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    [Fun] Longest Waits in Disneyland

    I don't go to Disneyland as often as others on this website, but I'm just currious to know what was the longest wait you had to endure for a ride. Name the ride, the time you went on the ride, the time you were in Disneyland (aprox.), and any other things you might want to mention.
    It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you. - Doc Brown, Back to the Future III
    Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. -Forrest Gump
    Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it. - Rafiki, Lion King
    Do or do not. There is no "try".- Yoda, Star Wars
    What are conscience! I'll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to. That's just the trouble with the world today... - Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio
    Think of all the you you'll find when you leave the world behing and bud your cares goodbye. - Peter Pan
    Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. - Forrest Gump
    Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him. Not much fun for little Harpo. -Dory, Finding Nemo
    You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change. - Cobb, Inception
    The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up. - Timothy the Mouse, Dumbo
    Well, the road didn't cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time. - Sally, Cars
    In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. -Anton Ego, Ratatoulli
    Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.- Star Trek
     It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. - Dumbledor, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    If you don't think, then you shouldn't talk. - March Hare, Alice in Wonderland
    We don't like what we don't understand. In fact it scares us, snd this monster is mysterious at least.- The Mob, Beauty and the Beast
    What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. But people, I guess, can't live like that. We all must pay a price. To be safe we loose our chance of ever knowing what's around the river bend. -Pocahontas
    You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh
    People think I'm odd. So I know how it feels to be different and I know how lonely that can be. - Belle, Beauty and the Beast
    The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability. -Remy, Ratatouille
    If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your whole life go by without you, - Laverne, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. - Eduard Christoff Gerard Renaldi, The Princess Diaries
    You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying. - Madame Leota, The Haunted Mansion
    We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each passing year a little more of us is worn away. - Princess Kida, Atlantis: The Lost Empire

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    Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

    I tend to get spoiled about how long to wait. the longest I've waited, if I remember correctly would be Grizzly River Rapids. It was about 3 hours. The situation was I was there with my brother-in-law, his ex-mistake, and thier two kids. The only attraction the kids said was a must-see was GRR. So we waited in the massive line. I had an AP at the time, so I didn't really care how long I waited, since I could go back whenever. This was 11 years ago, so there wasn't usually a problem seeing all of DCA, anyway.

    Had I bought a one day ticket, there's no way in He** that I would have wasted that much time for one ride!
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    • #3
      Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

      Originally posted by sbk1234 View Post
      I tend to get spoiled about how long to wait. the longest I've waited, if I remember correctly would be Grizzly River Rapids. It was about 3 hours. The situation was I was there with my brother-in-law, his ex-mistake, and thier two kids. The only attraction the kids said was a must-see was GRR. So we waited in the massive line. I had an AP at the time, so I didn't really care how long I waited, since I could go back whenever. This was 11 years ago, so there wasn't usually a problem seeing all of DCA, anyway.

      Had I bought a one day ticket, there's no way in He** that I would have wasted that much time for one ride!
      We were in DCA for one day and I waited 2 hours (timed by my faithful Tinkerbell watch) in Tower of Terror. I was dead set on going on it because I had always chickened out. I was with about 30 other peers from my band. It was boring, but when you're in a line that long you get to meet new people
      It means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you. - Doc Brown, Back to the Future III
      Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. -Forrest Gump
      Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it. - Rafiki, Lion King
      Do or do not. There is no "try".- Yoda, Star Wars
      What are conscience! I'll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to. That's just the trouble with the world today... - Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio
      Think of all the you you'll find when you leave the world behing and bud your cares goodbye. - Peter Pan
      Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. - Forrest Gump
      Well, you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him. Not much fun for little Harpo. -Dory, Finding Nemo
      You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change. - Cobb, Inception
      The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up. - Timothy the Mouse, Dumbo
      Well, the road didn't cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time. - Sally, Cars
      In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. -Anton Ego, Ratatoulli
      Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.- Star Trek
       It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. - Dumbledor, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
      If you don't think, then you shouldn't talk. - March Hare, Alice in Wonderland
      We don't like what we don't understand. In fact it scares us, snd this monster is mysterious at least.- The Mob, Beauty and the Beast
      What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. But people, I guess, can't live like that. We all must pay a price. To be safe we loose our chance of ever knowing what's around the river bend. -Pocahontas
      You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh
      People think I'm odd. So I know how it feels to be different and I know how lonely that can be. - Belle, Beauty and the Beast
      The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability. -Remy, Ratatouille
      If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your whole life go by without you, - Laverne, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
      Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. - Eduard Christoff Gerard Renaldi, The Princess Diaries
      You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying. - Madame Leota, The Haunted Mansion
      We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each passing year a little more of us is worn away. - Princess Kida, Atlantis: The Lost Empire

      ~~Back to the Future Randomness~~
      Great Scott!
      This is heavy!
      Since you're new here, I-I'm gonna cut you a break, today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?
      1.21 gigawatts!
      I remember when this was all farmland as far the eye could see. Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding pine trees.
      Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.
      Look! There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.
      Okay. Time circuit's on. Flux capacitor, fluxing. Engine running. All right.
      Say hi to your mom for me.
      The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers.
      That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
      Butthead.
      Manure! I hate manure!
      Is this a hold up?- No, it's a science experiment!
      Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex!
      What's your name, dude?- Uh, Mar...Eastwood. Clint Eastwood. -What kind of stupid name is that?

