Longest Wait Time for a Ride?

[CDavid]

The Jungle Cruise, at about 150 minutes (two and a half hours!) circa 1981, is the absolute longest I've waited for any attraction.

 

[Frightful]

Soarin' between Christmas and New Year's 2006! Well into the 200s as has been mentioned. We waited until EMH and I think it was less than 2 hours, but next time it's FP or nothing. I mostly remember being glad about taking environmental science at the time, so I could be pretentious about the queue trivia to occupy myself...

I would wait 3 hours for Revenge of the Mummy if necessary. We waited a loooong time for it during that trip and the consensus was it was totally worth it.

 

[donsullivan]

295 minutes. I'm confident someone here posted the picture of the digital wait time for Soarin' last year on New Year's Eve. I remember seeing it and laughed my a** of and there were pictures of people sleeping everywhere around the Epcot grounds.

I personally have only seen 110 minutes and it was TSMM last December.

I'm not sure if I posted t here but I have a picture from last NYE when Soarin wait time on the times board on the back of the pin station was listed at 300 minutes. It's an FP only ride at that point.

 

[plaz10]

I've seen Toy Story at 150 minutes. Did not wait in it. To be honest...there is nothing I wait more than 30 minutes for. I mean its worth it, of course...but I would never wait that long. If you get there early and stay late and use fastpass wisely, there is no reason you should wait that long. But keep in mind that I have never been during Christmas/New Years when I understand is a different story.

 

[Dads 2 Boys]

I'm not sure if I posted t here but I have a picture from last NYE when Soarin wait time on the times board on the back of the pin station was listed at 300 minutes. It's an FP only ride at that point.

It probably was you. I knew I saw it here and was floored. :lol:

 

[Zummi Gummi]

The longest line I've waited in was a little less than 90 minutes for Toy Story Mania. It wouldn't have been bad, except it was raining at the time, so everyone was wet and sticky and gross, because the temperature in the indoor portion of the waiting area was excruciating.

The longest I've seen was 200 minutes for Soarin'. Needless to say, I passed that one right on by.

Question about those long wait times for Soarin', though. Where do they put all those people? Their queue area doesn't seem to be that long!

 

[disneydata]

I have seen BOTH Soarin and Test Track at over 300 minutes.

Then there was the time we had fun at the jungle cruise and got the wait time to display at 600 minutes.

 

[donsullivan]

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Question about those long wait times for Soarin', though. Where do they put all those people? Their queue area doesn't seem to be that long!

The reality is that the Soarin' standby line on those days isn't physically any longer, they just give out so many fast passes that the ration of FP to standby guests is much higher so the standby line moves extremely slowly.

The silliest one I've seen many times on NYE is when Test Track is backed up all the way to the East Breezeway by late morning.

 

[hrcollectibles]

The longest wait I have seen was 480 minutes for Soarin..

 

[Fable McCloud]

I waited 2 hours for RnRC but, that was because the ride broke down for about 30 minutes in the middle.

 

[ryno1982]

The longest wait I have seen was 480 minutes for Soarin..

I seriously doubt that since that's eight hours. The longest I waited was 2 and a 1/2 hours for the Subs at Disneyland. Otherwise I waited 4 hours in a non-moving line for Test Track to soft open in Dec 1998.

 

[ddbowdoin]

May 2010 - TSMM 200 minutes... didnt wait for it, came back the next day and got a FP ASAP and went back. It's an amazing ride, fun for all ages, but no way am I waiting 200 minutes!

 

[Thrill Seeker]

7 hours? no way! that's awful. who would completely ruin a whole day for one ride?

i think me and my dad waited a while for the mummy ride, not long after it opened, and it broke down just as we got to the front. i think we were queuing for about 2 hours. gutted.

we waited 90 minutes for soarin', which was 90 minutes too long. it's a good idea, the ride, but when you're on the bottom seats, it's not so fun.

i remember we went the year test track opened too, or the year after. we waited around 2 and a half hours for that, but i rememeber that was because it kept breaking down and they had to keep closing the ride and re testing it and stuff.

Harry Potter fanatics who came halfway across the country just to ride it would. I'm glad I got there at 5 in the morning and didn't have long to wait to get into the land.

 

[ddbowdoin]

Harry Potter fanatics who came halfway across the country just to ride it would. I'm glad I got there at 5 in the morning and didn't have long to wait to get into the land.

is there a new roller coaster there? I looked on the site and saw that they converted the old dueling dragons, built some weak griffyndor (spelling, sorry) coaster, and have that 3d spiderman style crap

why did I remember seeing some sort of complete bada## coaster in the news?

 

[Frightful]

is there a new roller coaster there? I looked on the site and saw that they converted the old dueling dragons, built some weak griffyndor (spelling, sorry) coaster, and have that 3d spiderman style crap

why did I remember seeing some sort of complete bada## coaster in the news?

The hippogryph/griff coaster is a re-theme of The Flying Unicorn which IMO was an awesome way to spend 30 seconds. The Forbidden Journey is a "robo-coaster" with cutting edge technology that is by most accounts (that is, haters not included) completely amazing.

 

[thelookingglass]

I don't think I've ever waited more than maybe an hour for anything at WDW, but then, I am park-savvy.

The longest I've ever waited for anything was almost 3 hours for Millennium Force at Cedar Point. So worth it though!

and have that 3d spiderman style crap

Yeah man, Spiderman is so crappy. If only they had made it with plywood cutout props, cheap, obvious screens, bad graphics, and low capacity like Disney's attempt at a 3D ride (which debuted 9 years after Spiderman).

PS - the coaster you're thinking of is probably Rip Ride Rockit at the Studios park, which Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is about 100 times better an experience than.

 

[ABigBrassBand]

have that 3d spiderman style crap

you know that's often-referred to as one of the best attractions in Orlando, right? It rightfully gets that place as well.

 

[SeaCastle]

Geez, I give you folks a lot of credit. We won't wait in any line longer than 40 minutes, and 90% of the time we will balk at anything over 30.

 

[Disney Dawg88]

Geez, I give you folks a lot of credit. We won't wait in any line longer than 40 minutes, and 90% of the time we will balk at anything over 30.

I'm right there with you man, 30-40 minutes seems like a lifetime to me now. I guess I've gotten spoiled with this AP going during the non peak times (holidays, spring break) and staying during the late EMHs when there really isn't a wait.

 

[SeaCastle]

I'm right there with you man, 30-40 minutes seems like a lifetime to me now. I guess I've gotten spoiled with this AP going during the non peak times (holidays, spring break) and staying during the late EMHs when there really isn't a wait.

We've been spoiled by going in late August and Jersey Week. This past trip there was a night when MK operating hours were extended the day-of (which I found out from WDWMagic). I went into the park and there were no waits for anything. I rode BTMRR three times in a row without getting off. I then proceeded to ride Splash Mountain three times in a row, before heading across the park to Space Mountain where I walked through the queue. Probably my highlight of the vacation.