Hollywood Studios Queue & A

Fully indoors and air-conditioned, staged inside the Chinese Theatre. The queue winds through a movie-premiere lobby hung with vintage-style posters for classic Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts, with hidden Mickeys worked into the decor throughout.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 1) — shares Hollywood Studios' single Tier 1 slot with Slinky Dog Dash, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, so you can only pre-book one of the four. No single rider.

It's the only ride in this group with no height requirement, so it draws families with the youngest kids specifically — standby tends to run long through the first half of the day even though it doesn't always book up as fast as the other Tier 1 options for Multi Pass.

A covered outdoor stretch leads into an indoor, climate-controlled spaceport terminal styled like an airport departure area, complete with a mock security-and-luggage-screening bit. Animatronic R2-D2 and C-3PO units, an interplanetary travel ad, and an interactive talking droid fill the wait.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 2). Single rider is available.

One of the least essential Lightning Lane bookings in the park — standby is commonly 10 minutes or under for most of the day, so it's rarely worth spending a Multi Pass slot here.

Begins outdoors in Batuu's rocky forest terrain near a waterfall, at the exterior of a hidden Resistance base. The queue then moves indoors and stays there for most of its length, through climate-controlled caverns and a series of Resistance-base rooms that set up the mission — a hangar, a hallway, and a First Order interrogation scene all effectively continue the queue's story before boarding. This is widely considered one of the most elaborate ride queues at Disney World, closer to a walk-through attraction than a standard line.

Lightning Lane Single Pass (approx. $15–25, dynamic pricing) — Rise of the Resistance sits outside the Multi Pass tier system entirely. A standby line is available. Single rider is offered only on select days when standby is particularly long, isn't offered in rain, and will separate you from anyone in your party who doesn't also use it.

Standby and Single Pass availability both fluctuate heavily with crowd levels; rope drop is the most reliable way to get in before waits build. When offered, single rider has run 30–50% shorter than standby.

An open-sided but covered outdoor section leads into a dark, air-conditioned interior built into the mountain at Black Spire Outpost — guests wind through docking-bay chambers full of droids and spare ship parts, with windows looking out onto the Falcon itself and an animatronic Hondo Ohnaka overseeing the operation. Received its biggest update since opening on May 22, 2026, when the mission changed to follow the Mandalorian and Grogu across new destinations (Tatooine, Cloud City, Endor, and Coruscant); the queue theming itself wasn't the focus of that update.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 1) — shares Hollywood Studios' single Tier 1 slot with three other rides, so you can only pre-book one. Single rider is available, and a "double rider" option lets pairs join the single-rider line together by telling a Cast Member at the merge point.

Single/double rider is confirmed to skip the pre-show entirely, entering straight into the holochess room (with an engineer role assigned automatically). Lightning Lane also uses a separate entrance that bypasses much of the standby queue, though it's less clearly documented exactly how much overlaps with what single rider skips.

Multi Pass return times for this ride are often still available later in the day, even after booking your first selection elsewhere — it doesn't sell out as fast as the other Tier 1 options.

Mostly outdoors and largely exposed to direct sun — a mesh shade structure was added over part of the line, but it blocks sun rather than rain, and there aren't enough umbrellas to cover everyone in a long wait. The queue's final stretch, themed as giant Slinky Dog toy packaging, is covered but not enclosed or air-conditioned. Not air-conditioned anywhere in the queue.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 1) — Hollywood Studios' most-booked Tier 1 pick, shared with three other rides. No single rider.

Historically the fastest Tier 1 Multi Pass slot to book out, often within minutes of the booking window opening — decide on this one first if it's a priority. Rope drop and the last hour or two before close are the best standby windows.

Fully indoors and air-conditioned, themed as a toybox come to life — Etch A Sketch, View-Master, Lincoln Logs, UNO cards, and other classic toys built into the decor at oversized scale. A large animatronic Mr. Potato Head greets guests with jokes and songs along the way.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 2). No dedicated single-rider line, but because ride vehicles seat four, Cast Members will sometimes pull solo guests or pairs from standby to fill an otherwise-empty seat — not something to count on.

Consistently one of the busier Tier 2 picks; rope drop and the last hour or two before close remain the most reliable lower-wait windows if you don't book Multi Pass here.

Roughly half outdoors under partial cover — enough to get hot in full sun or wet in rain — and half in a covered but open-air (not air-conditioned) second half, with the ride itself also uncovered overhead. No single rider.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 2). No single rider.

A lower-demand family ride that generally keeps shorter waits than its Toy Story Land neighbors; still worth checking Thrill Data before committing standby time to it over Slinky Dog Dash or Toy Story Mania.

Fully indoors and air-conditioned throughout. Completely rethemed from the Aerosmith version (which closed March 1, 2026) to a new Muppets storyline that opened May 26, 2026: guests wind through "G-Force Records," where Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are recording before their big show and running late. Muppet instruments and memorabilia sit behind glass, and the queue and post-show video feature real celebrity cameos. Track, ride vehicles, and overall queue layout are unchanged from the Aerosmith era — this was a theming overlay, not a rebuild.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 1) — shares Hollywood Studios' single Tier 1 slot with three other rides. Single rider is available but is widely reported as one of the least efficient single-rider lines at Disney World — it typically runs at roughly half of standby, but don't expect the dramatic time savings single rider offers elsewhere.

Historically one of the longer standby waits on Sunset Boulevard, and interest is elevated further by the 2026 retheme's novelty. Rope drop and the final hour before close remain the most reliable lower-wait windows.

Begins outdoors through overgrown, neglected hotel gardens, then moves indoors and air-conditioned into a dusty, cobweb-covered lobby, a library where a Twilight Zone episode plays on an old television, and finally a boiler room just before boarding. Since around March 2026, Disney has had an exterior refurbishment underway — repainting and scenic-aging work on the hotel facade, with some decorative columns in the covered outdoor queue area temporarily wrapped in construction scrims. The ride and its queue remain open and operating normally throughout; no permanent theming change has been announced as of this writing.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass (Tier 2). No single rider.

One of the stronger Tier 2 picks if you can only choose a couple — waits build steadily through the day. Rope drop and the last hour or two before close are the most reliable lower-wait windows.