Most unbareable que lines

The worst type of inside queue is the kind that is dimly lit. I hate not being able to see 2 feet in front of me because I wonder if I am going the right direction. An example of that would be Superman at Magic Mountain.

My homepark SFAW never had any lines that were too long until the Texas Tornado had opened in 1998. There was no shade whatsoever in the unbearable humidity and high temperatures, which made it feel like you could cut the air with a knife, and had plenty of back-and-forth movements to it. I believe I waited 3 hours the first season it was open. 2 hours of regular loading/unloading, and then it broke down. It was another hour before I was finally on.

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I hate stations with mazes in them. Even worse when the wait outside the station is long and/or you can't see the lines inside the station.

Flight of Fear @ PKI, all tho a nice looking indoor queue, and a cool break from the heat, when the waits are long, that whole video, the lighting effects, and people screaming when the lights go out gets very annoying after the first couple times.

Also Top Gun @ PKI, if the walk up and down the stairs don't get you, hearing the same song play over crapy speakers during a long wait will.
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definitely Viper at SFGAm. you slowly move through the line all the way up to the station. Once you're at the entrance to the station you say to yourself 'wow that wasn't so bad'-Boy were you wrong. You pack into the station, and stand around for another 30 minutes with barely enough room to breathe. Then, to top it off, it's a 5 minute hike from the station back to the main paths (forcing you to go through a gift shop, of course).

No line annoys me more than that one.
*** This post was edited by Kaldaim 8/18/2003 10:33:44 PM ***

Maybe i have been lucky but SFGAM has been stopping the line for Viper before you get to the station and limiting the amount of people in tghe station on alot of days i have been in the park.
That has made the station very good,escpecially when their is a nice breeze!!

Not yesterday... I forgot to add that to my list.

5. queue lines that empty into stations that accomodate way too many people.

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wahoo skipper said:
You don't pay more for Fast Pass if you are referring to WDW or DL. Those are available to everyone who enters the park. Other parks do charge for front-of-the-line priviledges.

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Apologies - I meant to refer to the system in place at select SF parks (Fast Lane?). See, I hate it so much, I can't even get the name right. I did want to draw a distinction between the pay-to-cut systems, and the egalitarian systems in place at Disney parks.

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I cant stand the second part of Batman. The "bad" Gotham City. I get really tired of the police car, going back and forth, all all the gum on the floor.

Alos, when I got my first and only ride on Deja Vu a few weeks ago, I only waited 15 min. since it opened only about 10 min. earlier. Put the same amount of people in that line in Raging Bull's line and you got a wait less than 5 min. But when its full, its looks HORRIBLE. Endless switchbacks that move so slow, and nothing to look at or watch, except the ride eevry 6 min.

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*** This post was edited by SFGAMan 8/19/2003 12:48:31 AM ***

Any queue at SFWOA past experience the queues seem to move so slow.

PR at KW when they are running one train, even though I don't think I ever waited longer than 45 min.

MF, Raptor, Magnum, becuase they play the absolute worst music ever recorded which can drive one insane. Also with Raptor they pack way to many people in the station queues.

TTD because when its working the line seems to move at a decent pace but with multiple break downs you can damn near bring a tent and camp out.

WT the queue seems like a prison line when its wraping around to the beach side with the high fence.

I also hate any queue that has hidden parts, you know you walk up and think hmm don't look to bad then you take a few turns and the line seems 3 times longer and seems to drag on for ever.

But the absolute worst queue I have ever waited in was X-Flight at WOA, first off its moves so slow, and well last time I rode it last summer it was also the dirtiest queue I had ever walked through, looked like a concert or movie theater after a big show, garbage everwhere but in the garbage cans.

I honestly hate all queues though especially when you get caught in the middle of a certain type of class of people, you have the drunks, the sweaty one's who haven't bathed for months, you have the foul mouthed morons( they come in all forms) you have the genious thats telling the coaster's facts and is 100% wrong (for me thats the worst, I hate misquoted facts about anything period, I have no patience for idiots), then there are the line jumpers, you tend to run into a few here and there. I guess I just hate people in general and being around people, that's why I only venture out of my yard once or twice a week.

