride is running normal.

bmr159121 days ago

Agreed. It’s past time.

DisneyDodo21 days ago

The GotG queue feels like it goes on forever (which makes sense considering that it consumes basically an entire building that used to house a 45-min attraction). I have to imagine it could accommodate most of the demand.

Jrb197921 days ago

I hate these arguments in regards to waits and standing in the sun. I know it gets hot in Florida but it gets hot in other parts of the country in the summer too. Somehow the parks in those parts manage with guests standing in the sun. They put canopies over the queue and have fans that spray most to deal with it.

UNCgolf21 days ago

I doubt TRON will draw huge crowds; I'd expect a standby wait there to be much shorter than a standby wait for GOTG (or for Tiana, for that matter). Maybe not when the VQ first ends, but I'd expect it to settle in around an hour or even less standby except for the really busy days. Partially because it's just not very good, and partially because the MK has so much other capacity. It would get longer waits at DHS simply because there's less to do.

EricsBiscuit21 days ago

They can throttle the demand with the wait time to keep it from getting out of hand.

Andrew2521 days ago

Both Tron & GOTG have an issue if you remove VQ... they don't have enough physical queue space. Tron and GOTG both have extended queues out in the sun... can't imagine people will be happy with that. I'd imagine Tiana will get VQ, and then drop after a while, but Tron might keep it due to low capacity. GOTG probably would be fine if they had built a properly shaded extended queue.

DisneyDodo21 days ago

The capacity is the same whether they use VQ or not. It’s just a question of where people wait: either in the queue for that ride or in the queues for other rides. As long as guests can fit in the footprint of the former (which I would expect to be the case at this point), that appears to be the more logical choice.

SamusAranX21 days ago

Have a feeling they will put TBA on VQ and remove Tron

DisneyFanatic1222 days ago

VQ has a lot of positives and negatives, and it really depends on the person whether or not the positives outweigh the negatives. To me, the positives outweigh the negatives, and while I certainly see how some people prefer the lack of a virtual queue, there are just so many benefits to it that I greatly enjoy it. Overall, I’m pretty much neutral, but would likely almost never ride Guardians of the Galaxy if it weren’t for the virtual queue.

sWANNISAX22 days ago

🙄I'm sure someone could figure it out. Easier to just run them like any other ride.

networkpro22 days ago

Operations and staffing doesnt work that way.

sWANNISAX22 days ago

Let people choose if they want to wait or buy an ILL or do a hybrid. VQ until 1 and then standby