What is the longest time you have waited for a ride

[tribar]

For me it would probably be 2 hours for TDK when it opened. I don't have the patience to wait 4 hours for anything. What about you guys

[Paradise]

Probably 2 1/2 ish for Raging Bull during Fright Fest.

[monsterfan99]

4 hours or so for Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit on soft opening day at Universal. Second worst was 3 hours for E.T. in 1991 when the park had a grand total of 6 attractions open.

The worst line I've ever seen was 6-7 hours for Soarin' on New Years Ever last year. Then again, 56,000 people in a park will do that.

[aspects]

3 hours for Top Thrill Dragster, but that was really just 30 minutes of line and 2.5 hours of waiting the rain out. We could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble by sleeping 10 minutes less in our afternoon nap.

2.5 hours for Superman: Ultimate Flight during a Saturday night Fright Fest last year. And then another 1-2 wait to get out of the back parking lot.

[Paradise]

The worst line I've ever seen was 6-7 hours for Soarin' on New Years Ever last year. Then again, 56,000 people in a park will do that.

WOW...That's most of your day gone waiting for just one ride!

[MrRy10]

5 hours TTD. It was down in the morning and maintenance couldn't get it fixed but then they finally did and then weather came in. Was the first person in line and was the first people to ride front row that day

[Cole]

3 for X2 two times. Both times were worth it.


-Cole

[monsterfan99]

The worst line I've ever seen was 6-7 hours for Soarin' on New Years Ever last year. Then again, 56,000 people in a park will do that.

WOW...That's most of your day gone waiting for just one ride!

It got so bad that the walk from Mexico to Norway, that normally takes 1-2 minutes max took 35.

[FParker185]

I waited 3.5 hours for Deja Vu at SFOG back in Sept of 2001. After riding the rest of the coasters in the park I was able to justify waiting for it.

That is the longest I waited for a ride I rode, back in 2000 I waited in the queue for Millennium Force for about 4 hours, but didn't ride, I got in line about a half hour before the park closed, so I had no reason to leave the line, around 1:30 or so in the morning the park just gave up on trying to get it open again. It was down to one train and at the top of the lift the anti-rollbacks were banging which the park didn't care for. Told everyone to get the hell out. No compensation of any sort was offered if anyone is curious, didn't matter much to me though.

[Director_Guy]

I think I waited about 5 hours for Indiana Jones back when it first opened up back in '95. Other than that, I think I waited for X for 4 hours.

[FParker185]

X seems to be a recurring theme, I guess I was there on the 2 right days last year. I never saw it more than a walk on, running half full trains and there were strongly encouraged re-rides. Ditto for Deja Vu which was straight up forced re-rides, unless you were sick they did their best into talking everyone into staying on so there'd be enough weight for the next cycle without having to wait for more people off the midway

[BP317]

About 8 hours or so for DejaVu back in 2002. When the park opened everyone ran to it then waited at the entrance until between 4-6 PM which is typically when it would open in 02. The weekend Ragin Cajun opened we waited about 4 hours or so at the entrance and when it opened got on, then right after we got off a maintenence guy in the danger area was hit by a car and the ride closed for several hours after that. Also sometime back in 1998 or so I waited through a half-full queue tent at Eagle with one side operating, don't remember how long that was but it was long enough. Also back in the day I used to wait through BTR's 3rd entrance (Mardi Gras entrance) almost every time I was at SFGAm because it used to always be like that.

I would say though in recent memory the worst I have waited in was 1 1/2 hours for Gwazi on Cheetah Hunt's opening day. We wanted to ride the new trains, Cheetah Hunt wasn't open yet, only one side was operating and was loading slow, it was 95 degrees out and very humid, and the wors was we were surrounded by middle school groups on field trips that were very loud. If I had realized how slow the crew was going to be (which I should have known since it's Gwazi) theres no way I would have gotten in line for it. Also in line for X2 once we waited 30 minutes near split before the station. Even though the ride does not have great capacity I have no idea why we were in that one spot for a half hour, they were sending trains around without much delay, most likely Flashpass (even though adding X2 is an upcharge). On the topic of SFMM, when Terminator Salvation first opened I was waiting in the full queue and had to agnozingly watch 1 out of every 3 trains go by more than half empty because they decided that even though the line is about 2 hours it's better to let every single person watch the full pre-show and they didn't design the path after the preshow to hold enough people to fill the rides capacity for that timeframe.

