Walt Disney World Lightning Lane Prices Go Up Again with Second Hike in October

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Posted: Monday September 30, 2024 7:10am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Just days after the last price adjustment, Walt Disney World has announced another increase in pricing for Lightning Lane Single attractions, effective October 21, 2024.

The following attractions will see their highest prices yet:

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: $14 (currently $11, $12 on October 18)
TRON Lightcycle / Run: $22 (currently $20, $21 on October 18)
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind: $19 (currently $16, $17 on October 18)
Avatar Flight of Passage: $18 (currently $14, $17 on October 18))

This second wave of price hikes in October comes amid continued high demand for these popular attractions, especially during peak times. The new prices reflect Walt Disney World's continued use of dynamic pricing, where Lightning Lane costs fluctuate based on expected crowd levels, holidays, and other high-demand periods.

Cosmic Rewind Lightning Lane will reach a nice high price of $19 on October 21, 2024

In new pricing made available over the weekend, October 18 will see the first round of price rises. On that date, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train rose to $13 (from $12), TRON Lightcycle / Run increased to $21 (from $20), and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind went up to $18 (from $17).

Notably, Disney appears to be more willing to adjust pricing on the new Lightning Lane Single service than it did on its predecessor. TRON Lightcycle Run remained at a fixed price of $20 for its entire period on the original Lightning Lane service.

Star Wars Rise of the Resistance has not seen any price increase, which remains at $25.

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Disstevefan17 hours ago

Wait - I think I figured out Disney's scheme! We have the current system that does indeed require you to spending most your time on the phone. This is as designed! Soon Disney will come out with their own Express Pass type of system - very expensive, but no need to be on your phone, just jump in the LL queue. Its the old bait and switch!!!

C33Mom7 hours ago

If you are a maximizer (or you want to do more than 1 or two tier one rides), I think you will end up spending more time on your phone—but that’s based on my experience back in Aug in the early weeks of the system, even though the parks were not very crowded. I thought it worked great at AK, about a wash at DHS, but was frustrating at Epcot and MK (compared to G+)— probably because most of the things we actually want to use it on are Tier 1… though Epcot is currently suffering from not having TT. If you can’t get to the parks very early and remain much of the day, I think G+ is/was vastly superior. We have cut down our upcoming trip length in half to avoid the few days of Thanksgiving, has the system been tested on anywhere near peak crowds yet?

MickeyLuv'r10 hours ago

Depends how you use it, what you want out of it, and how crowded the parks are. If you are more inclined to be satisfied with the pre-books, and your goal is to spend less time on your phone, that is an option- compared to G+. My experience was that- compared to G+ - there was less availability. In Epcot, there was so little availability, but standbys were mostly so short, that I just gave up looking and we did standby waits. In MK though, compared to G+, I spent more time refreshing.

Splash4eva12 hours ago

Are the analysis you are working on take into account ride downtimes when you average them out? Like for example. A ride goes down for say 10-15 minutes a small downtime and the wait time is off bc of that. Tough to blame Disney for that one way or the other.

lentesta13 hours ago

Working on it.

Splash4eva13 hours ago

Yes drops definitely are i havent paid close attention to them as i dont have anything planned so maybe i mispoke but im curious how effective they have been. So hopefully they are because my last trip and ones before they were spot on & we were able to get every attraction we wanted during the drops. Thanks Len!

Purduevian14 hours ago

I'm sure it isn't 100% unique to just BTMRR. It might just be a design "issue" with some older rollercoaster in that it wasn't taken into account for vehicle recovery. I think one of the most interesting recovery modes is on velocicoasters second launch at USO. If the block ahead is occupied, the train stops right on the launch section, then does a backwards launch to gain momentum, then launches back forwards to get the train over the top hat. (Skip to 1:08) I haven't used it yet, but I believe drops are still a thing and very similar to G+. https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/lightning-lane-drop-times.984387/

C33Mom22 hours ago

Is it actually an odd quirk of BTMRR? The one time we ended up stopped at a block break (?) on Space Mountain (at DLR) we actually had to wait until a ride attendant came over and gave us a physical shove to get us moving again. It appeared they were doing it sequentially for each car on the track, from bottom block to top.

co1006423 hours ago

Do you happen to have an average of the deviation in posted wait times and actual wait times?

Splash4eva1 day ago

For anyone on these boards Genie was a walk in park. I hav DAS and literally could have done almost everything w/o it using Genie and ILL and im far from rope dropped and with a 10 y/o wasnt staying until park closed. The drops were spot on. Literally set an alarm

flynnibus1 day ago

I think it should be obvious anyone posting about roller coaster capacity and lower dispatch times (in response to someone saying attractions can't run lower...) would know that dispatch intervals and train count are not independent. And we all already know Disney doesn't run BTMRR at max train count most times anyway. So yeah.. kinda an ACKULLY kind of post :) Let's move on :)

Purduevian1 day ago

I'm still on the fence about this vs G+, I'll be trying it in November. Things I might like: Tron off VQ, now I only have to wake up at 7am on my EPCOT day Going into the park with 3 booked I think it is a simpler system than G+ for day of planning (Use it, book another, no more timers) I think it will be less phone time day of

Splash4eva1 day ago

& this system is better for who again?

Purduevian1 day ago

Wasn't trying to correct you. Of course they can lower the throughput on BTMRR. I literally put "They really don't want to increase dispatch times on that ride unless they remove coaster trains." DLR operates with less train cars at opening every day and I think only 1 loading station. The point of the post wasn't that you were wrong. The point of the post was I thought people might be interested in this odd quirk of BTMRR as it was tangentially related to the discussion of purposely lowering capacity on rides.