TRON Lightcycle Run to begin soft openings at Walt Disney World

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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.

An overhead view of the TRON Lightcycles preparing to launch

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.

Hexagons light as the lightcycles pass by

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Surferboy567Sep 16, 2025

The MCP in story is likely Ares, this is set 14 years after TRON Legacy. Where the programs of the red Dillinger grid are invading the blue ENCOM grid.

truecoatSep 16, 2025

They should install a screen above one of the gates with the old school MCP spinning, then stopping and looking at the cycles menacingly as you go under.

mattpetoSep 15, 2025

I am in interested to see if the overlay runs during the parties. I’m assuming yes, but will know by tomorrow night.

TheMaxReboSep 15, 2025

They used to do a parade for every new movie for a while, I believe that cost was funded by the budget for the movie though - not sure that would work nowadays

PurduevianSep 15, 2025

I'm all for Disney trying to get their movies into the parks super early... It used to be a big thing that would keep the parks constantly fresh... off the top of my head I think: -Space Ranger Spin opened before TS2 (before Zurg was a big thing) -BatB live opened the same day as the movie -Aladdin had a parade that opened the same day as the movie It would stop us from building an Encanto ride, set to open 6 years after the movie premiered

ToTBellHopSep 15, 2025

Listen. It’s not just lights. It’s also music. They charged us an extra $40 to turn the lights OFF at Space Mtn. New, expensive red lights and NIN music are worth at least $75 ($69.99 for APs in August and September). Wait til you visit the Grid at Christmas. You’ll be asking “Ho ho how many more of these movies will Bob approve before he accepts no one watches these movies?”

HauntedPirateSep 15, 2025

Surely changing the light color at Tron is worth at least a $10 if not $20/ticket bump. Plus they can claim “something new!!!”.

Disney AnalystSep 15, 2025

Needs more popups that won’t stop popping up no matter how many times you click “x”. Now that would be truly horrifying.

ToTBellHopSep 15, 2025

Should definitely consider this as a MNSSHP-exclusive next year.

jah4955Sep 15, 2025

classic Disney synergy...build hype for the movie by updating the ride first...hope it's worth the hype!

Surferboy567Sep 15, 2025

For a limited time thing, this is cool. I prefer Daft Punk but it’s a cool change. I think this could work well for a Halloween overlay. Excited to see the movie.

TheMaxReboSep 15, 2025

They just said Limited Time - maybe it will depend how it is received? The movie opens Oct 10th, figure at least through mid-October, but we shall see We are there early November, hope it is still going then