Radiator Springs Racers...down again :(

[kjs1976]

Went to DCA today. Got into RSR FP line at 7:40 and it was already past Carthay Theater. Got FPs for 1030 at 815. But the racers have been down most of the day. Boo! Just feels like a waste of my time in the hot weather today. I hope they are up in the next couple of hours because we plan to go back. Anyone know how it's easier to check rather than go all the way back there? Do they know up front anywhere?

 

[AddictedtoDoleWhip]

Went to DCA today. Got into RSR FP line at 7:40 and it was already past Carthay Theater. Got FPs for 1030 at 815. But the racers have been down most of the day. Boo! Just feels like a waste of my time in the hot weather today. I hope they are up in the next couple of hours because we plan to go back. Anyone know how it's easier to check rather than go all the way back there? Do they know up front anywhere?

They should know, but at times they may not. I would check one of the phone apps because they tend to be updated by people and when something reopens they'll have the wait time on the app instead of it saying "CL" on the app. That's your best bet I think. I wouldn't count on people knowing if RS is down towards the front unless it's completely down for the rest of the day they may have it posted somewhere.

 

[kjs1976]

I have two different wait time apps and both are not that accurate in my experience here. For example, junkyard jamboree is 20 min wait time as just texted by my husband and it says 35 on the app. Also, both apps list wait times for RSR and DH just verified they are still closed.

 

[AddictedtoDoleWhip]

I have two different wait time apps and both are not that accurate in my experience here. For example, junkyard jamboree is 20 min wait time as just texted by my husband and it says 35 on the app. Also, both apps list wait times for RSR and DH just verified they are still closed.

What apps are you using? The ones I have has said CL for awhile now. It's also been pretty accurate when I have used it. I do not use MouseWait, I know it's raved about here but I have found it to be very inaccurate and disappointing.

 

[perlster]

If only Disney had a Twitter account for that park that was actually useful

 

[Eeee-va]

I believe someone else once posted here that "Ask Otto" works very well for figuring out if RSR is up. 714-520-7090

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/07/got-a-disneyland-resort-question-just-ask-otto/

They also talk about it in the podcast this week...but they talk about a lot of stuff this week and I'm not sure they mention Otto.

 

[tchrrx]

Why is this going down so often? Is it just b/c it is so new and still has kinks to work out?

 

[Tiradan]

So... short story long.

Friday. August 17. 2012. I land at 9:02PM at LAX from HNL. I was upgraded to first class (I have 1K status with United), so it was a comfortable flight and I slept most of the way. After waiting 20 minutes for someone to move the ramp to the airplane’s door we finally get off.

Having no checked baggage I walk as fast as I can to the rental car shuttle pick-up point. It comes 3 minutes after I get there. The ride to Alamo is very short. I rush out of the shuttle bus and am second in line to rent a car. It’s 9:48PM when I drive out of Alamo’s lot.

Google maps says that the travel time from Alamo’s LAX location to the Anaheim Fairfield Inn is about 41 minutes. I get there in 32, blasting Disney tunes from my iPhone through the car’s speakers all the way. I try to drop off the car with the valet, but he says I have to check-in first. Boo. Thankfully check-in takes less than 3 minutes. I get to Disneyland at 10:28PM. Both parks close at 11.

I enter Disneyland, just to say I’ve been there and immediately exit. I cross the esplanade and enter DCA, making my way as fast as I can to RSR and get in the single rider line at 10:37PM. I figure I can ride at least once, right? The single rider line is short (I have no idea why it is so short, don’t people know how fast it goes? I guess everyone wants to ride together) and it takes about 10 minutes to get to the head of the line and into a car. As soon as my car leaves the boarding area...

RSR breaks down.

So I’m in the car with 5 other people, we are one car length out of the boarding area in full view of everyone waiting in line. After about 10 minutes the people in line start sitting down on the ground, after about 15 some people start leaving the line, after about 20 some people already on the ride decide they want to get off. Soon after, the ride starts up again. There is much cheering from the people in line (and from the people in my car).

It’s now about 11:05PM, the park is officially closed and my car leaves the seat-belt checkpoint. The music starts, the car rolls forward, everyone is happy. We go through the first tunnel and reach the waterfall, then...

RSR breaks down.

We are told that we can either wait in the car for the ride to start up again or wait for a CM to come and get us so we can get off. Everyone in the car decides to wait. So we wait. For 5 then 10 then 15 minutes. After about 20 minutes a CM comes walking down the hill towards the waterfall and our car with 6 riders with him. He comes to our car does something to the car via a control panel hidden under the gas tank lid. The six of us get off and walk down and get another 6 people in the car behind us. The CM escorting us had to tell a few of the other riders to stop taking pictures of the empty cars.

We get to the boarding area and told we can wait for the ride to start up again. So now there are two groups of people in line, the ones on the normal side and about 50 on the exit side. Very few people on the exit side decide to leave. Most start sitting down and a few are just milling about in some kind of dazed RSR stupor. I wait by the trash can telling all my friends on Facebook that RSR has broken down again.

