Today February 2025, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is not the use of a digital queue all the way through EPCOT’s standard running hours because it opened over Memorial Day weekend just about 3 years in the past. Right through the ones 1,002 days, the trip simplest posted a wait time and used a standby line all the way through exhausting price tag, restricted capability events.
As such, this marks the primary time ever that we’ve observed simply how well-liked and in-demand one in every of Walt Disney Global’s latest headliner appeal is all the way through a typical operational setting. Will or not it’s EPCOT’s longest wait time, dethroning Remy’s Ratatouille Journey? Given the loss of ‘grownup’ sights with Take a look at Observe closed for reimagining, may just it additionally surpass Slinky Canine Sprint, Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach, Avatar Flight of Passage, TRON Lightcycle Run, or different headliners? We’re about to determine.
Ahead of we get going, we wish to reiterate that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind switching to standby may have massive ramifications on step by step EPCOT itineraries. That is the largest exchange in over a decade for EPCOT technique, extra so than any of the opposite new rides that experience debuted all the way through that point. Now not even the transfer from Further Magic Hours to Early Access/Prolonged Night Hours or unfastened FastPass being changed by way of Lightning Lanes was once as impactful. The ones have been relatively lateral shifts, while this introduces a brand new mega E-Price tag headliner with a typical line.
With that stated, we additionally wish to warning that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is losing its digital queue within the middle of EPCOT’s low season. There’s a explanation why Walt Disney Global strategically timed the transfer to standby this week. It’s the calm after Mid-Iciness Damage remaining week and prior to the Spring Damage hurricane, and one in every of our 10 Best possible Weeks to Consult with Walt Disney Global in 2025. At EPCOT, particularly, it’s additionally a temporary window between two fairs.
It’s additionally true that there are heaps of bloggers, vloggers, and influencers who wish to be the primary to do Cosmic Rewind’s standby line, for no matter explanation why. But it surely’s no longer like peculiar Annual Passholders and locals are going to return out of the woodwork, taking day without work paintings, for this transfer to standby. That is not anything like a brand new appeal opening relating to call for, as must be obtrusive.
Then there’s the truth that EPCOT operations has little or no revel in with this trip having a typical queue, which means that the posted wait instances are going to be in every single place, continuously divorced from their precise waits (in tactics each just right and unhealthy). They’re figuring this out as they move.
What I’m pronouncing is that the primary few days of Cosmic Rewinds’s standby line can be not anything like the beginning of Flower & Lawn or middle of Spring Damage (Orange County’s recess is true across the nook in mid-March), which can be not anything like mid-Would possibly or when Take a look at Observe 3.0 opens. For those who’re visiting for Easter or this Christmas and wish to know the way this queue will have an effect on you, it’s too early to inform. The results from February merely gained’t be dependable for March via overdue April.
For the ones in need of extra dependable suggestions, we’ll be box trying out technique for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however simplest as soon as crowd ranges build up beginning with Mardi Gras and proceeding with Spring Damage in March and April.
There are a few issues value noting. The primary is that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is open for Early Access at EPCOT, and is the reason its upper wait time as of 9 am. It had already been running for half-hour at that time, which is enough time for the majority of on-site Early Access visitors to make their strategy to the appeal and raise wait instances for the common rope drop crowd.
The second one is that each Remy’s Ratatouille Journey and Frozen Ever After had sporadic downtime all through the primary day of Cosmic Rewind’s standby line, together with within the first couple hours of the day. In concept, this will have higher wait instances for Cosmic Rewind. In follow, we’re no longer certain simply how impactful that is (but). It’s a lot more most likely that a kind of rides happening would build up wait instances on the different, given their location in Global Exhibit and family-friendly demographics. Nonetheless, Cosmic Rewind may just see a slight bump.
