There are plenty of choices today concerning the parks that “Walt Disney wouldn’t have wished” or would have him “rolling in his grave” in accordance with followers. The record of such issues is lengthy, starting from changing the Rivers of America to monetizing FastPass to eliminating the nice waffle sandwiches to Storytime with Deadpool’s existence.
If there’s a factor followers don’t like, you may ensure that a few of them may even mission their opinions onto Walt to provide them extra gravitas. Digital queues are maybe probably the most notable occasion of this over the past 5+ years, since first debuting with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. In line with some followers, Walt would’ve by no means accredited of the marquee Star Wars journey not having a standby line. Ditto the entire digital queues since.
Paradoxically sufficient, Walt additionally would’ve been visibly shook when his firm retired the digital queues, in accordance with followers. It is because the corporate allegedly has solely gotten rid of digital queues to higher monetize paid line-skipping. (Hopefully these are two distinct teams of followers making these contradictory complaints.) Properly, good or unhealthy (or each?) information, relying upon your/Walt’s perspective: Disney is including a digital queue to Walt Disney. Right here’s the newest…
Starting July 17, 2025, a digital queue shall be in place for Walt Disney – A Magical Life, a brand new attraction on Most important Avenue U.S.A. at Disneyland that explores the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
Company might want to use the Disneyland app to request to hitch the queue. A standby queue won’t be accessible whereas the digital queue is in use. Every Visitor can request to enter this digital queue not more than as soon as per day.
There are 2 every day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for Walt Disney – A Magical Life:
- 7:00 AM – Company will need to have a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a one-park ticket or a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a Park Hopper ticket
- 12:00 PM (Midday) – Company in Disneyland Park or Disney California Journey Park with a Park Hopper ticket
Becoming a member of the digital queue doesn’t assure the flexibility to expertise Walt Disney – A Magical Life. Showtimes are topic to vary or cancellation.
“Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will share the unimaginable story of Walt Disney’s life. By remastered footage and audio recordings, you’ll be taken on a cinematic journey that leads from Walt’s early endeavors to the intense lights of Los Angeles and past. And when the curtain rises, company shall be transported to Walt’s workplace.
By the magic of Audio-Animatronics storytelling that he helped pioneer, Walt Disney will come to life and share heartfelt tales and phrases of knowledge. I had an opportunity to go to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale for a sneak peek on the Walt Disney determine, and the eye to element is outstanding. I can not wait to see the completed model within the precise present, which ought to be an enormous asset to Disneyland and introduce new generations into Walt, the person, as a substitute of simply Walt, the Disney Company mascot.
After its preliminary run, “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will play in rotation with “Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln.”
I can not converse as to whether this digital queue is what Walt Disney would’ve wished. Or if this present, interval, is what he would’ve wished. A lot digital ink is being spilled about all of that, because it’s an argument to some individuals. For many who are unfamiliar with this saga, many of the Disney household grandkids (and others) have given their seal of approval to this mission, however one has not.
Frankly, I don’t view the opinions of the Disney descendents–whether or not in favor or towards–as all that necessary to public notion of this mission. They’re clearly sincerely held opinions and necessary to these relations. It’s not my intention to be dismissive of their issues, however they simply don’t coloration my opinion of the Walt AA by hook or by crook.
That’s for the very same causes I don’t take into account descendent sentiment in terms of Corridor of Presidents, American Journey, Spaceship Earth, Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and different points of interest that use the precise likenesses of historic figures.
There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney himself created an Audio Animatronics determine of Abraham Lincoln to provide a really feel of who the residing man was and pay tribute to somebody necessary to American historical past.
Within the years since, Walt Disney Imagineering has dropped at life numerous different presidents (actually all of them!) and different historic figures. To my information, there has not been a lot fanfare or controversy from their households, simply as there isn’t about biopics or books about historical past.
The actual controversy, in my opinion, shall be if the corporate takes benefit of the Walt Disney Audio Animatronics determine by placing phrases into his mouth or having him say one thing self-serving. However all indicators level to that not being the case, and this mission being a real love letter from Imagineering to Walt, honoring the person and his life.
