It's this list but since then Rise of the Resistance was added.
100%.
A story from January: wanted to get a quick ride in because we had LLs coming up quickly and I wouldn't have a chance to ride it otherwise this trip. Regular line was 45 min, asked the CM what the wait for SR was and she said "45 minutes". When she saw the look on my face she said "cheaters".
Yep, SR can be rendered useless due to the number of people abusing it. More times than not i see several members of the same party using it.
Not sure I understand what you mean by abusing it? It's a legit option. People being in the same party should be expecting to be separated based on the instructions of the cast members - no matter how much they whine about wanting to ride together!!
It can work well, it just doesn't on RnRC. Pretty sure it's the way that the lines feed into the pre-show. The single rider lines for Incredicoaster and Everest work just fine.
True, it is a legit option, but i always interpret a single rider as someone who is flying solo. Not sure a group of say 5 people looking to get on the ride sooner is it's intended purpose.
This.
Was actually longer for me a couple weeks ago at RnR - ridiculously slow. Asked the rider next to me how long they waited and was 15 minutes less than I did in SR. RoR however was great. You skip almost all of the preshow so I did it just for my 2nd ride of the day. Waited about 20 minutes as opposed to posted 80.
I always thought the intended purpose was having all the seats on the train full for maximum throughput of folks who want to ride. I'm sure there are some who beg to ride together even in the single rider line! If the cast members in charge are good, there should never be more than 1 or 2 people from the single rider line given a seat on any train. And some trains should have no singles. I can't honestly say I've looked that closely at the way they handle it. I just know earlier this month, when we rode EE, the single rider line was really long.... have to think the regular standby line might've been faster!
My perspective has now been changed lol. This makes sense.
I'm very aware perspective doesn't always match reality of how things actually work, so I understand a little skepticism!!
Really there's no definitive "intended" purpose as for something being announced for the rules or etiquette of the single rider line. My instinct is that whoever came up with this idea was thinking that funneling people who were alone through a separate line would both speed up the wait for them as well as minimize the number of empty seats being sent out. But I think it's clear the regardless of how they anticipated it being used - the goal was filling every seat and parks ultimately don't care who uses it as long as it meets the second goal. Shortening the time is a bonus if it happens - but not their primary goal. When these things first debuted - it really was a much higher proportion of actual single riders but over time more and more group have been using it.
I've been under the assumption that the trade-off for SR is that you get less of a wait in exchange for a lesser experience. So you skip the queue, possibly the pre-show (was not aware that RnRC dumps you into the pre-show, which might impact that line). Both GE rides skip at least part of their pre-shows. Mario Kart at Universal skips the queue, which IMO is incredible, that one's SR ride also occasionally has diminishing returns (or is shut down entirely).