Slicing to the chase, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind posted a 35 minute wait time to start out the morning, from Early Access via common rope drop. In a while thereafter, it inched as much as 45 after which 50 mins. With out being there, I’m going to danger a wager that the true wait at ~9:25 a.m. was once no longer the posted 50 mins, however relatively, a lot upper. I’m beautiful assured on this simply judging by way of footage of the prolonged queue and understanding what the approximate precise wait is as soon as the road is out the door.
Finally, just a couple mins later, the wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind skyrocketed from 50 mins to 170 mins in a single fell swoop. That’s the place it stayed for a whopping ~6 mins, prior to plummeting to a still-high 135 mins. That wait time simplest lasted ~9 mins, prior to it was once right down to “simplest” 110 mins.
By means of 9:46 a.m., Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was once right down to an 85 minute posted wait time. On the possibility of declaring the most obvious, the former ~quarter-hour value of posted wait instances have been fallacious. It’s no longer like you have to get in line at 9:25 a.m. and simplest wait 50 mins, while any individual lining up 5 mins later would wait 170 mins and any individual leaping in every other 10 mins after that might wait 85 mins. That defies the regulations of, I dunno, one thing. Except we’re the use of leap issues to commute via time and house. So becoming for Cosmic Rewind, I guess.
This sort of ‘whiplash impact’ with wait instances in truth occurs so much. A actually low wait time will trap numerous visitors suddenly, and in reaction, the posted wait time skyrockets. We’ve identified in the past that it’s higher to look forward to when wait instances will drop relatively than reacting to it. In a different way, you’ll be a part of the flood of visitors all arriving round the similar time, relatively than using the wave, so that you could discuss. Regardless, that whiplash impact can not happen in such extremes–in each instructions–in this type of brief time frame. That’s not imaginable.
As intimated above, we additionally know from previous revel in that the true wait time is more or less 60 mins when the standby line hits the entrance front. In fact, this may range according to the allocation of capability and influx of visitors throughout the Lightning Lane (each paid and differently), in addition to operational potency. However, it’s a coarse rule of thumb and person who we’ll proceed to observe because the mud settles at the standby line.
After 9:45 a.m., the wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind by no means once more hit triple digits. The remainder of the day was once most commonly uneventful, with a wait time vary of fifty to 65 mins for nearly all of the noon stretch.
There have been a few spikes to 70 mins, however it was once remarkably constant after the rope drop rush and the ones ping-ponging waits. If truth be told, there have been a couple of instances after we noticed 2-3 different sights with upper wait instances than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind! (Once more, downtime in different places in EPCOT performed a job there.)
Essentially the most noteworthy development is that Cosmic Rewind’s wait time ticked up within the night time, expanding to 70 mins at round 5 p.m., 75 mins by way of 6:45 p.m., and 85 mins at round 7:15 p.m. By means of round 8:00 p.m., it began a gradual and stable decline to 50 mins, which was once the posted wait time at park remaining. This was once virtually indubitably overstated, as is all the time the case with wait instances within the remaining hour of the night time, as they act as a deterrent.
From this, we have now a couple of initial observations. The primary is that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind goes to be a really perfect choice all the way through Early Access. This contains visitors arriving by way of Global Gateway, and can stay true at the same time as crowds build up and if the protecting issues for Early Access evolve (they have already got!). Assuming, in fact, you’re prepared to make the lengthy stroll.
What’s extra of an open query is whether or not Cosmic Rewind would be the absolute best Early Access choice. This may well be untimely after simplest two mornings, however I’m beginning to assume it’ll no longer. Cosmic Rewind might siphon off sufficient Global Gateway visitors that it turns into more straightforward to hit Remy’s Ratatouille Journey and Frozen Ever After prior to common rope drop.
As soon as Take a look at Observe reopens (and the preliminary fanfare dies down), it can be imaginable to briefly knock out all 3 with minimum morning waits by way of mid-2026. Speak about getting forward of ourselves, despite the fact that.