Whether or not Walt Disney wished a stage present about himself (as a threshold matter) or a digital queue to entry stated stage present can also be not possible to establish. When it was recommended throughout my go to to Glendale that Walt didn’t need such a stage present, the Imagineering leads on the mission indicated that they might discover no such file of Walt Disney ever saying that in his life.
Even assuming he did say one thing to that impact a long time in the past (and once more, there’s no file that he did!), a lot has modified since. Usually talking, that is the hazard of utilizing Walt’s phrases as the premise for precedent–and that goes for followers attempting the wield them as a sword to battle modifications or the corporate as a protect to defend them.
Walt’s contemporaneous statements had been made primarily based on his perspective on circumstances on the time (clearly), not how issues would evolve over time. As somebody with each a foot previously and eyes on the long run, and one of the vital visionary American minds who was additionally nostalgic, it’s actually not possible to mission how Walt’s opinions would’ve modified over time. How he would’ve reacted to issues that didn’t even exist whereas he was alive (“what’s a Star Warfare?”) or the evolution of his parks (“we now have one in Japan now? And we don’t even personal it?!?”).
No matter Walt Disney would possibly’ve thought concerning the depiction of Walt Disney as a robotic or statue or no matter in his parks, he essentially did within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. At a time when he was one of the vital recognizable and well-known faces in America who got here into the residing rooms of most American households by way of tv units every weekend.
Genius and visionary as he most positively was, he wasn’t forecasting out public perceptions and consciousness of Walt Disney in 2025. At a time when he’s not on TV every weekend, and when a subset of People are very dumb, consuming heaping helpings of misinformation by way of social media. Most younger individuals don’t know who Walt Disney was or, worse but, consider plenty of terrible issues about him. In such a state of affairs, would Walt welcome the chance to appropriate the file? That’s unknowable.
So I say deliver on Walt Disney – A Magical Life, with out a lot regard for a way Walt would possibly’ve felt within the Nineteen Sixties (for or towards) or how his descendents (for or towards) really feel about it right this moment. If it was okay for Walt Disney to supply his personal love letter to Abraham Lincoln a long time after Lincoln’s demise as a result of the underlying motivations had been pure of coronary heart, so too is it for Imagineers to do the identical with Walt Disney.
As for the digital queue, ostensibly the purpose of this put up, that’s merely a sensible actuality. The Most important Avenue Opera Home could be very small, there’s no room for a bodily queue, and the venue is on the very entrance of Disneyland. There’s loads of room for Indiana Jones Journey to have a standby line that snakes by way of Adventureland and spills out onto Most important Avenue. It’s most likely not a good suggestion for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to have a life that clogs up the doorway and stretches again to Buena Vista Avenue.
Nonetheless, we additionally wouldn’t count on this digital queue to final lengthy. We’re speaking a utilization interval nearer to Moana’s Journey of Water than we’re Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. On the precise anniversary (July 17, 2025), there’s going to be an inflow of Disneyland diehards, and extra demand than there’s capability for Walt Disney – A Magical Life. That’ll doubtless final into the weekend, however our guess is that by Monday, July 21, demand will begin to die down. We wouldn’t be stunned if the VQ is passed by then. The digital queue most likely received’t final into August 2025.
Truthfully, I’d love to be mistaken about this. Nothing would make me happier than for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to be completely slammed for months on finish, enjoying to packed homes. Have the famed FOMO machine drive much more demand for Walt Disney – A Magical Life amongst vacationers and first-timers who in any other case might need skipped it. So at the same time as somebody who is usually anti-virtual queue, I’m wholly on board with it on this case…and hope that it creates and sustains much more demand for seeing Walt Disney converse.
Planning a Southern California trip? For park admission offers, learn Ideas for Saving Cash on Disneyland Tickets. Study on-site and off-site accommodations in our Anaheim Resort Critiques & Rankings. For the place to eat, try our Disneyland Restaurant Critiques. For distinctive concepts of issues that’ll enhance your journey, try What to Pack for Disney. For complete recommendation, seek the advice of our Disneyland Trip Planning Information. Lastly, for guides past Disney, try our Southern California Itineraries for day journeys to Los Angeles, Laguna Seashore, and lots of different SoCal cities!
