As one of Discoveryland's or the Park's most busiest attractions it needs Fastpass (in my opinion)
I have only been on the ride once because of long queues stretching out to the Discoveryland paths. I was at DLRP last weekend and the park was bunged with people and I just walked straight passed it because I knew I was not going to get anywhere with it. In my opinion I think the ride needs some sort of system like Fastpass or opened to guests in Magical Hours.
By the way the ride is good.....queue terrible!
ALSO CRUSH'S COASTER!!! :shock: :shock:
Fastpass is not the answer to shortening queues, it makes them longer.
Autopia is an expensive ride to run so they are only at 100% during busy periods.
Disney knew what they were doing when they bought Crush, surely someone would have told them that its a terrible ride for throughput.
Ok scrap fastpass but any solutions
What you need is to go with someone who wants to ride Autopia but does not want to ride Space Mountain.. :wink: They stand at the entrance of Autopia from say 9.25am, while you on the other hand ride Space Mountain standing in a slight clue. You then walk out of Space Mountain straight to the front of the Autopia Queue where your other half or friend will be waiting, with usually 15 minutes or less to spare before the actual opening at 10.00am.. :mrgreen:
I know this solution works because I did it.. :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
But if you are on your own....Well scrap it :!: :lol:
I didn't bother to ride it the last time I went mainly because the year before I waited for nearly an hour to ride the damned thing and I found it very slow and sluggish.
Plus it started raining just after turning the first corner!
just go during the extra magic hours and around 9 35 go wait in front of the door i did this and was the first one in even though the ride is a disaster you vcan do this for any other attraction
you can also wait infront of the door of the walt disney studios before they open but be careful they open at 9:30 as soon as the door opens be prepared to have at least one of the people in your partie run to the wanted ride althought you wil have to wait in front of the ride's door 20 minutes but it shoiuld help becausxe there are always some characters inside when it oppens usually donald and daisy so lots of people will stop to see them
i hate the queue for autopia but at wdw it way worse i once remember waiting 270 minutes for autopia
What they need is a faster way of getting the tourists in and out of the cars. There always seems to be a bottleneck when you come round the last bend.
I have thought about this alot and I do have a solution. It would speed the unloading by a factor of 10, and if themed properlly could add to the whole futuristic styling of the ride. Are you ready ?
For any visitor that takes longer than 5seconds to vacate the car...[spoiler:3gtcntlz]Cattle Prod :shock:[/spoiler:3gtcntlz]
Is this actually a good ride? or is it just good for the little guys? I never bother with it when am there but you got me interested now haha :D
I personally think it is good, it is just that darn queue! I also think more themeing should be added but I will not go off topic with that. ;)
Quote from: "CentralPlazaPerson"As one of Discoveryland's or the Park's most busiest attractions it needs Fastpass (in my opinion)
I have only been on the ride once because of long queues stretching out to the Discoveryland paths. I was at DLRP last weekend and the park was bunged with people and I just walked straight passed it because I knew I was not going to get anywhere with it. In my opinion I think the ride needs some sort of system like Fastpass or opened to guests in Magical Hours.
By the way the ride is good.....queue terrible!
ALSO CRUSH'S COASTER!!! :shock: :shock:
I have been the same, haven't done this ride since I first did it in 2006! :o :shock:
The queue is shocking for it! I hope to do it when I go in September but I don't know if the queue is worth it really.
:?
i went on autopia about 2-3pm last week with no more than 20 min, queues only seem to get longer in the evening
Quote from: "Javey74"What you need is to go with someone who wants to ride Autopia but does not want to ride Space Mountain.. :wink: They stand at the entrance of Autopia from say 9.25am, while you on the other hand ride Space Mountain standing in a slight clue. You then walk out of Space Mountain straight to the front of the Autopia Queue where your other half or friend will be waiting, with usually 15 minutes or less to spare before the actual opening at 10.00am.. :mrgreen:
No offense intended but dont try this stunt in front of me, If I can be bothered to wait in the que so can you, cant believe you are encouraging people to que jump which is basically what you are doing.
its not queue jumping as someone is already there, if someone went to the loo and came back and joined the other person thats not their fault, you may not have noticed them there before :) its also similar to babyswap - where you see one person but two people can ride. On the plus side if someone is queueing and then uses one of the 'chicken' exits thats always a bonus :)
Exactly, it's not queue jumping, you're just re-joining the queue that someone you are with is in. You wouldn't like to have to queue again if you were with someone but had to leave the queue for one reason or another.
Actually, it does count as queue jumping. I was near the front of the Cars queue once when a group of about 15 people joined the person at the front of the queue! I had to wait for an extra ride cycle. :evil:
If the whole queue did this then the displayed queue time would be completely wrong.
