Whats the longest You've waited for an attraction?

Anna and Elsa back when they were in Epcot and not meeting until 11 am (park opened at 9) - DH stood in line for 2 hours 20 minutes (he was the 4th person from the gates to get in line everyone ahead of us was from the breakfast) - we met them at 11:20 and were almost the last family before they took a break!
 
We wandered into Disney MGM Studios 2 weeks after it opened and every attraction was 2 hours plus. The shortest was 2 hrs, 10 minutes for the Great Movie Ride; the longest, 2 hours, 50 minutes for the Backlot Tour/Catastrophe Canyon. In 8 hours we saw all 3 attractions (the original Monster Sound Show the 3rd), met the Ninja Turtles and ate lunch at the Soundstage restaurant. (Which I loved)
 
Almost 30 minutes in the Jungle Cruise fastpass line. :crazy2: Other than that, never more than 10-15 minutes tops, with the bulk being walk-ons. We do sometimes stand in character lines a bit longer, though. Those are harder to shrink, regardless of planning. Can't hit them all at the beginning of the first set...
 
We waited nearly an hour for seating at BOG 1st week of Dec 2013. We were seated next to the Christmas tree, by the "snow" window. It was so worth it!!!
 


90 minutes for Toy Story Mania, and by the time I boarded, I had to go to the bathroom so badly, that I could not enjoy the ride.
 
60 minutes for TSMM. It was 90+ degrees in November & we wanted to get out of the heat for a while, but didn't want to just sit around. It was actually kind of a nice break.
 
We have waited for about 30 minutes 3 or 4 times. Other than that, never more than 20.
 


Two hours for TSMM when it first opened. DH refused but my kids were game so the three of us did it and DH went back to BC for a nap. I would never wait that long for anything ever again.
 
1 1/2 hours back in 1998 to ride the Tower of Terror at Christmas. But I was a teenager on my Senior Band Trip. We sang in line the whole time. So I'm sure the people around us felt like it was more like 3 hours. Sorry to any of you who were subjected to it. We were dumb teenagers at Disney World by ourselves.
 
tripletmomsrock said:
1 1/2 hours back in 1998 to ride the Tower of Terror at Christmas. But I was a teenager on my Senior Band Trip. We sang in line the whole time. So I'm sure the people around us felt like it was more like 3 hours. Sorry to any of you who were subjected to it. We were dumb teenagers at Disney World by ourselves.
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And this one day at band camp.......

Sorry I could not resist lol!!
 
An hour for Indiana Jones at DLR and 45 minutes to meet the 7 dwarves at MVMCP. Other than that, no longer than probably 20 minutes!
 
At Disney? About an hour for Tower of Terror. At other amusement/theme parks? My family waited 6 hours to ride a brand new roller coaster on opening day at the local place.
 
We go in August every year when waits are high so if a ride has a 45 minute or 1 hour wait time and my kids really want to do it we will. Sometimes we tell them the wait and they say nope, lets come back later or get a FP+ for it.
 
first trip to WDW I was entirely unprepared, it was Thanksgiving Week and I had done no research at all. My traveling companion had been once almost 20 years before & had grown up at DL. I think we waited 2 hours for Soarin, 90 minutes for ToT... fast pass line as it broke down as we were waiting. That Soarin line was just the dullest space, I don't think I have waited stand by there again.

Overall, my wait times at WDW have always been better than my trips to the theme parks here at home. Last trip we ended up waiting 40 minutes at Splash & actually really enjoyed the experience as I got to see things in line we normally miss. After years of being commando tourists we have slowed down and have learned to just enjoy the experience, whether its a walk on or a long wait.
 
2+ hours for candlelight processional. Longest that I have ever waited for any attraction, anywhere. I have waited more that 60 minutes for rides many times in my life, including at WDW before FP- was implemented. Since the implementation of fast passes, I have only waited 60+ minutes a few times at WDW, mostly because we travel during low crowd periods. Lines at other parks that we frequent - like Cedar Point - are much longer.
 
In recent memory, the longest I've waited was about 40 minutes for BTMRR.

The longest I think I've EVER waited for a Disney ride was over an hour for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a kid. My memory could be foggy on that as it was a looong time ago and I was probably 10-ish at the time, but pretty sure that was my longest ever wait.

As for non-Disney attractions, last spring I waited a cumulative 2.5 hours for Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts at Universal. The ride kept breaking down but it was our last day in Orlando and I was not about to leave without riding it!
 
An hour and 45 min. the wait time was posted at 40 min for Kilimanjaro Safari's but the animals kept blocking the ride and it was moving REALLY slow.
 
65 minutes for Star Tours in Disneyland last week. Posted wait time was 35 minutes when we got in line. Otherwise, 35-40 is about the max wait time I'm willing to spend and don't think we've waited longer than that for anything at WDW or DLR.
 
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