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Post by Future Guy » Feb Tue 24, 2009 12:31 pm

We usually go off season, so the lines are never ridiculous. The wait for Peter Pan's Flight is usually pretty long, easily a half hour or so. The longest line I can remember was on a 1986 trip to EPCOT, the year The Living Seas opened. The line for the Seas stretched out to the monorail track. I don't know how long we waited (I was 8) but it seemed like an eternity. It was worth it, though.

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Post by MadEye » Feb Tue 24, 2009 5:46 pm

2 1/2 hours for the CM and AP previews for Everest, maybe. 1 hour for the original Imagination (and had the sunburn to prove it!!!). And I can't wait that long for Imagination again... the line is never that long since the re-do(s).
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Post by JDWDWlover » Feb Tue 24, 2009 10:21 pm

I spent an hour in the fastpass return line for Rock N Roller Coaster the second week of December last year. That's not the longest wait, but it was the longest I ever waited in a fastpass line. Standby for Toy Story that day was over two hours and fastpasses were gone well before noon. It's normally a slow time of year, but not that particular day.

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Post by boilerbabe » Feb Tue 24, 2009 10:36 pm

That's brutal, when you have a FP and then you still hit a line! We had this happen when we went on Soarin in Oct. '07. Had a FP and still ended up waiting 55 mins. But, it was well worth the wait!
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Post by packwingfn » Feb Tue 24, 2009 11:04 pm

I remember waiting in a 2 hour queue for Splash Mountain on a hot day in August with my relatives. Thank god, we had those fans that splash water on you or else we would have been miserable.
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Post by Soarin08 » Mar Tue 03, 2009 6:43 pm

2 hours for Soarin'. Would do it again in a heartbeat. That was the wait the first time I rode. :)
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Post by purple figment » Mar Wed 04, 2009 10:33 am

The longest I ever wait since Fastpass is about 45 min to 1 hour. Last spring, though, I waited 1 1/2 hours for Nemo in California. I am glad I did, since we rarely get there, but I don't know that I would do it again. I got alot of pictures of the line, though.

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Post by invader07 » Apr Thu 09, 2009 8:16 am

Two instances come to mind. The first was when I went to grad nite. The line for Space Mountain reached the astro orbiter and it was raining which made it worse. The second is when Soarin' first opened, the line was about 120 minutes long.

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Post by Dr. Ravenscroft » Apr Thu 09, 2009 10:29 am

I'm sure more LONGEST wait times will occur this week due to the Spring break crowds. With Magic Kingdom in Florida going to Phase 4 and the MGM and Epcot having closures as well and TSM having their Fastpass' all going before 9am I think we might have a record breaker this week.
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Post by Yensidaj » Apr Thu 09, 2009 10:47 am

Just got back from a trip to WDW this last week. I stood in line for Toy Story Mania for over 110 mins

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Post by timekeeper » Apr Thu 09, 2009 12:19 pm

Spring Break 1992, hotter than the face of the sun, waited 4 hours to ride Space Mountain. 4 16yr olds baking in the que outside having the time of our lives. I think we rode 3 things that 1 day we had at Disney.

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Post by Atomic » Apr Fri 10, 2009 12:18 am

I was there for the opening week of Indiana Jones. The line wrapped all the way around to Main Street.

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Post by figmentaholic » Apr Fri 10, 2009 3:42 pm

When I was at WDW in Feb, the line for Toy Story Mania was over 2 hours. I did not stand in that line.


I am guessing the longest I have stood is probably between 60-75 min on several rides, the last one was the Harambe Safari at AK. That was a hellish line, but it was late in the afternoon, close to closing, so that is why.
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Re: Longest queue wait

Post by disneyman 155 » May Sat 02, 2009 7:53 am

Soarin it was a 180 minute wait when I was there

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Post by AVITWeb » May Sat 02, 2009 10:23 am

Back years ago, when it was just the MK in Orlando, I seem to remember waiting upwards of over an hour for some things (20,000 Leagues comes to mind)

One the other hand I remember being there for the Splash Mountain soft opening and getting on...getting off...getting on....getting off....we must have ridden that one 8 or nine times that day.
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