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Movie Park Germany cheat sheet

worked out from 40 days of our own wait data26 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Van Helsing's Factory, The Bandit and Iron Claw first. Leave Time Riders until after 9pm, when its queue drops to about 18 minutes. The park's queues peak around 19:00 at 21 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
Tuesday
Busiest weekday
Thursday
Quietest month
March
Busiest month
November

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. 10:009mquietest
  2. 11:0013m
  3. 12:0015m
  4. 13:0018m
  5. 14:0019m
  6. 15:0019m
  7. 16:0020m
  8. 17:0020m
  9. 18:0020m
  10. 19:0021mpeak
  11. 20:0019m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 19:00 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. 1Van Helsing's Factory ~67 min typical · up to 85 at peak · worst around 6pm67m
  2. 2The Bandit ~52 min typical · up to 67 at peak · worst around 5pm52m
  3. 3Iron Claw ~49 min typical · up to 67 at peak · worst around 5pm49m

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. 1Time Riders~30 min typical · about 18 min after 9pm18m
  2. 2Backyardigans Mission to Mars~16 min typical · about 7 min after 9pm7m
  3. 3Journey to the Forbidden Chamber~14 min typical · about 6 min after 7pm6m
  4. 4Area 51 - Top Secret~13 min typical · about 6 min after 6pm6m

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 minutesRescue 1125mSea Swing5mFairy World Spin6mPier Side Carousel6mSkye's High Flyer6mZuma's Zoomers6mAdventure Tour7m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Area 51 - Top Secretrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Dora’s Big River Adventurerunning 59% of the park's open hours59%
  3. 3Time Ridersrunning 76% of the park's open hours76%
  4. 4Journey to the Forbidden Chamberrunning 77% of the park's open hours77%
  5. 5NYC Transformerrunning 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.