37 inches and on our way to Disney...

[flortlebap]

As a PP stated, try going first thing.

Shoes and socks added about 1" to our kids height - they went from 44.5" to way over the 44 height requirement

 

[Art 1]

If you "cheated" just a bit to get you child tall enough to ride, would you bring legal action against WDW if they were injured on the ride?

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

My DD is just over 31" flat footed without shoes right before bed. She has to be 32" to ride on the Speedway. The little daredevil would love it, but I don't know how you teach a 13 month old to stand up up straight and touch her head to the bar. She just got regular big girl sneakers for the trip and they have normal soles that would put her over 32".

 

[LaurenT]

If you "cheated" just a bit to get you child tall enough to ride, would you bring legal action against WDW if they were injured on the ride?

who is this question directed at? there's not one post here about cheating.
Disney does expect children to have their shoes be part of the height. Every child who stands at the measuring bar has shoes on... so when they just barely touch the bar, Disney is well aware that they are technically under the limit in their bare feet. Normal footwear is taken into account when the height requirements are established.
No one here was suggesting buying wedge heels or stilts or stuffing their child's shoes with newspaper. if you put socks and sneakers on your kid and he/she hits the bar, they are perfectly safe to ride.
I've never seen a report of a child falling out of a Disney ride because they were 3/4 inch shorter without their sneakers on....

 

[cakebaker]

The ride height requirements are supposed to be in shoes, as most people wear show.
I'm just guessing, but I think it'd be accurate to say that the safety measurement is a little less than required. As in, if the safety engineer determined that it needs to be 36", they set it for 38". To protect them from people that may slip past and be under the required mark.

That's my guess too.

I'm admittedly super-overly-over the top- cautious when it comes to this sort of thing, especially with my one and only and ever will be grandchild. I'm the one who tried to talk his mom out of letting him ride barnstormer. Thank goodness his mother is there to balance out my craziness.

 

[MuddyTires]

My grandson was measuring 38.5 on our trip a few weeks ago. We had him measured at SDMT just to see how much further he'd need to go to be able to ride. The CM talked to him about standing straight and "stretching" as much as he could. lol He was very, very close so we're hoping by the end of this month, it's enough.

Wait, the stated ride height requirement is 38" for SDMT. He was 38.5", but wasn't tall enough to hit the bar? Or was that a typo?

 

[cakebaker]

Wait, the stated ride height requirement is 38" for SDMT. He was 38.5", but wasn't tall enough to hit the bar? Or was that a typo?

Good catch! Sorry- 36.5. lol That was without shoes tho.

 

[emij]

On our DLR trip last year, dd was 39" bare foot. In her shoes in the morning she made the 40" mark for Star Tours, but at the end of the day when we tried to ride again with the 5 minute wait, she was tired and slumping and they wouldn't let her on. They did give us a switch rider card that we used the next day.

This year's trip to WDW, just 15 months later and she is 43" bare foot and I'm hoping come next month in shoes she'll be good for the 44" rides! She would love them.

I totally agree with the pp about going in the morning and having the kid practice - both make a difference in being able to "hit that bar" lol.

Good luck!

 

[Anonomom]

DS is 37 inches tall barefoot, and he couldn't get on SDMT wearing crocs. He actually looked like he might be tall enough (his hair is getting long and it's a little fluffy on top so it touched the bar), but the CM was able to fit his hand between DS's head and the bar. NBD, we'd assumed he was too short and had prepared him beforehand not to expect to ride.