In all of my years of going to Disneyland almost weekly, I have never seen a line for this ride go past the turnstile. Wow. WTH is going on? I guess people want to get out now, don’t blame them. LOL
I think people forget that a bunch of people put off or rescheduled already paid trips for nearly two years. People are finally taking those trips. Seeing how inflation and gas prices are reeking havoc right now I’m curious to see what the parks look like during another recession. Disney milking everyone for what they are worth will backfire in the coming year or two. If we have a recession watch attendance numbers drop.
We are at Walt Disney World and queues at all parks are phenomenal. Never known it this busy in all 6 previous visits, even in height of summer. Have bought Genie + but what a waste of money. Can only book one slot from 7am. By 9am most slots have gone so have to queue for up to 2 hours for rides with chdren. Not impressed. Disney World you need to do better than this.
The problem is that you have to make a park reservation.
In the past guests could choose freely which park they want to visit.
The flow during the day was constantly moving.
Now Disney has forced people into a scheduled vacation.
In the past it was up to the guest where and when to visit each park.
Now Disney knows how approximately much $$$ they will have going through the gates on any given day;because each park will be at full capacity!!!
100% agree with you. The park reservations is the cause of all this. Even in the busiest times of the year have I ever heard of or waited in lines like this. Does the CEO or that woman not see or care about the chaos they are creating? As much as I want to go back to Disney World I will not be until they get this stuff fixed.
Went to Disney world in February. We were there for 6 days and went on a TOTAL of 12 rides the entire time. 3 of the days, we went on 1 ride for the ENTIRE day. It was AWFUL! I have been a huge fan of Disney for my whole life. This one trip absolutely ruined Disneyworld for me. It was TERRIBLE! Now you have to get up at 7am to TRY to book a ride, after spending $15 per day per person. It is simply awful! I’m not sure I will EVER go back to Disneyworld. The worst experience ever!
It’s very interesting to look back at before the parks shut down for the pandemic, I can remember going to Magic Kingdom and any of the other 3 Disney World parks and the parking lots would be full and the parks very crowded,yet I can’t remember a time when I ever saw the ride ques spill into the park with people waiting. Supposedly now we have less attendance, an awful reservation system, and a new lighting lane system and every day these ride ques spill out into the park. It seems that when you mess with the parks ability to naturally move large amounts of people efficiently you get this current disaster. I agree, though, with the skyrocketing costs of everything, there will no doubt be a recession in the near future. I’d say in about 6-8 months the parks could look very different than how they do now in crowd levels. To go on these vacations now, people must be spending themselves into credit card oblivion. Only problem is, when credit limits can no longer be extended and it’s time to repay all that debt, people won’t be able to afford to go anywhere. This begins another recession. This one will hurt much worse than 2008-09 due to the enormous amounts of debt people have gained, and there won’t be the ability to lower interest rates to stimulate the economy, since they are already near zero and have to increase to help stop this runaway inflation. Interesting times are ahead. People who have saved money will be able to do quite a bit with much lower crowds.
Don’t forget many who were fired or temporarily sent home while the unemployment was raised to 3700 each per month.. if a couple already had healthy savings, this was almost another $8000 per month. I’m sure many took advantage to save up and are now spending that money. And a huge labor shortage because many people still don’t want to go back to work= HUGE crowds.
Wad there last week and was amazed at crowded the parks were. We used Genie+ as much as possible and still didn’t get to do everything we wanted. I can’t imagine being there with younger children. Many people we saw said they go every year and it was the worst crowds they have ever seen.
I think you’ve hit on something. Plus, the entertainers or performers are not all back. When my family went to Disneyland last week, it was packed! Long lines in every attraction. I think what also made it worse was that there weren’t any shows nor parades. There were the Dapper Dan’s and the Disney drum line, but that was it.That draws people and can help mitigate the long lines.
Yet just another reason why to not waste your money at Disneyland. Overcrowded, woke culture park full of rude idiots. I’ll spend my hard earned money elsewhere
And there goes the first moron to bring “woke” into a conversation that has nothing to to with it. Funny thing is that it’s always you people who bring it up. No one else wants to hear about it. We’re all just going to the parks to get on rides and eat good food. But thats alright, I hope you DO keep your word and stay away.
