Queues - CoasterBuzz

The queue line for The Beast is built pretty long. While seldom in use, they have three areas of back and forth queue lines. I`ve only seen all of them open once, and that was the final day of the season a couple years ago when they made it gold pass bring a friend free day. I think it was in 2001. The line was about an hour and a half, due in part because they only had two trains on. Before they redid the exit, I heard that there was even a fourth set of back and forth queues.

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And I remember the days of when we had to go through of all of those queue lines for The Beast. I thought I would never get up there and ride it.

I agree with Mantis Man about Maggie's queue...it's nice knowing I don't have to wait long to get my favorit 1-2 seat.

the queues I disliked the most were at PKI, though. Not having ANY clue how long the line was with SOB, Beast, Top Gun and the water ride way in the back. We walked what seemed like a relatively long distance to get to the log ride (don't really know because we didn't GET to it) only to find out from "regulars" that the end of the line was actually more than an hour wait. Fergit THAT! I want at least a GENERAL idea how long the wait is before I get into line.

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rentzy17 said:
The queue for S:ROS at SFDL is pretty bad though. I assume it's the same as the one at SFA. Another bad queue would have to be Viper at SFGAdv. It's SO long.

The S:ROS queues are not the same.

Viper's queue isn't terribly long at all, I felt. In fact, it was shortened considerably with the addition of Rodeo Stampede, the park's neutered Huss Breakdance.

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Sign seen on "the neutered breakdance", Rodeo Stampede....2 riders per cow, please! One of the best signs I've seen, very clever...
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The thing that I find most annoying about Riddler's station is that the lines for rows are completely uneven, and yet no body seems to notice. This leaves the line for row two almost 3 times as long as the line for the back. Good if you like the back, bad if you like the front.

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ApolloAndy beat me to it, about Riddler's uneven row lengths, NO reason for that at all. Another thing that stinks about Riddler's queue, there is a split for front or back rows at the bottom of the stairs, but at the top of the stairs, there is no barrier to keep them separate. Everyone just goes to whatever row anyway.

How about Roadrunner Express at SFFT? That queue is so frikki'n long, it's unbeleivable. Has that EVER been full? Same with Rattler, that LONG set of back & forth ramps, it takes forever to walk up those when they are empty. Have they ever heard of stairs? (yeah, I know, the exit ramp is stairs)

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*** This post was edited by Soggy 10/21/2003 4:48:58 PM ***

Riddler's queue does make me question SFMM's design department. Why is it that there is a split at the bottom of the stairs yet you can still chose any row when you get to the top of the stairs?

My favorite designed queue at SFMM has to be Viper. 3 lines from the start of the queue house all the way upstairs. One thing that could help people not familiar with the ride would be signs saying back, middle, front for those not familiar with the ride. I think the design of the queue makes it so the line seems to constantly move.

I also like what they did with the X queue. I think they could have done something different with the split point, but its still ok. Its funny how the wait still gets to be so long even with the switchbacks closed.

I think the worst one has to be Superman: The Escape. You are either outside in the heat or inside in the heat. Back when it first opened they had the nice ice cold air on with the fog and the lights down low. Now you get none of that. Most of the time they have to leave the emergency exit door open to let some air in the place. Also they have stopped having a person regulate how many people they let into the building at a time.

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ApolloAndy said:
I don't understand why all stations aren't designed like S:RoS SFNE's. I think it's pretty much the perfect station (although I don't think 1:2 should be in the devoted "front row" line). The entrance is in the middle of the train. There're roomy devoted queues for first car and last car which can be judged from the split. I guess if the exit were closer to the middle of the train rather than the front, and didn't have that silly gate in the way, clearing out the unload platform would be a lot easier, but now I'm just getting greedy. This actually does lead to the fact that (when I was there last, this spring) the op has to hold the airgates for quite a while after the passengers are out of their seats, presumably to prevent poaching.

Yes, I love S:RoS' station. Everybody presume that the line is only for the front so I just walk down the line; "You waiting for the front, you waiting for the front?" All nods yes and I hop in 1:2 in no time. :)

I also like how part of the queue shapes out the Superman logo.

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I never even noticed the queue in the shape of the Superman logo until this year.

I love the station/queue for that ride. It's amazing. The back is like the front. If you go to get the back seat, you're actually headed to the back TWO rows.

1:2 is definitely the most bang for your buck in that station.

BTW, you didn't really need to quote the post to make your point.

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*** This post was edited by ApolloAndy 10/21/2003 9:41:35 PM ***

The best queue is GASM at SFGA. It's never full!

I was going to say GASM's queue was never full for good reason...then I saw your name and it all became crystal clear...

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haha, that was true for last year, But Superman changed that!

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What does it matter if I quote or not?

How 'bout I tell you you shouldn't put your reply inside the same Horizontal Rule as the quote you're replying to?

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BATWING FAN SFA said:
Perhaps I'll just say that Diablo falls has got one of the worst flat ride queues I've ever seen,since Penguin's blizzard river & Diablo falls are one in the same I'd assume their queue's are the same as well.

I doubt their queues are the same, as SF uses Tornado's old queue, which is quite a weird design itself.

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Dude. Don't take it personally. There's just no need for a large paragraph worth of quoting when you're basically saying, "Me too." The post would work equally well if you didn't quote.

What does it matter? That's more bandwidth that Jeff has to pay for, and it's against the TOS.

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Ok, this is pretty bad: http://www.sfmwzone.com/Coasters/Zonga/Zonga15.jpg

In fact, on empty days it is HORRIBLE to spend a few minutes walking throught the cattle gates, and on busy days it is horrible because you feel like, well, cattle. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

I'd like to mention that Marine World designs their own queue lines and they havn't mastered the art quite yet, although I thought they were getting close with V2...
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Yikes... that's like looking at an Escher drawing.

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Zonga's queue is terrible. Add the fact that they took a car off and that I only ever saw it at 1 or 0 train operation (in 6 visits) and that the ride was butchered (well, I was never an Anton fan in the first place <ducks>) and the queue becomes pretty much unbearable.

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