Single rider line

[CrAzY4DL]

What I know for sure is that we all need to do the ride at least once to get a feel for where it lets you off.

This! If DD hadn't just ridden it with us and we hadn't walked her through where to wait, no way would she have felt comfortable enough to ride alone.

 

[Mama Who]

I completely understand....and I am move envious than anything as I am not willing to take the risk with my 4 year old DD, so I am just trying to level the playing field.

Good news, the playing field is completely level. Other people are getting something you don't want anyway.

 

[Mama Who]

This! If DD hadn't just ridden it with us and we hadn't walked her through where to wait, no way would she have felt comfortable enough to ride alone.

Yeah, we're comfortable with sorting it out when we get off, but our youngest single rider is 15 and bigger than me. With the more junior set I would definitely do a fastpass trip first so we could talk about exit strategies.

 

[bumbershoot]

I completely understand....and I am move envious than anything as I am not willing to take the risk with my 4 year old DD, so I am just trying to level the playing field.

I wouldn't have been willing to do SR with a 4 year old, either. Of course, it's 7 and up so that's moot. No one gets to take such a risk with a 4 year old.

When my son was 4 he was an annual pass holder. By the time he was 7 we had been to Disneyland many many times. He knows the deal at Disneyland. He's also been to Universal Orlando, where they allow you to ride alone at 48" (assuming you also meet the height requirement for the given ride), which I figured out AFTER he had us go on Flight of the Hippogriff 14 times in a row. At the end of the day when he went on a littler coaster 15 times in a row, he went ALONE. I sat on a bench, LOL.

So he's a pro at rides and a pro at riding some rides alone. He takes aikido and therefore knows how to YELL if he's feeling weird about something. We know that Disneyland Resort has cameras everywhere and CMs are everywhere. Have you ever ridden Grizzly, and heard a CM over the PA system telling people to sit down? There are CMs up in the "mountains" that you might not even notice, watching you on the ride, making sure people don't stand up, etc.

Like others I don't know what you mean by leveling the playing field, but still, it's moot for you since your child is too young.

If that was exactly how it worked it would be great, but I have personally seen that is not always the case. I have watched people in the SR line ride together, I have also witnessed them riding by themselves in a car. If the SR line was truly used by Single Riders than your premise would be correct, but since so many "groups" are going into the SR line I feel it does slow everything down, as the CM's are doing their best to keep both lines flowing.

And that is the choice of the CMs at that moment in time. It's not ever the way it is supposed to work. I've seen CMs trying like crazy to get a party of 1 or even 2 on rides like TSMM, but no one listens! It's a huge bummer they got rid of the SR line there, because they send so many vehicles out not full.

CMs can make decisions like sending a "chunk" of people from the SR line through all at once to lower the SR line, or for whatever reasons they have.

Just remember that if you're watching from outside a SR line you have NO idea if people are together or not. At least not 100%. On my solo trips I take the time to chat with those around me, especially in the SR line, and to a casual observer it might appear that I'm with a group, when the reality is I just met them. The RSR SR line is especially conducive to this, since it's longer than many SR lines. The first time DS and I went on RSR, we had extra time in the SR line because of a ride stop that we gambled on by waiting out, so by the time we got to the seating CM we were buddies. DS didn't ride with me, but he rode with one or two of the people we had waited with, which was neat.

And when we all saw each other at the ride photo screens, we greeted each other like long-lost friends. Even though we had never met before and we never saw them again. Just never know!




Thanks for the backup sonnyjane!

 

[gunka]

Ok, maybe "Level the playing field" and "take the risk" were poor choices of words. Either way, like I said I was more envious/jealous of the shorter line and at the end of the day my DD doesn't care she's at the happiest place on earth and as happy as can be and so am I. FYI - We will be going this weekend and hopefully will get FP's

 

[Spwhoney]

With older kids single rider would be great. Me and DD did some and most times I would be in the car behind her (or next ride). She would wait for me at exit. She wasn't won to really care if we rode together, cut a lot of time out of waiting for ride.

