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Sesame Place Langhorne
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Six Flags Magic Mountain

On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne queues less: about 7 minutes a ride against 9 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a difference of roughly 2 minutes on every queue you join.

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01 · On a typical day

What you would normally queue.

Averages across recent weeks, so one broken ride or one wet Tuesday cannot decide it. This is the comparison to plan a trip on; the live figures below are the one to act on today.

Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Magic Mountain compared on their typical recorded queue times
TypicallySesame Place LanghorneUnited StatesSix Flags Magic MountainUnited States
Average wait per ride 7 min (best of the two)9 min
Rides with recorded waits 937 (best of the two)
Longest typical queue Elmo's Cloud Chaser9 minWest Coast Racers22 min
Shortest typical queue Vapor Trail Coaster6 minTaz’s Tazmanian Train Tours5 min
Average ride uptime Share of opening hours a ride is running48%85% (best of the two)

Averaged across every ride at each park with recorded waits. A ride that never opened is left out, so a park is not flattered by counting a shut ride as a queue of zero.

02 · Right now

Both parks, this minute.

Live queue times at both parks. These fill in as soon as the page loads, and keep updating while you are here.

Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Magic Mountain compared on live queue times
Right nowSesame Place LanghorneUnited StatesSix Flags Magic MountainUnited States
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These keep refreshing while this page is open. A closed park posts no waits, so its rows read as dashes rather than zeroes.

Verdict, on a typical day On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne queues less: about 7 minutes a ride against 9 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a difference of roughly 2 minutes on every queue you join.

03 · Choosing

Which one is your day out.

Every line here is earned by one of the figures above - nothing is a generic sentence with a park name dropped into it.

Pick Sesame Place Langhorne if…

  • You want shorter queues: Sesame Place Langhorne averages 7 minutes a ride against 9 at Six Flags Magic Mountain
  • Elmo's Cloud Chaser is on your list - it is Sesame Place Langhorne's longest typical queue at about 9 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Sesame Place Langhorne's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

Pick Six Flags Magic Mountain if…

  • You will accept a longer queue - 9 minutes a ride here against 7 at Sesame Place Langhorne - for what Six Flags Magic Mountain has that Sesame Place Langhorne does not
  • You want more to do: 37 rides here have recorded wait data against 9 at Sesame Place Langhorne
  • You would rather not find rides shut: Six Flags Magic Mountain's rides run 85% of opening hours against 48% at Sesame Place Langhorne
  • West Coast Racers is on your list - it is Six Flags Magic Mountain's longest typical queue at about 22 minutes, so it is the one to do first
  • You want Six Flags Magic Mountain's own character - the rides, theming and atmosphere described below

04 · The parks

What each one is.

Sesame Place Langhorne

Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania is the original Sesame Street theme park, a short drive north of Philadelphia and aimed squarely at children under ten. It mixes a dry side of family rides such as Oscar's Wacky Taxi Coaster, Vapor Trail Coaster and Elmo's Cloud Chaser with a water park of slides and splash areas, plus daily character parades and shows.

Because the audience is young and the park is small, queues build fast in the middle of the day and thin out again as families leave in the afternoon. Wait times here rarely reach big-park levels, but the crowd calendar will still show you which summer weekends to avoid, and checking live before you arrive helps you decide whether to start on the rides or the water side.

Sesame Place Langhorne live queue times

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, holds the world record for most roller coasters at a single park - currently 20 distinct coasters. Highlights include X2 (a 4-D prototype), Twisted Colossus, Tatsu (a flying coaster), Full Throttle, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Goliath, and Wonder Woman Flight of Courage. The park's hilly footprint gives many rides dramatic terrain-following drops.

Magic Mountain's LA-area weekend visits, US school holidays, Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park events drive peak crowds. Weekdays outside school breaks can be dramatically quieter. Check live queue times for X2 and Twisted Colossus on arrival - they build up fastest - and use our crowd calendar to pick a lower-crowd midweek date if you want to ride all 20 coasters in a single day.

Six Flags Magic Mountain live queue times

05 · Questions

Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Which is better, Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

If you are judging on queues, Sesame Place Langhorne: it averages about 7 minutes a ride on a typical day against 9 at Six Flags Magic Mountain, roughly 2 minutes back on every queue you join. Sesame Place Langhorne has 9 rides with recorded waits against 37 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Six Flags Magic Mountain also runs its rides more reliably - 85% of opening hours against 48%.

Which has shorter queues, Sesame Place Langhorne or Six Flags Magic Mountain?

Sesame Place Langhorne, by about 2 minutes a ride. On a typical day Sesame Place Langhorne averages 7 minutes against 9 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Queues still move hour by hour, and a midweek day outside school holidays beats the gap at either park. See Sesame Place Langhorne best time to visit and Six Flags Magic Mountain best time to visit to pick a quiet day.

Can I visit Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Magic Mountain in the same trip?

Yes - both parks are in United States, so a two-park trip is realistic over a long weekend. Split the days so you start at whichever opens earliest and drive to the other in the evening.

How many rides does each park have?

See the tables above for ride counts - or jump to Sesame Place Langhorne and Six Flags Magic Mountain for the full ride lists.

Is Sesame Place Langhorne bigger than Six Flags Magic Mountain?

By rides we track waits for, Six Flags Magic Mountain is the bigger day out: 37 rides against 9. Acreage matters less than how many you can actually get on, which comes down to queues and opening hours - and on those Sesame Place Langhorne is the quicker park.

Then pick
the quiet day.

Both parks have a crowd calendar with six weeks of forecast and the best day left to go.

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