Is Turtle Talk With Crush Lightning Lane worth it?
The short answer
Is Turtle Talk With Crush Lightning Lane worth it? Usually skippable. At EPCOT, Turtle Talk With Crush is sold through Lightning Lane Multi Pass — standard slot, with a typical peak standby wait of under 30 min. Turtle Talk With Crush is on EPCOT's Lightning Lane Multi Pass roster, and it is one of the easiest slots in the park to get precisely because almost nobody needs it. The show is a fifteen-minute live conversation between the audience and an animated Crush, run in a small theatre on a tight rotation from mid-morning until the evening. Houses turn over quickly and demand is modest, so standby here is a wait for the next showing rather than a queue in the ordinary sense. A slot spent on it is a slot not spent on Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure or Test Track, all of which post waits several times longer on the same day. Walk up. Check the posted times and arrive ten minutes before one of them; if you hit a full house you are waiting one cycle, not an hour. The thing worth knowing is that this is improvised rather than scripted — children in the audience are picked to ask Crush questions and the answers are live, so no two showings are the same, and a child who wants to be chosen should sit toward the front and be visible. That also makes it worth a second visit in a way a filmed show never is. The theatre is dark, seated and cool, there is no height requirement and nothing frightening in it. Keep your three Multi Pass selections for Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure and Test Track.
Why we say “usually skippable”
Turtle Talk With Crush is on EPCOT's Lightning Lane Multi Pass roster, and it is one of the easiest slots in the park to get precisely because almost nobody needs it. The show is a fifteen-minute live conversation between the audience and an animated Crush, run in a small theatre on a tight rotation from mid-morning until the evening. Houses turn over quickly and demand is modest, so standby here is a wait for the next showing rather than a queue in the ordinary sense. A slot spent on it is a slot not spent on Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure or Test Track, all of which post waits several times longer on the same day.
Walk up. Check the posted times and arrive ten minutes before one of them; if you hit a full house you are waiting one cycle, not an hour. The thing worth knowing is that this is improvised rather than scripted — children in the audience are picked to ask Crush questions and the answers are live, so no two showings are the same, and a child who wants to be chosen should sit toward the front and be visible. That also makes it worth a second visit in a way a filmed show never is. The theatre is dark, seated and cool, there is no height requirement and nothing frightening in it. Keep your three Multi Pass selections for Frozen Ever After, Remy's Ratatouille Adventure and Test Track.
Lightning Lane fees are paid by you directly to Disney and change with demand — we never mark them up. What a real guide does is decide which passes are worth buying for your day, and time the bookings so you ride Turtle Talk With Crush and everything else without burning your afternoon in standby.
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