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Single Rider Queues
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MacDuffieMuppet
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depending on the time you go (ie. xmas, springbreak, summer) the regular line tends to be faster. BIg groups like a baseball team piled into the single riders line right before me 
thinking the single line would be quicker, however it just made it longer.
thinking the single line would be quicker, however it just made it longer.
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One Lil Spark
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On the 17th of this month I used the single rider lines for TT and RnRC and I walked straight into the preshow on both. Absolutely NO wait! WDW is really amazing by yourself. I can't wait to see how you liked it when you get back and (hopefully) tell us all about it.
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mousefan1972
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DH rode EE last December 21, using the single rider line. He said it was the most poorly organized queue he's ever seen. That was by far the longest wait of our trip (25 minutes), and we went during Christmas!
Use FP instead....
Use FP instead....
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WDW is really amazing by yourself. I can't wait to see how you liked it when you get back and (hopefully) tell us all about it.
I plan on it! (I'm such an A-type that I'm already thinking about catchy TR titles) :lol:
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You can see the single rider line as it enters the buidling for RnR from the queue entrance. They usually let in 5-6 at a time for each preshow, so judge accordingly. My wife and I were there Sunday am and we rode 3 times in a row before there was anyone else in that queue. And that was with a 40 minute standby wait.
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Texas84
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Going by myself in May. I always have to plan & lead the big family thing in December so this is my chance to do what I want to do! Last May I did the EE single-rider a bunch of times with NO wait. One time I was paired with this adorable little girl I wished I could have adopted. I was on my 5th ride but I didn't have the heart to stop her from telling me about it and not to be afraid.
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Rob562
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The "success" of the Single Rider lines is very much dependent on the CM working the grouper position at the head of the line, and to a lesser extent the Guests in the Single Rider line themselves. (An inattentive Single Rider who's next in the line can cause the whole thing to slow down if they're not paying attention when they're called on)
During my last trip, I rode EE multiple times over multiple days, and saw mostly so-so groupers but one excellent grouper. She was definitely a take-charge kind of person who knew what needed to be done to keep all the lines moving. It was actually kinda cool to stand there and watch her work. Kind of a ballet, really. (Just without the tutu and jumping) And every time there was an odd number of Guests coming from the main queue came the call of "Single Rider!". That one position is managing 4 things all at once: Feeding the correct number of Guests down toward the front of the train where the front grouper deals with them, grouping Guests into the rear cars, inserting Singles where appropriate, and directing people who ask for the front row into the Front Row Holding Queue adjacent to the Singles Line. And then when she completes one train, she grabs the next people from the Front Row Queue, sends them to the front and starts the whole process over again. Definitely takes talent.
Oh, and if a wheelchair Guest comes along, they need to be directed to the handicap-accessible Row 17.
Compare that to Test Track and RnRC. At Test Track the grouper just loads 8 rows of 3, using Single Riders for all odd groupings. And over at RnRC it's a similar situation as EE, but there's only 12 rows instead of EE's 17. I also believe the dispatch interval is faster on EE than on RnRC.
So EE groups 34 people at a time, whereas TT and RnRC both group 24 people at a time. (And in slower periods TT only uses three load zones, making it 18 people at a time).
-Rob
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