In this post we discuss how we plan to use Genie+ successfully at Magic Kingdom in 2024, including our Magic Kingdom Genie+ priorities and the best rides for Genie+ at Magic Kingdom. We also discuss individual Lightning Lane access and how to make sense of virtual queues, Lightning Lanes, standby lines, single rider, and Genie+ at Magic Kingdom.
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We also suggest reading our Walt Disney World Genie+ guide for a complete understanding of the Genie+ system. To hear more about specific rides, check out our Magic Kingdom rides guide. We’ve also applied this strategy to put together a one-day Magic Kingdom itinerary.
Outline of This Post
This post is pretty large and covers a lot of information (all of it necessary, in my opinion) about Genie+ and Lightning Lanes at Magic Kingdom. It’s going to be helpful to quickly outline it so you know what to expect.
The Basics of Magic Kingdom Genie+ and Lightning Lanes. A quick introduction to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes.
Purchasing Genie+ for Magic Kingdom. When, how much it costs, and whether it’s worth it.
Individual Lightning Lane Purchases at Magic Kingdom. When, how much they cost, and whether they’re worth it.
7AM Priorities at Magic Kingdom. With multiple tasks to do quickly at 7AM, which you should do first and why.
Magic Kingdom Genie+ Priorities. A quick breakdown of the Magic Kingdom rides on Genie+ and how to prioritize them.
Magic Kingdom Genie+ Planning. How to actually use Genie+ during your day at Magic Kingdom
A Sample Visit to Magic Kingdom With Genie+. A quick itinerary showing how this all looks when it’s put together.
The Basics of Magic Kingdom Genie+ and Lightning Lanes
Again, you'll want to check out our Walt Disney World Genie+ guide to make sure you really understand Genie+, but we want to give those of you who are just looking for the basics a quick intro.
Genie+ Allows You To “Skip The Lines” At Walt Disney World
Genie+ is a paid (roughly $15 to $40 per person, plus tax, depending on the day) skip-the-line system at Walt Disney World. By purchasing Genie+ for the day of your visit to a Disney World park, you’ll be able to make bookings to access “Lightning Lanes” which are shorter lines than the regular “standby” lines that most rides have.
We’ve put “skip the lines” in quotes because you’ll usually still have some wait with Genie+, it’s just much shorter than the regular wait. A typical wait with Genie+ is 5 to 10 minutes. A long wait with Genie+ might be a 20 minute wait for a ride that has standby waits of 100+ minutes.
Not all attractions are included in Genie+. Some attractions don’t have Lightning Lanes (like Astro Orbiter and PeopleMover) and some attractions with Lightning Lanes aren’t included in Genie+.
At Magic Kingdom, TRON Lightcycle Run and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train have Lightning Lanes but are not a part of Genie+. To access those Lightning Lanes you’ll have to make separate purchases. We discuss the included attractions at Magic Kingdom later in this post.
Within Genie+, you can hold one Lightning Lane reservation at a time—with one exception that we’ll cover next. That means if you have a reservation for Space Mountain from 3PM to 4PM, you have to wait until you use that reservation (during that window) before you can book another one.
The exception is that if you book a Lightning Lane via Genie+ that starts more than two hours in the future, you can book another Lightning Lane via Genie+ after waiting two hours. If you make your first selection before the park opens, the two-hour clock starts running when the park opens.
You can’t choose what time you book your Genie+ reservation for. You have to grab the time that is available when you’re booking, and these times will roll forward as the day goes on until they run out.
This means when you open Genie+ at 7AM for a 9AM park open, you’ll probably see you can book any ride for 9AM to 10AM. But when you check after using that reservation at, say, 9:30AM, you might seem some rides available from 10AM to 11AM, some rides available from 12:05PM to 1:05PM, and maybe even a ride might be sold out for the day.
There is some flexibility here, either due to Disney releasing more inventory or guests cancelling. You might refresh and see an available time jump back from 2PM to 12PM, but for the most part, you need to plan for these times to roll forward. (Refreshing can be a powerful strategy, and I don’t want to undersell it, but for planning purposes it’s important to assume you’ll have little control of times. Once you’re on the ground making bookings, it’s up to you how much you want to refresh to try and find better times.)
