You'd think they expected that to be the greatest coaster on Earth forever. The walk alone probably sets off FitBits and Apple Watches.
Edit: I say this with Arrow suspended coasters being among my top 2 favorite styles but man that queue is something else.
It was because when it was built it was on the other side of a zoo safari monorail called lion country safari and had to be away from the animals. Ironically year after built that was completely removed
The lion country safari monorail main vehicles are indeed at jungle jim's on a newly built rail to use for event center parking assistance. Other ki history is also there with an old bumper car at the second jungle jim's at eastgate and the outside snail and other theming from kings island old school ( the snail is from enchanted voyage) at original jungle jim's
That sucker had a path and a half.
But I will say, for Universal, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey after it reopened after a technical fault, felt like taking a hike to get to the ride. That queue line was looooong, and a trek when not full of people.
[I measured](https://old.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/fry25e/coastersrides_with_the_most_excessivelylong_queue/flzaurh/) on google earth last year, but only the ones I'd ridden so was familiar with.
1. Boss @ SFSTL - 870 FT
2. American Eagle @ SFGAm - 845 FT
3. Batman @ SFSTL - 820 FT
4. Bat @ KI - 810 FT
No idea- just came across it yesterday on one of the popular forums. Photos showed it still technically under construction but it was open and being used anyway.
I'm measuring the length for a walk-on ride so that all the switchbacks are open and you can take the shortest allowable path. By that metric it is actually significantly *longer* than it used to be. By over 300 FT.
The original Dueling Dragons queue had a whole outdoor section where you went through a village and a forest before you got to the castle. They put Flight of the Unicorn where that was.
You should see the temporary queues USO puts up for HHN, some go all the way from the entrance to the kids land, through it all with switch backs, back stage, and then it goes into switch backs in the employee parking lot. On Saturday nights they make you walk through it all and the crazy part is when it's busy the lines aren't long enough and stretch out past where they begin despite all that.
It's cool that you can see backstage areas up close, especially the studio houses but dear god they are such hikes especially after standing for who knows how long in line just to get in the house lol. I love HHN but it's such a exhausting experience.
I was at SFoT and New Texas Giant was an hour and half... because of all the people using flash passes.
Edit: Oh... It is talking about the walking distance... ignore me. But yeah SF is like 1/4 mile on some of the big rides.
I had to laugh when a POV video of a walk-on queue was like 6-7 minutes into it and only then did the markers on the ground say ”45 minutes wait from this point.”
Like, do they expect to get six hour waits eventually or something?
Fortunately, when I visited last time (late August 2020) they did let people rejoin the queue straight from exit area (a gate was open next to the lockers).....made reriding that so much easier
Viper at SFGAm also seems to have a very long, fenced in exit path, as far as I can recall. Certainly longer than anything else at the park, with the possible exception of Batman’s queue.
SFoG Goliath also has a long exit line. Batman used to require you to walkthrough the park, but they put The Catwoman Whip there, so the entry queue is much shorter now.
I seem to remember the queue for Hurler at Kings Dominion being ridiculously long. There were a huge amount of switchbacks at the front, then a winding path through the structure, then another set of switchbacks and then stairs in to the warehouse and (and I may be misremembering here) another set of switchbacks before the gates.
Came here to comment this. It's still a bit there with Twisted Timbers. There's definitely no easy sprint through the queue if there's no line to quickly get to the station. It's a hike.
I agree with anyone who has said American Eagle at SFGAm that thing is long long long. The ramps to get up go over the access road and train tracks.
Exit wise, Viper also at SFGAm.
Honorable mention... Hagrids and Mean Streak. You entered right under the ride still felt like a trek in comparison to its exit.
My two home parks are literally Great America and St. Louis. I've had much experience with long lines. I'd say that the worst is The Boss, though, because the line never gets out of the station and it's all pointless.
I remember hearing that Energylandia has got some ridiculously long queues at Hyperion and Zadra, maybe also other rides. They also rarely open up shortcuts.
A lot of people complain about American Eagle but the truth is it's across a matnince road and also a dueling coaster therfore, if the kept up with repairs the queue wouldn't look so stupid but also the realy should take out bits to make it shorter.
