We won't stand in line more than 20 minutes. Personally we don't think the rides at Disney are all that great compared to Cedar Point Park in OH. At Disney, we'll go on any ride with a short line.
We have been in line for 3 hours for Soarin and Toy Story Mania, but that was at Christmas. When you go at the most crowded times of the year, you have to expect extremely long lines. I just don't let it bother me. When we go in August, the lines aren't as long, but you don't get the atmosphere that you get at Christmas. The bottom line is, if you don't want to stand in line, try and go at the least crowded times of the year. I know that isn't always possible.
Seems the great and powerful at WDW would realize that when multitudes are standing in line for hours, they are not spending money in the stores and restraunts. tyere must be a way to fix that...to improve the crowd waits and to improve the turnover for WDW.
aren't they doing something like this with the new dual Dumbo rides at MK? get there, get a ticket (much like a fastpass) that has a printed time on it. then can stay in that general area and blow off your wait time shopping and doing other small interactive stuff. but unlike fastpass....there is no "stand there forever in line" option. only way to ride is to get a ticket. it may have a 10 min return time or it may have a much much longer return, time....but you must get a ticket to get on the ride. if only they had thought of that with TSM. love the ride, the line stuff is cool, but i still don't want to look at that same giant crayon for 20 min, only to move 3 feet and look at a different giant crayon...and so on, and so on, and so on.