26 Best Genie+ Tips to SKIP the Line like a PRO at Disneyland

Hi everyone, I'm Trevor and we're at Disneyland today to share with you everything you need to know about using the Genie Plus at Disneyland, so let's get started. We are currently launching ropes into Space Mountain and literally walked straight into the cargo room, we didn't. even stop outside so please don't use your lightning lane or first thing in the morning at 8am. m., it will be a big waste because you would have connected directly to the waiting

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, you would be better off showing up on hold this early in the morning and reserving your first lightning lane for nine o'clock 901 am and we come here to do our first lane lightning says the wait time is only 25 minutes, so I'm not sure how valuable the lightning lane is.

It will be here even at 9:00 a.m. m. This trip usually requires a 45 minute wait, in fact it was 40. Like I don't know, five minutes ago tops. I feel like we were saved. I don't know, five minutes. There weren't that many people in

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, so at least you know as far as the meeting point before we missed the reception here at Indiana Jones. I quickly grabbed Smuggler's race for 9.50, it's 905 so it's 45 minutes, he was the furthest away. At the moment and usually I would recommend not doing it but that one is disappearing faster and there's still 45 minutes left so I thought okay we want to go get a snack so after this ride we're going to get a snack and then .

Honestly, we'll be pretty close to getting Smugglers uh by the time we're done with that, it's already broken, well the final wait time was 10 minutes, the posted wait time was 25, so Lightning Lane saved us 15 minutes, about more or less, it's difficult. to say it without having to go through the booth myself just to find out what the waiting line was, but that was the experience there, this video will be a little different, uh, it will be half

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, half Vlog, we will use Genie plus. today, but I'm also going to be sitting in dark places that don't interfere with crowds to talk about things, so first I want to start by saying that Genie plus requires the Disneyland app, so if you don't have the Disneyland app, you need to download it and Get familiar with the feature called suggestion board.

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board will be where you scroll, you choose your selections, you can see the wait times and the lightning lane times that you can set. selections at the top you just need to get familiar with using it, if you have the Disneyland app make sure it is updated, download the latest update because if you don't have the latest update Genie plus will not work properly. Next, let's talk about Genie. Also, this is a little different from Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World you could buy it at midnight and make your first selection at 7 a.m. before the park opens, but at Disneyland at Disneyland you can buy it in advance when you buy your tickets and I recommend you do so if you plan to buy Genie Plus for every day during your trip, why?

Because it will be reduced to the base cost of 25 per person per day, regardless of which day you choose to come. Genie price fluctuates. I've seen it go up to 30 per person per day, so if you come on a day where it's 30 individually, if you buy it in advance you'll save some money, but if you didn't buy it in advance, you can buy it here in the park , but you have to wait until you scan, regardless of whether you buy it in advance or not, you can't make your first selection until you scan in the park, so in order to make the most of it, you really have to show up at the time of drop rope.

You can make your first selection after you've scanned, not while you're standing outside the gates, you literally have to scan your ticket to enter the park. you make the purchase of Genie plus here in the park in the Disneyland app, it's actually just on the home screen, it's very obvious, just click that you want to buy Genie plus, pay for it and that's it, you need to know which attractions are. Available at Genie Plus at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, there are thrill rides and low-end attractions that are safe for the whole family. Next to me, there will be a list of all those attractions that will take place.

It's hard for me to talk about them all here on camera, but you can take a look at them, like I said. There are rides like it's a small world that everyone can ride and then there will be rides like the Incredi roller coaster which has a 48 inch height requirement which is the tallest in the entire Disneyland Resort at Disney California Adventure right now. , we are walking towards our next Lightning Lane attraction, which is the Millennium Falcon Smuggler track, so we ride three Space Mountain Pirates Big Thunder climbs, all without Lightning Lane before them. So what I did was book my first lightning lane for 9am. m. with Indiana Jones because after 9 a.m. m. it's really when you start to get a little busier around here and it's still early enough to avoid the two hour rule, what are the two? rule of hours, well you can make a new lightning lane selection and when one of two things happens, when you search for your previous lightning lane or two hours pass, whichever comes first, that's why we like to avoid the rule of hours two hours to be able to get To make the most of our time here at Disneyland, we'll talk more about some uses of the two horribles a little bit later on something called stacking.

