Ride vehicle sizes?

[galnar]

Does anyone know if there is a list of ride vehicle sizes online? We have 3 kids who will be riding and are trying to figure out if the two littler ones can ride with one parent or if the 5 year old will be riding by herself...

 

[Dis703]

I don't know of a listing, but I usually just look up videos of rides to see how many they seat if I'm not sure. We have a similar issue for our upcoming trip w/ 3 kids and in some cases only 1 adult will be riding. The 5 year old is too young to ride alone. They have to be 7 to sit alone on a ride and that's even if they are in front of or behind you. How old are the younger ones? Or more importantly how tall are they? Rides like Barnstormer, 7DMT, Splash Mountain, and BTMRR are only 2 across.

Are there specific rides you are wondering about?

 

[galnar]

The younger ones are 4 and are tall enough for almost everything. How are you guys going to handle it? Is there a way to use child swap for this scenario?

 

[SmallWorld71]

I don't know of a listing, but I usually just look up videos of rides to see how many they seat if I'm not sure. We have a similar issue for our upcoming trip w/ 3 kids and in some cases only 1 adult will be riding. The 5 year old is too young to ride alone. They have to be 7 to sit alone on a ride and that's even if they are in front of or behind you. How old are the younger ones? Or more importantly how tall are they? Rides like Barnstormer, 7DMT, Splash Mountain, and BTMRR are only 2 across.

Are there specific rides you are wondering about?

Splash Mountain and BTMRR fit 3 across easily so no worries there.

Barnstormer and 7DMT are only 2, though. Not sure how people deal with these 2 rides.

Most rides that appear to sit 2, really can fit 3. (Peter Pan, Haunted Mansion, Dumbo for example)

 

[KrazeeK120]

Out of curiosity, how is Space Mountain handled? Are children under 7 not allowed to ride since it's a single seat?

 

[Robo]

Have a great trip!

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

We had to get ride swap on Barnstormer. On 7DMT they let our kids ride together as long as they were in front or behind us (5 and 6 at the time). Maybe the CM thought they were older (we didn't know the age restriction at the time).

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

We had to get ride swap on Barnstormer. On 7DMT they let our kids ride together as long as they were in front or behind us (5 and 6 at the time). Maybe the CM thought they were older (we didn't know the age restriction at the time).

 

[juliekzp]

Out of curiosity, how is Space Mountain handled? Are children under 7 not allowed to ride since it's a single seat?

Any kid can ride so long as tall enough. When my son first rode at age 4, my husband sat right behind him, so he could reach out and touch his shoulders in reassurance during the ride. Turns out he's a maniac and didn't need the reassurance, ha!

Barnstormer is pretty small and low key -- I bet they'd let the younger kid ride on her own right in front of your seat. You might even be able to squeeze 3 across with two little ones.

I've definitely ridden three across on Splash and Thunder. I think the only other rides where it is strict 2 across are SDMT, RnR (little ones probably aren't tall enough anyway), and Expedition Everest.

 

[Dis703]

The younger ones are 4 and are tall enough for almost everything. How are you guys going to handle it? Is there a way to use child swap for this scenario?

On Barnstormer once I tried to ride with 2 of my kids and since they were both under 7 they wouldn't let me and gave me a rider swap pass. My third was sleeping so I left one with DH and the sleeping child and had to go on twice so each child could ride. I know pp suggested they may let your older one sit in front, but on Barnstormer they have never allowed this and always asked my ODS's age to be sure he's old enough to sit alone. We had the same issue once on 7DMT so after that we just found another odd number party in line and asked if it would be okay if he sat next to another adult. He was 6 and fine with that. Never had an issue finding someone.

I posted a similar question about how to handle this yesterday and some people reported that it was fine to sit 3 across on Splash Mountain but may be snug. So for us DH will ride with both 4 year olds and my oldest will ride in front or behind. Apparently, when it's the same vehicle it should be okay for the younger ones to ride in front of or behind the adult. Personally, that wouldn't work with my 4 year olds because I would not put it past them to try and bolt mid-ride, lol. It happened once and on a rather tame ride. One got completely freaked on Peter Pan by the crocodile and leapt up so fast I barely caught him before he jumped right out of the boat!

So anything where an adult can't be right next to them we will either try for a rider swap or just get FP for all of us and trade bands if need be. There aren't too many rides where this will be an issue for us as we will only manage the 40" or below rides this trip.

 

[Dis703]

Any kid can ride so long as tall enough. When my son first rode at age 4, my husband sat right behind him, so he could reach out and touch his shoulders in reassurance during the ride. Turns out he's a maniac and didn't need the reassurance, ha!

Barnstormer is pretty small and low key -- I bet they'd let the younger kid ride on her own right in front of your seat. You might even be able to squeeze 3 across with two little ones.

I've definitely ridden three across on Splash and Thunder. I think the only other rides where it is strict 2 across are SDMT, RnR (little ones probably aren't tall enough anyway), and Expedition Everest.

They have always been very strict with us on Barnstormer. Someone pointed out to me that the reason was that each set of seats is actually a separate vehicle so children under 7 must ride next to an adult for that one. They've also been very strict with not allowing us to sit 3 across even though it would have never been an issue for room for us our twins are so tiny. They have given us rider swap though so that may be an option.

 

[learningtolive]

Barnstormer they'll let you sit 3, least they tried with my family. DH and I are pooh sized so I was like, "Um, yeah no," and I just let them ride.

 

[juliekzp]

New plan - skip Barnstormer, lol. It's the shortest ride ever and too jerky!

 

[BrianL]

Out of curiosity, how is Space Mountain handled? Are children under 7 not allowed to ride since it's a single seat?

Since Space Mountain is set up single file, with two 2 of 3 seats, as long as the parent rides in the same set of 3, it should be okay (this is considered the same "vehicle").

 

[MacDalt]

http://allears.net/tp/gal_ride.htm

Here's some pictures. If you search for At large on that site, you might get more descriptions.

 

[galnar]

Yay! Those pictures help a ton, thanks!