Ride you have queued up for the longest is?

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SmilerLover wrote:I think mine might be the longest. I queued for 4 hours for Rita, and then after 4 hours, Rita broke down. I didn't even get to go on. If it hadn't broken down I probably would have queued for another hour. As I say, I think mine might be the longest.
Did you get some form of money back on your day there?
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Yeah. I got 6 fast track passes for it.
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About 45mins for TH13TEEN and Charlie. Something like that too for ice age.
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2 hours for the smiler and 2.5 for air in 2012. A bubbly 30 mins my butt. I did enjoy it as it was my first thrill coaster. I remember it breaking and having 1 hour testing, greAt for a young thrill seeker.
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At Towers? Can't remember.

Outside of Towers? 3 hours for Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts. I usually buy fastpasses at parks but Universal Express was like £100pp.
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I honestly think I queued for up to two hours to ride Hex. Two hours of my life I never got back and to this day still hate Hex for the huge queues when it first opened and AT for keeping the ride a secret. The disappointment of the ride being dreadful didn't help matters. ](*,)
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The chained oak will get its revenge on you... :lol just joking, it's your opinion but I wouldn't queue more than ten minutes for any flat at alton again, 30 minutes for hex was bad though.
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Can't remember the exact time but it did feel like an age when queueing for Hex when it first opened. Though to be fair I found the videos and suspense of the secret very interesting when I was younger so didn't feel as bad as some other rides.
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the swarm at TP waited 4 hours on a bank holiday weekend and broke down on the lifthill 3 times ](*,) :no:
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Rita- 45mins
IN SINGLE RIDER QUEUE!
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2 hours for The Smiler when it broke and a similar time for Goliath (the SF great America one) soon after opening day
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The flume was about 50 and I waited for thi3teen for around 60-65
In the SRQ for Air I waited 35 min as they only let 5 people at a time but 2nd time on i skipped another 10 min as the family in front wanted to go down together :)
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30 minutes for CaTCF, then broke down for around 20 minutes.
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Nemesis 3 hrs 30 min
Rapids 3 hrs
Haunted house 2 hrs 15 min
Smiler 2 hrs

All on weekends or ride openings. I actually requed for nemmy after! Mind blowing ride
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Between 2 and 3 hours for the Haunted House when it was new. The queue came way out of the graveyard.
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:yikes:
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I've got a new one after today. Nearly 3 hours for The Smiler, it was advertised 90 mins but it was more than that, then it decided to brake down twice when we were about to get on.
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At Towers, it would be Rita, at 45 minutes.
At Thorpe Park, Colossus, at 150 minutes (times board claimed it was 90 before I unknowingly entered the queue... I was alone, without my phone or anything. Worst 150 minutes of my life.).
And as for Chessington, it's Vampire, at 120 minutes (times board claimed it was 45- a girl working at Bubbleworks later admitted to us that it she had forgotten to give it a much needed update).
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I waited 2 hours for blivvy at peak when it broke down
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Mine was smiler, I waited 2 hrs and 10 mins. But second must be rita, waited 45 mins =P~
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