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Legoland New York cheat sheet

worked out from 25 days of our own wait data20 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Coast Guard Academy, The Dragon's Apprentice and LEGO® NINJAGO® The Ride first. Leave LEGO® Factory Adventure Ride until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 8 minutes. The park's queues peak around 13:00 at 14 minutes and are lowest around 10:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Friday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
March
Busiest month
October

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. 10:007mquietest
  2. 11:0012m
  3. 12:0013m
  4. 13:0014mpeak
  5. 14:0014m
  6. 15:0014m
  7. 16:0013m
  8. 17:0012m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 13:00 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. 1Coast Guard Academy ~31 min typical · up to 42 at peak · worst around 4pm31m
  2. 2The Dragon's Apprentice ~29 min typical · up to 34 at peak · worst around 2pm29m
  3. 3LEGO® NINJAGO® The Ride ~20 min typical · up to 31 at peak · worst around 2pm20m

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

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1LEGO® Factory Adventure Ride~14 min typical · about 8 min after 5pm8m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

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

Usually under 10 minutesJay's Gravity Force Trainer6mDJ's Dizzy Disco Spin7mSplash Battle8mDriving School8mBrick Party9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Coast Guard Academyrunning 56% of the park's open hours56%
  2. 2Rogue Ridersrunning 58% of the park's open hours58%
  3. 3Splash Battlerunning 59% of the park's open hours59%
  4. 4Ocean Explorerrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  5. 5Minifigure Skyflyer - Brick Street Stationrunning 82% of the park's open hours82%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

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

With a free account you 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.

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  • 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.

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.