      Have a Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah day! (Uncle Remus, Song of the South)
      May the odds be ever in your favor. (Effie, The Hunger Games)
      Live long and prosper. (Spock, Star Trek)
      May the force be with you. (Han Solo, Star Wars)


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      • #4
        Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

        I don't remember HOW long it took exactly (but it was a long time), but when Indiana Jones first opened, I waited in a line that extended into Main Street.

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        • #5
          Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

          I'm to the point where I'd rather skip rides than wait for hours...but the longest one I remember doing was about 100 minutes for Space Mountain. When I got in the queue it said 60 minutes--still too long for my taste, but I was with friends. Oh, how that wait time estimate was wrong!
          Merida looks like this. Not a Barbie doll!

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          • #6
            Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

            I waited an hour and forty minutes for pirates the weekend they reopened with the Jack Sparrow et al additions it was a never stop walking maze for the entire time in line! Very interesting!
            BGood! It's not just my motto its my name!

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            • #7
              Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

              3 hours for RSR. I was in the single riders line, but once I got to the front, the ride broke down. I ended up watching both Cars movies! )

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              • #8
                Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                Maybe a bit more than 2 hours for Small World Holiday last December.
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                • #9
                  Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                  4 hours for RSR. The sign said 150 minutes. Broke down 3 times.
                  I open in 2012

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                  • #10
                    Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                    Wow no one on here rode Rocket Rods I assume... 3 and a half agonizing hours with 3 break downs. At one point my cousins stood up on a pedestal and told jokes... That lasted for about 45 minutes during the longest breakdown and was really fun since my cousins are hilarious and the crowd actually paid attention and laughed in unison at their jokes. We got in line at 10 and didn't get on the ride until 1:30 a.m. (the park had long since closed!). This is the only time I've seen a trail of CM directing guests towards the exit because of how late we got out of the park. It was the only time I rode the ride and so I do not regret, but it was ridiculous!

                    I also waited 2 1/2 hours for Ghost Galaxy because it broke down every other time we tried to ride it.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                      ^^ I vaguely remember waiting hours and hours for Rocket Rods with my sister and parents when I was much younger. I'm actually very surprised my parents took us on that ride let alone toughed out the agonizing wait. It had to have been at least 3 hours and I took several naps.

                      Right up there is when we came for the opening of Star Tours 2.0. We made our way to the end of the line which was near the Emporium on Main Street. Had to have been around 3-4 hours as well.

                      Most recently, waited 3 hours for Luigi's Flying Tires. Got to see a father really hammer into his kid, couples get into arguments, guests grow highly irritable.. very entertaining 3 hours.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                        Originally posted by Sheriff Lightyear View Post
                        ^^ I vaguely remember waiting hours and hours for Rocket Rods with my sister and parents when I was much younger. I'm actually very surprised my parents took us on that ride let alone toughed out the agonizing wait. It had to have been at least 3 hours and I took several naps.

                        Right up there is when we came for the opening of Star Tours 2.0. We made our way to the end of the line which was near the Emporium on Main Street. Had to have been around 3-4 hours as well.

                        Most recently, waited 3 hours for Luigi's Flying Tires. Got to see a father really hammer into his kid, couples get into arguments, guests grow highly irritable.. very entertaining 3 hours.
                        I feel like 3 1/2 hours in 1998 America was WAY better than 2 1/2 in 2012! I've noticed a lot more unruly behavior by park guests in the last 5-10 years (And don't even get me started on clothing choices). Pictures of parents and children running around picking up rocks in cars land, parents helping their children over the fence around Casey Junior in WDW, ect all make me a little sad inside since I know there is not end in sight to people's increasing lack of respect for Disney property and those around them... Honestly the 3 1/2 wait for Rocket Rods was long but I never once noticed anyone being unruly and out right breaking the rules. I see this kind of behavior happen in every line I wait in be it 2 minutes or 60 minutes now days! I don't think I could handle people acting ridiculous and breaking things in line for 3 1/2 hours now days.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                          Back in the pre-fastpass era I have waited for 2 or 2 and a half hours on a few things like Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Rocket Rods, and Indy. Those waits were nearly all when the attractions first opened. Nowadays, with fastpass and the fact that I have an AP, I won't generally get in a line with a posted wait time over about 75 minutes.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                            Rocket rods. It's was like may 2000? With my 8th grade band for magIc music days (so maybe not may?) I have no idea how long we waited I remember parts of the line and none of the ride lol. We had fun though so that's all that counts... I just know we were in that line FOREVER!

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                            • #15
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                              RSR for 3 hours. I highly recommend fastpass or single rider.



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                              • #16
                                Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                                2 hours plus a few minutes for Indy back when it first opened. That definitely was the longest wait time ever for me.
                                But for sheer wait agony, I remember a visit to Walt Disney World back in the summer of 1983. It was a very hot and humid day. Every wait time felt like an eternity with the heat and mugginess bearing down, even if the queues were inside.
                                I am old. But still love Disneyland.

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                                • #17
                                  Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                                  I remember waiting four hours in line for Indy when it first opened. At the time I did not live in southern california so it was a must ride. I'm pretty sure I still have those decoder cards in my old room.
                                  I actually heard this said by a CM over the loud speakers at Big Thunder in 1995, "Please do not sit on the rocks. You will fall...and you will die."

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                                  • #18
                                    Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                                    Star Tours, when it reopened. I waited at 2am, if that counts. And got to ride it around 8am. So cold!!


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                                    • #19
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                                      On the Finding Nemo Subs my family and I waited for about 2 and 1/2 hours. I really don't like that ride.

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                                      • #20
                                        Re: Longest Waits in Disneyland

                                        I waited 3 hours 45 mins for the Finding Nemo Subs on opening day. Now it's not worth waiting more than 30 mins IMO.

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