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2 hours for Th13teen, April 2010. Queues were pretty decent all day and I got a few goes on it, but then I decided to go on it last and it started having issues...
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About an hour for The Smiler - was at 9 am and was one of the first trains round. Bothered waiting for more than that throughout the day when everything else is deserted
I went to OBLIVION and back, faced my own NEMESIS and it's origin. I flew through the AIR, I played with SONIC but was cursed with a HEX from the number THIRTEEN. I was the QUEEN OF SPEED but most of all I was a SMILER
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Rita the day the Smiler was meant to open in march! Queued about an hour and needed the toilet the whole way round :evil:
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I am jealous of all the people who say their longest is 30 mins. I don't mind waiting that as for me that's alright :evil:
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Ok lol, didn't expect this many people to reply as I normally start poop topics lol :)
Ok then...OTHER than The Smiler lol!
Any flats at AT? Like Submission or Enterprise?
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3hr 36mins 56 seconds The Smiler at Scarefest. (Yes I did actually time it and then wrote it down)
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2 hours in the rain for the smiler. Worth it tho.

After that it's probably 90 minutes for RITA, and close to that for Nemesis back in the 90s (like Martin I remember using the full queue line)
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2 and a half hours for the The Smiler.
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4 hours for The Smiler on opening day to be on the first train from 8am til we got let on at  around 12:00pm
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110 minutes for Spinball, having been told it was a mere 45
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TheSmilerMan wrote: 4 hours for The Smiler on opening day to be on the first train from 8am til we got let on at  around 12:00pm
how do you do 4 hrs when they opened the turnstyles at 9? you cant count 1 hr  :D
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Balb0wa wrote:
TheSmilerMan wrote: 4 hours for The Smiler on opening day to be on the first train from 8am til we got let on at  around 12:00pm
how do you do 4 hrs when they opened the turnstyles at 9? you cant count 1 hr  :D
My dear friend I was queued up outside the gate for an hour I count that as a queue whether u don't or not I waited and queued for 4 hours
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2.5 Hours for Th13teen when it was new, and the ride was having technical problems! Grahhh!
Longest Queue I have ever waited for though is Se7en (Thorpe Park), Furius Baco (Port Aventura) and Thunder Mountain (Disneyland Paris)...All of which were around 3 Hours.
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2 hours for air-.-
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Lottie. wrote: 2 and a half hours for the The Smiler.
Me too and I will never queue more than 1 hour for the ride again. as much as I hate to say it, I'd rather Fast Track or miss the ride out altogether as that queue for the Smiler is so painful when you see a steady stream of people with Fast Track tickets moving in and you never seem to move any closer.
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Smiler! 3 hours  :shock: was worth it but oh god that music!
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Never queued more than 20 minutes.

Visit once a year (ish) and always make sure I go on a random Tuesday which isn't on or around school holidays in either Scotland or England.

On the day I go I actually will it to be raining.

Rain I can handle, queues I cannot.
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4 Hours for Oblivion back in 2004 (i think), Sky gave away free tickets to most of their customers, never seen the park so busy.
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Probably the Smiler, I think it was nearly 2 hours? Something like that, but it kept breaking down  :(
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Three and Half hours for Air back in '03
As much as I loved it.. it really wasn't that worth it
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