Originally Posted By tigger_twin89 Hello friends I am writing an essay on how to ride every ride in DLR, so I was hoping some fans would give me their input. Please tell me how you best plan to ride every ride in DLR, which lands do you start in, do you take breaks stuff like that. Thank you!
Originally Posted By bAmboo1 My two brothers, a cousin, and I rode every single ride at DL in one day (including main street vehicles and the rafts to Tom Sawyer Island) several years ago. I have the park map from the day we did it. When I get home I can post the order we did things. We did this before fast pass so I imagine it would be a lot easier today. Also, we did it in the middle of the summer, when the park was packed (only time the family could go).
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would definately start in Fantasyland where the lines get pretty long pretty quickly and there are no FP's. It also allows for you to be more spontaneous, since there are so many attractions in one area and you can see a lot of the queues at the same time. I would use FPs on rides like Space Mountain and Roger Rabbit, but avoid it on ones like Indy and Autopia where they often do no good. Splash Mountain single riders always seems to be a short line, so that would be easy, and the rest is just sort of planning around the crowds. Most people start to the left at the end of Main Street, so hitting Tomorrowland early and then heading to the west side of the park at night might help some, especially if you can dodge Fantasmic! crowds (they take up a lot of path space but empty the lines out). I would try to go on a weekday in May, early March, or September that has long hours, since the crowds will be light then, but you will still have a lot of time to do everything.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Personally, I ride every ride at Disneyland with the joy of a five-year-old!! (I know that wasn't REALLY the question, but it was the first thing I thought when I saw the topic subject. ;-)
Originally Posted By threeundertwo That would be easy to run through ridemax.com. The software would tell you a bunch of different ways you could do it, and it automatically builds in breaks for you unless you ask it not to.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss IMO, it's really hard to ride EVERY ride in one day, because there is a very high probability that one or more attractions are closed for refurbishment or some other reason whenever you go. Another thing, are you taking about rides only? What about theater shows? Which count, and which do not? For instance, when CircleVision was around, did that count? What about the 50th film playing now?
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 Our tradition goes as follows: 1st thing we do is ride pirates. It's been my fave since I was a kid so we always do that first, then the mansion since it's right there. After that we usually just wing it on how we feel that day. One rule, is no matter what ride we're on we always go to the "left side" line. We read somewhere once that because most people are right handed that they gravitate to the right hand line, so now we always go to the left. Not sure how much it helps, especially when it's really busy, but it's what we do.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer 2/3 , the right lane of IASW does move faster as the left side is used for handicap loading.
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 good point I never thought about that. Well IASW isn't one we ride a lot... only if the line isn't ridiculous, which is almost never Like I said, not sure if it helps, it just became a habit. Almost one of those things where you're not sure WHY you do it, you just do.
Originally Posted By karlg I don't know if you can do every attraction on a busy day but the best overall strategy is: 1. Get there early (preferably with early entry -- or if you don't have early entry on a non-early-entry day). Be at the gate 30 minutes or more before opening. No strategy beats getting there early. 2. Collect fastpasses, but don't use them until later. DL allows you to use the FP any time the same day after the FP window opens. Keep track of the time when you can get your next FP. Usually if you get one early, the first FP window is about 40 minutes after the park opens. Therefore 40 minutes after the park opens you can have two FP in your hand. A good strategy is to quickly get a FP to Space Mountain and when its window is up get one for Buzz (as my strategy is to go to FL first, Buzz is relatively near FL). Note FP machines may not work durning early entry. 3. As others have said. Go to Fantasyland for your first rides (but after getting your first FP). Specifically, go on Dumbo and then Peter Pan first as they are very popular and are short rides so if you go on them with no line they take very little time to do. Then do the rest of the FL attractions including the Matterhorn except for Small World (save it for the busy time of day). Note that The Storybookland Canal Boats may open late, you want to get it soon after it opens as it is also a slow line. If all goes well, in about 1 hour you can go on all of Fantasyland except for Small World. 4. Go to Toontown and go Gadget Go Coaster and pick up a FastPass for Roger Rabbit (Roger Rabbits FP is not "connected" so you can get one regardless of your other FP). If you want to see Mickey and Minnie, now is the time. By now you should be able to pick up your 3rd FP. 5. By now you are about 2 hours after opening and the park is filling up on a busy day. Head for adventureland and go on Jungle Cruise before it gets busy. If all works out, you may be able to get your Indian Jones FP about the time you get of the Jungle Cruise. 6. Go on the Main Street Vehicles. Don't wait too late as they will stop running on busy days once the crowds pick up on Main Street. 7. Next I would think about Haunted Mansion and then maybe Single Rider Line on Splash (avoids having to go there twice and using up a FP slot and Single Rider is as fast as FP). You might hit Pooh after Splash as it is a short ride and you are right there after Splash. 8. By now the park is getting pretty full so look for high capacity attractions like Pirates and Small World. Use your Roger Rabbit fastpass after going on Small World. At some point also go on the DL Railroad. 9. Once you have gone on about everything that does not have a FP that is a bottlneck, start "playing" your Fast Passes while continuing to collect FP's for attractions you have not been on that have FP. Also go on the Tikki Room if you go by it near a start time (say going to or from Indy). Usually Thunder Mountain has FP available well into the day so I would generally have it be the last FP I collect. 9. Right before park closing go on Nemo. With the strategy above you really don't have to do a lot of running around or back tracking. You basically stay in FL with a trip or to to nearby Tomorroland to collect FP's. Then work you way around to Splash and then back towards Small World.
Originally Posted By Moderation I'm impressed K. That's almost exactly the same attack plan we used last Friday except we grabbed a Autotopia FP first since the return time was 25 minutes, didn't get a buzz FP but walked on, and then got the SM pass before heading to FL. The only thing I would add is that if there's any early line at Caasey Junior skip it and come back later- when they add the second train in the afternoon the ride capacity doubles with the same line. Also, while one waits in line for Dumbo after PP, the post SM window opens and by the back way to Frontier Land, you have time to go to the Indy FP before your pardner reaches the front of the line. By 11 AM we were holding 4 FPs and had done 11 rides. We then took an early lunch at the BlueB- if you eat at 11:30 the salads are still crisp and the waiters are still fresh- then a ride on Pirates, a HM FP and the Single rider line on Splash, then pooh before the canoes and TSI. Heading back towards TT to use the RR pass and do the small rides, we were able to get our Thunder pass. Doing the inventory, the only skip we had on the day was Tarzan's Treehouse, which we could haveeasily walked through if so inclined.
