Lightning Lane Premier Pass Sells Out at Magic Kingdom for the First Time Since Expanded Access

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Posted: Friday January 31, 2025 9:45am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

For the first time since its availability was expanded to all Walt Disney World guests, the Lightning Lane Premier Pass has sold out at Magic Kingdom today January 31, 2025, priced at $379. The pass was previously exclusive to resort guests before becoming available for all park visitors on January 21, 2025.

A Surprising Sell-Out on a Non-Holiday, Lower-Crowd Day

Unlike previous sell-outs that primarily occurred during peak holiday periods such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, today's Magic Kingdom Premier Pass sell-out happened on a regular park day—one that is not a holiday or a particularly high-attendance date. This suggests that demand for the Premier Pass remains strong even outside of peak travel windows.

The Premier Pass allows guests to enter Lightning Lane attractions in a single park for one day, without the need to book return times in advance. Its price varies by date and park, with Magic Kingdom often commanding the highest pricing due to its ride lineup and demand.

What This Means for Future Availability

With today's unexpected sell-out, several key takeaways emerge:

Premier Pass demand is growing. Even on a non-peak day, high demand for the pass at Magic Kingdom suggests guests are willing to pay for the convenience of skipping standby lines, even at higher price points.
Future non-holiday sell-outs could become more common. While previous sell-outs were concentrated during peak travel periods, today's event signals that regular park days may also see availability run out, particularly at Magic Kingdom.
Higher demand could lead to price adjustments. If sell-outs continue to occur more frequently, Disney may adjust pricing accordingly, as has been seen with other variable-priced offerings like Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane selections.

Planning Ahead

Guests looking to purchase a Lightning Lane Premier Pass for upcoming Magic Kingdom visits should consider securing it as soon as their purchase window opens. With availability no longer restricted to resort guests and sell-outs now occurring outside of holiday periods, competition for the pass is likely to increase.

Stay tuned for further updates as we continue tracking Premier Pass pricing trends and availability across Walt Disney World parks.

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DCBaker5 hours ago

Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Magic Kingdom is now showing as sold out for today:

SingleRider4 days ago

Back in the days of Genie+ if you had an ME pass and a later Genie+ time reserved for the ride it would pull the Genie+ reservation, even if you were HOURS early for it. And if that was your most recently booked reservation you could immediately book another. And if your ME pass was also valid at that next attraction - wash, rinse, repeat.

Tigger&Pooh4 days ago

The prevailing suggestion is to make sure you use the LLSP within the stated window (9am-10am in your example). Don't rely on any "grace period" before or after because it may take the PP at that point.

MickeyLuv'r5 days ago

Isn't what due to weather? The lack of passes?

Chi845 days ago

Isn’t that due to the weather, though?

MickeyLuv'r5 days ago

We pretty much had the opposite reaction to LLMP, given how empty the parks were this past week. The days I bought it, I thought the prebooking options were a sad joke, especially once we saw how empty the parks were. The standby waits were so low we sometimes just used the standby queues instead of booking passes. The other big problem I have with LLMP is that there is a ghost passes. We'd start to book a pass and initially be offered what appeared to be a 2-3pm pass, but then the time of the actual pass would be vastly different. Instead of 2-3pm, it would be a 3-4pm pass, or even sometimes a 7-8pm pass. That's just bad.

JD806 days ago

Not to say it could never happen, but there is no rumor about it. It's mostly speculation that gets echo'd around social media.

Spoonful of Sugar6 days ago

Just returned from WDW, using MP on a few of our days - worked well. Reminded us of FP days. We are a larger family and would never be able to justify adding such a high price tag for PP for any given day for all of us. Is there any truth to rumors that MP & SP will be eliminated...eventually leaving PP as the only option for the Disney parks?

HoustonHorn7 days ago

That's exactly how it works.

Purduevian7 days ago

Can't guarantee it. However, in the past Disney has always "used up" the most restricted valid pass when tapping in. For instance if you were holding both a ME pass and a LLMP for an attraction, the system would automatically use the LLMP. I assume it would work the same way for LLPP, but might be worth asking before tapping in.

JD807 days ago

Good question.

EpcotTom7 days ago

How would the following be handled... I purchase a Premier Pass for Epcot and a Lightning Lane Single Pass for Guardians. The single pass is for 9am-10am. I enter the lightning lane for Guardians at 9am. Which pass will be used? I'd hope the single pass leaving the premier pass usable at any time the rest of the day.

RSoxNo18 days ago

Of course it's intended. The company has very clearly used AP holders as an "in case of emergency break glass" consumer.

Vegas Disney Fan9 days ago

The only way we’d ever use MP as APs is if they made it a yearly add on, like they did with Maxpass at DL several years ago. Even if they made everything equal to onsite guests we wouldn’t be able to justify paying extra every single time we went to the parks. Paying an extra $100-200 a year for MP on top of our keys price would be a no brainer for us, having to pay an extra $20-30 a day just to enjoy the rides has made it so we won’t even bother renewing our DL key anymore. LL has changed us from frequently going APs to rarely going day guests, they’ll make more per day but lose thousands a year from us, and I suspect we’re not alone on this decision since all Keys are available for sale again, I don’t think Disney thought this one through very well.