Finally it’s worth noting that right at 7AM—when Genie+ bookings open—the app doesn’t show specific return times. This is because they can change quite quickly (within seconds). This isn’t a huge problem, though, because you’ll decide what ride you’re grabbing at 7AM ahead of time.
You can modify times, subject to availability. Once you book a Lightning Lane, you can modify it to another ride or another time for your currently selected ride. This doesn’t expand your options, it just allows you to have one booking secured while you search for another.
Genie+ During Special Events
Genie+ is only available during regular park hours at Magic Kingdom. It is not available for special events held before or after regular park hours, like the Magic Kingdom After Hours events (which offer very short lines without the added hassle of Genie+, but for a price):
Genie+ also isn’t available during Early Theme Park Entry of Extended Evening Hours.
Park Hopping With Genie+
Genie+ comes in two flavors—single park and Multiple Parks. If you buy it for a single park (you pick which park and they have different prices), you can only use it at that park. If you buy the Multiple Parks option, the service is good at all four parks once you purchase it for a given day (just remember you’ll need park hopping privileges to make bookings at multiple parks).
We have posts on two-day Disney World trips and three-day Disney World trips.
Purchasing Genie+ for Magic Kingdom
Before we get to strategy, let’s talk about how you get Genie+ (and Lightning Lanes) to begin with.
When can I purchase Genie+?
Genie+ will be available for purchase at midnight the morning of your park visit, and you need to make sure you’ve purchased it by 7AM because that is when Genie+ selections will open for all guests. Generally, I purchase at 6:45AM to ensure I have time to deal with any issues that might arise, like a card getting declined or the app crashing.
How Much does Genie+ Cost?
The price of Genie+ varies by the day. It begins at $15 (plus tax, so about $16) per person per day, but prices have hit $39 and we expect $45 by the end of 2024. A typical day is priced around $20 to $25. Everyone in your group needs to have Genie+ if they plan to use the Lightning Lanes for the Genie+ attractions. If someone in your party isn’t going on the rides via Genie+, then of course they don’t need Genie+.
Since Disney is rolling out new single-park options, we’ll see that each day basically has five prices—one for each of the parks and one for the Multiple Park option. Here’s the pricing for September 18, for example:
Multiple Parks: $23/person
Magic Kingdom: $23/person
Hollywood Studios: $21/person
EPCOT: $17/person
Animal Kingdom: $15/person
We expect Magic Kingdom to always be priced at or near the same price as Multiple Parks. Generally, Magic Kingdom always requires at least one full day anyways, but you might opt for the Multiple Parks option anyways. If you’re able to squeeze in even just a few Genie+ rides at another park into your day, you might save on buying Genie+ a different day in your trip.
Is Genie+ at Magic Kingdom Worth It?
Because of Magic Kingdom’s size, Genie+ is going to be worth it basically any day at Magic Kingdom. On a busier day, it’ll ensure you get plenty done without any awful waits. On a slower day, you’ll have a good shot at experiencing nearly the entire park in a single day, something that’s very hard to do.
If crowds are low, you could have a very enjoyable day at Magic Kingdom without Genie+, you just won’t be able to do as much as if you had Genie+. This is in contrast to, say, Animal Kingdom, where it is often the case that the full park can be seen on a slow day without Genie+.
There are a handful of situations that might reduce your need for Genie+ at Magic Kingdom. If you can attend Magic Kingdom Extended Evening Hours (for guests of deluxe Disney hotels), and do so strategically, you can avoid needing Genie+ the rest of the day.
If you’re attending a ticketed event it depends on your approach and what event. Something like Magic Kingdom After Hours—which is purely about the rides—will eliminate the need for Genie+. But if you’re at one of the holiday parties, where you might be focused more on entertainment than rides, you might still wind up needing Genie+ during the day.
If you can plan two full days at Magic Kingdom, you should do fine without Genie+ (but with the caveat that you will have to wait in a few lines). You certainly wouldn’t need it both days, and I usually find that even an afternoon at Magic Kingdom with Genie+ combined with a morning at Magic Kingdom without Genie+ is sufficient.
We don’t think having Early Entry (as a guest of a Disney hotel or select partner hotel) is enough to impact your Genie+ decision. At only 30 minutes and with your focus probably on Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Early Entry isn’t going to move the needle much.