If you're familiar with that term, you'll have heard people say it, but I don't know what it means, we'll talk a little bit more about stacking later in the video because we plan to do that for now. My goal now that it's after 9 a.m. is to start the two hours as

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as possible and choose attractions that are Will be available in the next 30 to 45 minutes, ideally maybe an hour, maybe an hour, but the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned, unless I Sorry for leaving the weight on hold for the attraction, it's only five minutes away at lightning time.

Lane, it's not worth doing a lightning bolt. Lane right then and there, you better stay still and then you can use lightning later, here we go. Millennium Falcon and I have my Millennium Falcon Magic Band as we walk through the queue. grabbing fast passes to the next attraction without wasting any time and took a look at the big thunder, we've already ridden it, you know, at 11am. m., which is going too far, uh, Indiana Jones seemed like it was already after. at two o'clock, I'm so glad we did it sooner, when we did we decided to go with Matterhorn, it's a 30 minute wait weight that we'll probably get a little later before we get there, it's 45 minutes so no we are participating.

I don't like the two hour rule a little closer, but that's okay, recognize some of you, you've learned from me before. I can't believe they missed it again and it's a good thing they made it, good because they can't. ll Play The fact that the pilots and the engineers lay behind the tree, they took out that precious cargo that we just got off the Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run and I was checking the wait times at the park because we are also making a drop video of strings at this moment and I realized. That increase, resistance was reduced to a 45-minute wait.

I don't know if that will be the case when we get there, but our Matterhorn climbs in just 30 minutes, so it begs the question of what happens if I can't make a Lightning Lane reservation now. I should say that you have one hour to use Lightning Lane, so it's active at 10:35. We have until 11:35. Oh look, Chewbacca, we have until 11:35 to use our Lightning Lane. But it does go up. the resistance, you know, is not going the way we planned, hypothetically speaking, what happens if you can't make the reservation for Lightning Lane? If you don't show up and there is a grace period, the gray area is that you can arrive five minutes early. or 15 minutes late if you're past the grace period, ask a cast member, they may be able to make something happen for you, but if you're too late you'll lose your reservation, it's like you've ridden the ride, which means that you will win.

I won't be able to rebook that trip later that day, so what should I do? I recommend that you modify your reservation instead of canceling it. Why if you book a reservation for a 9:00 a.m. trip? m. until 1 p.m. m. and then at 11 a.m. m., you book a trip for, say, 135 a.m. m. p. m. and then you try to cancel the one o'clock one because you have another reservation that is active until 1:35. It won't let you make another reservation even though you just canceled one. better by modifying it you can change the schedule you can also change the attraction but that way you can keep the two lightning lanes that are on your account active as I said because if you cancel a good one, another one is still active you will not be able to make a reservation until the period has passed of two hours or until you ride that attraction while we were sitting here for our lunch reservation at Riverboil Terrace, which will actually be a separate video, it will be a fantastic dinner package video.

I'm looking forward to it, but I made a reservation for Buzz Lightyear, so there are a couple of options I had. I decided to go with Buzz Lightyear because it was available at 12:20, it's 11:50, so it's half an hour from now and it has a 35 minute wait weight, whereas Haunted Mansion would have had to avoid an hour in 30 minute spot to be able to use that reservation and it's only a 25 minute wait so I decided to go with the previous reservation with the longest one. waiting line because I feel like I'll

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more that way, it's 12:15 and we can use our lightning lane at 12:20.

I love seeing that a line for Buzz makes me feel good about using my lightning lane even though we booked our Matterhorn Reservation first. I'm going to use Buzz first because it will free me up to make another reservation right now and then we can still get to Matterhorn before a southern blaster. My name is like Don't show my score. I forgot it. to book our Lightning Lane attraction while we were in line for the bus so I did that right now as soon as we got off the attraction I ended up taking one for Star Tours which is available immediately and the ride is a wait of 25 minutes.

