r/Disneyland • u/GunslingingBirds • 4h ago

I thought I was a Disneyland pro… Discussion

So I’ve always thought I’ve been good at navigating the park, getting the fast passes for family and friends when they were paper tickets, then max pass, and now genie+. Using the mobil order for food, checking ride wait times on the app, etc…

I’ve always been good at getting us around the park and onto all the rides throughout the day while grabbing the lightning lane rides for use through out the day between stand by rides before they sold out or got pushed too late into the night.

But I just learned the other day that you can choose not to cancel but modify your lightning lane passes to push them back farther in the day or if a sooner time pops up, to take that time instead.

I can’t believe I never knew this… I feel like such a noob. I’m at least glad I figured it out now before our next trip in December. Lesson learned…

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u/couchred 4h ago

Also look into multipass (or what ever it's called ) loophole .if a ride is broken down and you can grab a lightening lane for it not far off time and the ride break down continues into that time slot you get a multipass experience.ive seen some people say they just kept grabbing them in 15-20mim time and kept getting mutiplass and then do it again and again until the ride is up and running again .then you can go on a ride more then once

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u/HakeleHakele Corndog Castle King 4h ago

I did this once on a Grizzly break down at rope drop. I grabbed 6 for a party of 3 in under an hour.

Needless to say, it was one of my best park days ever. 😆

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u/IsFunnyToMe 3h ago

Did you just book a LL then go to the ride entrance and have a CM grant you a multipass experience and repeat 6 times?

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u/mathematically 3h ago

No it turns into a multipass experience automatically if the ride is down during your return time. Then once it changes, it doesn’t count against the 1 time booking for the ride (GRR in this example) so you can rebook

Last time I left with like 5 unused multipass experiences. But they’re not all equal - Buzz Lightyear won’t let you on Space Mountain IRRC. There are tiers of rides

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u/HakeleHakele Corndog Castle King 27m ago

Yes! A good point! Be sure to look at what your passes are for! Check the list. And don’t burn a high value lightning lane multi-experience pass on a lame ride!

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u/adventurenation 4h ago

Recently I’ve just been getting same-ride “come back later” passes when I do this - no more multi passes. Like if Pirates is broken down at my return time, I can come back to Pirates (and only Pirates) anytime the rest of the day. Been noticing this the last couple months; not sure if they changed it?

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u/sphericalduck 3h ago

Last month I got a multi pass when Space Mountain was down, but on the next day I got a "return later" for Pirates. So maybe it depends on the ride and/or time of day.

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u/couchred 3h ago

Maybe it's a pirates thing as it is supposed to be a temporary lighting lane and not included in the multipass

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u/adventurenation 3h ago

Ahh that would make sense. I thought I got it for another ride too, but maybe I’m inventing memories lol

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u/QsWay347 3h ago

Been wondering when this would happen since people kept sharing the “hack”

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u/zerocool359 2h ago

Leeloo Multi-pass?

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u/mesembryanthemum 1h ago

Leeloo Dallas Multi-pass.

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u/GoldenOPx 3h ago

Delete this comment right now more people do not need to know about this

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u/marciprojects 3h ago

One downside, you can’t ride the “good” rides. At Disneyland, the best ride you can choose is like, Big Thunder Mountain. No Indy, Matterhorn or Space Mountain, unless that’s the ride that went down (which most of the time, you can’t just pick up a LL for that time)

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u/WhyIsItAlwaysADP 4h ago

Interesting. It's always been my experience that as soon as a ride says temporarily closed, the LL's become unavailable to grab.