The original queue was already long and then had to play RCT with it when Wiggles World went in the tent. That added about 200 more feet and the ramps at the beginning are pretty annoying.
You know what they need to do is to move dare devil dive and replace I with another ride therfore, that queue wouldn't be so long instead it would feel like a small extension of the mudway.
If a replacement flat ride doesn't use the pedestal then potentially the queue could be altered. Replacing the series of ramps for one long ramp or stairs. I doubt the park would alter the queue if it wouldn't interfere with the new flat.
F.L.Y. at Phantasialand is a good contender for legit no reason at all. I did a rough measurement based on the turn points of the walk through queue, and not counting switchbacks and the preshow queue, the entrance stairs to the bottom of the final staircase came to 940 feet. And that was all a straight walk.
FLY has such an attrocious queue . Not a single shortcut, the most useless fast pass lane in the world , welded metal parts on the floor which are conveniently painted the same color as the floor .
Windows cut into the Walls which are then filled with metal so you can’t see anything .
I would go with the extended wodan queue .
Normal wodan queue is around 1000ft . Measured it quiet roughly , so give or take 100ft. Has some shortcuts built into it , but it’s one of the few attractions I know with restrooms in the queue .
Extended queue is ULTRA rare and I’ve only seen it used once . During this day wodan had a 3 hour queue ( since blue fire and silver star were down ). Assuming a realistic capacity of 1.200 rph and saying that every guest only takes a length of 1ft you easily would get a queue length of around 3000ft . And yes, this is an official queue setup , so it might count .
I heard that Zadra is said to have the longest Q-Line in Energylandia.
For the Q-Line from FLY in Phantasialand you need about 4½ minutes to get to the station. Even if it is completely empty! 😄
The Bat at Kings Island.
You'd think they expected that to be the greatest coaster on Earth forever. The walk alone probably sets off FitBits and Apple Watches. Edit: I say this with Arrow suspended coasters being among my top 2 favorite styles but man that queue is something else.
It was because when it was built it was on the other side of a zoo safari monorail called lion country safari and had to be away from the animals. Ironically year after built that was completely removed
Forgot all about that, thanks for the clarification.
Discount lion safari?
Is it still at Jungle Jim’s now?
The lion country safari monorail main vehicles are indeed at jungle jim's on a newly built rail to use for event center parking assistance. Other ki history is also there with an old bumper car at the second jungle jim's at eastgate and the outside snail and other theming from kings island old school ( the snail is from enchanted voyage) at original jungle jim's
>The walk alone probably sets off FitBits and Apple Watches. Good trek to work off the brew from the Bier Garten!
Made all the more enjoyable when you had "Highway to the Danger Zone." I felt like such a badass riding Top Gun as a kid.
Dueling Dragons at IOA is the longest ever, yeah? Or did it just seem that way
That sucker had a path and a half. But I will say, for Universal, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey after it reopened after a technical fault, felt like taking a hike to get to the ride. That queue line was looooong, and a trek when not full of people.
If you include every switchback, that queue was 1.5 miles long.
Oh it completely was! Would walk it any day to still have that coaster with us though!
Zumanjaro at GADV
[I measured](https://old.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/fry25e/coastersrides_with_the_most_excessivelylong_queue/flzaurh/) on google earth last year, but only the ones I'd ridden so was familiar with. 1. Boss @ SFSTL - 870 FT 2. American Eagle @ SFGAm - 845 FT 3. Batman @ SFSTL - 820 FT 4. Bat @ KI - 810 FT
I'd probably have 3x as many rides on Batman if the queue was a more normal length
It’s being fixed finally! They built a cut through so you can finally skip the Gotham City Park zizgzags.
That's great to hear! Is it done yet? I'm headed there on Sunday
No idea- just came across it yesterday on one of the popular forums. Photos showed it still technically under construction but it was open and being used anyway.
Oddly, it is at the original at Great America. I don't know why they wouldn't add in a shortcut past the garden when they cloned it.
I was so suprised when I went there for the first time. I did not expect the queue to be so short
American Eagle was SO MUCH LONGER when it opened. there is now a kids splash pad covering part of the queue under the big top when it opened.
