Longest wait for a coaster. Do you have a time limit?

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when we heard a fe-mullet wearing patron utter in the most hilarious of hick accents (and I'm from Alabama, so you know it's gotta be bad)

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Bet she wouldn't wait in line to see the Mona Lisa either. Now if it's a good velvet Elvis or Dogs Playing Poker, you can bet she's there!

Of course, it is a different feeling and perception to stand opossite of the Mona Lisa and see it "for real" - it's still an interesting painting, but it's surrounded by hundreds of other paintings in the Louvre that are absolutely worth looking at as well - it's just constantly crowded by people who want the "done that" credit.

It's almost like people didn't have their own sense of art, beauty or of what really interests them, but need to crowd in herds that all behave the same, to hold on tight to the masterplan - maybe because they want something to talk about later, something that other people can relate to.
Maybe the 2 hours waiting for ML would be much better spent just sauntering between those enourmous artworks there, drifting from A to B and letting your honest eye find what it's interested in most, instead of subjecting yourself to the perception and behaviour that seems "appropriate".
:)
In the end, the perception of ML, the original, isn't THAT different from a good reproduction that it would be worth to miss out on 2 hours of brainstimulation through great painting watching.

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An I think the same goes true for coasters - I'd sometimes prefer to walk around it, see it from all sides and follow it with my gaze than to turn down my brain activity in a cow-stable like waiting line for hours.
Live is too short and reality is just too rich.
Unless, your jokes are really cool!
Or.. the people just give me a trip...
or..I have something to think and my notebook with me, then you can lock me in a room for 2 weeks, thank you.

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haha, she sounds great I wanna meet her.

But wait, SLfake, are you comparing yourself to this woman????

No... I wouldn't stand in line for the velvet Elvis or the Dogs Playing Poker either.

Now I do agree with what superman said about spending those two hours

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"sauntering between those enourmous artworks there... and letting your honest eye find what it's interested in most, instead of subjecting yourself to the perception and behaviour that seems "appropriate"."

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THAT I could spend two hours doing.

Same with The Mona Lisa as with coasters. If I am in a park that I may not get back to for some time (if ever), I am not going to spend it waiting in line for one coaster when there is so much else to see and do. Same with the Louvre. If I ever find myself in Paris and in the Louvre, I would be more interested in seeing much more of what the museum has to offer as opposed to standing line to see a painting in person that I have seen hundreds of times before in photos, simply because it is teh expected thing to do.

hahahaha....you're so crazy Dante...you couldn't have paid me to ride Hercules! What a waste of trees.

Sorry bud....just throwing the tone back at ya!! It's all good.

I don't really have set time limits it all depends on the coaster I going too such as Spining Dragons at WOF, it is slow loading and take a long time to get on some times. I find that there's is better rides I can be on rather than wait 15-20 to ride Spining Dragons.

Now the longest wait I had that I remember was Mamba on opening day in 1998. It was a 2 hour wait and was well worth it. On Mamba's Opening day in 1998 they only ran 1 train but there was no D Break to slow the train down going in to the camel humps. The ride was still under construction (The transfer track wasn't even built yet along with setting up the D brake) but was cleared to operate with 1 train. Now days it not worth waiting that long for Mamba my limit on this ride if I decided to give it on is about an hour. If I had a time machine and could travel back to Mamba's opening day in 1998 I would do it and ride it all day waiting 2 hours to get on each time, because ever since after opening weekend in 1998 Mamba has been killed by that D Brake.

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SLFAKE said:
No... I wouldn't stand in line for the velvet Elvis or the Dogs Playing Poker either.

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haha! i wasn't serious! im just being a goof. geez

i dunno id still have to say the ride would have to be awfully darn good for me to wait 2 hours to ride it. i been carting my ipod nano along for queue line waits to parks, sometimes even listening to music while im on the coasters. haha im great, wanna join my fan club?

