Dumbo

This morning I have been going through pictures of my Family's Disney trips from the past 4 years and one ride I keep seeing a lot of is Dumbo. So I thought I would blog about Dumbo today. The Dumbo ride is a great classic Disney ride and in fact the one you will probably wait the longest to ride in all of Fantasyland. It does not matter the time of day or the time of year you will probably wait at least 30 minutes to get on this ride. I am not saying there is not the rare occasions where "the stars are aligned" and everything is timed perfectly and you get on in 10 minutes, but this is rare.

Now the exciting news about Dumbo- this Disney Classic ride will be relocated and expanded as part of Disney World's Fantasyland expansion. Here is some concept art of the new ride

The key changes will be that there will be two Dumbo rides going at once and they will be adding fun activities to the waiting areas. The Fantasyland expansion project is due to break ground sometime in early 2010!

Hopefully once all is complete and newness wears off this will make the wait times for Dumbo not so ridiculous and if they are long you will have some games etc to make the time go by quickly. However Dumbo will always be a ride you have to go on at least once while at Disney no matter what the wait!

My Tips for Dumbo:

-If you are doing an extra magic evening hours and plan on staying awhile do Dumbo around 11:45 or so.

-If you do not have extra magic hours then the best bet is going to be to get to the park at opening go straight to Dumbo no stopping for photo pass pictures in front of the castle no Main Street Bakery breakfast just get in line for Dumbo!

-For good pictures if you have a family of four of larger get Dumbo's next to each other and take pictures of each other during the ride (the grown-ups might have to grab the controls a time or two the get the shot lined up)

-Also don't forget you can make use of the Dumbo outside the ride for photos as well

- One more tip- if your child loves the Dumbo ride and you do not want to wait over and over maybe try the Triceratops spin at Animal Kingdom or Magic Carpets of Aladdin at Magic Kingdom in Adventureland both these rides are very similar to Dumbo but usually have much shorter wait times