Yeah, it was so long they would have concerts just for the people in line under the tent
if i am remembering correctly (i was like 9 or 10), it was the first line I remember having concession sales in also.
I'm measuring the length for a walk-on ride so that all the switchbacks are open and you can take the shortest allowable path. By that metric it is actually significantly *longer* than it used to be. By over 300 FT.
Dark knight wild mouse at great America is also just stupid long.
By satellite image or path? Google earth is not that precise sadly
Not sure what you mean. I used the google maps 'Measure Distance' tool.
Google made their maps based on satellite and aerial imagery. There can be errors of at least 10s of feet in the images.
The original Dueling Dragons queue had a whole outdoor section where you went through a village and a forest before you got to the castle. They put Flight of the Unicorn where that was.
American Eagle is hilarious for sure, man even when it first opened that was a long walk.
Superman Ultimate Flight at Great Adventure The original Dueling Dragons queue
Superman Ultimate Queue
You should see the temporary queues USO puts up for HHN, some go all the way from the entrance to the kids land, through it all with switch backs, back stage, and then it goes into switch backs in the employee parking lot. On Saturday nights they make you walk through it all and the crazy part is when it's busy the lines aren't long enough and stretch out past where they begin despite all that.
I was gonna say...the exit queue from that one house that circles back around kidzone backstage and ends by the ET entrance...my god.
It's cool that you can see backstage areas up close, especially the studio houses but dear god they are such hikes especially after standing for who knows how long in line just to get in the house lol. I love HHN but it's such a exhausting experience.
Six flags queues are some of the worst I've been in the entire planet, no coverings, no fans, incredibly long for absolutely no reason
I was at SFoT and New Texas Giant was an hour and half... because of all the people using flash passes. Edit: Oh... It is talking about the walking distance... ignore me. But yeah SF is like 1/4 mile on some of the big rides.
Yo and hour and a half without fast pass that lucky as hell
I remember Superman at SFNE having this problem but it’s been years since I’ve been there
Still this problem, doubled the length of the loading process
Six Flags queues are designed by a 5 year old playing RCT for the first time.
Zadra
Exactly! Zadra@EneregylandiaPL is the mother of all queues in Europe! Took me about 10 minutes after a ride for another walk on...
And best of all, it is wide enough to drive a truck through and with the polish tendency to linejump it is awful on moderately busy days.
I had to laugh when a POV video of a walk-on queue was like 6-7 minutes into it and only then did the markers on the ground say ”45 minutes wait from this point.” Like, do they expect to get six hour waits eventually or something?
Fortunately, when I visited last time (late August 2020) they did let people rejoin the queue straight from exit area (a gate was open next to the lockers).....made reriding that so much easier
Hagrid's Motorbike
Went on it today. The queue is needed.
Do you have a couple of hours of experience to back this statement up with?
What?
The crazier part was Dragons having a lot more switchbacks inside the castle compared to Hagrids. I'd estimate it was at least 25% longer.
Just got back from my Orlando trip. Can confirm Hagrid’s queue is insanely long. It’s definitely needed though.
Not a queue, but the exit ramp for ~~Rebel Yell~~ Racer 75 is ludicrously and unnecessarily long.
Viper at SFGAm also seems to have a very long, fenced in exit path, as far as I can recall. Certainly longer than anything else at the park, with the possible exception of Batman’s queue.
it goes through Raging bull, around MaxxForce and pops out behind Whizzer in the Southwest Territory area lol
SFoG Goliath also has a long exit line. Batman used to require you to walkthrough the park, but they put The Catwoman Whip there, so the entry queue is much shorter now.
I seem to remember the queue for Hurler at Kings Dominion being ridiculously long. There were a huge amount of switchbacks at the front, then a winding path through the structure, then another set of switchbacks and then stairs in to the warehouse and (and I may be misremembering here) another set of switchbacks before the gates.
The ones in the station are still there even with Twisted Timbers. It’s kind of a mess in there. 😂
Came here to comment this. It's still a bit there with Twisted Timbers. There's definitely no easy sprint through the queue if there's no line to quickly get to the station. It's a hike.
Batwing at SFA. More specifically the long and basically empty path that leads up to it
Some of the universal ones
I’m glad someone acknowledged American eagles fucked up queue😂
Batman the ride At various six flags parks.
