Walt Disney World Announces Major Changes to Genie+ and Lightning Lane Including Advance Selections

Jun 25, 2024 in "Disney Genie"

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Posted: Tuesday June 25, 2024 2:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced significant changes to its Genie+ service at the Walt Disney World theme parks, which will take effect on July 24, 2024.

Disney is launching multi-day advance Lightning Lane selections and other changes to its Genie service

On July 24, Walt Disney World will introduce new, simpler names. Disney Genie+ service will become Lightning Lane Multi Pass, while individual Lightning Lane will now be known as Lightning Lane Single Pass. Lightning Lane passes will blend features from current services and the previously offered FastPass+ service, which Disney says will give "guests the choice to plan ahead and removing the hassle of planning during their vacation."

New Lightning Lane Pass features:

Guests can make Lightning Lane plans ahead of arrival - 7 days in advance for resort guests, and 3 days in advance for non-resort guests.
The ability to choose experiences and times prior to purchasing.
Book Lightning Lane passes for multiple vacation days, all in a single day.

Here's how Lightning Lane passes will work beginning July 24, 2024.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass in My Disney Experience

Lightning Lane Multi Pass

When you purchase Lightning Lane Multi Pass, you may make up to 3 Lightning Lane selections in a theme park, in advance of your visit. You'll also be able to choose available times as you make your selections.

On the day of your visit, once you use a selection, check the My Disney Experience app for availability to make an additional selection.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass will have 2 tiers of attractions at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT. There are no tiers at Disney's Animal Kingdom. You can choose one selection from the first tier, and two selections from the second tier.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass Tier 1 Attractions

Magic Kingdom:

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Jungle Cruise
Peter Pan’s Flight
Space Mountain
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

EPCOT:

Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
Frozen Ever After
Soarin’ Around the World

Hollywood Studios:

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
Slinky Dog Dash

Lightning Lane Multi Pass Tier 2 Attractions

Magic Kingdom:

Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
Haunted Mansion
Pirates of the Caribbean
“it’s a small world”
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Mad Tea Party
Mickey's Philharmagic
Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor Comedy Club
The Barnstormer
Magic Carpets of Aladdin
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Tomorrowland Speedway
Journey of the Little Mermaid

EPCOT:

Journey Into Imagination with Figment
Living with the Land
Mission: SPACE
Spaceship Earth
The Seas with Nemo & Friends
Turtle Talk with Crush
Disney-Pixar Short Film Festival

Hollywood Studios:

The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror
Toy Story Mania!
Alien Swirling Saucers
Star Tours: The Adventure Continues
Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage
Disney Junior Play and Dance!
Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular
Muppet*Vision 3D

Lightning Lane Single Pass

Lightning Lane Single Pass will work much like it does today, where you can secure a time to ride one of the most highly demanded attractions, but you'll now be able to make your purchase and plan in advance. Lightning Lane Single Pass attractions include TRON Lightcycle Run at Magic Kingdom, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disney's Hollywood Studios, AVATAR Flight of Passage at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT

How to Plan Ahead Using Lightning Lane Pass

Guests staying at a Disney Resort hotel and other select hotels will be able to plan Lightning Lane passes up to 7 days in advance, for their entire stay (up to 14 days). All other guests can plan up to 3 days in advance.

These advance purchase windows will let guests secure some of their must-do rides and experiences after they've had some time to decide what dining reservations they want to book and any other plans they may need to consider.

Lightning Lane Pass Purchase Screen

Guests may purchase a Lightning Lane Multi Pass, a Lightning Lane Single Pass or both. The app will also be updated to make it quicker and easier to purchase and plan, with fewer steps and a new option to purchase Lightning Lane Single Pass and Lightning Lane Multi Pass in one transaction.

Lightning Lane Pass Selection Screen

Disneyland Resort will also use the new Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single pass names beginning July 24. Based on the different ways guests visit Disneyland Resort, the way guests purchase, select and redeem Lightning Lane passes at Disneyland Resort will remain the same.

Disney says that the complimentary features of Disney Genie service will continue to be available in the My Disney Experience and Disneyland apps.

