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Calling this week’s Disney World wait times and crowd levels “unprecedented” would perhaps be a bit dramatic, even for websites like this one that enjoy a flair for the theatrical. But it’s hard to imagine wait times much shorter than these at Animal Kingdom, which is open a full 12 hours from 9am-9pm. A 7-minute average wait for Everest? A 5-minute posted wait for five hours from 4pm to 9pm? Kali hits 30 minutes for exactly one 15-minute period before returning to 10 minutes for almost the entire day. Safaris average wait of 11 minutes is stupid low. This is all with DINOSAUR down.

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Frozen is 20 minutes from 10:45am-11:30am and while the wait does go up after an hour of downtime, this is still as short as waits have been since the ride opened in mid-June. Actual standby waits mid-morning were under 15 minutes. Mission: SPACE averages 12 minutes. Interestingly, Sommerhus waits are higher than we’ve been seeing – you wonder if capacity there is cut or there was just a rush during the morning with people being able to walk on Frozen. Soarin’ is 10 minutes for a full hour in the morning and is 20 minutes or fewer for nearly two hours from 1:30pm to 3pm. An 18-minute overall average is almost unbelievable. Test Track’s 34-minute average should be one of the lowest of the year.

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The good times continue to roll as the low waits speak for themselves. Toy Story is 20 minutes at 10am and 15 minutes at 12:30pm. Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is never over 40. Great Movie Ride averages 11 minutes. This all harks back to five or six years ago.

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These are wait times during regular hours yesterday with the Halloween Party closing Magic Kingdom at 7pm. This may well be the lowest overall average wait that we’ve seen all year. You might remember that Tuesday’s overall average with the 9pm close was 25 minutes. If you were to just avoid Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Peter Pan’s Flight in the afternoon then you could basically walk on anything most of the day. I think a customized touring plan would even work in this climate.

Here’s wait times during Thursday’s Halloween Party:

Granted, Parties this time of year are lightly attended, but these patterns should hold for most dates moving forward. The majority of party-goers are typically interested in the Party-exclusive events and entertainment rather than getting in line for The Barnstormer. But the Parties remain the best time of the year to ride the rides. You’d want to wait until the last hour for Peter Pan’s Flight and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train but everything else should be a virtual walk-on all night. The one other exception for Halloween is Haunted Mansion, which sees actual waits of 10-15 minutes with added nighttime spookiness.

This should continue for at least ten days, though crowds typically pick up a bit moving into the end of the month as temperatures cool a bit and South Florida starts traveling north for the Food and Wine Festival.

Once a Halloween Party sells out, I’ll post the wait times from that event. And if wait times pick up, we’ll take a look at that too.