It seams to be way more crowded now with reservation system than before covid. I thought the whole point was to have less crowds and limit capacity? This looks like a unorganized theme park. Who would want to be there with all this going on? It’s not fun to wait in line for 120 minutes just to get on a ride. I have a ticket to go and I don’t want to with all this going on. Doesn’t seem like a good time to me and waste money on hotel, food, gas, airlines tickets
I was there the first week of spring break. The problem was less capacity and more of several large capacity rides, pirates being one, were closed. That and attractions were constantly breaking down. I rode cars, and broke down on the first curve, just before entering Luigis and mid race. All in the same ride. 1 hour sitting in that hard plastic seat. So lack of proper maintenance and several attractions being shuttered equals extremely long lines.
Just returned from WDW and the queues for all rides were very long.
To my mind the reason for this is simple. People will not pay $15 a day to use the lightning lanes so they are queueing to use the standby lanes.
Absolutely nothing magical about the Magic Kingdom even in February, more than a month ago before spring break. Park horribly overcrowded, dirty bathrooms dirty restaurants ridiculous wait times and genie lightning Lane does not work properly. Even the seven-year-old twins said they don’t want to go back again ever. You better wise up Disney.
Was there last week, our first time to Disneyland and California Adventure Park. We used Genie + and even with the park at full capacity we never waited more than 30 mins for a ride (we did see queues for 120 mins+ tho). I honestly was more annoyed with the crowds at the San Diego Zoo!
Disney is not worth the money especially with them charging you for everything but the oxygen you breathe and the sun rays you absorb. Evil evil company!
I was there last week in Disneyland & it was crowded. I do think Genie Plus has alot to do with lines as well. I rode Monsters Inc ride which is never a wait maybe 5 minutes & I waited 45 minutes. I also think Disneyland was pretty close to full capacity even tho they say it will never be full capacity again just a reminder this is my opinion
I’ve been to Disneyland when it was at full capacity and was turning people away at the gates and it didn’t look like this at all. We have a trip to WDW in a few weeks and now I’m kind of dreading it because of all the reporting of crowds. I’m honestly worried we will spend more time just standing around in lines or constantly checking phones for shorter ques as opposed to actually enjoying anything?
I usually go around Mother’s day. It isn’t really too hot plus the flowers are amazing! I would rather spend a few hours in line than be at work! Another time to go was New Year’s Eve! I didn’t go to Pleasure Island. I went to the Rainforest Cafe! It was awhile ago. But, I went with the perfect friend. She wasn’t into partying and picking up strangers. Do not go when it’s Spring Break!
I will always love WDW. I’ve been fortunate to have my accommodations upgraded! I was stunned. I thought that someone was playing a trick on me. Until they sent me my new itinerary. It felt like I had hit the lottery!
Even since the addition of the Genie+ the lines have been ridiculous. When they opened with the reservation system with no free fast pass and no Genie+ the lines went along like normal. Now with Genie+, anyone in standby be prepared to wait 2-3 times longer than the listed time. They will take 30-40 in the lightening lane to the 2-4 in the stand by. This is causing people to go to other attractions which is making those lines even longer. Forget the pass holders that have paid over $1000 for their passes. Anyone with an extra $20 can buy the Genie pass to hop their way through rides. Only problem is once more and more buy those additions then the lightening lane will get bogged down as well. Disney execs need to rethink their processes.
Many moons ago (prior to California Adventure), as we entered Disneyland, we were told that the park was near full capacity and they were going to have to close it for the day. The cat member suggested we come back on another day. Of course we couldn’t, so we proceeded into the park. It was the most miserable experience of my life. We could barley squeeze through Main Street.
It was not even a holiday, which are well known for full capacity days.