If you don’t fall into any of those categories—i.e. you’re not a guest of a Disney hotel and you have one day, no ticketed events, at Magic Kingdom—you probably need to consider getting Genie+. Additionally or alternatively, you’ll need to consider Individual Lightning Lanes. Let’s talk about those purchases before moving onto Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane strategy.
Individual Lightning Lane Purchases at Magic Kingdom
In case you forgot, there are some rides at each park that are not a part of Genie+ and that require you to buy access to their Lightning Lanes individually. Magic Kingdom has two Individual Lightning Lanes—TRON and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train—which we’ll talk more about next.
If you decide to purchase Individual Lightning Lane access at Magic Kingdom, you’ll make your purchases at:
7AM if you’re a guest of a Disney resort or
At the time the park opens if you’re not a guest of a Disney resort.
If you head over to Thrill Data, there’s a chart that shows most days recently the TRON Individual Lightning Lane has been available for booking well into the morning. Keep in mind that on busier days, though, Lightning Lanes can sell out before park opening.
Is It Worth It To Buy A Lightning Lane for TRON?
Since its debut, the Individual Lightning Lane for TRON has been priced at or around $20, with Genie+ at or around $25 and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, the other Individual Lightning Lane at Magic Kingdom, at or around $12.
At this time, the only other way to ride TRON is through the virtual queue, which requires a bit of luck (no amount of skill can account for inevitable internet / app lag, and that can be the difference between getting on the ride or not). If you miss out on the 7AM virtual queue opening, you’ll be faced with a choice…
You can:
Buy an Individual Lightning Lane
Try your luck at the 1PM virtual queue, knowing if you don’t get in then you won’t be riding
You cannot just show up at the park and plan to wait in line. That is not an option. In some ways that simplifies your decision. While the virtual queue opens for booking again at 1PM, you usually shouldn’t count on that. Yes, your chances are good if you have good reception and if you remember to be on your phone exactly at 12:59:59PM, but as someone who does this for a living, please believe me that no amount of planning guarantees these factors. (It’s worth noting that many days the 1PM drop sees extensive availability.)
If this is a must-ride, the Individual Lightning Lane is your best option once you miss out on the 7AM virtual queue.
I personally don’t think TRON is worth $20. I think Genie+ ($35 recently), Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ($12 recently), and Flight of Passage (at Animal Kingdom, $16 recently) are all better value than TRON at $20. (As for Rise of the Resistance—at Hollywood Studios, $25 recently—I tend to think you can find the right time to wait in that line rather than paying such a high price.) If you’re trying to find the right places to spend money, I don’t think TRON is it.
But this is a hugely subjective analysis. I think it’s the third best coaster at Magic Kingdom (Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad). Lots of people will disagree with me, and your only chance to see who’s right might be to spend the $20 per person. If you’re spending over $6000 on a trip, and additional $80 for a family of four to ride the newest ride at Walt Disney World is maybe not something to be stressing over at this point.
Is it worth it to buy a Lightning Lane for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train?
Prices for individual Lightning Lanes are range from about $10 to $25 per person per ride, with Seven Dwarfs Mine Train being near the lower end of that. As it still draws some of the highest wait times at Walt Disney World, it feels a little silly to argue too hard that it isn’t worth $12. When it comes to Lightning Lanes, it’s the only option that doesn’t totally burn a hole in your pocket recently.
If you have multiple days at Magic Kingdom, you won’t need to pay for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. If you have one day and have Early Entry, I’m usually going to recommend buying Genie+ and starting your day with a Mine Train rope drop. In these cases, the Individual Lightning Lane probably isn’t worth it.
If you don’t have Early Entry, there’s a stronger case for buying the Individual Lightning Lane. With Genie+ you should do fine covering most of the park, but you’ll have the high waits at Seven Dwarfs Mine Train looming over you much of the day. I tend to think there’s enough fun to be had at Magic Kingdom that it isn’t necessary to pay for Mine Train. If you can fit it into your day, which you should try to, then great. If you really can’t make it work, then I assume you kept busy with plenty of other excellent things.
