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

Waiting in long lines is a thing of the past for me. After waiting 2.5 hours for that 'hot' mess of a coaster,(PGA's) Stealth a few years ago, I vowed to never do that again. And I haven't. Not for X nor TTD nor will I for Tatsu.

It use to be about bragging that I'd ridden a coaster before my friends, or a sense of uncontrolled excitement surrounding a new ride. The year Indiana Jones opened I thought I'd die if I didn't ride it opening weekend.

Now I simply go to parks on slow days, even if I wait 6 months to a year to ride the latest, greatest. Here in So-Cal there are alternatives to braving Saturday mobs. I either go on a weekday once school starts, in the off-season, or I hit Coaster Solace and the Sunday add-on at SFMM.

I'm proud to say I have ridden X over 50 times and I have NEVER waited more than 30 minutes. It also pays *big time* to get to a park early.

The longest i have waited was 2 3/4 hours for MF for my first ride. I would say it was well worth it, but i wouldnt wait that long for it anymore.

As far as a limit i usually will give a ride 1 to 1.5 hours at cedar point, seeing it is the only park i attend regularly. If i'm at a new park i am willing to wait a little longer for a coaster i've never been on.

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DorneyDante said:
Wow, you gave the most shallow, typical American response I could ever fathom..Your not allowed to take pictures of the Mona Lisa when you go to see it at the Louvre in France. And no amount of Cheeto dust (excuse me while I laugh) will provide you with the experience of seeing the Mona Lisa in person. Just go see it and you'll understand.

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This is hilarious, because it's beyond obvious that you've never seen the Mona Lisa in person either. Why? Because there's nothing stopping you from taking pictures of it. In fact, the damn thing is so hard to see precisely because there are about 300 flashes going off at any given time. So how can you really judge what seeing the Mona Lisa in person is like?

I saw the Mona Lisa without waiting. I looked at it for two minutes, said, "Yup, that's it," and moved on. Sorry, no mind-blowing experience for me. There were plenty of other things in Paris that thrilled me.

As for waiting for coasters, an hour is typically my limit unless it's something I really love (like S:ROS) or something I haven't yet ridden but really want to.

-Nate *** Edited 4/22/2006 7:59:57 AM UTC by coasterdude318***

20 mins, max.
I hate to wait.
I think the longest I did wait ws like, 40 mins.
It was on TTD, 1 breakdown and one rollback slowed things down pretty good.

Back in 2002 I waited 3.5 hours to ride Deja-Vu at SFMM. I got inline at 10pm and got a ride at 1:30am. *** Edited 4/22/2006 3:37:02 PM UTC by Bill Lumbergh***

Obviously, the moral of the story is that the Louvre needs to add FastPass, Qbots or whatevers.

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DorneyDante said:
Wow, you gave the most shallow, typical American response I could ever fathom. The Mona Lisa IS worth a 2hr wait. The painting is an experience and you clearly have never see it in person.

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You thought *that* response was shallow? Well then you're gonna loooooove this one!

The Mona Lisa isn't worth a two minute wait of my time. It's just some dumb picture of some unattractive woman with a jacked up smile. Seeing it in person would not change my opinion on that. Truthfully, I have no interest in *going* to the Louvre so I'd never have to worry about waiting to see some picture that I've seen in just about every world history book I've come across the last 25 years. I may not know art, but I know what I like. I'd rather spend time looking at French architecture than your idea of "an experience".

Oh and by the way, I got a more detailed look at the Hope Diamond from the pictures they had on display telling the history of the stone than from the actual stone itself. Kinda hard to see when they keep it several feet away, under glass, and people are snapping their camera flashes all around (cursed reflections!)

lata, jeremy-PACS (Proud American Capitalist Swine)

Oh and yeah, nowadays, about an hour is enough for any coaster/ride. Any longer than taht...I'll buy a Q-bot :)

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coasterdude318 said:

This is hilarious, because it's beyond obvious that you've never seen the Mona Lisa in person either. Why? Because there's nothing stopping you from taking pictures of it. In fact, the damn thing is so hard to see precisely because there are about 300 flashes going off at any given time. So how can you really judge what seeing the Mona Lisa in person is like?