We visited Hollywood Studios on March 20th and could only get three Lightning Lane passes for the day due to all the rides being sold our by 2pm. We waited 2 hours and 45 mins for Tower of Terror. Magic Kingdom was a little better, but crazy busy lines and long waits for online food orders
I’ll never go to Disney again. We went last spring and the lines were crazy. That was supposedly during pandemic crowds. I was utterly disappointed. It was a very expensive trip and the Disney resort had zero services for huge price tag. Disney was a magical experience for me as a child but quite the opposite for my kids.
I’ve been an avid Disneyland lover for years, and this blew me away! This ride normally has some of the shortest wait times in the park, and me and my sister often go on it when we need a break from the longer lines. I’ve never seen the line for the ride that crowded before!
My family would go to WDW almost yearly. After the experience from our trip last year and seeing how yet again prices are going up and more perks are now extra $$, I will not be visiting ever again. I mean what’s next, charging for having your room to be made up?
I was there a week ago. The Radiator Springs racers wait time was supposed to be 95 minutes and we ended up waiting 2.5 hours. It was ridiculous. The lighting lane pass was $15. I regret now not spending the extra money because the line was so long but I had already spent $60 for 3 genie+ passes. I had never waited so long in a line at Disneyland and I’ve been visiting for many years.
Comments for Disney Ride Queue Overflows, Completely Takes Over Park
Brooke
In all of my years of going to Disneyland almost weekly, I have never seen a line for this ride go past the turnstile. Wow. WTH is going on? I guess people want to get out now, don’t blame them. LOL
Mensa
Spring break + people got money to burn
S
The capacity number can be a Ty thing Disney wants it to be. They also refuse to hire employees.
James
I think people forget that a bunch of people put off or rescheduled already paid trips for nearly two years. People are finally taking those trips. Seeing how inflation and gas prices are reeking havoc right now I’m curious to see what the parks look like during another recession. Disney milking everyone for what they are worth will backfire in the coming year or two. If we have a recession watch attendance numbers drop.
M.Winks
We are at Walt Disney World and queues at all parks are phenomenal. Never known it this busy in all 6 previous visits, even in height of summer. Have bought Genie + but what a waste of money. Can only book one slot from 7am. By 9am most slots have gone so have to queue for up to 2 hours for rides with chdren. Not impressed. Disney World you need to do better than this.
Kathy
The problem is that you have to make a park reservation.
In the past guests could choose freely which park they want to visit.
The flow during the day was constantly moving.
Now Disney has forced people into a scheduled vacation.
In the past it was up to the guest where and when to visit each park.
Now Disney knows how approximately much $$$ they will have going through the gates on any given day;because each park will be at full capacity!!!
Tanya
100% agree with you. The park reservations is the cause of all this. Even in the busiest times of the year have I ever heard of or waited in lines like this. Does the CEO or that woman not see or care about the chaos they are creating? As much as I want to go back to Disney World I will not be until they get this stuff fixed.
Brian Foley
Went to Disney world in February. We were there for 6 days and went on a TOTAL of 12 rides the entire time. 3 of the days, we went on 1 ride for the ENTIRE day. It was AWFUL! I have been a huge fan of Disney for my whole life. This one trip absolutely ruined Disneyworld for me. It was TERRIBLE! Now you have to get up at 7am to TRY to book a ride, after spending $15 per day per person. It is simply awful! I’m not sure I will EVER go back to Disneyworld. The worst experience ever!
Main Street Fire Rescue
It’s very interesting to look back at before the parks shut down for the pandemic, I can remember going to Magic Kingdom and any of the other 3 Disney World parks and the parking lots would be full and the parks very crowded,yet I can’t remember a time when I ever saw the ride ques spill into the park with people waiting. Supposedly now we have less attendance, an awful reservation system, and a new lighting lane system and every day these ride ques spill out into the park. It seems that when you mess with the parks ability to naturally move large amounts of people efficiently you get this current disaster. I agree, though, with the skyrocketing costs of everything, there will no doubt be a recession in the near future. I’d say in about 6-8 months the parks could look very different than how they do now in crowd levels. To go on these vacations now, people must be spending themselves into credit card oblivion. Only problem is, when credit limits can no longer be extended and it’s time to repay all that debt, people won’t be able to afford to go anywhere. This begins another recession. This one will hurt much worse than 2008-09 due to the enormous amounts of debt people have gained, and there won’t be the ability to lower interest rates to stimulate the economy, since they are already near zero and have to increase to help stop this runaway inflation. Interesting times are ahead. People who have saved money will be able to do quite a bit with much lower crowds.
