It’s September 10, 2025, and Walt Disney World is experiencing something the company surely wishes fans wouldn’t notice: historically low crowds.
The crowd level and wait times for Disney’s Magic Kingdom on September 10, 2025 at 1:45 pm EST – WDW Passport
According to WDWPassport.com, live crowd trackers at 1:45 p.m. revealed shockingly light attendance levels across the entire resort, with wait times that would make longtime guests shake their heads in disbelief.
Magic Kingdom: A Crowd Level of 2
The Magic Kingdom, Disney’s flagship park, is sitting at a crowd level of just 2. That’s an astonishingly low number for the world’s most visited theme park.
The wait times for Disney’s Magic Kingdom on September 10, 2025 at 1:45 pm EST – WDW Passport
Even more remarkable are the wait times for some of the park’s premiere “E-Ticket” attractions:
- Tiana’s Bayou Adventure – 25 minutes
- Space Mountain – 35 minutes
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 50 minutes (a ride that’s often 75–120 minutes)
- TRON Lightcycle Run – 40 minutes
These are attractions that usually command hour-plus waits. Yet on this September afternoon, they’re practically walk-ons by Disney standards.
EPCOT: Food & Wine, But Still Low
EPCOT’s crowd level is slightly higher at 4, bolstered by the ongoing Food & Wine Festival.
The crowd level and wait times for EPCOT on September 10, 2025 at 1:45 pm EST – WDW Passport
Still, ride waits are a fraction of what guests typically endure.
• Frozen Ever After – 45 minutes
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind – 55 minutes
• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 40 minutes
• Soarin’ – just 15 minutes
For a festival season, those numbers are shockingly low.
Animal Kingdom: Near-Empty Paths
Animal Kingdom, with the resort’s thinnest roster of attractions, is marked at a crowd level 2.
The crowd level and wait times for Disney’s Animal Kingdom on September 10, 2025 at 1:45 pm EST – WDW Passport
The headliner rides are practically walk-ons.
- Avatar Flight of Passage – 25 minutes
- Expedition Everest – 20 minutes
- Kilimanjaro Safaris – 10 minutes
- Na’vi River Journey – 40 minutes (inflated due to earlier downtime)
Guests who’ve stood for two hours in the Flight of Passage queue in years past would be stunned to see a line this short.
Hollywood Studios: A Ghost Town at Level 1
But the real shocker comes from Disney’s Hollywood Studios, now sitting at a crowd level 1.
The crowd level and wait times for Disney’s Hollywood Studios on September 10, 2025 at 1:45 pm EST – WDW Passport
This is the home of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Toy Story Land, and some of Disney’s biggest modern investments. Yet rides are nearly empty:
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 40 minutes
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 25 minutes
- Slinky Dog Dash – 30 minutes (after earlier downtime)
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 120 minutes, but only after significant downtime skewed the average earlier in the day
Without the downtime, even Rise of the Resistance would likely be posting far lower numbers.
The Bigger Picture: Walls and Wallets
So why does Walt Disney World feel like a ghost town on a mid-September day? Several factors are at play.
First off, there’s construction everywhere. Three out of four parks are dominated by construction walls, leaving fewer attractions for guests to enjoy and ruining the park atmosphere.
Multi-Colored Construction Walls in Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World – X, @BioReconstruct
Then you have exploding prices. Ticket hikes, resort increases, and food costs keep climbing with no relief in sight.
Finally, there’s shrinking value. Services that were once included, like FastPass, now come at a steep upcharge through Lightning Lane.
Oh, and there’s the little matter of Epic Universe, the brand new state-of-the-art Universal theme park that just opened a few months ago across town siphoning off Disney regulars.
Lightning Lane Prices
Even on a day with near-empty queues, Disney is still charging hefty Lightning Lane fees.
- Magic Kingdom – $29 per guest for Multi Pass, with $13 for Mine Train and $21 for Tron.
- EPCOT – $18 per guest for Multi Pass, with $17 for Guardians.
- Hollywood Studios – $22 per guest for Multi Pass. Rise of the Resistance is sold out, likely due to the downtime from earlier
- Animal Kingdom – $16 per guest for Multi Pass, with $16 for Flight of Passage.
An industrial fan and construction walls in the queue for the Haunted Mansion in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World: Photo Credit: That Park Place
That means families could pay hundreds on top of admission for the privilege of skipping lines that, for many attractions today, don’t even exist.
A Warning Sign for Disney
For years, Disney defended price hikes by pointing to strong demand. But what happens when guests stop showing up? The low Disney World crowds of September 10, 2025, are a clear sign that many families and fans have decided it’s not worth it anymore.
Construction walls, sky-high prices, and dwindling value are eroding the “Disney magic.” And even as crowds vanish, the company still tries to squeeze every last dime through Lightning Lane.
The hub of the Magic Kingdom with Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World on Labor Day 2025 – Photo Credit: That Park Place
The numbers don’t lie. On this day, Walt Disney World is emptier than it’s been in decades — and that should terrify executives in Burbank.
What do you think is contributing to these lower Disney Crowds? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
For a while it looked like the VP of Parks, Josh whatever-his-name-is, would succeed Iger. At this rate he may be fired before Iger leaves.
So, maybe they should fix the blurry screens on FoP?
The issue for Disney is, it destroyed the IPs it bought, out of spite for White males. And, by doing so, it has removed a major motivation to visit the parks.
White men are the primary customers. Heads of families, and into that they know Disney has destroyed.