First off, I hate any line where the ride is in one train operation. Two-train operation where three is possible, and the line is over a half-hour is also very annoying to me.

At SFMM, Scream and Goliath both have stairs leading up to their stations, and the line only takes up half of the stairs (little more on Scream). When I was there, you had your occasional idiot that would say: "Hey, why isn't that line being used." Then him and his entire family would file past the rest of the line and into the station without anyone saying a word. That made those lines much worse.

Also at SFMM, Riddler packs WAY to many people into its station, and just filing into a row can take awhile.

All the Deja-Vus have unbareable queues, especially with a slow crew.

I really don't like lines where there are no attendants and no signs to tell you how long the lines are. I encountered this at both KBF and SFMM. As a first time visitor, I have no idea how long a half-full queue on Jaguar or Goliath could be.

As mentioned by others, I hate any line where a large amount of people cut in front of me via a fastpass-like system. IOA's system has a greater affect on overall capacity than most systems I've seen. With hotel guests (unlimited passes), free passes from machines, and the booklets sold at the ticket booth all being used to bypass the general line, lines tend to move much slower now than they did before Express pass was put into place. Of course, that doesn't stop me from buying the booklet and getting as many passes from the machines as I can.

To me, Mantis at CP is definitely the worst. I always find it to be unbearably hot and extremely slow moving. The only positive is the fact that it gives an amazing view of the coaster while you are waiting.

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The Boss at SFStL has a very long line. You walk forever to get to the ride. There is no shade and you are on a long bridge (over the go karts) that continuously goes uphill. Add MO heat and humidity and you are in for a painful wait if the line is very long.

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Any line at MiA has to be the worst - no shade, slow loading and local yocals that think that the coasters that I am queuing for are the "best in the world." I tend to think my one visit to MiA will probably be my last unless they do something about the shade problem.

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I hate spiderman's (Ioa) line. Its a whole bunch zigs outside, then you get inside only to travel 8,000 miles to the ride. But the really cool thing is, i didnt have to wait because we were the first ones on after it broke down. but i got annoyed just walking to it, i hope i never have to wait for it!

Josh

B:TR at SFoT. All the switchbacks inside make the wait long, but what is really the killer is that the line can extend over an hour beyond the inside queues allowing you to bake in the 100 degree plus heat. Then there is that lovely sewer pipe leading from the outside to the inside which is not ACed and the exhaust fans have broken. It is basically a big piece of galvanized steel collecting and trapping heat in order to test its occupants endurance in a 140 degree heat chamber.

As a matter of fact, not too many of the lines at SFoT can be considered friendly when you add in the heat, but I have to give them credit for the misters at Titan and placing the TG line under the coaster to create shade. The lines are always so long at SFoT that I usually go to SFFT so that I can ride more than 3-4 coasters in a day.

I'll throw in another vote for Scream!'s queue at SFMM. The majority of the queue isn't so bad (if rather boring), but the station is so badly designed it's ridiculous. The front-row queue is far too short and interferes heavily with the first 3 or 4 rows as well. It makes it so even people who want to ride other rows feel like they're cutting because they have to walk past all the people waiting for the front row. Between that and not having any staff members telling people that they can, in fact, go to other rows, but instead yelling at people that they're only going to send empty trains until all the rows have people in them, it's just an irritating and horribly run scene. I was sitting in line trying to help people figure out the queue, something that I shouldn't have to do as a non-employee of the park.

They should take a cue from Xcelerator's queue...the front row line starts *WAY* back in the queue, so they don't interfere with the rest of the operation in any way.

I have to say (once again) that BTR@SFOG has the worst line. I was there 2 weeks ago, and the line made up our minds to get the Q-Bot.

Shaggszgn JUST might be the winner. I forgot about PKI's FoF entirely. The screaming when the lights go off make it heads and shoulders worse than any other queue (air conditioning or NOT). I was ready to start punching kids, and that's no way to feel at an amusement park. :(

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Homey G. said:
I was ready to start punching kids, and that's no way to feel at an amusement park. :(

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You're gonna drop below 50% if you start punching people, Brian....;) Polls don't lie....
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I hate the line for security trying to get into SFGAm in the morning....