Great Coasters(preferabbly new) with short lines

DD, Montu, Kumba, Apollo's Chairiot, Alpengiest, Loch Ness, Magnum,

The line for Raging Bull moves fast with three trains running, which can hold 36 people.

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Current Favorite Coasters:
1)Raging Bull 2)Millennium Force 3)Medusa (SFMW) 4)Vertical Velocity (SFGAm) 5)Incredible Hulk, The

Cheetah at Wild Adventures. I was just there on Sunday, Pat Benetar was doing a concert and all I heard all day long was how "crowded" the park was. We never waited more than 2 or 3 trains for any coaster in the park. If this is crowded to the Wild Adventures regulars, I'd have loved to see it not crowded.

I seem to have a knack for hitting parks/rides on short lines. I took my family (from PA) to IOA last March and we walked on to Spiderman! It was so empty that he let the 4 of us ride in one car alone, pretty cool!

I've been to BGT, SWF, SFWOA, Kennywood, Wild Adventures, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and IOA so far this year and haven't waited more than 30 minutes for any major attraction or coaster with the sole exception of X-Flight.

Dumb luck I guess. That and weekday visits! :)

Back to the topic: Cheetah is a great CCI with next to no wait even on "crowded" days.

When I went to Boomers in Dania Beach,FL to ride the Hurricane it was a walk on ride all night.At the time the park was hosting a 'Survivor'contest where the last person still riding won a new car,so the coaster was open 24 hours a day.This was my first night rides ever on a wood coaster.I am from the Pacific northwest,so I never had the opportunity to do this before.

EVERY single coaster at SFFT on weekdays are walk-ons! Even EVERY ride there is always a walk on! The longest I waited was like 5 min. to ride in the front on Superman! What A great park!

"Short" is a relative term. Some people call only a "walk on" short... others consider 10 or 20 minutes short.

That being said, here are my experiences over the past two weeks...

Talon (Dorney: 2001): 5 - 15 minutes depending on seat location

Steel Force (Dorney: 1997): 5-15 minutes depending on seat location

Great Nor'Easter (Morey's Piers: 1995): Walkon - 5 minutes depending on seat location

Great White (Morey's Piers: 1996): Walkon - 5 minutes depending on seat location.

And from a May trip:
Lightning Racer (Hersheypark: 2000): 5 minutes - back seat

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Shivering Timbers - Michigan's Adventure - 1998
Apollo's Chariot - BGW - 1999
Alpengeist - BGW - 1997
Mr. Freeze - SFStL - 1998

All no more than 10 minutes. At least when I went.


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My Top 10
(1)Shivering Timbers(2)Millennium Force(3)Magnum XL-200(4)Apollo's Chariot(5)The Boss(6)Alpengeist(7)Mr. Freeze(8)Raptor(9)American Eagle(10)Loch Ness Monster

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SFMMFREAK85 said:
". But the one that shocked me the most, was the Steel Phantoms line, wak on front row all day on a Saturday when I was there awhile ago.
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Yea pretty much the last couple years of SP didn't have much of a wait or none at all. Sad if you ask me. This summer has been pretty good with lines for me. Not surprisingly after going to a couple parks this summer including WDW and IOA, the ride with the longest wait was MF.

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Give it time eventualy the new coasters lines will start to build up again.

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Inverted coaster coming soon to Valleyfair!

Villian is walkon for most of the time.

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every coaster at SFDL besides superman. Superman as well if there running two trains.

kraken has short waits most of the time

dueling dragons has short waits(duh)

when i went to SFWOA batman wasnt over 20 minutes and it was a sunday monday combo.
villan never had a big line either.

nothing at BGT has a wait more then 15 minutes except for gwazi(once i was in line for gwazi and the line ended in the station, and it still took me 25 minutes to get on the coaster!)
* if they got a B&M hyper they would have walk ons sooooooo much. i would say sunday thru friday walk ons.
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1.Fire Dragon, 2.Ice Dragon, 3.Raptor, 4.Kraken, 5.Batman Knight Flight

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MillenniumForce04 said:
"Deja Vu..no wait whatsoever... ;) LOL!"

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Yeah right - we've been waiting all year. ;)
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Current favorite coasters:
Wooden: 1) Beast 2) Raven 3) Son of Beast 4) The Boss 5) The Legend
Steel: 1) Raging Bull 2) Millennium Force 3) V2 4) Wild Thing 5) Mr. Freeze

son of beast is now only about 10 to 30 minutes

Mamba @ WoF - Weekdays = 10 - 15 min
Timber Wolf @ WoF - Weekdays = walk on
Wild Thing @ Valleyfair! - Weekdays = 10 - 15 min.
Raging Bull @ SFGAm - Weekdays = 20 - 30 min. Weekends = 1 hour (3 train operation).
Shockwave @ SFGAm - weekdays = walk on. Weekends: 20 - 30 min (3 train operation).
Viper @ SFGAm - weekdays = 20 min.
Raven @ HW - Sunday night (weekdays?) = walk on - 10 min.
Legend @ HW - Sunday night (weekdays?) = walk on - 10 min.

I'm sure there's more...


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Current favorite coasters:
Wooden: 1) Beast 2) Raven 3) Son of Beast 4) The Boss 5) The Legend
Steel: 1) Raging Bull 2) Millennium Force 3) V2 4) Wild Thing 5) Mr. Freeze

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At Cedar Point:

Mean Streak
thats about it

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Live to have FUN!

Go Shamrocks!
Go Wolverines!

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Joe Carroll Said:

Wild Thing Worlds Of Fun weekdays 10 to 15minutes?
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You mean Wild Thing at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota right?

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Inverted coaster coming soon to Valleyfair, big inverted coaster fan!
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VIPER said:
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You mean Wild Thing at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota right?"

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Correct. Sorry.


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Current favorite coasters:
Wooden: 1) Beast 2) Raven 3) Son of Beast 4) The Boss 5) The Legend
Steel: 1) Raging Bull 2) Millennium Force 3) V2 4) Wild Thing 5) Mr. Freeze

SFMMFREAK85 I agree about the rides you mentioned lines being short to. When I went to Magic when Goliath first opened the line was 30 mintues long. I've never been to Magic and Goliaths line was more than 30 minutes long. But the line that never seems to get short is Riddlers.

I just got back from Dorney Park and I got on Talon 11 times and Steel Force 6 times in one day. The lines move really fast.
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On a weekday at PGA there are no lines! The only lines that are relatively long are Stealth and Invertigo cuz the people move so slowly loading and unloading people. Like Top Gun and Vortex and Demon have no lines. The best experience was we went on Top Gun five times in a row..AWASOME RIDE!