We have to go to Matterhorn first because we're running out of time to get back to that, but then we'll do Star Tours and see what else we can get after the posted wait time for Matterhorn of 45 minutes. five minutes, well, that was our total plate at Matterhorn. I keep forgetting to record my screen when I make these Lightning Lane reservations, but I just grabbed one for the Haunted Mansion on 155, it's about 110 right now, so 45 minutes away and it's a 50 minute wait, so I think It's a pretty decent deal in this case. We waited five minutes.

The posted wait time is 20, so it's not the most convenient use of the Genie Plus system here, but at least the reservation was available fairly early and I knew it. Oh well, we have a couple of minutes, probably about 25, to our Haunted Mansion, quick, so we'll take some time to sit down and talk tips again. Direct and thoughtful advice. I think I mentioned this before, but just in case I didn't. The first thing you should book is the most popular attraction because it will disappear the fastest. I will say this is not Walt Disney World and things don't disappear that fast, they disappear like Slinky Dog disappears all damn day.

What time or something like that is going to happen here there are still reservations available for Indiana Jones. I think the last time I looked it was around six in the evening as far as individual Lightning Lanes that I had seen online and researched. where it said buy them early and yes the conventional wisdom is to buy them early especially if you come during spring break or a busy time because they will go away very quickly today they won't go away very quickly in fact if you would have bought it early you would have gone like 8:30 a.m. m. and then you would have overlooked, wow, you would be overlooked some um, but while we're talking about individual Lightning Lanes, another tip is that you can only buy two total for the entire day now there's three right now at the resort um there used to be four but Web Slingers has moved to the standard Genie plus, which means Radiator Springs Racers increases stamina and Mickey and Minnie's Runway Railway is you three and um you can only reserve two of them in a single day, it's also a great idea to leave fall your favorite attractions with ropes.

We had this morning tie up Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and this is also the reason we did it because we don't use our lightning lanes. for those rides, we can still ride those rides again later using the lightning lights, so we made it so we can ride Space and Big Thunder Mountain twice today when you're making lightning lane selections and you're on the tip board , set your favorite attractions. to the top, but don't pin too many, don't go over and pin like six of them. Fix just one or two of thoseyou really want.

The reason for this is that you can keep an eye on them better as you are. You know, check out the hint board, get ready to make a selection, those will be right at the top, they list them alphabetically, so unfortunately, if you really want to keep an eye on the Millennium Falcon but you've locked onto Big Thunder Buzz, it's a small world . Haunted Mansion, you'll have to keep scrolling down that list to find a millennium because it's m, so if Millennium Falcon and Space Mountain are your two favorites that you want to keep an eye on, just pin those two that will help your hint board . so it's less cluttered and then you can update those selections a little bit later let's spend a little more time talking about the two hour rules again, the dreaded two hours.

I hate activating the two hour rule. Some people like, I mean, they would prefer you know to have all their Genie plus rides after 4 p.m. And you know. I spend all morning from eight to ten ten to twelve twelve to two two to four piling them all up in the evening and I don't know, I'd rather ride attractions and here's why okay this is the theory so if I book a trip to 9:00 a.m. m. for 1:00 p.m. m. pm. I can't book another one until 11. In the meantime, I could have booked one at 905 mounted, came down at 9 15.

I booked another for 9 20 9 25 mounted, written down another one at 9 45 or 9 50. I could have done three attractions in an hour and they are still waiting to go to the first one. Make sure you make the most of the five minutes notice to get in, it's 1:49 right? now our Haunted Mansion Genie plus is for 155. So we're here at 150, let's scan and then I can pick another Lightning Lane right away. Make the most of those extra five minutes by sticking to the two-hour rule. this is something I found before, make sure you set an alarm for when you're supposed to book it because I realized 10 minutes had passed at that point and I was like, Ugh, I forgot, so set an alarm, remember when it is.

Time to make another pretty congested reservation here by Haunted Mansion to trust the road, oh with the lightning lanes down here so we have to go down here anyway. It said this waiting weight was 30 minutes when I made the reservation, it said 55. So it's gone down a bit but the line still seems to be quite long so I'm happy to

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it in a moment. We have to go to our hotel that we booked for the day, so we have to go pick up. We took our car from the parking lot and headed to the hotel so we decided to make our next reservation at DCA but by the time we got back to the park I was looking for something very far from the Toy Story Midway manias at 5 10 but when I booked it changed at 425 uh and that's something to keep in mind when you click on things, you might not always get the one you wanted in this case, I got one a lot sooner than I had thought, but we should be by then no problem in the foreigner, as I mentioned we have to go to our hotel now so we go back to the parking lot to pick up our car and then we will go back to the park so we can book.

