EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi-Pass Rankings & Strategy

This list ranks the EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi Passes in both tiers from best to worst, with strategy for zigging when they zag with Walt Disney World’s new advance ride reservations. This guide ranks all 10 attractions that offer MultiPass in terms of time-saved, demand, etc.

As basic background, EPCOT is the third place park for Lightning Lane Multi Pass (LLMP) at Walt Disney World. It’s behind both Disney’s Hollywood Studios (#1) and Magic Kingdom (#2), but still fairly far ahead of Animal Kingdom. In fact, you could argue that the best LLMP strategy is splitting a day at DAK and EPCOT.

Although EPCOT has improved big time in the last few years thanks to additions to the ride roster, that’s only reflected in the Lightning Lane Multi Pass lineup via Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. As before, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is not part of this lineup–you need a Lightning Lane Single Pass for that. There are a couple of reasons why the park is worse for LLMP than it was for the Genie+ service…

The first and biggest reason is the tiers. Like Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, EPCOT has two tiers: Group A and Group B. Unlike those parks, EPCOT only has a single consistently worthwhile attraction in Group B. We don’t mean that these attractions are bad–they aren’t. Rather, that you won’t necessarily save time with these lower-tier Lightning Lanes. With even a modicum of strategy, you could experience any of these attractions with low or no waits.

It doesn’t help that Luminous: The Symphony of Us is not part of the Lightning Lane Multi-Pass lineup. Same goes with the park’s most popular meet & greets, which had their Lightning Lanes removed with the switch from Genie+ to Multi-Pass. This means that, despite three new headliner rides opening at EPCOT in the last several years, Lightning Lane Multi-Pass still only has the same number of options as it did under the FastPass+ system in 2019.

As a general matter, EPCOT is great at absorbing crowds…it’s just light on headliner attractions that are part of LLMP. That’s the problem with Lightning Lane Multi-Pass on a day with 7/10 or below crowd levels–you won’t save enough time at the vast majority of eligible attractions to make the purchase worth the money unless you’re Park Hopping. On days with higher crowds, you may not be able to get a good 4th pick.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass is also arguably not worth the time at EPCOT, as there’s a high probability that the line-skipping service will force you to criss-cross the park rather than doing things as you naturally arrive to them while navigating normally. Hopefully the pre-booking obviates this to some extent, but it cannot possibly be perfect since you can’t simultaneously select the three rides where it’s needed most.

If you want to skip line-skipping entirely, consult our 1-Day EPCOT Itinerary, which covers how you can accomplish everything even if you’re staying off-site and don’t want to spend anything extra. That also offers great “zig when they zag” advice to flip the script on tackling World Showcase and the front half of the park.

For those staying on-site, the one thing we highly recommend is Early Entry, especially for guests staying at Crescent Lake or Skyliner Resorts. Check out our Best EPCOT Early Entry Itinerary from International Gateway. If you’re entering through the front, it’s even easier to knock out Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and Test Track.

Another great option for eligible guests is Extended Evening Hours. That’s usually on Monday nights and goes until 11 pm or midnight, depending upon normal hours. Almost all open attractions have low waits during Extended Evening Hours, assuming no breakdowns.

Frankly, if I could do either Early Entry or Extended Evening Hours, I would opt for those–and not purchase Lightning Lane Multi-Pass. It is not the end-all, be-all of saving time waiting in lines at EPCOT.

Before we get going, the EPCOT ride rankings below presume basic knowledge about the Lightning Lane Multi Pass system, including advance booking windows and the Tiers or Groupings at EPCOT.

If you are not familiar with this service or are already feeling lost, start by seeing our Guide to Lightning Lane Multi Pass & Single Pass at Walt Disney World for all of the foundational need-to-know info about this replacement for free FastPass+. This whole system is confusing and convoluted, so you might have a question or two-dozen. That answers all of the most common ones we’ve been receiving from readers.

With all of that out of the way, let’s start by talking Lightning Lane MultiPass tips & tricks. It’s important to be aware that the objective ride rankings don’t tell the whole story. Subjective strategy is as important–perhaps more so depending upon which attractions have availability throughout your day. Although the examples below are from EPCOT, the advice applies equally to DHS and Magic Kingdom…

Lightning Lane Multi Pass Strategy

One of the biggest misconceptions about Lightning Lane Multi Pass is that it’s exclusively pre-arrival ride reservations. To the contrary, there are same-day drops of Lightning Lanes (what we refer to as ride reservation refills). This is especially important for scoring subsequent top tier selections, which is the only way LLMP is worth it at EPCOT.

