For select attractions, Disney lets you join a same-day digital list of folks who want to ride an attraction. When Disney does this, it operates no standby queue. That means that you cannot just walk up and wait in line for the attraction.

The way this works is that you use the Disney World app (My Disney Experience) to join a virtual queue for an attraction. If you succeed, you are assigned a numbered Boarding Group. At some point later in the day, your Boarding Group will be called (higher numbers are called later than lower numbers), at which time you can return to the attraction and join the queue for Virtual Queue customers.

Disney World opens its Virtual Queues at 7:00 AM and 1:00 PM each day. Spots in the virtual queue go quickly, so we recommend that you tap quickly and join the queue immediately at one of these times. Even if act swiftly, you may fail; this is a competitive process, and on busy days Boarding Groups can be gone within seconds.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT has been currently using a Virtual Queue since its opening in 2022. In Magic Kingdom Tiana's Bayou Adventure uses a virtual queue. All other virtual queues have been discontinued, although Disney has explicitly stated that it may use them again in the future