Another lightning lane while we're at the hotel, so I set an alarm on my phone to make sure I don't miss that like I'd missed one before and then hopefully we can stack those two lightning lanes for when we get back to the park. 4 30 about two hours later, we're now reaching the final credits rollercoaster. It's crazy crowded here right now, like Disneyland is nothing compared to this, usually Disneyland is the most crowded park, but I don't know what's going on here today. DCA is just packed as we walked from the hotel. I grabbed a Lightning Lane coaster from four awesomes, it was available in 15 minutes and then we have a Lightning Lane for Toy Story that we racked up for 425, but as soon as I scanned a credit. coaster that I can take, I have another Lightning Lane, a little bit of a line for Genie and also, this might be the first ride where we encounter a little bit of a line for Genie plus and here we are walking towards row number 10.

Just It's been five minutes, yeah, five minutes, we skipped 40 minutes of line pretty good, I have to say it myself, hey, maybe I stuck my tongue out at him, it's Frozone next, we're going to Toy Story Midway Mania, which is a week 55 minute wait and Lightning Lane is nice. Plenty of time too to see how we did it. I've done a lot better before, better, at least I beat Amy. Yes, there we go fast in the vehicle, the

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at this time and the best day, or actually, a score I got before around that number. In fact, I'm pretty impressed that that's the highest score today.

I grab the sandwich which will open and go in in a moment. Just a word of warning. All the ice cream you can buy at the ice cream carts is on dry ice, unlike at Disney. The world is delivered to you practically melting in your hand, this one if you try to bite into it you'll probably break some teeth so you have to let it thaw for about 10 minutes after you buy it, that was a free tip, absolutely nothing to do with Genie Plus four Monsters Inc uh, while we were in line for Toy Story I did something Molly from Mammoth Club calls rowing the fiddle, it's like an idea of ​​constantly updating and updating the

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selections more until something older comes up, don't spend More than five minutes Doing this will waste your time, your face will get stuck in your phone, but it can really give you some earlier picks.

Now I only scored 20 minutes early, but I'll take the 20 minutes. it was originally 6 10. I bought it for 550. I'm happy with that, at least it kept it under an hour instead of almost an hour and a half between picks. I would have liked something a little closer, but here at Disneyland people don't give up Genie plus as much as they do at Walt Disney World, which works much better at Walt Disney World, there are so many people using it, so many people changing their plans that , essentially, there's always new stuff coming out and you just have to be really quick when you see it, grab it, that kind of thing here at Disneyland, the selections are smaller, there's not as many people using the service, there's not as many people changing their plans Keep that in mind, but it works, it works.

I managed to save 20 minutes so now it works for me. If you watched our previous Genie plus video from August, this is definitely different than where we were trying to do all of the Genie plus attractions in one day at both parks, so it was a challenge is to really maximize the system to get it to Its limits. We won't do it today. That is not the goal today. Our goal is simply to use it again. Let's get reacquainted with it because I literally haven't used Genie plus here. Disneyland since that video last August, so I wanted to make sure I can use it again to give you the most helpful tips when you come to Disneyland.

If you have questions, you can leave them in the comments. I know this video is a You'll probably want to watch it a few times. Take some notes. There's a lot of information. It will take a little time to absorb it. We're on Monsters Inc right now and we have a friend pass. some friend pass is essentially a single passenger. I bet you didn't know Monsters Inc had a single passenger, but this is so two people sit next to each other in the last row of the vehicle and you can enter here from the back. exit, this is where people exit and get off the ride and this line here is for the Buddy Pass and you see how there are three lines at Monsters, the third row often doesn't fill up so that's what the buddy passes By now, we knew. about this, but I still took the Genius Plus for this trip because I saw something I'm crossing my fingers about.