We’re additionally totally anticipating there to be a mid-morning lull for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. This is a simple prediction, as there all the time is for those headliners. The “when” of that is in truth probably the most tricky as it is determined by the cadence of rope crowd crowds inflicting wait instances to spike. Up to now via 2 mornings, we haven’t actually observed this, however it’s a gradual week for EPCOT.
This dynamic happens as somewhat of an accordion impact, as other folks get started seeing the posted wait time imbalance and keeping off the appeal in query. After which , it drops dramatically. This ceaselessly took place at Magic Kingdom pre-TRON at Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach; it will have a 90 minute wait at 9:30 am whilst virtually each and every different appeal is at half-hour or much less. The logical visitor thus have shyed away from SDMT and does one thing else. That occurs en masse, generating the aforementioned dynamic.
Noon must proceed to be moderately constant, even as soon as Mardi Gras and Spring Damage roll round. Wait instances will simply be constantly upper then. The true wildcards are after paintings as soon as EPCOT Flower & Lawn Pageant begins, and on weekends.
Generally, the entrance of the park begins emptying out later within the day as visitors transfer directly to Global Exhibit. Then again, we’d be expecting locals arriving after paintings will motive a extra pronounced spike all the way through fairs (and all day on weekends).
The remaining hour of the day must be reliably decrease, without reference to what posted wait instances replicate. The entrance of EPCOT hollows out as each and every is getting spots for Luminous: The Symphony of Us. With the exception of Early Access, that is the most productive time to do any trip in EPCOT–particularly the ones within the former Long run Global. The one problem is it sacrifices gazing the fireworks and simply normally playing Global Exhibit at night time.
In the long run, it’ll be fascinating to peer how lengthy 170 mins stays the height wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. My wager is that it’ll no longer exceed that high-water mark for the rest of this month, however will as soon as March rolls round. Something I’m assured in predicting is that we have got but to peer the height wait time for Cosmic Rewind in 2025.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is sort of indubitably the caliber of appeal that’ll hit 3-hour traces every so often in height crowd ranges. To be transparent, I’m no longer suggesting this may increasingly occur with any stage of regularity (it gained’t), however it’ll be one thing to wait for round Easter and perhaps Mardi Gras, first weekend of Flower & Lawn, or Orange County’s Spring Damage.
It’s additionally imaginable this spike will happen previous, or at a random time if one of the vital loading stations is going down. Then again, it is helping that Cosmic Rewind has an overly wholesome hourly capability, generally operates successfully, and is without doubt one of the maximum dependable new sights at Walt Disney Global of the decade.
On the very least, EPCOT goes to be considerably busier beginning subsequent week, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind must beautiful simply have the ability to hit two hours with regularity. I believe 120+ minute height posted wait instances all through March and April are beautiful secure bets. The simpler query is the place Cosmic Rewind will rank amongst all sights at Walt Disney Global. It’s already beautiful transparent it’ll no longer be the number one wait time resort-wide, however will or not it’s the longest wait at EPCOT, or will Remy’s Ratatouille Journey surpass it? Will have to be fascinating to peer, however finally, it’s secure to mention the worst case doom and gloom predictions aren’t going to play out.
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Find out about accommodations on our Walt Disney Global Inns Opinions web page. For the place to consume, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Opinions. To save cash on tickets or resolve which sort to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular take a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Experience Guides will lend a hand. For complete recommendation, the most productive position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Shuttle Making plans Information for the entirety you wish to have to grasp!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you are expecting the height posted wait time can be for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in March and April? What’s your optimum means and time of day to trip Cosmic Rewind? What would you suggest to Walt Disney Global first-timers? Will you persist with standby at one of the vital preferrred instances or purchase a Lightning Lane Unmarried Go? Do you settle or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will allow you to solution? Listening to your comments–even whilst you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please percentage your ideas beneath within the feedback!
Today February 2025, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is not the use of a digital queue all the way through EPCOT’s standard running hours because it opened over Memorial Day weekend just about 3 years in the past. Right through the ones 1,002 days, the trip simplest posted a wait time and used a standby line all the way through exhausting price tag, restricted capability events.