Leeann Jacket
Or they’re using their tax returns & stimulus checks. Lol! 😂
VDog
Don’t forget many who were fired or temporarily sent home while the unemployment was raised to 3700 each per month.. if a couple already had healthy savings, this was almost another $8000 per month. I’m sure many took advantage to save up and are now spending that money. And a huge labor shortage because many people still don’t want to go back to work= HUGE crowds.
Heather W.
Wad there last week and was amazed at crowded the parks were. We used Genie+ as much as possible and still didn’t get to do everything we wanted. I can’t imagine being there with younger children. Many people we saw said they go every year and it was the worst crowds they have ever seen.
Llama Face
I think you’ve hit on something. Plus, the entertainers or performers are not all back. When my family went to Disneyland last week, it was packed! Long lines in every attraction. I think what also made it worse was that there weren’t any shows nor parades. There were the Dapper Dan’s and the Disney drum line, but that was it.That draws people and can help mitigate the long lines.
Mike G
Yet just another reason why to not waste your money at Disneyland. Overcrowded, woke culture park full of rude idiots. I’ll spend my hard earned money elsewhere
VDog
And there goes the first moron to bring “woke” into a conversation that has nothing to to with it. Funny thing is that it’s always you people who bring it up. No one else wants to hear about it. We’re all just going to the parks to get on rides and eat good food. But thats alright, I hope you DO keep your word and stay away.
Lisa Murray
Amen!
Lisa
And there is the first woke moron defending woke idiots
VDog
Good… sooo you’re also going to stay away from the parks as well right? cool!! Byes Karen!
Truth
They are woke.
S
The capacity number can be anything Disney wants it to be. Manipulation of numbers and the lack of employees.
Dawn
It cannot be “anything Disney wants it to be”, they have to answer to the County and Fire Dept. There are only so many people allowed per acre.
Lisa D
It seams to be way more crowded now with reservation system than before covid. I thought the whole point was to have less crowds and limit capacity? This looks like a unorganized theme park. Who would want to be there with all this going on? It’s not fun to wait in line for 120 minutes just to get on a ride. I have a ticket to go and I don’t want to with all this going on. Doesn’t seem like a good time to me and waste money on hotel, food, gas, airlines tickets
Chris Kinney
It’s very simple. DONT GO DURING SPRING BREAK!
Mario A
I was there the first week of spring break. The problem was less capacity and more of several large capacity rides, pirates being one, were closed. That and attractions were constantly breaking down. I rode cars, and broke down on the first curve, just before entering Luigis and mid race. All in the same ride. 1 hour sitting in that hard plastic seat. So lack of proper maintenance and several attractions being shuttered equals extremely long lines.
Karen Jackson
If Disney fired Christine McCarthy & Bob Chapek would the problems at the parks immediately resolve?
Colin
Just returned from WDW and the queues for all rides were very long.
To my mind the reason for this is simple. People will not pay $15 a day to use the lightning lanes so they are queueing to use the standby lanes.
Lawrence Lewis
God bless people who go to the parks on Spring Break and holidays. I don’t know what you’re thinking.
linda
Absolutely nothing magical about the Magic Kingdom even in February, more than a month ago before spring break. Park horribly overcrowded, dirty bathrooms dirty restaurants ridiculous wait times and genie lightning Lane does not work properly. Even the seven-year-old twins said they don’t want to go back again ever. You better wise up Disney.
Lisa
And there is the first woke idiot
VDog
Seriously, just go take your medication and go to bed.