I have a theory. I've read about this and if it works, I'll tell you all about it in just a moment. minute, but we changed our reservation to Grizzly River Run and I will explain why long after this trip is scheduled for a special report, a child is loose in Monstropolis a human child there is a child here and on my 25th birthday I'm always looking at you watching if you haven't heard the news Rogers, the musical premiere on June 30th here at Hyperion at Disney California Adventure, we got a multi experience pass using a trick so we learned this from Chris Provost so thanks Chris if you watch it. a ride that is closed we deposited our selection of lightning lanes on that ride and then when it still doesn't open when that time was available he gave us a multi experience pass it was like 5 30 and Grizzly was available for lightning lanes at 5 35 but it was closed so I booked it for 5 30.

And I had to wait five minutes but of course it probably won't open again within five minutes so we took the risk of doing it of course but so soon like 535. filmed by Disney gave us a multi-experience pass. What is a multi-experience pass? It has a couple of purposes. The first is that when an attraction breaks down, you can get a free lightning lane if you want to go in that same place. attraction or other retraction as a way of saying sorry for getting lost in your lightning lane, but in this case we were not waiting in line and the ride was broken;

We had just booked a broken trip and then they gave us the multiple experience because the trip was not open at the beginning of our time. Another thing I learned from him is that Genie plus, if you buy GD plus, you get free PhotoPass for the day and it's not just the trip photos that are free for Disney 100 right now, but it also includes PhotoPass photographers around the park in front of the castle in front of Cars Land. Places like that. Now those multi-experience passes come with a lot of exclusions depending on where you get them if you get a multi-experience. pass Increase Stamina, the one they give you is going to be literally like a blank check for anything in the park because Increase Stamina is as high as now you paid for Increase Stamina fast pass, you got a multi-experience because it broke , why would you want to use it?

So, it's a small world. Wouldn't you like to use it in Rise the Resistance? Mickeys and minis runaway Railway or Radiator Springs Racers, another individual Lightning Lane, that's what you'd want to spend it on so it makes sense then the Grizzly River Run is the one you know I booked and that was broken isn't going to give me a promotion because it's a lower ride um it's not going to give me Mickey and Minnie it's not going to give me radiators in fact it's not going to give me web shooters or Guardians of the Galaxy Space Mountain and a bunch of other things so not all passes of multiple experiences are the same, you should check which attractions you can use, but it's a lot, so now we can grab that free fast pass.

Basically you can also use the multi experience on non gd plus attractions, you can take it and you can go to Snow White, uh you can't go to Peter Pan. although unfortunately Peter Pan is on the exclusion list. I could take him on a Jungle Cruise. I think I would have to see if he is on the exclusion list, but you know you have to look at that exclusion list but you can't use it. attractions that don't have Genie plus, but we just had a nice relaxing dinner with some friends. Now we're going back to Disneyland because I don't remember if I said this on camera, but we booked a Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. for 7:30.

Amy really wanted to do it at dusk and it's probably like dust because we have to do Fantasmic at eight, uh, we have to come back for our dinner package, which again is a separate time slot. video I told you we were filming a lot on this trip as we're getting close to the end of the day here, I mean it's seven o'clock, it's not like the end of the day, but it's been here at the end of the day, another Genie plus. The advice I have for you is to make sure you bring a phone charger.

This is not new advice for the channel. I have a power brick here that I use. This thing is wonderful. It magnetizes to my phone using Magsafe. Is incredible. No cables needed. and uh it's a 10,000 mAh bank so it fully charges my phone at least twice from dead to fully charged so I really like that plus here at Parks they have fuel rods we just started we just finished to buy one like at the beginning of last week. We've changed this like three times today, it's actually only good for about 40 percent of our phone's charge, so it's not the best thing in the world, but it's very convenient that they have so many stations around you, you can just unplug it and get a new one you don't have to worry about oh no did I charge my brake before?

Yes, you are going to change it. I don't like that it sells out so quickly, but at the same time it's very, very convenient. You may have neglected why you need to recharge, but you are using the app so much that it is thanks to Genie plus that it drains your phone a lot, especially since you are going to be taking photos and capturing those memories throughout the day too, so just do it. I'm sure your phone isn't going off, the reason I mention that is because the friends we met at dinner were using my Rick and Amy fuel load because their phones were dying and I mean, that's how you do it.mobile ordering, this is how you make your Lightning Lane reservations, so if your phone goes off you can't do more Lightning Lanes, you can't just buy those fuel rods in the park, they have a lot of stations, just go buy one if Know?