Your Ideas
What do you consider the “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” utilizing a digital queue? Is it what Walt would’ve wished, or is he rolling in his grave over this information? What do you consider it? Excited to lastly see Walt Disney honored with a present and first-ever Audio Animatronics determine? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions—even whenever you disagree with us—is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
There are plenty of choices today concerning the parks that “Walt Disney wouldn’t have wished” or would have him “rolling in his grave” in accordance with followers. The record of such issues is lengthy, starting from changing the Rivers of America to monetizing FastPass to eliminating the nice waffle sandwiches to Storytime with Deadpool’s existence.
If there’s a factor followers don’t like, you may ensure that a few of them may even mission their opinions onto Walt to provide them extra gravitas. Digital queues are maybe probably the most notable occasion of this over the past 5+ years, since first debuting with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. In line with some followers, Walt would’ve by no means accredited of the marquee Star Wars journey not having a standby line. Ditto the entire digital queues since.
Paradoxically sufficient, Walt additionally would’ve been visibly shook when his firm retired the digital queues, in accordance with followers. It is because the corporate allegedly has solely gotten rid of digital queues to higher monetize paid line-skipping. (Hopefully these are two distinct teams of followers making these contradictory complaints.) Properly, good or unhealthy (or each?) information, relying upon your/Walt’s perspective: Disney is including a digital queue to Walt Disney. Right here’s the newest…
Starting July 17, 2025, a digital queue shall be in place for Walt Disney – A Magical Life, a brand new attraction on Most important Avenue U.S.A. at Disneyland that explores the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
Company might want to use the Disneyland app to request to hitch the queue. A standby queue won’t be accessible whereas the digital queue is in use. Every Visitor can request to enter this digital queue not more than as soon as per day.
There are 2 every day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for Walt Disney – A Magical Life:
- 7:00 AM – Company will need to have a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a one-park ticket or a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a Park Hopper ticket
- 12:00 PM (Midday) – Company in Disneyland Park or Disney California Journey Park with a Park Hopper ticket
Becoming a member of the digital queue doesn’t assure the flexibility to expertise Walt Disney – A Magical Life. Showtimes are topic to vary or cancellation.
“Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will share the unimaginable story of Walt Disney’s life. By remastered footage and audio recordings, you’ll be taken on a cinematic journey that leads from Walt’s early endeavors to the intense lights of Los Angeles and past. And when the curtain rises, company shall be transported to Walt’s workplace.
By the magic of Audio-Animatronics storytelling that he helped pioneer, Walt Disney will come to life and share heartfelt tales and phrases of knowledge. I had an opportunity to go to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale for a sneak peek on the Walt Disney determine, and the eye to element is outstanding. I can not wait to see the completed model within the precise present, which ought to be an enormous asset to Disneyland and introduce new generations into Walt, the person, as a substitute of simply Walt, the Disney Company mascot.
After its preliminary run, “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will play in rotation with “Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln.”
I can not converse as to whether this digital queue is what Walt Disney would’ve wished. Or if this present, interval, is what he would’ve wished. A lot digital ink is being spilled about all of that, because it’s an argument to some individuals. For many who are unfamiliar with this saga, many of the Disney household grandkids (and others) have given their seal of approval to this mission, however one has not.
Frankly, I don’t view the opinions of the Disney descendents–whether or not in favor or towards–as all that necessary to public notion of this mission. They’re clearly sincerely held opinions and necessary to these relations. It’s not my intention to be dismissive of their issues, however they simply don’t coloration my opinion of the Walt AA by hook or by crook.
That’s for the very same causes I don’t take into account descendent sentiment in terms of Corridor of Presidents, American Journey, Spaceship Earth, Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and different points of interest that use the precise likenesses of historic figures.
There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney himself created an Audio Animatronics determine of Abraham Lincoln to provide a really feel of who the residing man was and pay tribute to somebody necessary to American historical past.
Within the years since, Walt Disney Imagineering has dropped at life numerous different presidents (actually all of them!) and different historic figures. To my information, there has not been a lot fanfare or controversy from their households, simply as there isn’t about biopics or books about historical past.
The actual controversy, in my opinion, shall be if the corporate takes benefit of the Walt Disney Audio Animatronics determine by placing phrases into his mouth or having him say one thing self-serving. However all indicators level to that not being the case, and this mission being a real love letter from Imagineering to Walt, honoring the person and his life.
