Test Track Single Rider?

[mcurrence]

Hello! I was hoping someone could share their experience using the single rider on Test Track. We are using our Tier 1 for Frozen and are hoping to get on TT without a miserable wait. We'll be at the park 2/3 so hoping for low crowds. Our girls will be 8 and 10 so not sure how comfortable it will be for us? Not clear how it works..thanks for any thoughts or suggestions!

 

[Alesia]

It's pretty self explanatory - when they need a single person to fill up a row or a car, they take the person at the front of the single rider line.

Your girls are old enough to be single riders, but it's up to you to decide if you're comfortable with it or not.

 

[BigAlsGal]

I personally wouldn't ride without my family. That's part of the fun for me is seeing our picture all in the same car. I guess if that was the only way you can experience it then go for it. I just wouldn't.

 

[DisneyRobin]

We love doing the single rider - it saves so much time! My kids are now 10, 12 and 15 and we've been doing this for years. You're all in line together and you can't really talk on the ride anyway so no big deal. We usually all ride around the same time. My kids have no patience for lines so they prefer single rider to a longer wait just to sit together.

I wish more rides had the single rider option! Just Everest and rockin roller coaster. Soaring really should have it!

Have fun!

 

[growingupdis]

Single rider works so well at Test Track because each row in the car seats 3 people. As many parties are often made up of multiples of 2, you get through the line very quickly. In all my experiences my entire family has gotten on and off the ride within 5 minutes of each other, usually less!

 

[Accident]

There is actually 2 differences in the single rider line. first one is that there is nowhere to design a car. for many that is a big part of the family competition dynamic and the attraction so they don't want to miss it. The other is your riding without the rest of your traveling group, your in another family or 2s photo and they are in your photo. Many want the experience to happen together.

It's usually a very short line but you stand there until they need a single rider so you can be there a little while waiting for a free seat to open up. it's usually much faster than standby.

 

[jenniy122]

It depends on your comfort level of your kids potentially being alone in the building for a little while. Often I've ended up with someone in my party as most families at Disney are groups of 2 or 4, and the cars seat 6, so two singles get put in. But then the exit goes into a quite large and easy to miss your people area if you haven't scoped it out and agreed on a very specific meeting place first. Also you don't get the full car design experience doing single rider, you just pick from some presets on the screens. If you decide it's not for you, try to get right to TT at rope drop for little to no wait.

 

[HopperFan]

You will be together until they actually put you in a car slot to ride. You may get lucky - our last ride we were two with another group of two so we were in the two rows. That left an empty seat on each row. They sent two teens girls that were together (and had walked up no wait) to sit with each of us so there were in same car. It just worked out well.

You may get put in 4, 3 or 2 cars - you just won't know until you get there. It would not be long that you would be split apart before or after the ride. I would just tell them if they get off before you to wait in the ramp/hall after you exit the unload zone, not go all the way down.

 

[Iowamomof4]

If you get there at rope drop, you would have a good chance of actually riding together by going through the single rider line. I did it with my 2 teens last year and Josh at easywdw has also recommended this strategy. No guarantees, but your chances are better at rope drop than at any other time.

 

[Spunky946]

My dd was 8 on our last trip. We rode it once together with dh in the regular line and then on another day we wanted to ride it a second time and went in the single rider line just the two of us. We were lucky and rode in the same car with a family of 4.

 

[mcurrence]

Thanks for all the replies! Now I have a much clearer picture of what to expect. I think we'll bite the bullet and ride together and maybe decide on a meeting point if we want to ride again. Thanks again for all the details!

 

[jmenjes]

Protip for single riders: if you want to go through the full car customization process, go into Test Track through the post show area first. Right by the on-ride photo area, there's a couple of car design stations. Create your car there and save it to your MagicBand or RF card, and it'll show up when you tap your MB or card at the reader just before you board the ride.

 

[addiln]

We did the single rider line and it was great. We pretty much had less than a 10 min wait to get on the ride and then we just met on the ramp to exit the ride. It really depends on how comfortable you and your kids are not being in the same car.

 

[ktlm]

We do the single rider line a lot at RSR at DL and TT at WDW. The only issue with TT is that you don't get the full car design experience. You still get to go by the kiosk and "design" a car, but really it is just giving you a selection of a few pre-done cars instead of the full design experience and options. With the FP+ tiering, and the long lines, it is often worth it just to do Single Rider. The wait time will be posted for single rider. If you keep an eye on it, you can usually find it within the 10 to 20 minute range at some point during the day. DD has done it since she was 7. I was a little nervous the first couple of times, but she was not as she is a pretty independent outgoing kid. DH and I will put her between us, so one of us is in front and one behind her, in hopes that one of us is off the ride waiting for her or with her, but you must realize that the way they pull people- a kid can wind up in a car in front of you or in a different ride cycle. She loves it if she is pulled for a spot with a kid next to her- so if the front one of us is getting pulled for row with a kid or we see the rear one is going to be, then we switch. She has strong instructions that she is to go to the area where they display the ride photos and wait there for us. She is also instructed that the ride could break down or get stuck while someone is on it and if she is already off, and it is taking a while before she sees one of us, that is what likely happened and to stay put--- and if she is on the ride and it is stuck, know that if we are ahead of her that we will likewise stay put. In other words- the photo area is the spot and no one is to move until everyone is together again! More often than not, one of us is in the same ride cycle with her and getting off at the same time, but I do remember one time that she was in the cycle ahead of us.

 

[nilla]

We do this all the time. Usually, we're in consecutive cars. In some cases, two of us are in the same car, but different rows.

If you get to ride TT earlier with FPs, you can re-use your car design by skipping over the trimmed-down design station in the single-rider line.

 

[Duffywannabe]

When you get in a row tell the people you will be ringing with how scared you are. Then ask if you can sit in the middle. If they actually agree to that hold their hands and have a extremely scared look on your face when the picture is taken. It gives the people you ride with a story to tell. Or it's rude. Probably don't do that. But I would laugh if some one did that to me.

 

[maxiesmom]

If you get there at rope drop, you would have a good chance of actually riding together by going through the single rider line. I did it with my 2 teens last year and Josh at easywdw has also recommended this strategy. No guarantees, but your chances are better at rope drop than at any other time.

My experience was they but me and my nephew each in separate cars. We were each alone in that car, but they didn't put us together.

 

[thelittlemermaid2]

We love single rider! The wait is to much shorter, and often (but not always) we end up with 2 of us in the same car, although usually in different rows. I would have 1 parent go first, so they are there when the kids get off the ride, and 1 parent go last, so the kids don't have to stand in line alone

 

[gatorlisa]

My experience was they but me and my nephew each in separate cars. We were each alone in that car, but they didn't put us together.

I had a similar experience. BF and I went through the single rider line at opening and we were so quick to get to the loading platform that nobody from the standby line had made it through the design room yet. We were literally the first people to load on that morning. And they still put us in separate rows. We didn't mind, in fact we thought it was pretty funny to see the picture from our ride, with one of us in each row and the rest of the car empty. But just goes to show, when you ride single rider, they really mean it when they say you WILL be split up!

 

[glk2009]

Tangent question... it will be me, DH, DD8 and DD4 next trip... can DH and DD8 do the single rider line and pick up a Rider Swap for me while I wait with DD4? Or do they need to go through the regular standby line?