Thirty bucks absolutely desperate to buy one of those fuel rods and they come with the charging cables and everything so don't worry it's like the perfect time of the afternoon it's not dark but it's getting dark and it's going to be amazing on the mountain . So this is just a reminder that we launched this rope ride this morning, that video is part of another video we made while we were here, so you won't see it in this one, but I just want to remind you that the rope dropped this pull , so this is our second Big Thunder ride of the day because we love this ride so much, look, it's got the lights on and everything, so the Lightning Lane was actually 11 minutes, it's a little bit slower. considering standby was only posted at 25.

I feel like it's longer, I think it was also longer than 25 while we were in line, I took a lightning lane to Space Mountain at 10 35 or 10 40. something like that, it's nice afternoon, we were actually three hours away from passing the two hour rule, the reason we're doing that is because we're going to see Fantasmic tonight and we have a return time for our dinner package at eight o'clock and then I really want to go straight to Toontown to try to ride Mickey and Minnie's Wild Railway when it reopens at 10 o'clock, so I don't think we'll be able to ride anything until 10:30 anyway. a decent amount of time, enough to have a drink and I don't know until what time we will stay here today.

We can stay until midnight. I'm just not sure how long we're going to push it back, but we'll see two hours later and this is the line to get to Toontown, so basically we'll see what the line is for the trip and you know we can decide to turn around and do something else, but we think we have up here and we'll give it a try 9 58 and the line is moving nothing can stop us now 16 minutes and we're about to enter the theater 25 is exactly what was posted in 25 and we're about to traction at this point in the video this video has stopped being advice I' I've run out of advice.

I'm just telling you what we're doing now, it's 10:45 at night, our Space Mountain beam lane is active and then we have an autopia beam lane that's technically active if we use the autopia one we could. book another one, the only thing left to book is Roger Rabbits or it's a small world, we've literally done the rest of the attractions here at this park. I don't want to do Roger Rabbits, I just don't, it's 45 minutes. I don't want to do it and I don't really care to do it, it's a small world. Look at all the people who are still here.

I'm surprised we just passed by. It's a small world and there was no one in line, yeah. literally no one in line, so a blitz lane at this point would be a major waste. Space Mountain at night, my favorite thing, it's so much better at night, there is currently a 55 minute wait and we have a lightning lane so it doesn't matter, we ended up waiting 20 minutes to get to this point, maybe 15, but it was completely because the vehicle broke down and as soon as it started working again, we can instantly reach this point, so take it as you will, my energy.

It's decreasing so if I seem less enthusiastic that's why I'm still happy to be here. I'm just tired but we're heading to the highway now it's 11:15. I still have 45 minutes left. I think we can finish the autopia. maybe in Alice tomorrow and what's supposed to be after tomorrow, here we go. I couldn't tell you the last time I drove in this thing, usually Benjamin or James gives me a ride. Amy is in front of me, so the tricky way to drive this is. to keep the steering wheel turned all the way to the right as much as possible and he will literally hug the barrier in the middle which will prevent what Amy is doing and that is bouncing back and forth a little bit and hitting the walls a lot harder. gentle.

Well, I was about to say I'm ready to go back to the room now, but Amy told me that Big Thunder Mountain Railroad has a 50 minute wait and we're still holding on to this multiple experience pass that can allow us. skip the Big Thunder Mountain railways, wait, so hmm, that's too tempting, well, here we go, 50 minutes, he says, and let's do it, okay, the 50 is fake because, uh, that's fake, no It's not 50 at all, not even five, not even two I don't even think it's one I think they just want people to go home it's like when Roger Rabbit said 70 but we saw six people enter the attraction 70 seconds Roger Rabbit now It's 11 52 and I'm doubly tired that's all our time here today Genie plus a lot of tips we give you for Genie plus and a little vlog about our experience using Genie plus here today if you have questions leave them in the comments below and Hit the like button and subscribe.

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