Longest wait for a kiddie coaster?

The longest wait for kiddie coaster for me was probably 30 minutes @ PKI. they had the slwest ride-ops in the world.

The longest I ever had to wait was 2 hours to get on Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coatser at PKI. It was horrible and also I waited an hour and a half to get on Runaway Reptar @ PKI.

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Jeesh... go ride a real coaster!

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Zero-G you think they might have kids? Maybe they wanted to ride those rides. I have ridden both and they are quite fun.

I dont know if this is considered a kiddie coaster or not. I rode Pegasus at Big Chief Carts and Coasters the longest time I had to wait was about 5minutes or less and I was the only rider to ;).

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Over an hour Scoobys Ghoster Coaster last year!

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Arg... my campaign to get people to call me Jes instead of Zero-G is failing miserably!

Anywho, I'm just saying, even if they did have kids with them, It doesn't make sense to wait in line that long for a damn kiddy coaster. If they got sucked into the long line ("Well it didn't look that long") that’s another story, but it sounds like these people made a conscious decision to wait for these rides regardless of the wait... which is stupid if you ask me!

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Jes, have you ever seen or ridden Scooby Doo's Ghoster Coaster at PKI? Yes, I am guilty of waiting about 45 minutes for that one. It's actually a kind of a neat ride mostly because it is so completely different from everything else. But it also has wretched capacity: they move as quickly as they possibly can, but the ride only moves about 96 PPH.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

It's inverted, single-car, elevator lift, swingy looking thing, right? If so, I've seen it. As intersting as it looks, I don't think I personally would wait that long, but that's probably because I've never been to PKI, and I would want to ride all the other coasters there first.

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Olympia, the ,close wooden relative of Sea Dragon at the Alameda County Fairgrounds, was a 45 minute wait to ride at night. Also, try Galaxi at Canobie Lake, it may be a family coaster but it has the longest duration in the park, 30 hour just for that? I think I got drunk on the bubbler before I got in line.

(Longest wait on a family hyper coaster, Steel Force for an hour and twenty minutes ;) )

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Oh please, this one is easy. Disneyland's Gadget Go-coaster is easily the longest line I have ever seen for a kiddie coaster, we're talking up to 2 hours! And yes, I'm guilty of waiting in line for it. For those who don't know, it's a fun little Vekoma roller skater, located in the wonderfully themed, Mickey's Toontown. The track length is only about 1,000ft long, yet it's one of the longest lines in the park!

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I waited 2 1/2 hours the last day PKI was open last year just to say I rode Runaway Reptar more than 50 times in the season.

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Also guilty of long waits for RR and SDGC at PKI last summer...don't get to Cincy too often, and I tried to get our walkback to SDGC since the capacity is SO low, but was out-voted. Proably waited about 45 mins. for each, and glad I did. Hoping to see more of those "family inverteds", I thought it was really cool....wondering if it couldn't be turned into a wet-coaster like the Setpoints, hmmmm. The only shortcoming of RR was also capacity, but with a little longer layout and a second train.....

(and now I have one ride on each, plus TWO on Beastie - and still want MORE!)

lol, it seems like everyone's is scooby doo's ghoster coaster at pki. well, it was for me too! i waited an hour and a half in november last season. it was around 8:30 when i got in line. i wanna know why those kids were still up and how could they wait in line that long!?

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Well im only 15 so i dont have kids I had to go with my with my little sister.

Ever notice that Reptar's Revenge is just a suspended version of the Venkoma Roller Skater?

Vertigo, that's Rugrat's Runaway Reptar Roller Coaster. And you're absolutely right about it being an inverted Roller Skater.
It has some neat construction details, though, for instance, at the top of the lift, everything at that end of the ride is suspended off a single center pole, and it has that overhead structure over that end of the ride. Personally, I thought they should have covered that structure with large canvas panels, but I suppose they didn't because if they did that it would have made the ride too in-tents.
(sorry. It doesn't work as well in print as it does in person...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Zero-G said:

...even if they did have kids with them, It doesn't make sense to wait in line that long for a damn kiddy coaster...
Someday if you have kids you'll understand. :)
And to consider a kiddy coaster "not a real coaster" is missing the point entirely. Sure some are lame little circles, but some coasters that fall into the kiddie category can be quite fun even without kids. Take your son or daughter on one and the experience is pretty much unmatched.
Sometimes it's too easy to fall into the "bigger is better" mentality, I guess. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I don't have any estimates of wait times but during a visit to Cedar Point in 2001, I waited longer for Jr. Gemini then I did for Millennium Force.

I had never ridden Jr. Gemini and it was one of those rare moments when I actually had a small child with me.
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No one's mentioned the Florida parks yet, but all of the Central Florida kiddie coasters get huge lines in the late-morning, early-afternoon daypart.

I have personally seen lines longer than an hour for Goofy's Barnstormer and nearly that for Woody Woodpecker's Nuthouse Coaster and Flying Unicorn. And, in the same realm as PKI's Scooby, IOA's Pteranadon Flyers has been posted at 2 hours.

The funny thing is that, save for Pteranadon, every single one of those coasters is a walk-on at night.