7AM Priorities at Magic Kingdom
Magic Kingdom now has a virtual queue! The TRON Lightcycle / Run virtual queue opens at 7AM, which means we once again have to get into the weeds about how to set priorities at 7AM. Let’s start by assuming you are the only person in your group capable of making bookings in the My Disney Experience app. Here’s what you should do at 7AM, in our opinion:
Try to join the TRON virtual queue
Make your first Genie+ selection (discussed more in the next section)
Buy your TRON Individual Lightning Lane time (Disney resort guests only)
Buy another Individual Lightning Lane (Disney resort guests only)
The virtual queue usually books within seconds, and on busy days it’s a matter of pure luck—internet speed, app lag—whether you get in or not.
What you do after the virtual queue depends on a few things. If you’re not a Disney resort guest, you can’t buy your Individual Lightning Lane until the park opens (subject to availability), so you’ll make your Genie+ pick next. If you’re not planning to buy the Individual Lightning Lane, instead hoping to try for the 1PM virtual queue, you’ll make your Genie+ pick immediately after trying the virtual queue.
If you’re a Disney resort guest who is planning to buy the TRON Individual Lightning Lane, we recommend doing that after you make your first Genie+ pick. In truth, most days it won’t matter in which order you do these two things as long as you’re moving at the speed of a reasonable adult.
We recommend making your first Genie+ pick before your Individual Lightning Lane purchase based on the fact that Individual Lightning Lane times are almost always still available by 7:05AM. Historically there’s just been no risk to waiting, and we think even a small chance at a slightly better first Genie+ time is worth prioritizing Genie+.
But there’s a good case for prioritizing the Individual Lightning Lane. First, you can always work around a sub-optimal first Genie+ pick, you can’t work around an Individual Lightning Lane that completely sells out—it’s just gone. Second, once you’re done with the virtual queue, by the time you get to making Genie+ picks the times for the top rides are going to be in the afternoon. Because of how the two hour rule works, it doesn’t matter at this point whether you get a return time of 2PM or 7PM, so there’s no harm in waiting a few more seconds to make your Genie+ pick.
While you can pick your time for the Individual Lightning Lanes, they still tend to sell out from earliest to latest. This works out perfectly for TRON, though, because basically everyone we know, including us, recommends riding TRON at night, if possible. The outdoor portion of the ride, which is only a small portion of the ride, true, is much better at night.
If you have two people in your party capable of making bookings on their device, we recommend one person deal with TRON (virtual queue and Individual Lightning Lane purchase) and one person make the first Genie+ pick. This will improve your odds of getting a good first Genie+ time.
Magic Kingdom Genie+ Priorities
This is a good time to remind you to check the height requirements at Disney World when booking Genie+, as you want to make sure you don’t wind up with any disappointed littles. While you’re at it, read about visiting Magic Kingdom with a toddler if it applies to you.
Magic Kingdom Genie+ Attractions
There are 22 attractions that are a part of Genie+ at Magic Kingdom (alphabetical order):
Barnstormer
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade (special viewing area)
Dumbo
Haunted Mansion
“it’s a small world”
Jungle Cruise
Mad Tea Party
Magic Carpets of Aladdin
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Meet Ariel at Her Grotto
Meet Cinderella and a Visiting Princess (character greeting)
Meet Mickey and Minnie at Town Square Theater (character greeting)
Meet Tiana and a Visiting Princess (character greeting)
Mickey’s PhilharMagic
Monsters Inc Laugh Floor
Peter Pan’s Flight
Pirates of the Caribbean
Space Mountain
Tomorrowland Speedway
Under the Sea
Notably missing from the list are Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and TRON which have individual paid Lightning Lanes.
Astro Orbiter, Prince Charming Regal Carrousel, and PeopleMover don’t have Lightning Lanes.
Low Priorities for Genie+ at Magic Kingdom
Okay, this is tougher than other parks. It’s not that you can’t prioritize the rides at Magic Kingdom, you can. But applying those priorities aren’t as straightforward as the other parks.
At Magic Kingdom, you’re trying to use up to 22 Genie+ reservations. That’s actually impossible many, if not most days. This leaves a lot of wiggle room between grabbing on a few really popular rides or a lot of less popular rides.
The big problem is that if you snag a Genie+ reservation for a high priority ride a few hours from now, you’ll have to wait up to two hours before you can grab your next one. Do that a few times and all of a sudden you’re only getting a handful of Lightning Lanes in a day, leaving maybe a dozen untouched.