[CstrFan512]

1 hour 45 min-2 hours is my waiting range. But if i haven't ridden it ill wait longer.

I remember back on the middle of summer waiting 3 hours for bull and 2 hours for S:UF. Everything else was either walk-on or <30min. I don't mind waiting that long for bull, but not S:UF.

[RagingTyler]

At Six Flags - 2 Hours for Batman a couple fright fests ago

Anywhere - Toy Story Mania we waited 3.5 hours in August 2009

[Ilovthevu']

WOW. This is shocking to hear about all these long line waits. I guess I would say it would Deja Vu during October at about 1.5 hours. I don't know. I guess I just skip rides when I feel they are really long and either come back at night, or the next day.

[tribar]

I would say though in recent memory the worst I have waited in was 1 1/2 hours for Gwazi on Cheetah Hunt's opening day. We wanted to ride the new trains, Cheetah Hunt wasn't open yet, only one side was operating and was loading slow, it was 95 degrees out and very humid, and the wors was we were surrounded by middle school groups on field trips that were very loud. If I had realized how slow the crew was going to be (which I should have known since it's Gwazi) theres no way I would have gotten in line for it.

I read about that in your trip report

Anywhere - Toy Story Mania we waited 3.5 hours in August 2009

We went to Disney's Hollywood Studios on a very busy day and Toy story Mania was only 30 minutes in June of 2009. I don't understand how that ride is so popular

[RagingTyler]

Anywhere - Toy Story Mania we waited 3.5 hours in August 2009

We went to Disney's Hollywood Studios on a very busy day and Toy story Mania was only 30 minutes in June of 2009. I don't understand how that ride is so popular [/quote]
well, when we went in may this year, we got fastpasses right away and then went in the regular standby. We waited in standby for 15 minutes, but then when we went back for our fastpasses, it was at 60 minutes. by 11 fastpasses are gone. It's only very popular because
1. It doesn't have a huge ride capacity
2. It's basically the only family RIDE in the park

[TwistedSTEEL666]

The longest line that I've seen in the past few years has always been Raging Bull. Although it's only about 30 to 45 minutes, it's not really that bad considering that most of the other coasters have shorter lines than that. You got plenty of time left in the day.

The longest line I ever waited in was the line for Superman: Ultimate Flight back in 2003. It was a three hour wait! At least there are no lines that long today at the park.

[ragingbull1331]

1 and a half hours for TTD in the summer... I waited that long twice and it was worth it both times

And Soarin I waited like an hour and a half for during Winter break

[Jackluver18]

an hour for front row on V2

[tillenterprises]

Also sometime back in 1998 or so I waited through a half-full queue tent at Eagle with one side operating, don't remember how long that was but it was long enough.

I remember in the 80's how it was normal for the Eagle queue to be full and the end of of the line to spill out into the midway. The whole half of the tent was full, and an over 2 hour wait was common. They even had that little stage in the middle of the tent to entertain people waiting in line. I also remember the multi-tiered zig zag queue line they used to have for the Turn of the Century/Demon and how they were always full. It also wasn't uncommon to have to wait over an hour to two hours to ride Yankee Clipper or loggers run.

[BP317]

I wouldve liked to wait in that full queue once just to see how long it would take and fast it moved with 6 train operation and only buzz bars. That thing mustve been a machine!

[yamcha]

2 hours and 45 minutes. It was the day after Batman the Ride Opened, I remember There used to be a stage by there and that huge Faris Wheel. wow how long ago was that?

[Necropolis]

3.5 hours for The Dark Knight when it first opened and it was NOT worth it. Last year at Frightfest, 2 flats in 6 hours...no coasters at all that day. It was a waste!!

[CoasterDude12-2]

2 and a half hours for DejaVu in...07? I knew it was coming down and I wanted to get a couple rides in it before it went to Idaho. Would've been 30-40 minutes if it didn't break down (miscatch) when I was in line. Twice. Otherwise I usually won't wait more than 45 minutes to an hour. I have better things to do.