Also notable is that tiers or groupings only apply to advance Lightning Lane Multi-Day selections. Once you’ve arrived and used your first selection, you aren’t bound to the tiers. You can make any selections day-of without regard for the tiers.

This means that you could redeem a Lightning Lane at EPCOT for Living with the Land (Group/Tier B) immediately upon entering the park and then select Frozen Around the World from Group/Tier A. In practice, this strategy works well most of the time, but and can be savvy from a steps and backtracking perspective.

This can be confusing, so here’s what this means in practice. When making your Lightning Lane selections, let’s say you have the following options:

• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure (Tier A) – 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm
• Soarin’ Around the World (Tier B) – 1 pm to 2 pm
• Spaceship Earth (Tier B) – 4 pm to 5 pm

OR

• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure (Tier A) – 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm
• Soarin’ Around the World (Tier B) – 1 pm to 2 pm
• Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival (Tier B) – 9:30 am to 10:30 am

Even though Spaceship Earth ranks higher than Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival on the list below, you should choose the Short Film Festival in the above scenario. That’s because it has a return time first thing in the morning, opening up the option to make another selection before 10:30 am at the latest.

This is a fairly ideal setup because you can use the Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival as a “burner” Lightning Lane. Simply tap into the attraction and then exit without doing it. You can then immediately make a better selection, hopefully from Tier A.

The optimal approach is to tap into this Lightning Lane as close to park opening as possible to “unlock” tiers and give you the best options for the rest of your day. Doing this particular attraction as a burner is advantageous because it never has a line, so even if you want to do the Short Film Festival later in the day, you aren’t at a disadvantage by having wasted your only LLMP on it.

I’m highly confident that there would be a worthwhile 4th pick Lightning Lane at EPCOT before 10:30 am (especially with a strong refresh game to score ride reservation refills). I am far less confident that would be true at 1 pm. Maybe if you were willing to play the refresh game, but still–the odds are not in your favor.

Now, on with the Lightning Lane attractions rankings at EPCOT…

EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi Pass Rankings – Group A

1. Test Track 3.0 – The reimagined Test Track is now the #1 Lightning Lane Multi Pass attraction in EPCOT. The ‘new ride smell’ is always a powerful pull, so we should probably qualify this with a “for now” since this selection just opened for booking.

However, the expectation going forward is that Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure and Frozen Ever After will “split” the #1 selections of families, so to speak. Meaning that parents with small children who are too short for Test Track will choose either the Rat Ride or Frozen Ever After, diluting the popularity of each as a first selection.

Meanwhile, Test Track is the only high-profile thrill ride, so it’s prioritized by almost all guests wanting that type of attraction. Obviously this is subject to change once more time passes, but Test Track 3.0 should be viewed as the default #1 at least until early 2026. Our guess is that it’ll claim the top spot beyond that–probably into 2027.

2. Frozen Ever After – Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure was the clear #1 Lightning Lane at EPCOT for families, but Frozen Ever After has dethroned it following its recent refurbishment, which added enhanced Audio Animatronics. It’s unknown whether Frozen Ever After will have staying power in the #2 slot, but we expect it to have a slight edge for at least the next several months–and possibly the rest of 2026.

When it comes to average wait times, there actually isn’t that much difference between the two. Depending upon when you visit, there’s also a reasonable chance that Lightning Lane Multi-Passes for Frozen Ever After will also be fully booked in advance, in addition to Test Track.

Fortunately, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is a pretty good consolation prize. All three of these headliners are pretty close to one another in terms of demand, so you might want to just choose the one that matters most to you, or whichever is farthest from your park entrance during Early Entry.

3. Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – Even with the aforementioned splitting of the family picks, and this being only the #3 Lightning Lane Multi-Pass at EPCOT, it’s still among the top 10 in all of Walt Disney World.

Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is technically still the newest ride in EPCOT via LLMP, and it’s in high demand for line-skipping. Given all of that, there’s a very good chance that pre-arrival availability for Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure will be gone at or even before the 7-day mark.

If you’re staying off-site, you might be reliant upon ride reservation refills or cancellations. With that said, if you’re staying at a Crescent Lake or Skyliner Resort, you might instead opt for doing this during Early Entry. Comparatively speaking, it’s easier than Frozen Ever After or Test Track. And like Test Track, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure also has an efficient Single Rider line.