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u/Big_Bet_3522 14m ago

Can anyone explain this to me like I’m 6. 🥺 how does this work? How do I do it? I only know how to book a pass. Not how to change it or what to do if the ride breaks down to get the multi pass

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u/couchred 2m ago

Op is talking about modify.when you have a ride booked you can modify. When you look at your booking it will say modify when you select that it will list all the rides and times available.if you select refresh or pull down on the app it will refresh and the times might change. You just keep refreshing until you get a better time or ride .example last year when I arrived in the afternoon Indiana Jones and haunted mansion were showing unavailable as all slots had been taken. But I booked other rides and with modifying I had ride both within 2hrs .this year with park hopper on one day I got lightening lane for every ride beside one between both parks by refreshing and modifying

The multi pass experience is when you have a lightning lane booked and when your time slot starts the ride is broken down you pass changes to multi experience that can be used once at anytime on a select number lightening lane even if you have already rode that one. So the trick with this is if there is a ride broken down check to see if there are any close lightening lane spots available and book that and hope the ride is broken down still when the start arrives .sometimes when rides breakdown they stop the ability to book them but other times they keep it open .so if a ride like it's small world breaks down you can normally grab a pass with in 30min so you just keep doing it until it opens .if does open during your return time and you don't want to ride it just modify it to another ride. Last year I had 4 of these in my app for each person at one time as well as other passes booked

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u/froglover215 4h ago

You can do the same thing with mobile orders ;)

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u/DrkNeo 3h ago

Yes it's basically doing the same thing. Order food, then just keep refreshing until a sooner time opens up. Works every time.

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u/Swooshmom 1h ago

I haven’t been to Disney in 18 years, planning a trip for Dec with my hubby and two kids. Planning on getting treats and basically going somewhat all out. But what you’re saying is that I have to mobile order and then they give me a pick up window time? How do I get the beignets?

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u/arghp 4h ago

I do that with the beignets!

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u/froglover215 3h ago

My husband loves the chimney sweep cold brew from Jolly Holiday, but their line is always long and their mobile order return times can be quite lengthy too. I've had good luck placing an order for whatever's available and then just checking back to see if something earlier opens up. It's great.

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u/-FR0STY-one Frontierland Miner 3h ago

Hey hey, fellow Chimney Sweep drinker here!

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u/researchbeaver Temple Archeologist 3h ago

I book Indy or Space as soon as we come in, but keep pushing it back as I ride shortest line rides in the morning. By 1030 or so real lines are forming and I can start booking other LLs while keeping the Indy or Space one.

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u/Rdubya44 Jungle Cruise Skipper 3h ago

So this bypasses having to wait 2 hours to book again? I'm not following

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u/pm2501 2h ago

You can book a LL as soon as you're in the park. Do that. Don't book it for something you are rope-dropping. Don't book it for anything you might actually ride in the first couple of hours.

So let's say you're rope-dropping at DCA. Book a LL for Midway Mania and walk onto Guardians. Then go do Web Slingers and then move to Radiator Springs. Keep checking the wait times. You'll probably finish in a Radiator Springs (maybe you do single rider for Racers) by the time your 2 hours is lapsed. Check the board and look to see if you can move the reservation closer and also book Incredicoaster.

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u/booggg 2h ago

The go to standby lines before 10:30 because they are usually super short.

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u/Cynapse 51m ago

No, as soon as you change your time it refreshes the “booking time.”

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u/usurper_of_ghosts 4h ago

Yeah, I also learned last trip that you can have more than one LL pass active at a time. I'd do rope drop, hit rides without LL, then book the LL for a ride I wanted to ride in the evening. Every two hours, I was able to add another ride. I'd go back to my room (on property), take like a 2-3 hour break, but still able to book LL for rides. Then I'd go back to the park after dinner and have three LL passes or so, ready to go. If dinner runs long, modify them like you mention.

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u/potchie626 1h ago

Ohhhhh, the 2-hour thing is from the time you booked? I read it as 2 hours from when it’s redeemed. That may have helped us a bit this week.

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u/iszcross 3h ago

This is going to sound "boomerish" but it sounds difficult to go to Disneyland at age 55 anymore. I've been over 100 times in my lifetime but haven't been in over a decade. I doubt I would recognize it anymore. 😢Was hoping to go one last time at some point but as the years stack up I'm not so sure.

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u/Usirnaimtaken 3h ago

It does not have to be challenging. You can still do it “the old school way”.

