Subs/Toy Story lines?

[ReneeB]

We're going to Disneyland next weekend on Friday and Saturdy, the 10th & 11th. This time some relatives are going with us who've never ridden the Finding Nemo subs before and I want to get them on it. I'm wondering what the lines are like for this ride now. Last time I was there in the summer I believe it was running about 1.5 hours. Is it still the same? Or has it lessened a bit? And should we plan it for the first thing in the morning or wait until later?

I have the same question about the Toy Story ride but for some reason I'm not as concerned about that one.

 

[DLR29]

The sub lines have died down to about 45-60 minutes. It is more crowded during the morning than the afternoon/evening where the line has gotten down to 30 minutes.

TSMM is unknown because this is its first off-season, however I'd expect lines to be about 30-45 minutes most of the day.

Side note: We'll be there at the same time!

 

[chargergirl]

We went to the parks within the last two weeks and the lines weren't bad at all. The first day (sunday) we went straight to Nemo at opening. We only had about a 15-20 min wait. My kids loved the Nemo ride. We also went on Toy Story. On Sunday it was a 45 min wait and on Monday a 30 min wait. We loved that ride

I say head straight to Nemo as it gets more crowded as the day goes on.

 

[DahliaRW]

We went to Nemo first thing in the morning on a Tuesday and the line was already 60 minutes. It was a magic morning, so I think that had something to do with it. After waiting in line for a half hour the wait time had dropped to 45. I thought the wait was worth it, though, I loved the ride and so did my ds!

 

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

Two hints

1) Nemo - if you think anyone might be claustrophobic, there is no wait in any line to ask to use the disability version of the ride. It's a little room where they show a filmed version of the experience. All you do is go up to the CM at the juncture of the sub line and the monorail entrance ramp and ask to do that version. Sometimes my little one just doesn't have the patience for the sub unloading, so we have been told it's a good option for us, if we didn't want to do the line.

2) TSMM - the single rider line is a good option. If your kids are old enough or if you are "child swapping" and don't want to go on with the kids, this option is definitely good. We used it last time we went to DCA and it worked great. My husband took the girls on King Triton's Carousel and I rode, then I took the kids while he went. The Single Rider line was super short.

If you have older kids and you have 2 adults, have 1 adult go, sandwich the kids, so they can go next, and follow it up with adult #2. That way one person is waiting for them to get off and one makes sure the kids got on okay. The ride isn't very long, so if there is only one adult, then decide whether you want to wait for them have them wait for you. The person waiting can stand at the foot of the stairs, so they can easily be seen by everyone involved. I would put it high on the scale of a very safe place for an older kid to wait for an adult. Very limited traffic access - only from the 16 people leaving the vehicles at a time, and a ton of CMs there, keeping an eye out.

 

[Sherry E]

We're going to Disneyland next weekend on Friday and Saturdy, the 10th & 11th. This time some relatives are going with us who've never ridden the Finding Nemo subs before and I want to get them on it. I'm wondering what the lines are like for this ride now. Last time I was there in the summer I believe it was running about 1.5 hours. Is it still the same? Or has it lessened a bit? And should we plan it for the first thing in the morning or wait until later?

I have the same question about the Toy Story ride but for some reason I'm not as concerned about that one.

I was just at DLR 10/2 - 10/5, and when we first went on Toy Story on Friday morning, we used the hotel guests' GCH entrance into DCA and followed the CM to the TSMM line. So all of us resort hotel guests were way ahead of the pack! We didn't even have time to look at Mr. Potato Head because we were moving so fast that we couldn't stop! We almost sailed all the way through the line without pausing. We were nearing the front, where the ride loads, and the ride broke down! They were having some trouble with two of their screens. So most of the people in the immediate line around us bailed and decided not to wait for it to be fixed. We did wait and overall, I would say it added about an extra 25 minutes onto what would have been virtually no wait time at all!

We then went on TSMM again that night suring the TOTP, and there was a substantial line, but it moves relatively fast, so you are never standing in one place for long. I think the sign said the wait time was 25 minutes and I guess that may have been accurate, give or take. It was about the same when we went on it again the next day, mid-day. It is a great ride which you will likely want to go on more than once, so the lines won't seem so ominous after a while!!!!

We actually encountered a MUCH longer line for the Haunted Mansion Holiday - at about 6 p.m. on Saturday night. That line had been virtually empty earlier in the day, and then suddenly, at 6:00 p.m., it was winding through areas I had never seen before - we called it the "ghetto" of Disneyland!!! And it is a slow moving line, so that 45 minutes seemed like an hour and 45 minutes!!