Whether or not Walt Disney wished a stage present about himself (as a threshold matter) or a digital queue to entry stated stage present can also be not possible to establish. When it was recommended throughout my go to to Glendale that Walt didn’t need such a stage present, the Imagineering leads on the mission indicated that they might discover no such file of Walt Disney ever saying that in his life.
Even assuming he did say one thing to that impact a long time in the past (and once more, there’s no file that he did!), a lot has modified since. Usually talking, that is the hazard of utilizing Walt’s phrases as the premise for precedent–and that goes for followers attempting the wield them as a sword to battle modifications or the corporate as a protect to defend them.
Walt’s contemporaneous statements had been made primarily based on his perspective on circumstances on the time (clearly), not how issues would evolve over time. As somebody with each a foot previously and eyes on the long run, and one of the vital visionary American minds who was additionally nostalgic, it’s actually not possible to mission how Walt’s opinions would’ve modified over time. How he would’ve reacted to issues that didn’t even exist whereas he was alive (“what’s a Star Warfare?”) or the evolution of his parks (“we now have one in Japan now? And we don’t even personal it?!?”).
No matter Walt Disney would possibly’ve thought concerning the depiction of Walt Disney as a robotic or statue or no matter in his parks, he essentially did within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. At a time when he was one of the vital recognizable and well-known faces in America who got here into the residing rooms of most American households by way of tv units every weekend.
Genius and visionary as he most positively was, he wasn’t forecasting out public perceptions and consciousness of Walt Disney in 2025. At a time when he’s not on TV every weekend, and when a subset of People are very dumb, consuming heaping helpings of misinformation by way of social media. Most younger individuals don’t know who Walt Disney was or, worse but, consider plenty of terrible issues about him. In such a state of affairs, would Walt welcome the chance to appropriate the file? That’s unknowable.
So I say deliver on Walt Disney – A Magical Life, with out a lot regard for a way Walt would possibly’ve felt within the Nineteen Sixties (for or towards) or how his descendents (for or towards) really feel about it right this moment. If it was okay for Walt Disney to supply his personal love letter to Abraham Lincoln a long time after Lincoln’s demise as a result of the underlying motivations had been pure of coronary heart, so too is it for Imagineers to do the identical with Walt Disney.
As for the digital queue, ostensibly the purpose of this put up, that’s merely a sensible actuality. The Most important Avenue Opera Home could be very small, there’s no room for a bodily queue, and the venue is on the very entrance of Disneyland. There’s loads of room for Indiana Jones Journey to have a standby line that snakes by way of Adventureland and spills out onto Most important Avenue. It’s most likely not a good suggestion for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to have a life that clogs up the doorway and stretches again to Buena Vista Avenue.
Nonetheless, we additionally wouldn’t count on this digital queue to final lengthy. We’re speaking a utilization interval nearer to Moana’s Journey of Water than we’re Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. On the precise anniversary (July 17, 2025), there’s going to be an inflow of Disneyland diehards, and extra demand than there’s capability for Walt Disney – A Magical Life. That’ll doubtless final into the weekend, however our guess is that by Monday, July 21, demand will begin to die down. We wouldn’t be stunned if the VQ is passed by then. The digital queue most likely received’t final into August 2025.
Truthfully, I’d love to be mistaken about this. Nothing would make me happier than for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to be completely slammed for months on finish, enjoying to packed homes. Have the famed FOMO machine drive much more demand for Walt Disney – A Magical Life amongst vacationers and first-timers who in any other case might need skipped it. So at the same time as somebody who is usually anti-virtual queue, I’m wholly on board with it on this case…and hope that it creates and sustains much more demand for seeing Walt Disney converse.
Planning a Southern California trip? For park admission offers, learn Ideas for Saving Cash on Disneyland Tickets. Study on-site and off-site accommodations in our Anaheim Resort Critiques & Rankings. For the place to eat, try our Disneyland Restaurant Critiques. For distinctive concepts of issues that’ll enhance your journey, try What to Pack for Disney. For complete recommendation, seek the advice of our Disneyland Trip Planning Information. Lastly, for guides past Disney, try our Southern California Itineraries for day journeys to Los Angeles, Laguna Seashore, and lots of different SoCal cities!
