300 Minutes!!

[MacMama0930]

Guardians has a current wait time of 300 minutes!! That is bananas.

 

[StarlitNight05]

Wow crazy!! I can't imagine waiting that long in a line

 

[T0rrent]

Same as when RSR first opened. On the plus side fast passes for other rides are lasting longer and lines have been much shorter.

 

[ButterflyKisses77]

How come the DL app says 300 and MouseWait says 200? Which one is right??

 

[dina444444]

How come the DL app says 300 and MouseWait says 200? Which one is right??

DL app. Mousewait is user generated and may not allow input above 200 min.

 

[alvernon90]

Hmm, my DL app says the wait is 180 minutes. I guess the line got two hours shorter in 45 minutes.

 

[jlmarr]

Hmm, my DL app says the wait is 180 minutes. I guess the line got two hours shorter in 45 minutes.

Maybe they needed to calibrate the wait time estimates. I saw 300 minutes a little while ago, and now it's 180 as you say.

 

[nutshell]

Now the app isn't showing any times for GOTG.

 

[dina444444]

Now the app isn't showing any times for GOTG.

It was showing 135 minutes when I just checked a few moments ago.

 

[Tinkerbell19672]

Who waits that long for a ride?!?

 

[MacMama0930]

Who waits that long for a ride?!?

I have no idea!!

I've watched a few ride videos and it does look super cool. I'm super excited to try it this fall.

 

[Tinkerbell19672]

I have no idea!!

I've watched a few ride videos and it does look super cool. I'm super excited to try it this fall.

I'm excited to ride it too but would never wait that long. Crazy!

 

[RainyDayPixie]

It sounds crazy now, but I remember waiting 4+ hours when IJ opened. Pre-FP wait times were a whole different ball game!

Right now 120 minutes is listed. Not too bad!

 

[Nonsuch]

Some photos from this morning.

I did not wait in the line, so can't comment on the accuracy of the 300 minutes displayed.


Guests going to see Frozen were being sent directly into the theater, so the usual line area was the start of the Guardians line.


The line crossed the street running in front of the Fastpass machines.


Then took a right into a backstage area.


The line came back out the same backstage gate and across the street to the Guardians building.
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Guests on the left and rear of this photo are waiting to enter the gift shop, where opening day merchandise was sold.


Fastpass return line extended into Bugsland.

 

[NOLA_Tink]

Nope, nope, and nope! I remember waiting in the RSR Fastpass line for 30 or 45 minutes when it first opened & even that was almost too long of a wait for our standards. I hope everyone in line thought the wait was worth it!

 

[Barbanellie]

Who waits that long for a ride?!?

That's what I've been wondering also, that is just insane! I told my husband there was no way we would wait even over an hour for this when we go next month. And if we end up not riding at all, it will simply be an excuse to return to DLR some day!

 

[LoverDisney]

I wonder it the wait will decrease by our trip in August. Ha! Ha!

 

[BadPinkTink]

Who waits that long for a ride?!?

locals, both general public and disney employees. they will just go to the park for this ride, have lunch and go home. Think about it wouldnt you , if you lived there, just go for the morning and go on the ride on opening day

 

[sheetz]

Lots of people do it for the "bragging rights" of riding a new attraction on opening day. Just think of the thousands of people who showed up at Islands of Adventure on opening day for Harry Potter. Or the 10 bazillion people who will show up for Star Wars Land. These people aren't there for a family vacation, they are there specifically to experience that attraction.

 

[twitch]

It's important to remember that a 300-minute wait time, posted less than 5 hours into the day, is an educated guess, at best. This was not calculated by a red card that traveled 5 hours through the line, because the park hadn't been open that long. Even the red card calculations are a somewhat inaccurate predictor, as they only tell the computer what the wait was for that person when they entered the queue, however many minutes ago.

Disney is pretty talented at providing wait time estimates... but they are just computer calculations and estimates of current conditions based on past conditions. They are not a fully reliable predictor of what you might experience when you enter the line. Most of us have had the experience of seeing a really short wait time for Peter Pan (or other attraction), only to arrive at the same time as countless other people who saw the same really short wait time. While I think Disney has good data on most rides that have been in existence for a long time, I don't have a high level of confidence in their ability to guesstimate wait times on a brand-new attraction. (I know, they can somewhat rely on TOT data... but I doubt TOT provided much data in the 300 minute range for them to analyze.)

Having said that... those photos look like some *long* lines. I'd be interested in hearing from someone who actually waited in line and timed their wait.