EPCOT Lightning Lane Multi Pass Rankings – Group B

1. Soarin’ Around the World – Once the longest wait time in EPCOT, Soarin’ Around the World has become less popular in recent years and had another theater added to help absorb crowds. With the reopening of Test Track, Soarin’ has been demoted to Tier B, where it’s the easy #1 pick.

What’s notable here is that there’s a 21 minute average wait time spread between Soarin’ (39 minutes) and Mission Space (18 minutes). This is the biggest differential between any two consecutive rankings on this list, which should explain why Soarin’ is actually poised to become the most difficult Lightning Lane in all of EPCOT.

Whereas the top 3 all split picks to some degree, Soarin’ Around the World is the unequivocal tier two top pick, and its advance availability will reflect that. It’ll be interesting to see whether Soarin’ Across America is elevated to the top tier once it debuts in Summer 2026. Our guess is that it’ll remain Group B, in which case it’ll be the #1 second tier attraction in all of Walt Disney World.

2. Mission: Space – Line-skipping for every other Group B attraction is only necessary in high crowds. With moderate or lower crowds, Mission: Space will have a short wait and Lightning Lane Multi-Pass won’t be necessary. In fact, it could be counterproductive if you have to backtrack to use the Lightning Lane. On busier days, having a Lightning Lane time reserved could save you 30-60 minutes here.

3. Spaceship Earth – The “EPCOT Golf Ball” beckons guests as they enter the park, and as a result, Spaceship Earth almost always has a much longer wait time in the first half of the day, and a short wait in afternoon and evening. Because of this, if I were someone who wanted to minimize steps, I’d consider booking a Lightning Lane here around park opening and follow that up with Soarin’ and something else in the front of the park. Spaceship Earth can also be a good Lightning Lane selection when crowds are high.

4. Living with the Land – This is another one where timing can make a world of difference, as Living with the Land often sees long lines between the lunch rush and mid-afternoon. If you have a strategic reason to do it then–perhaps minimizing steps by doing this after Spaceship Earth and Soarin, making this a good “something else” selection.

Living with the Land is also a worthwhile LLMP during the holiday season, when the Glimmering Greenhouses overlay keeps it popular at night. From Black Friday through December 30, you’ll absolutely want a post-sunset return time, and you will want to book that in advance. Glimmering Greenhouses is likely to have the #2 wait time in all of EPCOT at night, behind only Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind (and maybe Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure).

5. Journey Into Imagination – Approximately 300 days of the year, you’ll wait 10 minutes or less to ride Journey into Imagination with Figment. About 40 days per year, it’ll be a 15 minute or shorter wait. It’s those other 25 days, when the wait time exceeds 30 minutes, when Lightning Lane will come in handy here. Regardless, this should be easy as a subsequent selection. I would hope that you’re not stuck picking this 4th, and can instead score it 5th or later (or, ideally, not at all!).

6. The Seas with Nemo & Friends – We have yet to see a day when this attraction has run out of Lightning Lane reservations. That’s because they are almost never useful. Except maybe during the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Spring Break, this isn’t going to save you any time.

7. Stage Shows – At EPCOT, this means Turtle Talk with Crush and the Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival. Lightning Lanes are not useful for these. The only reason they exist is to provide the illusion of time-savings; in reality, these Lightning Lanes are more beneficial to Disney than they are to guests. Everyone should use standby lines for these shows.

Ultimately, you should be able to knock out several attractions using Lightning Lane Multi Pass on normal days in EPCOT. However, the big unanswered question is whether the average guest–or even the average power user, for that matter–will be able to get ride reservations for both Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure and Frozen Ever After.

From our perspective, that’s make-or-break as to whether Lightning Lane Multi Pass is worth it at EPCOT. If you cannot score paid FastPasses for both of those headliners, it’s difficult to see Lightning Lane Multi Pass as being worth the money–except on very crowded days.

On an average day, the time-savings at one of those headliners plus (maybe) Soarin’ Around the World and a few Tier 2 attractions just won’t be worth it. And that’s doubly true once you factor in the likely backtracking that’ll be necessary to redeem the Lightning Lanes. As before, there’s a good possibility that you’ll be able to accomplish pretty much just as much via Early Entry or Extended Evening Hours as via Lightning Lanes.

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YOUR THOUGHTS

How would you rank your ride priorities using Lightning Lane MultiPass in EPCOT? Surprised by any of the rankings in our top 5, that Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure takes the #1 spot, or is this all pretty obvious? Are you planning on buying LLMP or skipping it? Will you use it on an EPCOT-only day, or exclusively when Park Hopping? Do you agree or disagree with our rankings? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!