Your Ideas
What do you consider the “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” utilizing a digital queue? Is it what Walt would’ve wished, or is he rolling in his grave over this information? What do you consider it? Excited to lastly see Walt Disney honored with a present and first-ever Audio Animatronics determine? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions—even whenever you disagree with us—is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
There are plenty of choices today concerning the parks that “Walt Disney wouldn’t have wished” or would have him “rolling in his grave” in accordance with followers. The record of such issues is lengthy, starting from changing the Rivers of America to monetizing FastPass to eliminating the nice waffle sandwiches to Storytime with Deadpool’s existence.
If there’s a factor followers don’t like, you may ensure that a few of them may even mission their opinions onto Walt to provide them extra gravitas. Digital queues are maybe probably the most notable occasion of this over the past 5+ years, since first debuting with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. In line with some followers, Walt would’ve by no means accredited of the marquee Star Wars journey not having a standby line. Ditto the entire digital queues since.
Paradoxically sufficient, Walt additionally would’ve been visibly shook when his firm retired the digital queues, in accordance with followers. It is because the corporate allegedly has solely gotten rid of digital queues to higher monetize paid line-skipping. (Hopefully these are two distinct teams of followers making these contradictory complaints.) Properly, good or unhealthy (or each?) information, relying upon your/Walt’s perspective: Disney is including a digital queue to Walt Disney. Right here’s the newest…
Starting July 17, 2025, a digital queue shall be in place for Walt Disney – A Magical Life, a brand new attraction on Most important Avenue U.S.A. at Disneyland that explores the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
Company might want to use the Disneyland app to request to hitch the queue. A standby queue won’t be accessible whereas the digital queue is in use. Every Visitor can request to enter this digital queue not more than as soon as per day.
There are 2 every day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for Walt Disney – A Magical Life:
- 7:00 AM – Company will need to have a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a one-park ticket or a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a Park Hopper ticket
- 12:00 PM (Midday) – Company in Disneyland Park or Disney California Journey Park with a Park Hopper ticket
Becoming a member of the digital queue doesn’t assure the flexibility to expertise Walt Disney – A Magical Life. Showtimes are topic to vary or cancellation.
“Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will share the unimaginable story of Walt Disney’s life. By remastered footage and audio recordings, you’ll be taken on a cinematic journey that leads from Walt’s early endeavors to the intense lights of Los Angeles and past. And when the curtain rises, company shall be transported to Walt’s workplace.
By the magic of Audio-Animatronics storytelling that he helped pioneer, Walt Disney will come to life and share heartfelt tales and phrases of knowledge. I had an opportunity to go to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale for a sneak peek on the Walt Disney determine, and the eye to element is outstanding. I can not wait to see the completed model within the precise present, which ought to be an enormous asset to Disneyland and introduce new generations into Walt, the person, as a substitute of simply Walt, the Disney Company mascot.
After its preliminary run, “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will play in rotation with “Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln.”
I can not converse as to whether this digital queue is what Walt Disney would’ve wished. Or if this present, interval, is what he would’ve wished. A lot digital ink is being spilled about all of that, because it’s an argument to some individuals. For many who are unfamiliar with this saga, many of the Disney household grandkids (and others) have given their seal of approval to this mission, however one has not.
Frankly, I don’t view the opinions of the Disney descendents–whether or not in favor or towards–as all that necessary to public notion of this mission. They’re clearly sincerely held opinions and necessary to these relations. It’s not my intention to be dismissive of their issues, however they simply don’t coloration my opinion of the Walt AA by hook or by crook.
That’s for the very same causes I don’t take into account descendent sentiment in terms of Corridor of Presidents, American Journey, Spaceship Earth, Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and different points of interest that use the precise likenesses of historic figures.
There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney himself created an Audio Animatronics determine of Abraham Lincoln to provide a really feel of who the residing man was and pay tribute to somebody necessary to American historical past.
Within the years since, Walt Disney Imagineering has dropped at life numerous different presidents (actually all of them!) and different historic figures. To my information, there has not been a lot fanfare or controversy from their households, simply as there isn’t about biopics or books about historical past.