As such, this marks the primary time ever that we’ve observed simply how well-liked and in-demand one in every of Walt Disney Global’s latest headliner appeal is all the way through a typical operational setting. Will or not it’s EPCOT’s longest wait time, dethroning Remy’s Ratatouille Journey? Given the loss of ‘grownup’ sights with Take a look at Observe closed for reimagining, may just it additionally surpass Slinky Canine Sprint, Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach, Avatar Flight of Passage, TRON Lightcycle Run, or different headliners? We’re about to determine.
Ahead of we get going, we wish to reiterate that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind switching to standby may have massive ramifications on step by step EPCOT itineraries. That is the largest exchange in over a decade for EPCOT technique, extra so than any of the opposite new rides that experience debuted all the way through that point. Now not even the transfer from Further Magic Hours to Early Access/Prolonged Night Hours or unfastened FastPass being changed by way of Lightning Lanes was once as impactful. The ones have been relatively lateral shifts, while this introduces a brand new mega E-Price tag headliner with a typical line.
With that stated, we additionally wish to warning that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is losing its digital queue within the middle of EPCOT’s low season. There’s a explanation why Walt Disney Global strategically timed the transfer to standby this week. It’s the calm after Mid-Iciness Damage remaining week and prior to the Spring Damage hurricane, and one in every of our 10 Best possible Weeks to Consult with Walt Disney Global in 2025. At EPCOT, particularly, it’s additionally a temporary window between two fairs.
It’s additionally true that there are heaps of bloggers, vloggers, and influencers who wish to be the primary to do Cosmic Rewind’s standby line, for no matter explanation why. But it surely’s no longer like peculiar Annual Passholders and locals are going to return out of the woodwork, taking day without work paintings, for this transfer to standby. That is not anything like a brand new appeal opening relating to call for, as must be obtrusive.
Then there’s the truth that EPCOT operations has little or no revel in with this trip having a typical queue, which means that the posted wait instances are going to be in every single place, continuously divorced from their precise waits (in tactics each just right and unhealthy). They’re figuring this out as they move.
What I’m pronouncing is that the primary few days of Cosmic Rewinds’s standby line can be not anything like the beginning of Flower & Lawn or middle of Spring Damage (Orange County’s recess is true across the nook in mid-March), which can be not anything like mid-Would possibly or when Take a look at Observe 3.0 opens. For those who’re visiting for Easter or this Christmas and wish to know the way this queue will have an effect on you, it’s too early to inform. The results from February merely gained’t be dependable for March via overdue April.
For the ones in need of extra dependable suggestions, we’ll be box trying out technique for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, however simplest as soon as crowd ranges build up beginning with Mardi Gras and proceeding with Spring Damage in March and April.
There are a few issues value noting. The primary is that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is open for Early Access at EPCOT, and is the reason its upper wait time as of 9 am. It had already been running for half-hour at that time, which is enough time for the majority of on-site Early Access visitors to make their strategy to the appeal and raise wait instances for the common rope drop crowd.
The second one is that each Remy’s Ratatouille Journey and Frozen Ever After had sporadic downtime all through the primary day of Cosmic Rewind’s standby line, together with within the first couple hours of the day. In concept, this will have higher wait instances for Cosmic Rewind. In follow, we’re no longer certain simply how impactful that is (but). It’s a lot more most likely that a kind of rides happening would build up wait instances on the different, given their location in Global Exhibit and family-friendly demographics. Nonetheless, Cosmic Rewind may just see a slight bump.
Slicing to the chase, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind posted a 35 minute wait time to start out the morning, from Early Access via common rope drop. In a while thereafter, it inched as much as 45 after which 50 mins. With out being there, I’m going to danger a wager that the true wait at ~9:25 a.m. was once no longer the posted 50 mins, however relatively, a lot upper. I’m beautiful assured on this simply judging by way of footage of the prolonged queue and understanding what the approximate precise wait is as soon as the road is out the door.
