Originally Posted By BrianStarr I have only been on this ride once! It's a wicked line everytime I go, even on the slower days. I really wish they would make this a fastpass attraction, like at DHS. Anyways, I have a Toy Story fan coming with us on Monday and would love for her to ride this. However, I don't want to wait in a two hour line, eating up our day. When do you think is the best time to ride this? The shortest wait usually? I'm assuming during WOC?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros During WOC would be my best guess. I walked past it on Friday when it was raining, just moments before WOC started, and it was listed as a 15 minute wait. Looking at the queue, that seemed about right. Keep in mind, this was a day when literally everything else in the parks were complete walk-ons. So really, I don't think there's ever a time when it has a short line.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I think on a normal day, 45 minutes is an average wait time from what I've seen. The line constantly moves and the wait isn't as bad as it looks. I have a big Toy Story fan and we had to do this ride. We tried to go first thing in the morning, but it was down for the first part of the day, so that was out. We went back in the evening about six and it was a 45 minute wait.
Originally Posted By Ohana Right when the park opens, Paradise Pier sometimes does not open for another hour, so it can be a benefit to be at the front of the line for Paradise Pier because they sometimes escort in 50 or so folks to go on TSMM before the area is "officially" open. We got lucky on this recent trip.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle I didn't realize Florida has FP for this attraction. Why doesn't DL?
Originally Posted By tashajilek "I didn't realize Florida has FP for this attraction. Why doesn't DL?" Could you imagine the stand by line if there was a FP? During WOC is good, i went on it times in a row with less than a 10min wait. It was near closing time too.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 First thing when the park opens is when we usually go on it. If you go straight there (especially from the DCA entrance if you are staying on property) there is very little wait time.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle "Could you imagine the stand by line if there was a FP?" True, but this doesn't explain why Florida offers it and DCA doesn't.
Originally Posted By phruby That's because FP doesn't work. Florida just hasn't figured that out yet.
Originally Posted By danyoung FP works great in Florida. The queue is much more interesting in Florida than in DL, so a slower moving standby line is much more interesting. If the line in DCA moved any slower I think I'd have to take a life before it ended - the scenery really bites on the DCA version!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Yes, the WDW queue is far more interesting than the DCA one, but it moves so painfully slow that it is completely irrelevant to talk about how interesting it is. I honestly can't think of another attraction whose queues (both for standby and FP) move so slowly. The periods stopped in any given place are shorter than Soarin', but I think it's even slower moving than that. It looks nice, but by the time you get through the queue, it really doesn't matter how pretty it is, it's just a really really slow moving line.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby <<Could you imagine the stand by line if there was a FP?>> Yes I can: >120 minutes, which is what the standby line is always like at WDW. I much prefer the non-FP DCA version.
Originally Posted By danyoung It couldn't possibly be that there is a difference in the number of people that want to ride the WDW version vs. the DCA version. No, it MUST be Fastpass . . .
Originally Posted By SafariRob Posts 12 and 13 summarized it perfectly. FP for TSMM does not work well. I went to WDW in October and entered DHS just ten minutes after park opening. We headed straight for TSMM and the line to get a FP for was 10 minutes. The standby line was 45. ALL FP's were gone by 11:15am and the standby line was 150 minutes (and I have the picture to prove it). DCA's TSMM line might be long, but I don't think I have EVER seen it anywhere near 2.5 hours. I agree that the best time to ride is during WOC. Don't waste that valuable hour right after park opening to wait for TSMM. BTW, the last time I rode it (last week), the ride seemed unusually bumpy. Has anyone else noticed?
