Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom briefly tested a single rider queue on Tuesday, January 27.

Space Mountain Single Rider Test

According to cast members, the test only took place from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Tuesday morning. More tests will likely be run in the coming days and weeks depending on crowd levels.

Usually, Space Mountain single riders must wait in the stand-by queue. They can tell a cast member at the Lightning Lane merge point that you’re a single rider. They could then fit you into an earlier car, if possible.

The cast member we spoke to after Tuesday’s test said that process only shaves about 10 minutes off the wait time for single riders, if that. The system they tested, however, gets single riders through the queue much faster. The cast member believed the test went well.

During the test, cast members told guests that a single rider option was available. Single riders were told how the offering worked and that their party would be split before being sent through the Lightning Lane queue. At the merge point, they were to tell the next cast member that they were single riders. That cast member then sent single riders through a dedicated queue on the Omega side of the load area.

At the merge point point, Lightning Lane guests tap their MagicBands again. So single riders aren’t able to lie at the main entrance and then sneak through the Lightning Lane with a full group. They must agree to have their party separated.

Single riders were then used to fill up cars with Lightning Lane guests on the Omega side. The Alpha side was just for stand-by guests.

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