Ride you have queued up for the longest is?
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- daveclarkedaveclarke
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3 and half hours for the smiler
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Air 1 hour.
Th13teen opening weekend 4 hour
Nemesis 1 hour.
The Smiler. 5 minutes. Fastrack and in the queue before it opened
Rita 2 hours.
Nemesis Sub Terra 30 minutes.
Oblivion 10 minutes
Th13teen opening weekend 4 hour
Nemesis 1 hour.
The Smiler. 5 minutes. Fastrack and in the queue before it opened
Rita 2 hours.
Nemesis Sub Terra 30 minutes.
Oblivion 10 minutes
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- daboywunda
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Longest I've ever queued is Smiler at 2 hours 50 opening weekend... Running up the rear of that is Rita in 2005 at 2 hours 40...
And outside of that the next is 1 hour 40 for Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe this summer and Stealth for 1 hour 50
And outside of that the next is 1 hour 40 for Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe this summer and Stealth for 1 hour 50
I remember waiting in a 2 hour queue for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory on the opening day with my younger cousins... Not fun. I've never queued that long for The Smiler but I was in the queue for Nemesis for about three hours when it broke down last year.
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Mine is a tie between Th13teen and The Smiler! 2hrs 45mins! Th13teen was the worst queue though...
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- PeteB
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Air - 2003 - Fireworks Day in October. Waited 3.5 hours. We were so pissed off my ex was in tears.
Have never, and would never, wait that long for a ride ever again.
Have never, and would never, wait that long for a ride ever again.
Actually, the park had over 125+ attractions back in those days. Now it has only 60+ but the newer rides have higher capacities.jknelhams wrote: 4 hours for Nemesis, in 1998 (Oblivion was broken down, and lets face it there was sod all else back then!)
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Haven't been to AT for around 5 years but the last time I went me and my friend waited well over an hour to get on air, got right to the front of the queue and a ride car got stuck half way round, we thought we may as well wait for the problem to be resolved seeing as we had reached the front only to be told that we may as well leave the queue. Wasn't best pleased!
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40 minutes for Air. I budget my time when I go so I avoid queues and I hate queues. Always go when the park isn't busy too. Haven't queued more than 5 minutes for The Smiler yet.
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Mine was Rita, 2hr30mins on Scarefest 2012.
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3 1/2 hours for 13. Got in an hour early and went straight for the queue, so queued an hour then when the park opened 13 was having technical difficulties so queued another 30 mins (in which AT staff had said "oh it'll be about 10 mins more" twice) after the half an hour they said "don't know how long it will be" so I left the queue came back when it was working and queued another 2 hours. Kinda a let down but after going on it again when I only queued 30 mins I really enjoyed it.
I hated every minute of 13's queue because it twists and turns you cant really work out how long's left.
I hated every minute of 13's queue because it twists and turns you cant really work out how long's left.
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Where possible, try to work out how far you are from the baggage hand-in. It's 5-10mins max after that.stealthsmiler wrote: I hated every minute of 13's queue coz it twists and turns you cant really work out how longs left.
I've also found the queue predictions for 13 quite accurate, so checking the time on a watch or phone as you go in and looking at the estimated time length isn't bad.
For example, if you enter the queue, and it predicts an hour wait, and you see that the time is 1 o'clock, then ou know you'll be on about two, so it's easy to see how long you have left
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