Dante, who will be there opening day for El Toro donning his ipod for the queue wait. And yes, I won't wait any longer than 1.5 hours. If the wait is any longer I'll find my ways to get past that ;) *** Edited 4/21/2006 6:57:25 PM UTC by DorneyDante***

Hell, I think you're all nuts. The more parks I hit, the less tolerance for waiting I have. I probably would've struggled with an explanation, but I think SLFAKE covered it. I'm more interested in the overall park thing than just credits.

For instance, we did SFGAm last summer. I have no intentions of returning anytime soon and if I got back there in the next 5 years I'd be surprised. We spent an entire 12 hours there and I scored just 5 credits (if you count both sides of AE seperately). Been to PKI 3 times, still haven't gotten all the credits there. Same reason. Rather than stand in line an hour, I prefer to hang out and find fun elsewhere.

It's just not worth it in most cases to stand in line for an hour for a single ride. Granted there are exceptions. We waited about 70 minutes for X at SFMM in 2003 (based on uniqueness and the fact that trips to Cali come few and far between). I think we waited right about an hour or so for TTD that same year. Kudos to you guys who'll stand there for hours on end. I'd be hard pressed to wait even an hour to ride it again. MF was an hour and a half, IIRC, back in 2000. If I had to relive that moment now under the same circumstances (never ridden, biggest coaster on earth) I probably wouldn't wait. I want to say we waited a little over an hour for X-Flight in 2001 as well.

Off the top of my head, those are the only times I can think of in the last 5 years that I've waited an hour or more for a ride. Anymore, 30 minutes is enough to make me rethink it.

And no I'm not a line cutter. Do I look like I'm from Trenton or Jersey City? Pssh *sucks teeth*

See, I'm not alone when I say ya'll are nuts for waiting that long to ride. *** Edited 4/21/2006 7:00:09 PM UTC by DorneyDante***

I think that the longest that I have waited was about an hour and a half for Batwing the year that it came out. It really ended up being worth it, since that was my first experience on a flyer.

I've waited close to that amount of time for Hypersonic:XLC too.

An hour and a half is about my threshold. Maybe I'm showing my age, but sometimes waiting in line is good rest for someone that wants to make it to park closing.

You people act like waiting in line is some sort of torture. If you've got your friends there, waiting in line is no less fun than sitting around someone's house talking, right?

For the record, I'd wait 2 hours to ride a coaster OR see the Mona Lisa. I've waited more than 2 hours to do a lot of things (see Star Wars movies, concerts, the Price is Right, eat at restaurants, etc.). It's no big deal if you've got company.

I gave up on credits a while ago. Now I need to find rides for the whole family! :) Let's see, last year I received Wicked Twister, Steel Dragon(Waldameer) and Rollo Coaster from Idlewild. That tells you something right there. I have yet to ride TTD and while at Idlewild I did not ride the Wild Mouse. Went to Kennywood too but did not ride Exterminator or Phantom's Revenge. I could have passed 100 coasters in the last few years but I'm not making my wife corral two kids while I stand in a two hour line. We did manage to ride MF and WT last year because my parents came with us and we left the kids with them in the Peaunts Playground. :)

Have I mentioned just how not-comfy the Little Dipper at Memphis Kiddiepark is? I've ridden that more as an adult than I did when I was a kid! Hey, it's practically a walk-on every time though!

Tom

My "record" is X, 3.5 hours last june. No breakdowns but SFMM had no control whatsoever on the waiting lines. The security guards were downstairs at the split point and in the station, the same group of kids kept getting off, going through the lockers and pushing their ways to another set of seats! Then, we were waiting for the second to last row of seats. The same ride op kept sending the disabled guests to our row! Meaning we did not even move an inch for 45 minutes! (only 7-8 cycles...) Me and my friend basically asked the ride op to be fair and spread the disabled guests around the 7 rows on our side. Didn't work... so we had to yell at her to finally get her to do that! What a nightmare and I through the ride was barely average! *** Edited 4/21/2006 7:37:04 PM UTC by Absimilliard***

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Den said:
You people act like waiting in line is some sort of torture.