Find Out More

For more details see: Guide and FAQ to Disney World's Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Single Pass

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MisterPenguin16 hours ago

FP and Genie+ has always been 5 minutes early and 15 minutes late. The same for VQs and ILL. EXCEPT... GotG:CR stopped caring how late you were for ILL or VQ. 2 hours. 5 hours. They didn't care. Even if other VQ rides did care. Especially TRON, which was super strict. Unless you started to cry in front of the CM. Now?!... who knows. It's cats and dogs living together.

co1006416 hours ago

Used the new system today at DHS and have surprisingly been able to redeem all the multi-pass rides by now (1:45pm local time). I definitely prefer this to system to Genie+, but I may have had a different experience if I was staying off-property.

Purduevian18 hours ago

Gottcha, I did a quick google search and lots of planning sites give the 15 mins, but I couldn't see anything on it from Disney. So: Officially official: Be on time Unofficially official: 15 min grace period In practice: 2 hour grace period Reality: Unlimited grace period at CM discretion

nickys18 hours ago

That’s what CMs will tell you. Or what Plan Disney might say. 😁

Purduevian18 hours ago

What does "Officially" even mean then if the light turns green after 2 hours?

nickys18 hours ago

Officially it’s a 15 minute grace period. In practice though, the 2 hr grace period after the end time was in effect for G+ and is still in effect for LLs. And yes, the light turns green.

Purduevian19 hours ago

I thought it was always a 15 min grace period. Anything after that was up to the CM. The claim in the video is anything within 2 hours of the end time, the light just lights up green like you were on time.

Tha Realest1 day ago

It’ll stay in DL likely for historical reasons (same with their rivers) I can see it becoming Moana land in WDW.

Fido Chuckwagon2 days ago

They’re not eliminating VIP tours, come on…

Animaniac93-983 days ago

All the reasons given for scrapping 20,000 Leagues... apply to Jungle Cruise too. That it's lasted this long is remarkable. But part of me still thinks they don't have it in them to remove it completely.

nickys3 days ago

That has always been the case. I suspect that loophole will now be closed.

Touchdown3 days ago

With EE I can do Frozen, SRL Test Track, Soarin and Rat by 10:30ish on a good day. I can walk fast though, and that’s without breakfast.

DisneyCane3 days ago

Back in the original FP days I could rope drop Epcot, ride Soarin' and TT twice each. Grab breakfast at Sunshine Seasons after Soarin #2, ride SSE and leave by 11:30. I don't know if that's possible with the current LL system. If it is, now it costs extra while I used to do it for free. To hit that rate you've got to be in very short queues. For some rides like RotR, I've ridden 3x back to back during slow times (not using LL) but it takes almost 2 hours due to the queue length just to walk through, the few minutes waiting to get sent to the pre show followed by the 3 part pre-show with another queue before part 3.

hopemax3 days ago

I'm coming back into this thread, on the last page so not really on top of the flavor of the discussion at the moment, but what a good page it is. I've always been curious about the ride slots per day. And while for a non LL analysis, this leaves stuff out like the AA shows, it's good enough to get some general ideas. However, it is insane to me that we are even talking about giving 36% of total ride capacity to 5800 people out of potentially 55,000 visitors (~10%). I agree actual usage would be lower, but it will come heavily from stuff like Magic Carpets and Laugh Floor and not the Mine Trains or Haunted Mansion. And 5800 people still represents potentially half of Peter Pan's daily capacity. At some point Disney needs satisfied bodies to keep the whole machine in motion, and 5800 people gorging themselves while the other 45,000 starve is not going to work long term, whatever some quarterly financial report says. Another thing this chart clearly indicates, IMO, is that Jungle Cruise is not long for this new Disney World. I assumed it had more mid tier capacity, but people are so inefficient in getting themselves into the boats, if that's in the ballpark... wow. Not even Peter Pan level. And the labor costs. No wonder there are these inklings that could lead to Moana going in there. Laugh Floor also seems like prime real estate, but I go to the show so rarely, I don't know how full each show gets.