On the flip side, you could forego some of the more popular rides and instead grab a bunch of Lightning Lanes for less popular rides.
For starters, we’re not going to spend any time on the character greetings or parade viewing in this post. We don’t particularly think the parade viewing is worth a Lightning Lane pick, and characters vary too much family-by-family, kid-by-kid for us to tell you what to prioritize.
You can see how popular these are (in some cases, very) over at Thrill Data, but for our purposes we’re going to assume you either (1) aren’t interested in using a Genie+ pick to meet a character or (2) can figure out how to fit a character greeting into your strategy if its important to you. That leaves us 17 more attractions.
Next, here are the eight rides I’m considering “low priority” Genie+ at Magic Kingdom: Barnstormer, Dumbo, “it’s a small world,” Mad Tea Party, Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Mickey’s PhilharMagic, Monsters Inc Laugh Floor, and Under the Sea.
Importantly—“low priority” doesn’t mean you should just ignore these. In fact, just given how popular the high priority rides are, there’s a good chance you’ll wind up using Genie+ more for the low priority rides than the high priority rides. The point is simply that you need to make sure you have a plan for the rest of the rides, while the low priority rides you can more or less just let fall into place as you go about your day.
Now we’re left with nine medium and high priority rides. In the medium priority group, I’m putting Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Tomorrowland Speedway.
Best Rides to Genie+ At Magic Kingdom
The best rides to Genie+ at Magic Kingdom, our high-priority group, are:
Jungle Cruise
Peter Pan’s Flight
Space Mountain
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Haunted Mansion
Over the last year, Jungle Cruise has pretty well established itself as the top Genie+ pick in the park. It’s a popular ride that isn’t a part of Early Entry. Peter Pan’s Flight has seen a bit of a resurgence lately and now is about as popular at Jungle Cruise. Peter Pan’s Flight is a part of Early Entry, and we’ll discuss how this impacts your planning later on.
Space Mountain sits comfortably behind those two rides when it comes to popularity. It won’t be the third most popular ride every day, but it is a part of Early Entry which can complicate your plans for riding it.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is arguably the best roller coaster in Magic Kingdom and has also long been popular.
Haunted Mansion is really sort of between “High” and “Medium” priority, but it’s worth mentioning it here because it can compete with these rides on some days.
Magic Kingdom Genie+ Planning
Now that we’ve covered the Magic Kingdom Genie+ priorities, we need to talk about how to actually put together a day at the park.
What Genie+ Reservation should I grab first at Magic Kingdom?
The first thing to understand is that you don’t have to make your picks in order of popularity. Here’s a quick example to illustrate a point…
Let’s say at 7AM, Kenny books a 9AM (park opening time) time for Jungle Cruise. He taps in at 9:05AM and immediately books Peter Pan’s Flight, which is now giving return times at 12PM. On the other hand, Emily books a 9AM time for Peter Pan’s Flight. At 9:05AM she taps in and immediately books Jungle Cruise, which is now giving return times at 2PM.
Emily has to wait longer to ride her second Genie+ pick…but who cares? Since both times are more than two hours away, both Emily and Kenny can make their third Genie+ picks at 11:05AM, two hours after they made their second picks. There’s really no loss in having to wait longer to ride your second pick once all your choice are giving times more than two hours away (of course, you could always just book, say, Mad Tea Party for 9:10AM at 9:05AM, but that’s a whole different approach).
So your first pick doesn’t have to be the most popular (Jungle Cruise), other factors can and do come into play.
For your first Genie+ pick, we’re going to consider three cases:
You have Early Entry and you’re not buying the Mine Train Lightning Lane
You have Early Entry and you’re buying the Mine Train Lightning Lane
You don’t have Early Entry
If you have Early Entry and you aren’t buying the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Lightning Lane, your rope drop will probably focus on trying to get on that ride. While in the past it was possible to get off Mine Train and get a short wait on Peter Pan’s Flight, this is incredibly rare these days.
More likely, you’ll get off Mine Train and be able to make it onto Jungle Cruise when that ride opens. As a result, we recommend your first Genie+ pick be Peter Pan’s Flight.
If you have Early Entry and you are buying the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Lightning Lane, you will be able to visit either Peter Pan’s Flight or Space Mountain at rope drop, and you’ll probably be able to make it to Jungle Cruise when that ride opens.