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It's not the line that's torture, but the payoff at the end that's not worth it. Take away my enthusiast credentials, but I doubt I'd wait for any coaster for 2 hours. Too much other stuff I could be doing in that time frame that is totally worth it.

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If you've got your friends there, waiting in line is no less fun than sitting around someone's house talking, right?

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Only if you house is a concrete pad in the blazing sun full of a couple thousand other people. But if it is, then I suppose it's exactly the same. ;)

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For the record, I'd wait 2 hours to ride a coaster OR see the Mona Lisa. I've waited more than 2 hours to do a lot of things (see Star Wars movies, concerts, the Price is Right, eat at restaurants, etc.).

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I wouldn't wait 2 hours for any of those things. The closest I've come to waiting two hours for anything that immediately comes to mind are things like Conan O'Brien or Letterman. And even then it isn't so much waiting in a line as much as being corralled from place to place until you're seated.

And milling around Rockefeller Center or the Ed Sullivan theatre isn't exactly a horrible way to wait.

For me, it's not the line, per se, but rather what's at the end of that line. Two hour line for a $4,000,000 check? Sure. Two hour line to get kicked in the face? Pass.

Everything else falls somewhere in between. :)

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*** Edited 4/21/2006 7:48:49 PM UTC by Lord Gonchar***

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People wait 2hrs to see the Mona Lisa painting @ the Louvre in France

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I've been to the Louvre. It was in September, so the crowds were quite low. Mona Lisa *and* Venus de Milo, no waiting.

If there had been a two hour line, I would not have waited. I would have gone to the Orsay (which I prefer to the Louvre in any event---I've a soft spot for the Impressionists) or the Montmartre Harvest Festival (which was a much more memorable experience) instead, where I can see something interesting without standing in line for two hours.

60-90 minutes is my usual limit, but if I had to I'd wait longer for what I knew would be an incredible ride, I might wait 2 hours, (eg: The Voyage). Here's a website I came across last year, and they are all about this.

When To Ride.com They don't have it down to a science, they depend on the people to contribute their wait times at parks they visit to get an average wait time for visitors to the site.

I will continue to wait almost any amount of time for a night ride on MF. Two of the best rides I ever had were at night during its first year with three of my best friends. It was right before closing and when we got off the first ride the queue was still open and we did it all again.

But at the same rate I am not going to wait for more than ten minutes for the night ride on Raptor of Magnum.

Good times.

The longest i've waited for a coaster is about an hour, I would say. I usually don't keep track of times. Basically, if I like the ride, i'll wait for it. As long as the line isn't huge.

Eight, I would wait any amount of time for a night ride on MF also. I can't wait to have my turn in June!

The longest I have waited was about 21/2 hours for both TTD and MF. Both were well worth the wiat but of course I enjoyed MF more. Being only 14 I have a long life ahead of me and waiting a few for the biggest rush that I'll probley ever experience(other than playing hide and go seek with a airsoft gun at night....Good times.)That's just me.This being my first post ever on CB I would like to thank my dog and my grandma,this would of never happened without them.

So if 6 is yellow and 7 is green what is 20..?

The longest I've waited was to ride the Beast at Kings Island about 10 years ago when you wouldn't find too many ppl say this isn't a top 5 coaster. I waited almost 4 hours that nite to ride it. Till this day I still fight b/t beast and the Raven at HW being my fav. The high note for me HW is in my backyard and they believe in no lines. The longest I've ever waited to ride Legend or Raven prob. is 30 mins. top, but I'm never there on the wkds I go throught the week b/c I can be there in that time. With this all said I will wait 5 hours to ride Voyage for a nite ride. That won't be nec. b/c May 26 and 27 are around the corner.