Space Mountain-190 minute wait?!

[twoboysmom]

Toy Story Mania at HS was showing a 205 minute wait at one point today. EMH tonight so park might have been extra busy. Waits have been like this all past week but 205 was the highest we saw. My kids were laughing that someone could watch just about all of Gone With the Wind while waiting in line for one ride.

 

[T00dles]

We decided to skip today at DHS. The pool at BWV was great. No wait for the keister coaster

 

[BabaBooeyNoin]

There is no Disney attraction that I would wait that amount of time.

 

[TJA]

We were at both HS and MK today. HS was HORRIBLE trying to enter the park. I have never seen that many people in line. A huge part of the problem was the crowd was so large that lines were not defined. However, once we got inside the park, it was easy and quick to do our FP's with virtually no waiting involved. We also went on a couple more things, each with 20 minute waits. We later went to MK and didn't think it was as crowded as yesterday. We actually secured a FP for 7DMT and then kept getting additional FP's one by one. Not for any other major rides, but there were still things like Pirates and Buzz. Space Mountain was 75 minute wait time. I believe BTNR was 60. This was around 8:00 pm. We don't wait in lines over 20 minutes wait time. This easter has been more crowded than the past few Easters, IMO.

 

[MinnieMSue]

We were at MK yesterday too and actually very lucky we didn't wait too long in lines. We tried to stick to less than 30 minutes/line and mostly succeeded. The rain helped thin the park a bit. We have never waited so long for FP. Space was really bad. It was way better than regular line though. I guess it was worse because of the closure I didn't realize had happened. Thunder mountain had the longest waits at times. The FP line went way past Splash MTN! It can get long but I hadn't seen it that long before. Fortunately we were doing splash and it was also long though not awful. It was pretty much a line from touch points on. There was a line to get through FP touch points but a lot of people got into it early so they were just standing in the line waiting their time. You had to move around them. I was happy to see they currently have two touch points on 7 Dwarfs and Space MTN activated. Splash never really used two so I expected only one there as they had.
Off to HS to fight crowds and then do villain party.

Oh if anyone is interested we also got right into Skipper Canteen as walk up and had a great very funny waiter - Chris who kept us laughing the whole time

 

[anniemae]

Wow, thats a long wait! I have heard the week leading up to Easter is one of the busiest of the year. I think Easter being a little early this year caused it to be in the middle of spring breakers, so it's a bit more busy that usual.

 

[pigletgirl]

That's just crazy! We've always thrown around the idea of going in spring, but between Easter and spring breakers, I don't think we ever will! LOL!

 

[DWillowBay]

I usually don't mind waiting for rides that are a "constant load" like HM or Pooh....but the lines I won't wait in are the ones in which you have to wait for a ride to return before the next group gets on. Endless boredom for me and not usually worth the wait. I love the rides, but I could be doing so much more than waiting in a line. JMHO

 

[js]

Glad I'm not dealing with those crowds. I imagine tomorrow will be even worse.

Who waits 3 hours for space mountain though? Good grief!!!

Hi. What app do I see the ride times? Ill download. Thanks so much!

I get vexed waiting more than 10 mins for a ride! Haha

lol us too and we have been between Christmas and New Years and Spring Break. Really anytting over 20 and we wont ride but by the times all tides start getting long wait times we are done!

 

[KrazeeK120]

I sort of have to laugh at the people who say, "I won't wait more than XX amount of time for a ride." What did you do before Fastpass? I remember wanting to ride Space Mountain so badly when I was 12. Know what I did? I stood in line. For more than 2 hours. Because that was the only way to ride back then. My (at the time) 8 year old sister waited for a chunk of time in line for Dumbo because she wanted to ride and the only way to ride was to wait your turn. I feel like today's children live in a world of "instant gratification" and it seems like young people aren't learning that patience is a virtue. Fastpass has its limits (tiers, headliners often being gone before a 4th FP is available, etc.) and I'll still get in a long line sometimes if I really want to do something. It depends on the situation.

Lines at Disney are often long, but they're longer some times of the year than others. If you don't want to end up in a horrible line, it's probably best not to visit over a major holiday.

 

[siskaren]

Hi. What app do I see the ride times? Ill download. Thanks so much!