The actual controversy, in my opinion, shall be if the corporate takes benefit of the Walt Disney Audio Animatronics determine by placing phrases into his mouth or having him say one thing self-serving. However all indicators level to that not being the case, and this mission being a real love letter from Imagineering to Walt, honoring the person and his life.
Whether or not Walt Disney wished a stage present about himself (as a threshold matter) or a digital queue to entry stated stage present can also be not possible to establish. When it was recommended throughout my go to to Glendale that Walt didn’t need such a stage present, the Imagineering leads on the mission indicated that they might discover no such file of Walt Disney ever saying that in his life.
Even assuming he did say one thing to that impact a long time in the past (and once more, there’s no file that he did!), a lot has modified since. Usually talking, that is the hazard of utilizing Walt’s phrases as the premise for precedent–and that goes for followers attempting the wield them as a sword to battle modifications or the corporate as a protect to defend them.
Walt’s contemporaneous statements had been made primarily based on his perspective on circumstances on the time (clearly), not how issues would evolve over time. As somebody with each a foot previously and eyes on the long run, and one of the vital visionary American minds who was additionally nostalgic, it’s actually not possible to mission how Walt’s opinions would’ve modified over time. How he would’ve reacted to issues that didn’t even exist whereas he was alive (“what’s a Star Warfare?”) or the evolution of his parks (“we now have one in Japan now? And we don’t even personal it?!?”).
No matter Walt Disney would possibly’ve thought concerning the depiction of Walt Disney as a robotic or statue or no matter in his parks, he essentially did within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. At a time when he was one of the vital recognizable and well-known faces in America who got here into the residing rooms of most American households by way of tv units every weekend.
Genius and visionary as he most positively was, he wasn’t forecasting out public perceptions and consciousness of Walt Disney in 2025. At a time when he’s not on TV every weekend, and when a subset of People are very dumb, consuming heaping helpings of misinformation by way of social media. Most younger individuals don’t know who Walt Disney was or, worse but, consider plenty of terrible issues about him. In such a state of affairs, would Walt welcome the chance to appropriate the file? That’s unknowable.
So I say deliver on Walt Disney – A Magical Life, with out a lot regard for a way Walt would possibly’ve felt within the Nineteen Sixties (for or towards) or how his descendents (for or towards) really feel about it right this moment. If it was okay for Walt Disney to supply his personal love letter to Abraham Lincoln a long time after Lincoln’s demise as a result of the underlying motivations had been pure of coronary heart, so too is it for Imagineers to do the identical with Walt Disney.
As for the digital queue, ostensibly the purpose of this put up, that’s merely a sensible actuality. The Most important Avenue Opera Home could be very small, there’s no room for a bodily queue, and the venue is on the very entrance of Disneyland. There’s loads of room for Indiana Jones Journey to have a standby line that snakes by way of Adventureland and spills out onto Most important Avenue. It’s most likely not a good suggestion for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to have a life that clogs up the doorway and stretches again to Buena Vista Avenue.
Nonetheless, we additionally wouldn’t count on this digital queue to final lengthy. We’re speaking a utilization interval nearer to Moana’s Journey of Water than we’re Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. On the precise anniversary (July 17, 2025), there’s going to be an inflow of Disneyland diehards, and extra demand than there’s capability for Walt Disney – A Magical Life. That’ll doubtless final into the weekend, however our guess is that by Monday, July 21, demand will begin to die down. We wouldn’t be stunned if the VQ is passed by then. The digital queue most likely received’t final into August 2025.
Truthfully, I’d love to be mistaken about this. Nothing would make me happier than for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to be completely slammed for months on finish, enjoying to packed homes. Have the famed FOMO machine drive much more demand for Walt Disney – A Magical Life amongst vacationers and first-timers who in any other case might need skipped it. So at the same time as somebody who is usually anti-virtual queue, I’m wholly on board with it on this case…and hope that it creates and sustains much more demand for seeing Walt Disney converse.
Planning a Southern California trip? For park admission offers, learn Ideas for Saving Cash on Disneyland Tickets. Study on-site and off-site accommodations in our Anaheim Resort Critiques & Rankings. For the place to eat, try our Disneyland Restaurant Critiques. For distinctive concepts of issues that’ll enhance your journey, try What to Pack for Disney. For complete recommendation, seek the advice of our Disneyland Trip Planning Information. Lastly, for guides past Disney, try our Southern California Itineraries for day journeys to Los Angeles, Laguna Seashore, and lots of different SoCal cities!
