I just went to Disneyland a couple weeks ago, wish I knew but glad I do now.

You know.... when I was a kid... we didn't HAVE apps. We just went to Disney and waited in the lines. Uphill.

Both ways.

In the rain.

Recently went to Disney; theres a free cell phone app letting you know the approximate ride time waits. Came in very handy was pretty close in actual times

Does that make the waits any shorter? Or do you take one look at the wait times and catch the monorail back to the motel?

We always got up early and did the popular ones first, then went back to the room after lunch for a nap, then stayed out late...
I'm homesick for Disnay, but evidently hubby isn't as homesick as I...

We went to Disney(land) at least once a year when I was growing up in southern Cali. We left at 6am and stopped for breakfast along the way, got there around 9am when the park was opening. Lines weren't as bad then because they took tickets instead of being free with admission (there was no admission). E tickets were the best rides and you only got one E ticket in each ticket book, so the lines weren't as bad. Once they switched to paid admission and no tickets, the lines got worse.

One thing I always liked about Disneyland, not sure if they still do this, is they had signs up along the line that said about how long the wait was from each point. They don't do that at Silver Dollar City.

We went to Disney(land) at least once a year when I was growing up in southern Cali.

I was living in western Orlando when DisneyWorld was first announced. Watched it get built, then watched many of my buddies in high school get jobs there -- one was Goofy, which of course we razzed him about. And when I graduated from high school, I went to "Grad Night" where our entire class spent a whole night in the Magic Kingdom.

Oddly enough, though, I didn't go all that often, despite living within easy commuting distance. I did spend one memorable evening there without going into the theme park itself, going to the motels instead and eating at a restaurant and generally hanging out.

E tickets were the best rides...

For a while there, the term "E ticket ride" was part of the American lexicon, being used to describe everything from a really fast car to a wild day on the stock market. And when you entered the theme park, you'd get a book of tickets and always end the day with a few left over, which you'd take home and store in a drawer for your next visit, when of course you'd forget to bring them or be unable to find them.

store in a drawer for your next visit, when of course you'd forget to bring them or be unable to find them.

Ahhh... but some people did bring them. Years after they were done away with! My brother used to work custodial at the Magic Kingdom and would find whole books of tickets in the trash in the early 90's!

I was there in 2000 and one day, found out the Pirates ride broke down.

A couple said they were stuck with "Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me" playing over and over and over . . . After 10 minutes, the sound was shut off. They were stuck for 30 minutes.

The upside is everyone who was stuck got VIP passes for the rest of the day which enabled them to move to the front of the line on any ride.

Pretty sweet, though I'm sure they were still hearing that song in their heads.

There is one line that as you stand in it waiting for the ride, you hear "Come on everybody! Here we go!" over and over again.

Does anybody know which ride that is?

KuKu

There is one line that as you stand in it waiting for the ride, you hear "Come on everybody! Here we go!" over and over again.

That was Peter Pan.

I like the easy questions!

Now I am thinking of all sorts of Disney ride trivia!!!

What ride did this come from and does anyone know the next line?

"Now is the time,
now is the best time..."

Pretty sweet, though I'm sure they were still hearing that song in their heads.

Better than getting It's a Small World stuck in your head. My dad once got stuck on that ride. He said it wasn't a good experience and didn't want to talk about it.....

-- Ryan

Better than getting It's a Small World stuck in your head. My dad once got stuck on that ride.

I once got stuck on that ride. And by "stuck", I don't mean it broke down or anything. I mean I just had to take the ride from start to finish.

I had an album of Peter Pan with a booklet the size of the album cover as part of it with full color pictures from the movie. (This is what we had before videos and DVD's).

I listened to it HUNDREDS of times and knew the line from the movie: "Come on everybody! Here we go! Off to Neverland!" and the chorus came in with ooooooooo and starting singing "You can fly".

When I was a senior in HS, my dance drill team performed at Disneyland. I had always loved the Peter Pan ride when I was 8, so I convinced another girl to ride it with me.

