Ride lines

[SheiKra13]

What are the longest lines you've ever waited in? What are the shortest you've waited in? At both six flags and other parks.

Longest:Raging Bull front row 2 hours, not advisable.

Shortest:American Eagle red:walk on, triple ride, Splash water falls, i think 15 times. i chose to get of Eagle.

[rcoaster]

Longest: Dragster Six Hours (Don't ask why)
Shortest: All rides at great america except SUF and Millenium Force.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Deja Vu for maybe 2 hours or more, way back in the day.

Shortest, all coasters at SFGAm. Indiana Beach. Geauga Lake, had walk ons on Dominator almost every time I rode it. A few walk ons at Cedar Point too, and SFSTL.

[tp41190]

Longest: 3 hours for Raging Bull opening year on a Saturday. And only two trains.

Shortest: Walk ons for everything.

[Millennium Force 2000]

Longest: X at a little over 3 hours. Deja Vu at Six Flags Over Georgia comes in second, at 2 and a half hours.

Shortest: I've gotten quite a few walk-ons on different coasters over the years, but the shortest line I've had for a really major ride is 6 minutes for X (front row) at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

[rcoaster]

Seems like I have the longest waiting-in-line record for now!

[SheiKra13]

I cant believe you waited that long for Dragster. Definatly not worth it.

[rcoaster]

I know, but my cousins had to go on it and we had some week pass of somthing, and it was when it opened, so we went in like at 12 and got at round 6, so yeah i agree, its NOT worth it.

[Danhockey04]

Longest: Hmm...Never been over 2 hours, probably 79 minutes for Soarin' or 70 minutes for Bull. There was a time we waited for TTD for 35 minutes to get in the station, but broke and reopened a few hours later, but we didnt actually wait through the line.

Shortest: Walk-on for all SFGAm rides, rides at IB, Soarin', Test Track, ToT, RnR, Everest, Kraken; probably almost half the rides I rode, I have walked on.

[SheiKra13]

/\ you've been on kraken, how is it. I'm just asking because I'm going to sea world in october.

[rcoaster]

My second longest was a really long line on batman. I think it was when they first installed those extra switchbacks that go all the way to Mardi Gras. That was terrible.

[tp41190]

Did you go in the third entrance?

I have always wanted to go in the third entrance for fun. I think that you could get some cool pictures from the path.

[FParker185]

Longest: Deja Vu at SFOG around 3 hours. After that longest I've waited for anything was probably an hour to 1.5 or so. Longest I've waited for TTD was probably 20 mins

Shortest, probably at least 100 different walk on coasters, or any sort of ERT get on and stay on sort of thing, like Hoosier last Sat, didnt get off for a solid hour.

[SteveRestless]

Longest? I dunno. I've long since forgotten it. Was probably either Raging Bull, Batman or Shockwave.

Shortest, I once walked straight onto Shockwave and rode it 11 times in a row.

[rcoaster]

How big where the Shockwave lines back in the day, and how long did it last until they were all walk-ons?

[Danhockey04]

Kraken is a good ride, row 5 is my favorite row. I have an annual pass to swo and going there in a couple weeks. However you should still ride front row.

[SteveRestless]

How big where the Shockwave lines back in the day, and how long did it last until they were all walk-ons?

Well, they could get somewhat long. from the start of the queue, till you were on the car was about an hour, maybe a little more. I'd seen it far outside the queue area on a busy day more than once. It used to be my ritual to rush straight to shockwave, to be on the first car in the front, first ride of the day.

On that day that I managed 11 rides, oh that had to be about 8 years ago, I was there with some other people from the theater I worked at, at the time. It was in the middle of the week and my friend Scott and I were some of the only people riding it. we rode pretty much continuously, only switching positions when people wanted the row we were in.

We stopped after 11, cause I started to black out in some of the sections. I suspect I'd been holding my breath a lot. If I'd figured that out then, I'dve probably pushed for 13 rides.

[rcoaster]

^^ Yeah thats fun, I never blacked out when I was smaller on Shockwave, but recently I "gray-out" (thats what they call it) on batman on the bottom portion of the end of the vertical loops.

[Trailblazer Tony]

Longest: 5 and half hours for Millennium Force back in opening year and next to that would be 2 and a half hours for Raging Bull during fright fest two years back (that day they put that crowded sign out in the lot). Other than that, never more than two hours.

Shortest: Any rerides I would consider the shortest That would be buyouts at Six Flags or Indiana Beach during a weekday.

[FParker185]

after probably about 96 or so Shockwave's line after 3pm on any given day was walk on sometimes to the point where before closing it was down to one train op and still walk on exept for the front row.

[rcoaster]

Wow... one train op, thats a lot of work and running around, but now I see why it was closed for S:UF as a second decision.

[Bob O]

The longest wait I ever had at SFGAM was a little over 2 hours for RB the year it opened, and while I love the ride now, after that long of a wait I didnt enjoy the ride that time.

Shockwave was always a good ride to end the day at the park, I would hit that ride around 930pm and would ride it till the park closed without having to get off as there were rarely any lines at closing time.

[tp41190]

The longest I ever waited for Shockwave was 20 mins...and if I recall, the line was at the top of the stairs on that one bridge. At least I think it was some sort of bridge or walk way of some sort.

But I remember when they closed it for good without any notice. Everyone was all riding and taking pictures of Whizzer thinking it was going to go. Then when Shockwave closed, I think I remember some people in ACE shirts crying...as well as myself

[SheiKra13]

i never rode shockwave. I was to short at the time.

[rcoaster]

I think that it was still a great ride!