News Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway opening day reports

[CastAStone]

Standby, no Fastpass! This trip came as a surprise so I wasn’t able to book any in advance.

I was in the Preshow Theater at 10:25

Is there a wait between the preshow and boarding the train (like TOT has)? Or is it basically walk straight onto the train?

 

[jt04]

Perfect opportunity to deploy dual Boarding Groups. Two rides, choose one.

Standby later in the day. I should get paid for this.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Is there a wait between the preshow and boarding the train (like TOT has)? Or is it basically walk straight onto the train?

There’s a wait, but it’s not bad. Less than 10 minutes. For pacing’s sake I wish you got on the train more immediately after the preshow.

 

[jt04]

Waits will remain lower on rides like MMRR and Rat, simply because of perspective. Not many people know that there is barely any queue inside of the Chinese theater, so, seeing the "mass" of switchbacks out front will scare people off. While Rat hides its switchbacks better, I expect a similar phenomenon. Other than its awesome word of mouth, the fact that FoP hides most of its queue is a big reason why its wait times stay so high.

WoM could change that. I personally expect very long queues for mmrr to be standard unless it is raining or 100°. Or both.

 

[Jeremy Geertsema]

So going forward, if u want to rope drop this and get a boarding pass for Rise, is that possible? Getting worried about that aspect. It would be nice if they didn’t open the ride till 8am to allow for boarding pass retrieval, but it is understandable because of crowds. Curious about this going forward.

 

[No Name]

Yeah, cause who doesn’t like standing in a line half the day!

You can’t have people in two virtual queues at the same time, that’s not remotely fair to people who get there too late and it increases demand far too much on other attractions.

 

[disneygeek90]

You can’t have people in two virtual queues at the same time, that’s not remotely fair to people who get there too late and it increases demand far too much on other attractions.

If the ride stayed at 300 mins all day it would look a little rough, but I'm pretty surprised its tapered down to a reasonable 100 mins and others reporting here that it's even shorter.

 

[No Name]

If the ride stayed at 300 mins all day it would look a little rough, but I'm pretty surprised its tapered down to a reasonable 100 mins and others reporting here that it's even shorter.

It has decently high capacity thankfully.

 

[Lilofan]

Waiting in line in the middle of August for several hours outside would be difficult. It's good the opening was in March.

 

[Magic Feather]

WoM could change that. I personally expect very long queues for mmrr to be standard unless it is raining or 100°. Or both.

Psychologically, as long as the queue appears temporary, it gives people the mindset that this is an abnormally large wait, regardless of what the waittime sign said. there is a reason that when GMR got a somewhat permanent seeming extended queue off to the side by OMD it saw its wait times increase.

 

[disneygeek90]

Waiting in line in the middle of August for several hours outside would be difficult. It's good the opening was in March.

It's pre-summer today as it's supposed to touch near 90 today and tomorrow.

 

[BlakeW39]

So what's the verdict? How good is it? On par with RSR or no?

 

[MrConbon]

So what's the verdict? How good is it? On par with RSR or no?

RSR? If you mean Rise of the Resistance I wouldn’t put it in the same category. It’s cute and fun but not amazing.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

So what's the verdict? How good is it? On par with RSR or no?

No, and it doesn’t aspire to be.

It‘s a large-scale, high-tech, well-funded Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

It’s not in the pantheon of Radiator Springs Racers or Rise of the Resistance. Not because it tries and fails, it’s just not as ambitious by design. But it is fun.

 

[Tjaden]

When the Frozen ride at Epcot opened on the first day to guests, the wait was 5 hours. Guests were given free ice cream. Wonder if DHS guests waiting for 3 hours received anything?

Well it certianly won't be bread.

 

[Purduevian]

Here is the posted wait times for MMRR on opening day vs some other popular rides around WDW:

Thanks to Thrill-Data

Also compare MMRR Opening day:

 

[MisterPenguin]

The big ones at DHS on MMRR opening day so far...

 

[wdwmagic]

Forgot to mention earlier, but good to see Bob Weiss and Kevin Rafferty at the opening today.

 

[YodaMan]

FYI the park as a whole is pretty dead. Pretty low attendance. Tower was hovering around 15-minute waits for chunks of the day.

 

[MisterPenguin]

FYI the park as a whole is pretty dead. Pretty low attendance. Tower was hovering around 15-minute waits for chunks of the day.

Those are some pretty small chunks of the day. Much longer chunks with much longer waits.