After another 10-15 minutes the CMs let us know that RSR will not be starting up again that evening. The crowd is not happy. It is now almost 11:45PM. Everyone on the exit side got a re-admission ticket good for six people to ride any DCA ride at any date in the future. It’s like a fastpass on steroids. Some individuals that were in groups tell the CM handing out the tickets that they were single riders so each member of the group got a ticket that admits six.

I leave DCA and get back to the hotel at 12:05AM. I’m exhausted and knock out almost immediately. At 5:30AM I get up and get ready for my early entry into DCA. Get there at 6:25AM, wait for the security to open at 6:30AM, the gates open at 7AM, and I’m 3rd in the single rider line (the wide-right method worked perfectly). By 8:30AM I have ridden RSR six times. Four of the six I got Luigi and Guido, two of the six I got Ramone. I do not ride for the rest of the day. I had a great time

Woohoo. This is my 100th post!

 

[AddictedtoDoleWhip]

Why is this going down so often? Is it just b/c it is so new and still has kinks to work out?

I believe it's due to it being so new, and it has been really hot lately so that somehow could affect the ride. Also, if I recall hearing here that the sensors on the ride are extremely sensitive so if someone does something that triggers one of the censors on the ride it shuts down.

 

[samiee4life]

So... short story long.

Friday. August 17. 2012. I land at 9:02PM at LAX from HNL. I was upgraded to first class (I have 1K status with United), so it was a comfortable flight and I slept most of the way. After waiting 20 minutes for someone to move the ramp to the airplane’s door we finally get off.

Having no checked baggage I walk as fast as I can to the rental car shuttle pick-up point. It comes 3 minutes after I get there. The ride to Alamo is very short. I rush out of the shuttle bus and am second in line to rent a car. It’s 9:48PM when I drive out of Alamo’s lot.

Google maps says that the travel time from Alamo’s LAX location to the Anaheim Fairfield Inn is about 41 minutes. I get there in 32, blasting Disney tunes from my iPhone through the car’s speakers all the way. I try to drop off the car with the valet, but he says I have to check-in first. Boo. Thankfully check-in takes less than 3 minutes. I get to Disneyland at 10:28PM. Both parks close at 11.

I enter Disneyland, just to say I’ve been there and immediately exit. I cross the esplanade and enter DCA, making my way as fast as I can to RSR and get in the single rider line at 10:37PM. I figure I can ride at least once, right? The single rider line is short (I have no idea why it is so short, don’t people know how fast it goes? I guess everyone wants to ride together) and it takes about 10 minutes to get to the head of the line and into a car. As soon as my car leaves the boarding area...

RSR breaks down.

So I’m in the car with 5 other people, we are one car length out of the boarding area in full view of everyone waiting in line. After about 10 minutes the people in line start sitting down on the ground, after about 15 some people start leaving the line, after about 20 some people already on the ride decide they want to get off. Soon after, the ride starts up again. There is much cheering from the people in line (and from the people in my car).

It’s now about 11:05PM, the park is officially closed and my car leaves the seat-belt checkpoint. The music starts, the car rolls forward, everyone is happy. We go through the first tunnel and reach the waterfall, then...

RSR breaks down.

We are told that we can either wait in the car for the ride to start up again or wait for a CM to come and get us so we can get off. Everyone in the car decides to wait. So we wait. For 5 then 10 then 15 minutes. After about 20 minutes a CM comes walking down the hill towards the waterfall and our car with 6 riders with him. He comes to our car does something to the car via a control panel hidden under the gas tank lid. The six of us get off and walk down and get another 6 people in the car behind us. The CM escorting us had to tell a few of the other riders to stop taking pictures of the empty cars.

We get to the boarding area and told we can wait for the ride to start up again. So now there are two groups of people in line, the ones on the normal side and about 50 on the exit side. Very few people on the exit side decide to leave. Most start sitting down and a few are just milling about in some kind of dazed RSR stupor. I wait by the trash can telling all my friends on Facebook that RSR has broken down again.

After another 10-15 minutes the CMs let us know that RSR will not be starting up again that evening. The crowd is not happy. It is now almost 11:45PM. Everyone on the exit side got a re-admission ticket good for six people to ride any DCA ride at any date in the future. It’s like a fastpass on steroids. Some individuals that were in groups tell the CM handing out the tickets that they were single riders so each member of the group got a ticket that admits six.

I leave DCA and get back to the hotel at 12:05AM. I’m exhausted and knock out almost immediately. At 5:30AM I get up and get ready for my early entry into DCA. Get there at 6:25AM, wait for the security to open at 6:30AM, the gates open at 7AM, and I’m 3rd in the single rider line (the wide-right method worked perfectly). By 8:30AM I have ridden RSR six times. Four of the six I got Luigi and Guido, two of the six I got Ramone. I do not ride for the rest of the day. I had a great time

Woohoo. This is my 100th post!

Cool!