James
Jokes on you if you waited forever to ride Pooh LOL
Emily
Was there last week, our first time to Disneyland and California Adventure Park. We used Genie + and even with the park at full capacity we never waited more than 30 mins for a ride (we did see queues for 120 mins+ tho). I honestly was more annoyed with the crowds at the San Diego Zoo!
Eric
Early April fool’s joke?
Let’s go brandon
Disney is not worth the money especially with them charging you for everything but the oxygen you breathe and the sun rays you absorb. Evil evil company!
Chris
I was there last week in Disneyland & it was crowded. I do think Genie Plus has alot to do with lines as well. I rode Monsters Inc ride which is never a wait maybe 5 minutes & I waited 45 minutes. I also think Disneyland was pretty close to full capacity even tho they say it will never be full capacity again just a reminder this is my opinion
Stella
I’ve been to Disneyland when it was at full capacity and was turning people away at the gates and it didn’t look like this at all. We have a trip to WDW in a few weeks and now I’m kind of dreading it because of all the reporting of crowds. I’m honestly worried we will spend more time just standing around in lines or constantly checking phones for shorter ques as opposed to actually enjoying anything?
Trish Suvino-D'Anna
I usually go around Mother’s day. It isn’t really too hot plus the flowers are amazing! I would rather spend a few hours in line than be at work! Another time to go was New Year’s Eve! I didn’t go to Pleasure Island. I went to the Rainforest Cafe! It was awhile ago. But, I went with the perfect friend. She wasn’t into partying and picking up strangers. Do not go when it’s Spring Break!
Trish Suvino-D'Anna
I will always love WDW. I’ve been fortunate to have my accommodations upgraded! I was stunned. I thought that someone was playing a trick on me. Until they sent me my new itinerary. It felt like I had hit the lottery!
Tami Contreras
Even since the addition of the Genie+ the lines have been ridiculous. When they opened with the reservation system with no free fast pass and no Genie+ the lines went along like normal. Now with Genie+, anyone in standby be prepared to wait 2-3 times longer than the listed time. They will take 30-40 in the lightening lane to the 2-4 in the stand by. This is causing people to go to other attractions which is making those lines even longer. Forget the pass holders that have paid over $1000 for their passes. Anyone with an extra $20 can buy the Genie pass to hop their way through rides. Only problem is once more and more buy those additions then the lightening lane will get bogged down as well. Disney execs need to rethink their processes.
Stacy
Many moons ago (prior to California Adventure), as we entered Disneyland, we were told that the park was near full capacity and they were going to have to close it for the day. The cat member suggested we come back on another day. Of course we couldn’t, so we proceeded into the park. It was the most miserable experience of my life. We could barley squeeze through Main Street.
It was not even a holiday, which are well known for full capacity days.
Stacy
***”cat member” should read, “cast member” due to autocorrect.
Joey5pdx
We visited Hollywood Studios on March 20th and could only get three Lightning Lane passes for the day due to all the rides being sold our by 2pm. We waited 2 hours and 45 mins for Tower of Terror. Magic Kingdom was a little better, but crazy busy lines and long waits for online food orders
B
I’ll never go to Disney again. We went last spring and the lines were crazy. That was supposedly during pandemic crowds. I was utterly disappointed. It was a very expensive trip and the Disney resort had zero services for huge price tag. Disney was a magical experience for me as a child but quite the opposite for my kids.
Kevin Franklin
I’ve been an avid Disneyland lover for years, and this blew me away! This ride normally has some of the shortest wait times in the park, and me and my sister often go on it when we need a break from the longer lines. I’ve never seen the line for the ride that crowded before!
Curtis
My family would go to WDW almost yearly. After the experience from our trip last year and seeing how yet again prices are going up and more perks are now extra $$, I will not be visiting ever again. I mean what’s next, charging for having your room to be made up?
Karla
I was there a week ago. The Radiator Springs racers wait time was supposed to be 95 minutes and we ended up waiting 2.5 hours. It was ridiculous. The lighting lane pass was $15. I regret now not spending the extra money because the line was so long but I had already spent $60 for 3 genie+ passes. I had never waited so long in a line at Disneyland and I’ve been visiting for many years.
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