Your Ideas
What do you consider the “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” utilizing a digital queue? Is it what Walt would’ve wished, or is he rolling in his grave over this information? What do you consider it? Excited to lastly see Walt Disney honored with a present and first-ever Audio Animatronics determine? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Listening to your suggestions—even whenever you disagree with us—is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
There are plenty of choices today concerning the parks that “Walt Disney wouldn’t have wished” or would have him “rolling in his grave” in accordance with followers. The record of such issues is lengthy, starting from changing the Rivers of America to monetizing FastPass to eliminating the nice waffle sandwiches to Storytime with Deadpool’s existence.
If there’s a factor followers don’t like, you may ensure that a few of them may even mission their opinions onto Walt to provide them extra gravitas. Digital queues are maybe probably the most notable occasion of this over the past 5+ years, since first debuting with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. In line with some followers, Walt would’ve by no means accredited of the marquee Star Wars journey not having a standby line. Ditto the entire digital queues since.
Paradoxically sufficient, Walt additionally would’ve been visibly shook when his firm retired the digital queues, in accordance with followers. It is because the corporate allegedly has solely gotten rid of digital queues to higher monetize paid line-skipping. (Hopefully these are two distinct teams of followers making these contradictory complaints.) Properly, good or unhealthy (or each?) information, relying upon your/Walt’s perspective: Disney is including a digital queue to Walt Disney. Right here’s the newest…
Starting July 17, 2025, a digital queue shall be in place for Walt Disney – A Magical Life, a brand new attraction on Most important Avenue U.S.A. at Disneyland that explores the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
Company might want to use the Disneyland app to request to hitch the queue. A standby queue won’t be accessible whereas the digital queue is in use. Every Visitor can request to enter this digital queue not more than as soon as per day.
There are 2 every day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for Walt Disney – A Magical Life:
- 7:00 AM – Company will need to have a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a one-park ticket or a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a Park Hopper ticket
- 12:00 PM (Midday) – Company in Disneyland Park or Disney California Journey Park with a Park Hopper ticket
Becoming a member of the digital queue doesn’t assure the flexibility to expertise Walt Disney – A Magical Life. Showtimes are topic to vary or cancellation.
“Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will share the unimaginable story of Walt Disney’s life. By remastered footage and audio recordings, you’ll be taken on a cinematic journey that leads from Walt’s early endeavors to the intense lights of Los Angeles and past. And when the curtain rises, company shall be transported to Walt’s workplace.
By the magic of Audio-Animatronics storytelling that he helped pioneer, Walt Disney will come to life and share heartfelt tales and phrases of knowledge. I had an opportunity to go to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale for a sneak peek on the Walt Disney determine, and the eye to element is outstanding. I can not wait to see the completed model within the precise present, which ought to be an enormous asset to Disneyland and introduce new generations into Walt, the person, as a substitute of simply Walt, the Disney Company mascot.
After its preliminary run, “Walt Disney – A Magical Life” will play in rotation with “Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln.”
I can not converse as to whether this digital queue is what Walt Disney would’ve wished. Or if this present, interval, is what he would’ve wished. A lot digital ink is being spilled about all of that, because it’s an argument to some individuals. For many who are unfamiliar with this saga, many of the Disney household grandkids (and others) have given their seal of approval to this mission, however one has not.
Frankly, I don’t view the opinions of the Disney descendents–whether or not in favor or towards–as all that necessary to public notion of this mission. They’re clearly sincerely held opinions and necessary to these relations. It’s not my intention to be dismissive of their issues, however they simply don’t coloration my opinion of the Walt AA by hook or by crook.
That’s for the very same causes I don’t take into account descendent sentiment in terms of Corridor of Presidents, American Journey, Spaceship Earth, Nice Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and different points of interest that use the precise likenesses of historic figures.
There’s additionally the truth that Walt Disney himself created an Audio Animatronics determine of Abraham Lincoln to provide a really feel of who the residing man was and pay tribute to somebody necessary to American historical past.
