We’re friends, right? And that means we want you to know everything there is to know before you ride TRON Lightcycle / Run.

We’ve been on the ride a time or two, and know the ins and outs pretty well by now. There are currently only two ways to ride TRON, and we’ve got a pretty important update when it comes to the Virtual Queue!

As a brief refresher, a virtual queue is a tool available through the My Disney Experience app that allows guests to reserve a space in line for the most popular park attractions ahead of time from their phones. If you’re able to secure a spot in the virtual queue, you will be assigned a boarding group, and then you’ll use that individual boarding pass to enter the line when it’s time to ride.

Right now, TRON is only accessible by securing a Virtual Queue Boarding Group or purchasing an Individual Lightning Lane. Essentially, if you secure a boarding group, you’ll be assigned a return window to come back and ride the attraction. Multiple rides use the VQ system in Disney World, and in our experience, we’ve been able to be late to our return window and still allowed on the ride. We’ve experienced this a few times at another new ride, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.

With us so far? We wanted to know if this was the case for TRON, so we decided to experiment. We secured a spot in the virtual queue at the 7AM drop and waited — to miss it.

Our return time window expired at 10:35AM, so we waited well beyond that just to be sure. Disney typically allows a 15-minute grace period for things like restaurant and Genie+ reservations, and we decided to wait until after 11AM before attempting to check in.

While we were heading to the ride, we overheard a Cast Member advising another guest that the rest of their party would need to be back within their window in order to ride, which made us nervous. But, we soldiered on and marched through the queue — only to find that we were able to scan into the ride perfectly fine.

This was just our experience, and there is no guarantee that you’ll be allowed on the ride if you’re late for your boarding window.

After we got off TRON, we asked a Cast Member directly who told us that the strict return times are continuing through the soft opening because they are trying to avoid having people secure a boarding group and waiting until it’s dark out to ride. The Cast Member didn’t indicate whether or not this would continue to be the case after TRON is officially open or not, but it’s definitely something to be aware of.

If you’re trying to get a virtual queue spot for TRON, make sure you don’t have any reservations or other events that could potentially conflict with a ride — or be prepared to cancel those reservations. Try to be on time if you want to be sure you can ride!

We’ll be keeping an eye on TRON before and after it officially opens, and you can check out our posts on it below:

• 5 Tips for Scoring a TRON Virtual Queue Spot
• Complete Guide to the TRON Virtual Queue
• First Look at the New Snack Stand in Magic Kingdom

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