Which (if any?) attractions at DL/DCA have single rider

[dina444444]

yeah it all comes down to the seat configurations.

4 person cars (Goofy, WS): Any group of 3, 5 or 7, they're going to need a SR. Should moves very fast.

6 person cars (MF, RSR, Matterhorn): Any group of 3 or group of 5 that comes through main line, they're going to need a SR, unless they can find 2 groups of 3 to stick together. So these move fast. These have a lot of ride vehicles too, so they move quick.

8 person car (GRR): the ride vehicles don't turn over as fast, but they usually can't puzzle together groups of 8, so you get one SR every 2 or 3 boats

Space probably has a lot of variety as it depends if CM treats it as a 6 or 12 person vehicle (i.e. are you willing to split a group of 5 across the front vs back car).

When Indy had SR back in the day, it moved slow because of the 12 person vehicles.

Incredicoaster is 24 person, and inevitably any odd number has to be placed with a stranger regardless, so SR spots don't pop up that often. Cars move fast though.

Soarin I think they treat it as 9 separate vehicles of 12 people (each row/column treated separately) as they want the whole group to be in a single section. But because they have so much time to organize and move people around, they can optimize it a lot more.

Guardians would be even worse if it ever had SR - 21 person vehicles, lots of time to get shuffle main line guests around!

And yeah, pirates basically never has full boats, so SR would be great there. I think they just feel the line moves too quickly to warrant the organizational hassle. Small world is same boat.

Just wanted to chime in on Matterhorn. Matterhorn will put 3 groups of 2 on the ride vehicle splitting them up if it’s not a child under the age of 7. So they only pull single riders when it’s a group of 2 and 3 or a group 5 that have been loaded.

Incredicoaster also moves fast. They don’t pair up groups of odd numbers so a single rider will get placed with any odd number group. And they also usually place a single rider in row 5 if the train with only one seat in that row is on the track.

 

[AndrewC]

I’ve had exceptionally good luck with single rider on RSR, Falcon, and Space Mountain (2021 and 2019).

I always go in October, so big crowds. I don’t specifically plan to hit these attractions at specific times or anything but probably 80% of the time it’s a Mon-Thur so that probably helps some.

With Falcon it’s been basically a walk on every time I’ve done single rider. MAYBE two or three people in front of me, but frequently no one. I would say from entering the single rider queue to butt in seat is maybe 5 minutes, maybe maybe like 7, but it feels like five. I’ve often done it four or five times back to back. Yes I’m *always* and engineer, but it’s a fun ride and really helps recharge the battery when feeling like it’s been crushingly busy with long waits for everything.

I’ve also been really lucky with space mountain. I don’t know how long the wait is, but again the walk to the front of the queue almost feels longer than the wait. I would say 10 minutes or less, but again I *feel* like it’s been 5. The queue has been long too, like at least displaying 30+ minutes. I’ve also been able to do this one like 5 or 6 times back to back in about an hour period.

RSR has been the longest for me, but even then it absolutely feels like ten times shorter wait. I don’t really know what it is, probably 10-15 minutes for me… but it’s perceived as very short because of how incredibly long the line is when jumping ahead via single rider and because frequently during my week long trip I’ll see the standby at like 70-120 minutes… so then my brain is pre-loaded for a very long wait and the maybe even 15 minutes feels very short. I usually only do this once and even then not every day, maybe twice during a four or five day trip, so clearly it’s less efficient for me than the others, and I LOVE RSR.

I’ve used it in Incredicoaster before and I do remember it being cumbersome, but it felt like it saved time. But maybe I got lucky that year. I actually skipped it entirely this October and I was in Disney at *least* 6 days. It just was down so frequently that either it wasn’t running when I was near it or it had a 60+ minute wait. I actually thought it was very odd and was wondering if that was just backed up from the sporadic up time or if it was really popular this year. I feel like that (at least for me previous years) has always been a 15-30 minute wait to start with…