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Hollywood Studios cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data9 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride Slinky Dog Dash, Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets — New! and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance first. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 44 minutes and are lowest around 20:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
October
Busiest month
February

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 09:0030m
  2. 10:0039m
  3. 11:0043m
  4. 12:0044mpeak
  5. 13:0040m
  6. 14:0039m
  7. 15:0036m
  8. 16:0035m
  9. 17:0034m
  10. 18:0036m
  11. 19:0035m
  12. 20:0029mquietest

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Slinky Dog Dash ~60 min typical · up to 72 at peak · worst around 4pm60m
  2. 2Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets — New! ~49 min typical · up to 58 at peak · worst around 10pm49m
  3. 3Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ~47 min typical · up to 56 at peak · worst around 3pm47m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesStar Tours – The Adventures Continue6mSingle-rider lineMillennium Falcon: Smugglers Run

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.