Finally, just a couple mins later, the wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind skyrocketed from 50 mins to 170 mins in a single fell swoop. That’s the place it stayed for a whopping ~6 mins, prior to plummeting to a still-high 135 mins. That wait time simplest lasted ~9 mins, prior to it was once right down to “simplest” 110 mins.
By means of 9:46 a.m., Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was once right down to an 85 minute posted wait time. On the possibility of declaring the most obvious, the former ~quarter-hour value of posted wait instances have been fallacious. It’s no longer like you have to get in line at 9:25 a.m. and simplest wait 50 mins, while any individual lining up 5 mins later would wait 170 mins and any individual leaping in every other 10 mins after that might wait 85 mins. That defies the regulations of, I dunno, one thing. Except we’re the use of leap issues to commute via time and house. So becoming for Cosmic Rewind, I guess.
This sort of ‘whiplash impact’ with wait instances in truth occurs so much. A actually low wait time will trap numerous visitors suddenly, and in reaction, the posted wait time skyrockets. We’ve identified in the past that it’s higher to look forward to when wait instances will drop relatively than reacting to it. In a different way, you’ll be a part of the flood of visitors all arriving round the similar time, relatively than using the wave, so that you could discuss. Regardless, that whiplash impact can not happen in such extremes–in each instructions–in this type of brief time frame. That’s not imaginable.
As intimated above, we additionally know from previous revel in that the true wait time is more or less 60 mins when the standby line hits the entrance front. In fact, this may range according to the allocation of capability and influx of visitors throughout the Lightning Lane (each paid and differently), in addition to operational potency. However, it’s a coarse rule of thumb and person who we’ll proceed to observe because the mud settles at the standby line.
After 9:45 a.m., the wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind by no means once more hit triple digits. The remainder of the day was once most commonly uneventful, with a wait time vary of fifty to 65 mins for nearly all of the noon stretch.
There have been a few spikes to 70 mins, however it was once remarkably constant after the rope drop rush and the ones ping-ponging waits. If truth be told, there have been a couple of instances after we noticed 2-3 different sights with upper wait instances than Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind! (Once more, downtime in different places in EPCOT performed a job there.)
Essentially the most noteworthy development is that Cosmic Rewind’s wait time ticked up within the night time, expanding to 70 mins at round 5 p.m., 75 mins by way of 6:45 p.m., and 85 mins at round 7:15 p.m. By means of round 8:00 p.m., it began a gradual and stable decline to 50 mins, which was once the posted wait time at park remaining. This was once virtually indubitably overstated, as is all the time the case with wait instances within the remaining hour of the night time, as they act as a deterrent.
From this, we have now a couple of initial observations. The primary is that Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind goes to be a really perfect choice all the way through Early Access. This contains visitors arriving by way of Global Gateway, and can stay true at the same time as crowds build up and if the protecting issues for Early Access evolve (they have already got!). Assuming, in fact, you’re prepared to make the lengthy stroll.
What’s extra of an open query is whether or not Cosmic Rewind would be the absolute best Early Access choice. This may well be untimely after simplest two mornings, however I’m beginning to assume it’ll no longer. Cosmic Rewind might siphon off sufficient Global Gateway visitors that it turns into more straightforward to hit Remy’s Ratatouille Journey and Frozen Ever After prior to common rope drop.
As soon as Take a look at Observe reopens (and the preliminary fanfare dies down), it can be imaginable to briefly knock out all 3 with minimum morning waits by way of mid-2026. Speak about getting forward of ourselves, despite the fact that.
We’re additionally totally anticipating there to be a mid-morning lull for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. This is a simple prediction, as there all the time is for those headliners. The “when” of that is in truth probably the most tricky as it is determined by the cadence of rope crowd crowds inflicting wait instances to spike. Up to now via 2 mornings, we haven’t actually observed this, however it’s a gradual week for EPCOT.
