Third Track/Theater Results

[Eoghann]

From my standpoint you're always going to wait in lines it's part of life. You wait at Disney, at the DMV, at the grocery store, etc. With today's crowds you're never going to walk on every attraction anymore. Maybe a couple if you're lucky but that's about it.

I rarely spend much time in line for anything. My time is far to valuable to me. I can do most DMV stuff online so that's a once ever 7 years type of ordeal and I can mostly avoid lines at grocery stores by picking the times I go. As for walking on to attractions I was able to do it with relative ease during my December 2014 trip. TSMM was an exception even with a fast pass. It was the only thing I waited more than 30 minutes in line for.

It baffles me that people are so tolerant of wasting so much of their time. It takes me over a day's work to earn an hour of vacation.

 

[rteetz]

I rarely spend much time in line for anything. My time is far to valuable to me. I can do most DMV stuff online so that's a once ever 7 years type of ordeal and I can mostly avoid lines at grocery stores by picking the times I go. As for walking on to attractions I was able to do it with relative ease during my December 2014 trip. TSMM was an exception even with a fast pass. It was the only thing I waited more than 30 minutes in line for.

It baffles me that people are so tolerant of wasting so much of their time. It takes me over a day's work to earn an hour of vacation.

I don't wait much longer than 25-30 minutes for things at Disney but I still have to wait. Maybe I'm just patient? I don't think of it as wasting time. We just have two different view points whatever I guess.

 

[PuppyJonathan]

I don't wait much longer than 25-30 minutes for things at Disney but I still have to wait. Maybe I'm just patient? I don't think of it as wasting time. We just have two different view points whatever I guess.

For me it depends on what it is if I'm going to wait however long for it. I feel like either I luck out or I plan real smartly because within the past 5 years I think my longest line was Toy Story Mania. It said 60 minutes when we entered but according to my camera we got off about 55 minutes later. Usually I'm in 20-30 lines without fastpass, if anything. For some strange reason recently I haven't noticed the length of the lines I've been in recently, maybe because I've been enjoying myself. If I have it's whenever the wait time sign is down so I can't measure (like the one time I was on mine train after reopening from a technical breakdown, THAT one was long but I don't remember how long) or if it's for something low capacity

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I can say I don't buy much of anything at DHS and I've never done any add ons. So I kind of have that covered already.

...I don't type here to tell YOU what's going on...I'm not worried about you knowing what's up

 

[Nancyg56]

I rarely spend much time in line for anything. My time is far to valuable to me. I can do most DMV stuff online so that's a once ever 7 years type of ordeal and I can mostly avoid lines at grocery stores by picking the times I go. As for walking on to attractions I was able to do it with relative ease during my December 2014 trip. TSMM was an exception even with a fast pass. It was the only thing I waited more than 30 minutes in line for.

It baffles me that people are so tolerant of wasting so much of their time. It takes me over a day's work to earn an hour of vacation.

Wait times are part of the theme parks. It is a major reason why I hate 6 Flags NE. I think that lines ae ridiculous, especially in the blazing heat. I would nto wait the 90 + minutes in any line that some folks hop into, but I also know that fo me, plannign aound that is key. 30 to 45 minutes is the limit fo our family and we need to want to get onto the attraction for that to happen.

I think that part of the problem is that a lot of people do not really get the timing pat of a WDW trip, it is ot a beach vacation that allows for dawdling in the morning and arriving at a park at 11 AM. You really need to plan ahead, use yout FP judiciously, and be prepared to make changes on the fly if need be. No plan and an adherence to a schedule that is not working = a mess.

I cannot do most of my DMV things online, so I am in the line 45 minute prior to opening and while I hate that I know I have avoided an additional 2 hours after I enter. I shop in grocery stores to avoid peak times but I still can get stuck in a line. If you see me, choose any other line. I am literally the kiss of death in any shopping line.

Waiting is relative and how we react is as well. I know that when I plan a WDW trip, initially I price out teh inc=divide all components of the trip so I can make an informed decision when discounts are released, but after that, it is a bottom line cost for us. Once the parks get too crowded, we are out and back to the resort. Swimming and dining are part of our trip, as is shopping. We may skip attractions that have long lines and hit the shops. We window shop more than buy, but we enjoy.

 

[Jfsag123]

Personal TSMM experience from this past week: on Tuesday we signed up for Jedi Training at rope drop before heading to TSMM, which meant we were behind the masses that went there first. We waited about 15 minutes. Yesterday we showed up for our FP+ at 12:52pm. The posted wait was 20 minutes, which looked to be accurate from what we saw inside. Pretty good for the middle of the day.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Wait times are part of the theme parks. It is a major reason why I hate 6 Flags NE. I think that lines ae ridiculous, especially in the blazing heat. I would nto wait the 90 + minutes in any line that some folks hop into, but I also know that fo me, plannign aound that is key. 30 to 45 minutes is the limit fo our family and we need to want to get onto the attraction for that to happen.

Six Flags New England is really the only theme/amusement park where I have equated money spent with my overall experience. We went July 2012 and I gave it 2 stars out of 5 on Trip Advisor. My review went like this "All in all this six flags just wasn't worth the admission fee.Several of the coasters were broke down or kept breaking down and it felt over-rated. Only a handfull of rides were ok. My husband and I went with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and some of my step-father-in-law's family (who lives nearby and is the primary reason we went)."

Usually in our family vacations we either all like the place we went to or the majority do..Six Flag New England none of us enjoyed it. I didn't find the lines overly long at least then (however this was nearly 4 years ago) I just didn't feel like the rides were all that so to speak and they did keep breaking down. I wanted to give it a higher review but I just couldn't.