But there is a difference between 15 people and 1 person. How i see it if one person does it it's fine, any more than 3 or 4 and it's a bit abusing the system.
but they dont, but like you said thats a bit naughty, 15 is rudeness. I felt awful joining someone in the queue for another ride as I was queueing then left due to a call of nature and then returned and got really bad looks from people. I didnt really care too much though as its unlikely I will see any of them again and Im so sorry if they had to wait a whole extra 30 seconds to go on the ride. People really do get angry about some things when really its not that bad. :D
It's not fair on the other guests. They've been queuing for ages and then have see someone skipping past everybody. Just imagine if everyone did that.
thats true sometimes, but you might not know the whole reason they are going past you, they may have had a child that they needed to attend to, the may have needed the loo, the may have some medical condition which means they cant stand for long periods, you shouldn't always think the worst - but like i said having those 15 people go past isnt in the spirit of things, but karma will get them, thats how I see it. Nasty people always get whats coming to them, not straight away but they do :D :D
They should get fastpasses or make the ride shorter or the cars faster
Quote from: "smurfy74"thats true sometimes, but you might not know the whole reason they are going past you, they may have had a child that they needed to attend to, the may have needed the loo, the may have some medical condition which means they cant stand for long periods, you shouldn't always think the worst - but like i said having those 15 people go past isnt in the spirit of things, but karma will get them, thats how I see it. Nasty people always get whats coming to them, not straight away but they do :D :D
If someone has a medical condition like that they shouldn't standing in the queue anyway, they should be using disabled access. If someone needs to attend to a child, then they shouldn't have left that child in the first place. And if someone needs the loo... well that's just tough.
If there is a valid reason for queue jumping (and I'm sure there are a few), a Cast Member should always be notified.
Sometimes people are too proud to use disables facilities, and say I had my kids medicine in my bag which they needed to take and I had left them with their grandparents to look after as I queued for an hour for a ride and then I realised so I had to nip back to give it to them, all I mean to say is dont judge people as you dont always know the whole story things arent always black and white. People get too angry about things in this day and age and that causes many undesirable actions from people, ( just realised i sound a bit like a hippy :D )
I totally agree with RnRCj is saying.
If you leave the line for any reason you should re-join it at the end. Once you leave your place in the line you can't get it back.
There is no such thing as saving a place for someone. If they want to ride, they also have to queue.
Anyone who is found queue jumping should be thrown out of the park.
well willow and walts heir I hope you never forget anything, need the loo, feel ill, or need anything or have anything happen in a queue for upto 2 hours, if you do then enjoy your place at the end of the line, im with Javey on this one. Like rnrcj said all you need to do is let a CM know, but you might not see that so dont judge. :)
I have had to leave a queue at Theme Parks in the past, and I re-joined at the end of the queue.
I had no problem with that, I would never go back to my place in the line. I lost my place in the line when I left it.
Its not anything personally against you or anyone, its just my view in general.
Mayb they should let you leave only if you have a reaseon
Being bored and wanting to do another rid is not a valid one
Quote from: "-breeno-"Exactly, it's not queue jumping, you're just re-joining the queue that someone you are with is in. You wouldn't like to have to queue again if you were with someone but had to leave the queue for one reason or another.
How can you be re-joining a que that you were never in?
No offense but if i was in a queue with my friend and my child, and my daughter needed the toilet and i knew the queue wasnt going to be moving very fast i would take her toilet and then rejoin my friend in the queue. If the queue was a fast moving one i would just rejoin the end of the line.
I'm not exactly going to wait in the queue and let my child wet themselves just because i might get accused of queue jumping.
BTW Autopia is so overated lol.
Problem: Long queueing times
Solution: Open all 4 lanes.
Problem: Costs too much
Solution:New cars
Huh? Well, this is supposed to be a retro 50's look at the future? Well, the future is hybrid synergie drives, and electric cars. So why not get Ford to design a new fleet of cars that are eco-friendly and extemely cheap to run, they are the sponsors after all.
Ford get to show off the new cars to the press i.e. free publicity (and more effective than any advert). Disney get to cut the amount spent running all those lawnmower engines, and the guests get All 4 Lanes to drive on and less time waiting in queues when they could be in the gift shops.
It's a Win-Win-Win situations !!!!!!!!!
Im with Willow on this... If anyone tries to pass me and uses the excuse there friends are at the front I tell them to call there friends back to where they are now.. Its nothing more than queue jumping
Little mermaid, thats slightly different as I would have seen you pass me... Im talking about people who just appear out of nowhere , usually called on the mobile by someone saving the spot..
went on the ride october. 50min wait, and found it boring and was biggest waste of time ever
What were you expecting to happen?
Even if you don't like it, I think it is one of the best rides for children at DLRP.
Went on this in June with my 2 kids aged 5 and 3. It was the lowest point of the trip really. The queue was horrendous.. boring, people smoking etc. Then the ride was fairly boring after about 2 minutes and finally as we reached the bottleneck at the end a teenager came shooting down behind us and slammed into the back of our car. I wasn't hurt at the time but have been getting episodes of whiplash over the last few months for which this can be the only explanation.
Terrible ride.