The MDE app shows ride times.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

The waits over new years were brutal also. Even Buzz was 80 and 90 minutes and haunted Mansion was well over an hour all day. Pooh was over an hour.
The longest wait I ever waited for the Finding nemo submarine voyage in Disneyland Ca and that was a good 2 hours. They had no Fastpass and i really loved the old 20,000 leagues ride in FL. so we waited. It was very good so i didn't mind as much. This was a rope drop when Disney guests were already in the park. I swear half or more people in the park were in that line for the subs.

We were just at DL a couple days ago. We waited maybe 20 minutes for the submarine voyage, but saw the line for it was over 120 minutes the next evening!

Lines and crowds in general seemed pretty bad at DLR this past week, too. I saw Hyperspace Mountain get up to 120 minutes (I think the shortest standby time I saw was 45 minutes first thing in the morning) - we had a couple "any time, any ride" fast passes (one for getting stuck on Grizzly River Run, and another for getting stuck on Splash), but apparently those aren't good for Hyperspace Mountain.

We didn't get to pick our travel dates, but I'd personally avoid both DLR and WDW during spring break if given the choice.

 

[ChloesDaddy]

I would never wait longer for a ride than it would take me to fly to Orlando.

 

[CinderellasKastle]

I was thinking about that the other day. I was at MK on Wednesday and the line for Space Mountain was around 2 hours. I said to my friend "To us, it would be crazy to stand in a line that long...but then there are the ones that will spend that much time for one ride that will be over in 4 minutes."

I guess for me, I hate the idea of wasting time standing around for 2 hours when I'm surrounded by hundreds of other things to do that have shorter wait times.

 

[ITALIANNYC]

Its not that bad today. Its only 2 hours for Space Mountain lol

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

Well, as of 3:30 pm EDT, MDE is showing a bunch of rides as "closed" at MK, including [edit] three of the four mountains. Of course, my thought was, wow, the lines are so long they don't even want to show the wait times!! LOL

My extended family is in the World right now. Having 3 of 4 mtns down is not good.

I sort of have to laugh at the people who say, "I won't wait more than XX amount of time for a ride." What did you do before Fastpass? I remember wanting to ride Space Mountain so badly when I was 12. Know what I did? I stood in line.

For us it's not a matter of not having patience or understanding its value, it's that the cost / benefit calculation doesn't work out after a certain point because there are other options (times of day, FPs). To us it makes sense, as a general rule, not to wait in lines longer than half an hour because it is taking up time that we could be experiencing something else. It makes more economic sense not to wait on one attraction. But that said, sometimes the cost benefit works out to wait in line anyway. The one thing DD6 wanted to do in all of Disney last year was meet E&A. She got sick and couldn't go on the day of our FPs. Know what we did? When she was better, we waited in line.

 

[Kathryn777]

We're at MK today and we've been ok so far but we had a good plan... But now philharmagic is 60 min eek!

 

[DJinPA]

So, we were in the parks this past week (the week prior to Easter). Epcot Saturday, MK Sunday, HS Tuesday, AK Wednesday and Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon Thursday. It is the first time we have gone during the busy time (until now it has been Sept, Oct and early May). I actually found it wasn't nearly as bad as I feared. We did get there by Rope Drop and had fast passes, but we were also off site, so we only planned Fast Passes 30 days out. Even got into Via Napoli during the rain at noon without a ressie. I thought the parks were well staffed and directing people well (like in Fantasyland - they made people stay to the right instead of being a free for all). I have a 12 and 15 year old (no character lines and as the day progressed we could do single rider for repeats such as Everest, less than ten minutes) so I am sure that helped, but it was our best trip yet. I swore I would never go the week before Easter and it was amazing. I do think older kids with no stroller issues, no fear of losing kids, the fact they have no interest in characters and level setting expectations (i.e. If you want to ride the big coasters after fast pass and ropendrop, expect to go single rider).

 

[GaryDis]

Space Mountain was closed for a while this morning before the thunderstorms so the wait was not related to weather

Seeing as how Space Mountain is enclosed, I wouldn't expect the wait to ever be related to weather, except perhaps indirectly (when all the people waiting for BTMR move to SM due to a weather shutdown of the former).

Am I missing something?

 

[TJA]

The waits are not long all the time -- they're constantly fluctuating. Sometimes we're lucky on the timing, sometimes we're not. We went on BTMR today around 3:30 and standby was only 35 minutes. When we got off the ride, it was 75 minutes.