-Nate *** Edited 4/22/2006 7:59:57 AM UTC by coasterdude318***

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Haha! Ok I've never been there. When I was there 10 summers ago for a highschool French Club trip, there was obsolutely no pictures allowed to be taken of it. Maybe that policy has since changed, I have no idea nor do i care. Moral of the story is, I wouldn't wait over 2 hours to ride a rollercoaster, its simply not worth the time IMO. But like I said, maybe I just have different priorities....

Dante, who says that maybe 5 years of French and then years of architectural history classes in college warrants his appreciation for these sorts of things.

Also, 2hostyl, I'm an architect, so if you would like to discuss french architecture sometime over coffee and briscuits that would be delightful ;) *** Edited 4/23/2006 3:57:16 PM UTC by DorneyDante***

I waited 6 hours for flight of fear at pki on its season pass holder preview day back the year it opened in 1996. Thier was only one train running and i thought the ride worker at the end of the line was full of **** when he said it would be 6 hours. Sure enough it was. I wouldnt have waited that long if i would have known. The longest i would ever wait any more is 3 hours. It better be for something big though.

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RatherGoodBear said:Obviously, the moral of the story is that the Louvre needs to add FastPass, Qbots or whatevers.

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The Smithsonian does too, apparently, although I saw the Hope Diamond by walking up to it...meh, cool rock... :)

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Floorless Fan said:
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).

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You'd like to forget all about waiting, what, 2.5(?) hrs for F/O, right? ;) I know I would.

Bah, that (PKI's Invertigo) was also my longest wait ever, also at 2.5 hours....if I knew then what I know now, that would NOT happen.

Now, even for a credit lap, I'm still sticking to a vague 1-1.5 hour limit. Beyond that, I'd rather come back another time or something...invest in FlashPass... ;)

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RatherGoodBear said:
Obviously, the moral of the story is that the Louvre needs to add FastPass, Qbots or whatevers.

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And a stand at the enterance selling "Les Dippien Dottes"

As for the Louvre allowing photos, as of this past September they have changed the previous (non-enforced) rule of no flash photography since it was virtually impossible to determine whose camera flashed and then, even if they could identify the culprit, what would they do?

But, again, as of September ALL PHOTOGRAPHY is banned in certain areas of the Louvre namely the Galerie d'Apollon and all of the first-floor rooms in the Denon wing ("La Gioconda"--the original name of what everyone now calls the "Mona Lisa" --resides in Denon 13.) *** Edited 4/24/2006 4:00:49 PM UTC by redman822***

Thank you Redman822! I knew I wasn't going crazy. Maybe this was a ban that was "off and on" for sometime because when I was there it was very strictly enforced "no photography" and others here are saying when they were there they could flash all they wanted. Who knows but interesting. Thanks for that input redman822.

Dante, who can't believe we are still going on about this whole Mona Lisa thing. All this over a dumb, unimportant painting! ;) *** Edited 4/24/2006 5:13:15 PM UTC by DorneyDante***

My recollection is that the prohibition against flashes is that, despite the thing being encased on some sort of special flash-reflecting case, the flash is bad for the pigment used in the paint.

Plus, with no photography at all, there's one more reason to buy one of the museum catalogs. ;)

Hail CB Warriors!

The really bad thing, some of you have wait times that are MUCH lower then the average time I have seen to ride "Peter Pan" at DL.

Silly me, I just have ALWAYS enjoyed the uniqueness of this dark ride since I was a kid. And, I STILL enjoy a ride on it!

I end up having to wait in that line with a bunch a parents that drag along their 2.2 other kids.

Why don't these parents torture their kids like I did mine?! Then, all the parents and their 2.2 kids could ride "Snow White" and all the wimpy kids would be crying to go home!

THEN! with all the wimpy crying kids at home, the line for "Peter Pan" would be shorter! and I wouldn't have to wait longer for this silly dark ride then those of you that posted in this thread with significantly less waiting then I have done.

I guess it just depends on how much you enjoy a single ride, how long you might wait ...

I've been to the Paris in Las Vegas if that counts for anything..I saw the Eiffel Tower (sp). ;)

Nice explanation, Sprig.

Back in 2001 I waited at least 2.5 hours to ride Vertical Velocity at SFGAm. The line moved soooooooooo slooooowwww...

i've waited a max of 2 hrs 30 minutes for Nitro at Great Adventure. I think my limit is an hour and a half. But I have a question. In May, are the line terrible at Cedar Point? Right back.