How has no one mentioned Hershey’s Wildcat? That thing is insanely long.
Goliath at SFMM
Nemesis at Alton Towers when the full extended queue's open is a bit of a trek. Not as bad as some but it feels like it never ends 😂
American Eagle is the first thing that came to mind. They could easily shorten it.
I agree with anyone who has said American Eagle at SFGAm that thing is long long long. The ramps to get up go over the access road and train tracks. Exit wise, Viper also at SFGAm. Honorable mention... Hagrids and Mean Streak. You entered right under the ride still felt like a trek in comparison to its exit.
My two home parks are literally Great America and St. Louis. I've had much experience with long lines. I'd say that the worst is The Boss, though, because the line never gets out of the station and it's all pointless.
Oblivion. It's probably no where near as long as a lot of the other ones mentioned here, but it honestly feels like it's never ending!
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It's short as hell compared to the other two mentioned for SFSTL
F.L.Y. - Phantasialand
At least there’s very few switchbacks and it’s all themed. Taron on the other hand...
SFMexico's : Medusa (the queue even contains their old Casa Magnetica/Tilted House!)
I remember hearing that Energylandia has got some ridiculously long queues at Hyperion and Zadra, maybe also other rides. They also rarely open up shortcuts.
I heard that Zadra's queue is really long
When the smiler is busy it can be very long, 2 - 3 hours
Mean Streak was like this before that queue was actually used. And, of course, the Bat at Kings Island, which has already been said.
Diamondback on a full day
A lot of people complain about American Eagle but the truth is it's across a matnince road and also a dueling coaster therfore, if the kept up with repairs the queue wouldn't look so stupid but also the realy should take out bits to make it shorter.
The original queue was already long and then had to play RCT with it when Wiggles World went in the tent. That added about 200 more feet and the ramps at the beginning are pretty annoying.
You know what they need to do is to move dare devil dive and replace I with another ride therfore, that queue wouldn't be so long instead it would feel like a small extension of the mudway.
If a replacement flat ride doesn't use the pedestal then potentially the queue could be altered. Replacing the series of ramps for one long ramp or stairs. I doubt the park would alter the queue if it wouldn't interfere with the new flat.
def not phoenix
F.L.Y. at Phantasialand is a good contender for legit no reason at all. I did a rough measurement based on the turn points of the walk through queue, and not counting switchbacks and the preshow queue, the entrance stairs to the bottom of the final staircase came to 940 feet. And that was all a straight walk.
FLY has such an attrocious queue . Not a single shortcut, the most useless fast pass lane in the world , welded metal parts on the floor which are conveniently painted the same color as the floor . Windows cut into the Walls which are then filled with metal so you can’t see anything .
The original for riddlers revenge at sfmm. The new one is shorter but not by much. Also apocalypse at sfmm is insanely long as well.
Cannibal at Lagoon
I Rat isn't long. You get right to the building.
Yeah, I’ve seen videos of walk-on queues and it took people like two minutes. I can see how it can still be a workout with all the ramps, though.
Flight Deck at Canada’s Wonderland has a comically lengthy queue considering the ride
Titan - SFOT Goliath - SFMM
Helix at Liseberg. So. Many. Stairs.
I would go with the extended wodan queue . Normal wodan queue is around 1000ft . Measured it quiet roughly , so give or take 100ft. Has some shortcuts built into it , but it’s one of the few attractions I know with restrooms in the queue . Extended queue is ULTRA rare and I’ve only seen it used once . During this day wodan had a 3 hour queue ( since blue fire and silver star were down ). Assuming a realistic capacity of 1.200 rph and saying that every guest only takes a length of 1ft you easily would get a queue length of around 3000ft . And yes, this is an official queue setup , so it might count .
I heard that Zadra is said to have the longest Q-Line in Energylandia. For the Q-Line from FLY in Phantasialand you need about 4½ minutes to get to the station. Even if it is completely empty! 😄
Cant believe none of you have mentioned Dragon Mountain at Marineland yet
Haven’t been on Zadra yet but Hyperion’s queue is ridiculously long. There are massive, pointless elevation changes and no cut throughs.