Within the years since, Walt Disney Imagineering has dropped at life numerous different presidents (actually all of them!) and different historic figures. To my information, there has not been a lot fanfare or controversy from their households, simply as there isn’t about biopics or books about historical past.
The actual controversy, in my opinion, shall be if the corporate takes benefit of the Walt Disney Audio Animatronics determine by placing phrases into his mouth or having him say one thing self-serving. However all indicators level to that not being the case, and this mission being a real love letter from Imagineering to Walt, honoring the person and his life.
Whether or not Walt Disney wished a stage present about himself (as a threshold matter) or a digital queue to entry stated stage present can also be not possible to establish. When it was recommended throughout my go to to Glendale that Walt didn’t need such a stage present, the Imagineering leads on the mission indicated that they might discover no such file of Walt Disney ever saying that in his life.
Even assuming he did say one thing to that impact a long time in the past (and once more, there’s no file that he did!), a lot has modified since. Usually talking, that is the hazard of utilizing Walt’s phrases as the premise for precedent–and that goes for followers attempting the wield them as a sword to battle modifications or the corporate as a protect to defend them.
Walt’s contemporaneous statements had been made primarily based on his perspective on circumstances on the time (clearly), not how issues would evolve over time. As somebody with each a foot previously and eyes on the long run, and one of the vital visionary American minds who was additionally nostalgic, it’s actually not possible to mission how Walt’s opinions would’ve modified over time. How he would’ve reacted to issues that didn’t even exist whereas he was alive (“what’s a Star Warfare?”) or the evolution of his parks (“we now have one in Japan now? And we don’t even personal it?!?”).
No matter Walt Disney would possibly’ve thought concerning the depiction of Walt Disney as a robotic or statue or no matter in his parks, he essentially did within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. At a time when he was one of the vital recognizable and well-known faces in America who got here into the residing rooms of most American households by way of tv units every weekend.
Genius and visionary as he most positively was, he wasn’t forecasting out public perceptions and consciousness of Walt Disney in 2025. At a time when he’s not on TV every weekend, and when a subset of People are very dumb, consuming heaping helpings of misinformation by way of social media. Most younger individuals don’t know who Walt Disney was or, worse but, consider plenty of terrible issues about him. In such a state of affairs, would Walt welcome the chance to appropriate the file? That’s unknowable.
So I say deliver on Walt Disney – A Magical Life, with out a lot regard for a way Walt would possibly’ve felt within the Nineteen Sixties (for or towards) or how his descendents (for or towards) really feel about it right this moment. If it was okay for Walt Disney to supply his personal love letter to Abraham Lincoln a long time after Lincoln’s demise as a result of the underlying motivations had been pure of coronary heart, so too is it for Imagineers to do the identical with Walt Disney.
As for the digital queue, ostensibly the purpose of this put up, that’s merely a sensible actuality. The Most important Avenue Opera Home could be very small, there’s no room for a bodily queue, and the venue is on the very entrance of Disneyland. There’s loads of room for Indiana Jones Journey to have a standby line that snakes by way of Adventureland and spills out onto Most important Avenue. It’s most likely not a good suggestion for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to have a life that clogs up the doorway and stretches again to Buena Vista Avenue.
Nonetheless, we additionally wouldn’t count on this digital queue to final lengthy. We’re speaking a utilization interval nearer to Moana’s Journey of Water than we’re Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. On the precise anniversary (July 17, 2025), there’s going to be an inflow of Disneyland diehards, and extra demand than there’s capability for Walt Disney – A Magical Life. That’ll doubtless final into the weekend, however our guess is that by Monday, July 21, demand will begin to die down. We wouldn’t be stunned if the VQ is passed by then. The digital queue most likely received’t final into August 2025.
Truthfully, I’d love to be mistaken about this. Nothing would make me happier than for Walt Disney – A Magical Life to be completely slammed for months on finish, enjoying to packed homes. Have the famed FOMO machine drive much more demand for Walt Disney – A Magical Life amongst vacationers and first-timers who in any other case might need skipped it. So at the same time as somebody who is usually anti-virtual queue, I’m wholly on board with it on this case…and hope that it creates and sustains much more demand for seeing Walt Disney converse.
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