This dynamic happens as somewhat of an accordion impact, as other folks get started seeing the posted wait time imbalance and keeping off the appeal in query. After which , it drops dramatically. This ceaselessly took place at Magic Kingdom pre-TRON at Seven Dwarfs Mine Teach; it will have a 90 minute wait at 9:30 am whilst virtually each and every different appeal is at half-hour or much less. The logical visitor thus have shyed away from SDMT and does one thing else. That occurs en masse, generating the aforementioned dynamic.
Noon must proceed to be moderately constant, even as soon as Mardi Gras and Spring Damage roll round. Wait instances will simply be constantly upper then. The true wildcards are after paintings as soon as EPCOT Flower & Lawn Pageant begins, and on weekends.
Generally, the entrance of the park begins emptying out later within the day as visitors transfer directly to Global Exhibit. Then again, we’d be expecting locals arriving after paintings will motive a extra pronounced spike all the way through fairs (and all day on weekends).
The remaining hour of the day must be reliably decrease, without reference to what posted wait instances replicate. The entrance of EPCOT hollows out as each and every is getting spots for Luminous: The Symphony of Us. With the exception of Early Access, that is the most productive time to do any trip in EPCOT–particularly the ones within the former Long run Global. The one problem is it sacrifices gazing the fireworks and simply normally playing Global Exhibit at night time.
In the long run, it’ll be fascinating to peer how lengthy 170 mins stays the height wait time for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. My wager is that it’ll no longer exceed that high-water mark for the rest of this month, however will as soon as March rolls round. Something I’m assured in predicting is that we have got but to peer the height wait time for Cosmic Rewind in 2025.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is sort of indubitably the caliber of appeal that’ll hit 3-hour traces every so often in height crowd ranges. To be transparent, I’m no longer suggesting this may increasingly occur with any stage of regularity (it gained’t), however it’ll be one thing to wait for round Easter and perhaps Mardi Gras, first weekend of Flower & Lawn, or Orange County’s Spring Damage.
It’s additionally imaginable this spike will happen previous, or at a random time if one of the vital loading stations is going down. Then again, it is helping that Cosmic Rewind has an overly wholesome hourly capability, generally operates successfully, and is without doubt one of the maximum dependable new sights at Walt Disney Global of the decade.
On the very least, EPCOT goes to be considerably busier beginning subsequent week, and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind must beautiful simply have the ability to hit two hours with regularity. I believe 120+ minute height posted wait instances all through March and April are beautiful secure bets. The simpler query is the place Cosmic Rewind will rank amongst all sights at Walt Disney Global. It’s already beautiful transparent it’ll no longer be the number one wait time resort-wide, however will or not it’s the longest wait at EPCOT, or will Remy’s Ratatouille Journey surpass it? Will have to be fascinating to peer, however finally, it’s secure to mention the worst case doom and gloom predictions aren’t going to play out.
Making plans a Walt Disney Global go back and forth? Find out about accommodations on our Walt Disney Global Inns Opinions web page. For the place to consume, learn our Walt Disney Global Eating place Opinions. To save cash on tickets or resolve which sort to shop for, learn our Guidelines for Saving Cash on Walt Disney Global Tickets put up. Our What to Pack for Disney Journeys put up takes a singular take a look at artful pieces to take. For what to do and when to do it, our Walt Disney Global Experience Guides will lend a hand. For complete recommendation, the most productive position to start out is our Walt Disney Global Shuttle Making plans Information for the entirety you wish to have to grasp!
YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you are expecting the height posted wait time can be for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in March and April? What’s your optimum means and time of day to trip Cosmic Rewind? What would you suggest to Walt Disney Global first-timers? Will you persist with standby at one of the vital preferrred instances or purchase a Lightning Lane Unmarried Go? Do you settle or disagree with our evaluate? Any questions we will allow you to solution? Listening to your comments–even whilst you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please percentage your ideas beneath within the feedback!