 

[Nancyg56]

Six Flags New England is really the only theme/amusement park where I have equated money spent with my overall experience. We went July 2012 and I gave it 2 stars out of 5 on Trip Advisor. My review went like this "All in all this six flags just wasn't worth the admission fee.Several of the coasters were broke down or kept breaking down and it felt over-rated. Only a handfull of rides were ok. My husband and I went with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and some of my step-father-in-law's family (who lives nearby and is the primary reason we went)."

Usually in our family vacations we either all like the place we went to or the majority do..Six Flag New England none of us enjoyed it. I didn't find the lines overly long at least then (however this was nearly 4 years ago) I just didn't feel like the rides were all that so to speak and they did keep breaking down. I wanted to give it a higher review but I just couldn't.

We were so used to Riverside Park that the comparison was jut horrible. We waited in long lines, spent a fortune, and experienced terrible customer service. My DH wanted so much for my DGD to be able to enjoy the same kind of amusement park experience that w had given our kids that we tried a few times, but it was just not worth the money or the time. The parade was the lamest I had ever seen straggle though a park.

 

[Accident]

Something to note is that disney does appear to be inflating the wait time a little on the popular rides...

As far as soarin, longest lines I've ever seen. They do seem to be limiting to 2 theaters but in all honestly, the 2 original theaters keep breaking so it's really 1 theater and maybe you'll be lucky with a second working. I'm expecting it to be even worse when the new film drops. Maybe in a year it'll get to normal levels after everyone has taken their whirl.

TSMM I haven't bothered to walk past to comment but it sounds like good progress here. As more things are available to do, I expect the crowd to spread out nicely.

 

[rteetz]

Something to note is that disney does appear to be inflating the wait time a little on the popular rides...

As far as soarin, longest lines I've ever seen. They do seem to be limiting to 2 theaters but in all honestly, the 2 original theaters keep breaking so it's really 1 theater and maybe you'll be lucky with a second working. I'm expecting it to be even worse when the new film drops. Maybe in a year it'll get to normal levels after everyone has taken their whirl.

TSMM I haven't bothered to walk past to comment but it sounds like good progress here. As more things are available to do, I expect the crowd to spread out nicely.

The new theater for Soarin is running. Concourse A and B are the old theaters. Concourse C is the new theater. B and C are running while A is down until the 17th. B has been breaking down.

 

[Accident]

The new theater for Soarin is running. Concourse A and B are the old theaters. Concourse C is the new theater. B and C are running while A is down until the 17th. B has been breaking down.

Kathy reported A & C in use when she went on the last disunplugged.. I saw B and C (and b breaking a lot).

 

[rteetz]

Kathy reported A & C in use when she went on the last disunplugged.. I saw B and C (and b breaking a lot).

Either way C is the new theater. They have only been using one of the old theaters until the 17th.

 

[intertile]

Either way C is the new theater. They have only been using one of the old theaters until the 17th.

Didn't they shut them down to do maintenence on them? And They are already breaking down?

 

[rteetz]

Didn't they shut them down to do maintenence on them? And They are already breaking down?

Yes. C is the new theater and hasn't been breaking down. A and B are the old theaters and received screen and projectors upgrades. I am not sure what the problems are causing the break downs and I'm not sure what was all done during the down time other than the projector and screen upgrades.

 

[davish562]

Only a 25 min wait right now! So glad they opened a third theater!

 

[Lesverts]

Smells weren't working in B. I can attest to that from 3 separate rides on 3 separate days last week.

And from experience last week, ride times are horribly inflated. Tower of Terror, posted wait time of 50 minutes, cast member screen 20 minutes. TSMM posted 75 minutes, actually experience, less then 30. The only ride that was accurate or worse was Kilimanjaro Safaris.

 

[Planogirl]

It's nice to hear that Soarin' and TSMM might have shorter waits now. I appreciate that.

However we find it easy to skip both DHS and Epcot nowadays. For us there isn't enough bang for our buck for either one. I could see us going to MK for two days and AK for one though so we probably aren't speaking with our wallets too well.

 

[George4]

I'm not about to spend huge amounts of time waiting in line (usually no more than 30 minutes), but that time is when our family is talking with the kids - sometimes about the rides sometimes about other things. Many of Disney's cues have great entertainment value themselves as well, and we can easily pass the time entertained by the cue attractions. My kids hate that Space mountain and BTMRR move so quickly at times that they can't play with the things in the cue for very long. I am with you about waiting an hour or longer (haven't done it yet), that's ridiculous. There is always an attraction that has a shorter wait. But, I guess it comes down to why you are there and how long you are there. We want a relaxing vacation, and aren't looking to just do the big thrill rides. We still enjoy Small World and Tom Sawyers Island. If you are just interested in the D and E ticket rides, you're going to wait. No way around it. Different strokes for different folks. Make your vacation what you want it to be.

 

[ChipnDale79]

Well when there's nothing else for families in DHS what can you do

That's disney's fault, not the consumers.

People are letting disney off too easy for the way they've treated the parks in FL the past 10 years.

I'll say this though, this is exactly why I love the idea of the Toy Story land at DHS. Some people are upset that its to much of a kid area, but this park needs it badly.

 

[Accident]

The 3 soarin theaters appear to be really stable now that they are all on the new film and wait times do seem to be coming down but it'll take a few more weeks as locals get their ride and get out of the way

NOTE: disney does appear to be fudging the real wait time higher than it really takes.