 

[bumbershoot]

Ok, maybe "Level the playing field" and "take the risk" were poor choices of words. Either way, like I said I was more envious/jealous of the shorter line and at the end of the day my DD doesn't care she's at the happiest place on earth and as happy as can be and so am I. FYI - We will be going this weekend and hopefully will get FP's

I was jealous of the SR line, too, and then years went by and DS was old enough and we were all brave enough. Your time will come, should you choose to experience the lines. All it takes is the passing of some years.

 

[nana50]

Since BTMRR is a bench seat with a shared bar they don't do Single Rider for it. Only for rides that have individual restraints.

Well at least they have fast pass. It won't be open in two weeks when I go again. Taking the other set of grand children.

 

[cats mom]

I've seen CMs trying like crazy to get a party of 1 or even 2 on rides like TSMM, but no one listens! It's a huge bummer they got rid of the SR line there, because they send so many vehicles out not full.

The evolution of the SR line on TSMM was interesting.

At first they automatically filled seats like they do on RSR. Then they started asking people in the stand-by line if they were OK with a SR joining them first.

If DH or I was the one from our group riding alone we said yes and more often than not all was fine. I do remember getting stuck with a real stinker of a ride partner once; both literally and figuratively, and that was not fun!

But if one of our kids was riding alone we generally declined having a SR sit with them. They just weren't comfortable with it on that ride, and to be honest neither were we. I suspect we weren't the only ones who felt that way, and they probably got a lot of no's.

I think some ride experiences can be a bit intimate to comfortably share with a stranger, at least for many people, and TSMM is one of them. And if you allow those people to decline having a SR join them, that makes the system so much less efficient. So I admit I wasn't sad when they got rid of the SR line at TSMM.

That's not the case with RSR though, at least IMO. I can't even imagine how much worse the wait for everyone would be without a SR line. Most of the CM's I've watched assigning spots have done a great job and SR's really do just fill spots that would likely remain empty otherwise.

 

[bumbershoot]

I think some ride experiences can be a bit intimate to comfortably share with a stranger, at least for many people, and TSMM is one of them. And if you allow those people to decline having a SR join them, that makes the system so much less efficient. So I admit I wasn't sad when they got rid of the SR line at TSMM.

As the one who was generally the single rider (or the alone one accepting a single rider), I'll tell you it was no big deal. And I'm generally a shy person. And I've been on it so much that I have had a chance to look around, and along with the cameras, you're pretty much in view of other people (even if you don't look to the side to notice them) at nearly all times.

I had a great time with other people, because it's just such a fun ride. I was glad that no one ever said "no" to me, not even the dad of the 12 year old boy (I was going to ride with the boy), because I always had great fun with the new people I rode with.


And a person alone can still be put with someone else...they just come from the standby line. IF anyone hears the call for a single person, that is.

 

[cats mom]

As the one who was generally the single rider (or the alone one accepting a single rider), I'll tell you it was no big deal. And I'm generally a shy person. And I've been on it so much that I have had a chance to look around, and along with the cameras, you're pretty much in view of other people (even if you don't look to the side to notice them) at nearly all times.

I had a great time with other people, because it's just such a fun ride. I was glad that no one ever said "no" to me, not even the dad of the 12 year old boy (I was going to ride with the boy), because I always had great fun with the new people I rode with.


And a person alone can still be put with someone else...they just come from the standby line. IF anyone hears the call for a single person, that is.

It's great that you always had a good experience so it was no big deal for you.

Like I said, DH & I always said yes to single riders when we were the ones riding alone, and I thought it was fine most of the time too. But I did have that one ride experience that was NOT good.

I wasn't comfortable when it came to my young child potentially riding with a stranger on TSMM though. That's my truth.

I witnessed quite a few people from the standby line decline to have a single rider join them, so I know I'm not the only one who felt that way.

Yes there are cameras, and while you may be in view of other cars at all times, chances are no one in those cars is paying attention to you.

I'm fine with everything else that has a SR line. OK, with the exception of GSS. I admit if we don't have an even number on that I sit it out. Whipping around corners in those little cars is too much closeness for me, unless I already know you and like you.

BTW, I've seen them call for smaller groups from the standby line at TSMM to fill in. I've never seen them call for a single rider to sit next to someone they didn't know though. Have you?

I'm not trying to convince anyone to agree with me. I'm just stating my opinion.