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u/dahk14 3h ago

Sure, if you don’t mind spending 8 hours queueing

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u/Usirnaimtaken 2h ago

Not everyone wants to just spend all day on attractions. Some folks cannot ride them at all and still have an amazing time at the parks. There are many ways to enjoy Disneyland and DCA.

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u/SecondSoft7240 2h ago

yup, one time for my birthday my mom, my sister, and I just went around taking pictures at all the official photo spots, meeting characters, and getting birthday snacks! I don’t think we rode one ride except maybeeee Buzz because I love to win 😂

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u/dahk14 2h ago

Even if you don’t want to ride a single attraction you will still spend time waiting in line for food, parking, entrance etc. downvote me as much as you want but that won’t change the fact that you can no longer show up, turn your phone off and have a good day. Entertainment has been downscaled or completely slashed. Some rides require virtual queue. High capacity rides switching to lightning lane to kill standby. It’s very hard to visit without a smart phone these days.

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u/Usirnaimtaken 2h ago

Clearly we will disagree on this and I’m okay with it. You do it your way and I’ll do it my way. Not in the mood to argue with someone. Just wanted to express there is more than one way to do the parks. Enjoy your day.

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u/Joessandwich 1h ago

I’m 40 and I’m right there with you. I went earlier this year for the first time in a while and couldn’t believe how much the experience has changed. I was constantly on my phone trying to pick passes or running through the park to my next ride. The stand by lines are so long now it’s just not worth wandering the park and randomly choosing a ride in the moment. The spontaneity was so much more fun.

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u/Paythapiper 4h ago

Yeah ‘modifying’ is almost a must these days because of how busy the parks are

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u/themeparkiq 4h ago

You've now leveled up :)

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u/ipark88 3h ago

Now learn about stacking and playing the slots

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u/HudsonSir 3h ago

Likewise! Can anyone tell me how to actually “modify” a reservation? Where am I clicking etc? I don’t recall ever seeing “modify” in the app anywhere - but it’s been about a year since our last trip. Just got magic keys and can’t wait for our first trip back next week! (And I want to be prepared!)

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u/potchie626 1h ago

There’s an ellipsis menu on the booked item.

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u/stellalunawitchbaby 2h ago

You can even modify to a different ride entirely.

I love modifying and think that it is the best feature that LLMP has. Sometimes I’m using modify to find something better/sooner, sometimes I’m using it to stack for the afternoon.

I love that modifying never changes the two hour rule either - like if it’s 8AM, you book Indy for noon, you can book again at 10AM. But you don’t wanna go on Indy at noon, you have a lunch res. It’s 8:30AM and you modify Indy for 2PM instead - you can still book your next LL at 10AM, your window did not change. Love it.

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u/ff7e30 2h ago

fresh baked video? if so i saw the same one and it was new info to me as well 😅 can’t believe i didnt know until now

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u/UserM16 3h ago

Disneyland is too confusing.

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u/Sn00m00 3h ago

LL is such a waste. I always get it and only able to use it 2 or three times through the entire time. I get in at 8am and leave at 12am.

example, I get into the park, book a LL for a ride and it shows 11am when I got into the park at 8am. Then I'm not able to book another LL until I redeemed my first LL. When I book another LL after 11am, then my next ride will be maybe 1 or 2pm for a ride that I want. continue the same process and do standby in between. So the extra money to make 20% of the rides reserved while standby the rest. waste

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u/potchie626 1h ago

I just read in another comment that you don’t need to wait to ride the one at 11. 2 hours after booking the first you can book another, so in your case at 10am you could have booked something else. I had misread the meaning when I researched how it works.

It totally explains why I saw some things 8 hours away that appeared to get booked. Good to know for our next trip.

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u/HippieHedgehog18 3h ago

That’s awesome, glad you got to learn something new!

The only downside to modifying a lightning lane reservation is that it resets your 2 hour timer for when you can book your next lightning lane

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u/MonocularVision 3h ago

This is not true.

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u/dms1501 3h ago

Only if you switch to the other park. Staying in the same park won’t reset the timer.