We prefer to start with Peter Pan’s Flight, leaving our first Genie+ pick for anything else. Space Mountain is a fine pick as far as rides go, but you might also pick a character greeting if those are appealing to you. The point here is that Peter Pan’s Flight is an incredibly popular first pick, so getting an early return time is tough.
Picking something else means you’ll likely have an earlier return time, which allows you to make your second Genie+ pick sooner (as long as that earlier return time is less than two hours before the park opens).
If you don’t have Early Entry, we recommend picking Peter Pan’s Flight with your first Genie+ pick. Without Early Entry, you won’t be able to start your day there. Instead, you’ll probably start at Jungle Cruise, taking care of the other most popular ride on Genie+.
What Genie+ reservation should I grab second, third, etc. at Magic Kingdom?
Once you’re through your first reservation, you’ll be faced with a dilemma—do you pick something with a timeslot that starts sooner, or do you pick a ride with a later timeslot (because that means its running out). Not following? Here’s a made up example.
You get off Peter Pan’s Flight at 10:15AM. You open Genie+ and see Jungle Cruise is available at 1PM to 2PM, but Haunted Mansion is open at 11AM to 12PM. Which to pick?
Jungle Cruise is obviously more popular right now. If you book Haunted Mansion, reservations for Jungle Cruise may run out by the time you can make your next booking. If you book Jungle you’ve got 2 hours without any new Genie+ bookings (and who knows what will be available when you’re done).
If you’ve only got one popular ride to worry about, this isn’t a huge problem. You could ride a few less popular rides for a few hours, grab your Genie+ reservation for the more popular ride before it runs out, and then wait the two hours before you get back to booking.
If you’ve got a few popular rides (or it’s a busy day, in which case everything is popular), you’ll have to be a bit more strategic. Keep your eyes closely on the return times of the most important rides, making sure you don’t wait too long to book anything you absolutely must do.
A Sample Visit to Magic Kingdom With Genie+
Here’s a schedule from an actual day I spent at Magic Kingdom using Genie+ and an individual Lightning Lane for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. Unless otherwise noted, you can assume the Genie+ selections were made one after another, or about 15 minutes before the return time. Rides I rode via Lightning Lane are noted.
(NB: This particular day didn’t include TRON. Because it uses a virtual queue and Individual Lightning Lane, you would just go to TRON at whatever time slot you wind up with.)
6:30AM Purchase Genie+ (about $15 to $35+tax)
7AM Book 9AM Jungle Cruise Lightning Lane in Genie+
8:45AM Arrive at Magic Kingdom
9AM Purchase Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Lightning Lane ($10+tax)
9:08AM Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
9:16AM Splash Mountain (closed as of January 23, 2023)
(Jungle Cruise breaks down, so Lightning Lane converts to a “Multiple Experience” pass valid all day; I separately grab a Peter Pan’s Flight Lightning Lane for 11:20AM in Genie+)
9:40AM Pirates of the Caribbean
10:02AM Haunted Mansion
10:24AM Under the Sea
10:38AM Mad Tea Party
10:50AM Dumbo
11AM Barnstormer
11:14AM PeopleMover
11:52AM Peter Pan (Lightning Lane 7 minutes vs 70 standby)
12PM Lunch at Cosmic Rays
12:49PM Winnie the Pooh (Lightning Lane 7 minutes vs 40 standby)
12:58PM Buzz Lightyear (Lightning Lane walk on vs 30 standby)
1:21PM 7D Mine Train (Lightning Lane 11 minutes vs 60 standby)
1:44PM Small World (Lightning Lane 7 minutes vs 30 standby)
2:43PM Space Mountain (posted 30 minutes, actual 34)
3:06PM Tomorrowland Speedway (Lightning Lane 6 minutes vs 20 standby)
3:30PM Monsters Inc (posted 10 minutes, actual 16)
Dole whip at Aloha Isle
4:20PM Magic Carpets (Lightning Lane 6 minutes vs 20 standby)
4:34PM Jungle Cruise (Lightning Lane 6 minutes vs 65 standby)
Ordinarily, we have a full post dedicated to our one-day Magic Kingdom itinerary. That post hasn’t been updated to account for Genie+ yet, but it will be updated shortly thereafter.
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