Every time the ship took off into the ride, you heard "Come on everybody! Here we go!" We heard it at least 25-30 times, maybe more, just standing in line.

For the rest of the trip, she and I would say "Come on everybody! Here we go!" whenever we were leaving a hotel or restaurant or boarding the bus or whatever, until the rest of the girls were about ready to punch us!

KuKu

I'm guessing now, but Splash Mountain?

KuKu

Splash Mountain?

Nope.

The last time I heard you could still trade them in for $ off on your entry ticket. Of course, they may be worth more as collectors items now! Somewhere I still have a whole book of E tickets. When I was in high school we didn't bother buying the regular books. We went straight for the E tickets!

ya know I got a package from Disney land the other day, I wonder who sent it... it didn't say.
Just had a joker stamp on the from part and a note in woman's handwriting that said"got you something while I was at Disneyland...."

GG

I don't think the lines got longer because of no tickets.

I think the number of people increased exponentially and they had to do away with the tickets.

It takes far longer for people to get out the right tickets, the cast on the rides to spend time taking the tickets, chasing ones that people had dropped, more people to sell the tickets. . .

I think the attendance was so huge they couldn't spend the extra time. The lines were not that long when we went with the ticket books but that was in 1969! There were not as many rides back then, either.

I went to a Great America park in high school in California and it was so great not to have to have tickets, just one admission. It seemed to me to make it easier.

Also, to get more E tickets for those great rides, you had to buy more books but you still had lots of the OTHER tickets left for the rides you didn't want to do again.

It felt like a ripoff when you had to buy another ticket book but you had tickets left on the last one.

We had left over non-E tickets after our 1969 trip which we kept in a little box with other odd papers. I looked at them quite often and wanted to go again.

Boy, I wish we had held on to those. So fun to look at and collector's items, too.

And I agree, those signs were sure helpful.

But I think it is much better to pay admission and then do whatever rides you want as many times as you want without worrying about lots of paper in your pockets or purse or fanny pack or whatever.

Last time I was there in 2000, they had the fastpass for 4 different popular rides and those were so handy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket

KuKu

One other tidbit of trivia: In the first year after WDW opened, Thanksgiving weekend turned into a disaster. Traffic backed up from the WDW gate back out onto I-4 and all the way back into downtown Orlando, something like 25 miles. For perhaps ten years after that, Thanksgiving weekend was the time to visit WDW. Nobody ever showed up, it was a ghost town.

In the meantime, somebody got smart and widened I-4 to about eighteen lanes instead of the paltry four it was when WDW opened.

What ride did this come from and does anyone know the next line?

"Now is the time,
now is the best time..."

Isn't it Carousel of Progress, but nope, don't remember the last line.

Isn't it Carousel of Progress

Ding! Yes it is!

"Now is the best time of our lives"

One of my favorites as a kid.
I could see that family, with the dog and the whole thing.
Thanks for a window back into childhood.

I am number one kite flyer!

I am number one kite flyer!

Oh, Yeah!

Sorry Me number one kite flyer!

Does'nt make ride times shorter,lol. Helps you figure out where to fast pass though. We're not quitters, in parks extended hours from open til close . Need a vacation to recoop now.

Everyone will be happy to know Its a small world is currently closed for renovations :-) Zip-a-dee-doo-dah stuck in my head from Splash mountain 12x

The best program for wait times is RideMax. It allows you to choose which park, the date, how fast your group likes to walk, and what rides you want to ride.

It will then figure out which order you should ride the rides in and what time you should get there. It takes into account the fast passes and everything else.

We used it twice, 5 years apart and found it to be dead on and saved us hours and hours of waiting in lines.

Maiden

We can certainly testify to that. Also helps to figure out breaks, like lunch and downtime. And how to efficiently get from different parts of the park for different shows.
Indispensable.
gg

Remember when everyone just waited in ride lines? And we didn't know when we'd get to board? And there were no such thing as passes to get you to the front? And there were no "reservations" for rides? And we just stood there? Or was that a dream?

Dizzy
~waiting in line at Silver Dollar City chatting to my "neighbors"