Am I missing something? Trying to plan for a trip to Epic Universe next week and projected ride waits are about what I expected except for Mine Cart Madness. It has 120+ minute wait at almost every time of the day - even at 8am. This has to be a mistake, right?
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I forgot to list the date I’m planning for. Friday, Feb 13.
This is fairly accurate. It definitely has one of the longest, if not the longest wait each day and still goes down a lot during each day. Pack your patience for this one!
It’s a really fun ride and a very slow loader so everyone wants to ride it.
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If you are among the first in line you should wait less than this. You’d need to truly rope drop to be ahead of the pack.
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It might not be open for early park admission. Yesterday was the beginning of the new procedure, and they are not guaranteeing which rides will be open, only that some rides in all lands except Darkmoor will be open. Yeaterday was rough because of the cold, the only options at the start of early entry were the HP ride and Mario Kart. I assume it will be better when it’s not so cold.
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Good point. Also tough to recommend burning morning hours at a ride that is so unreliable. This is why I bought EP for my upcoming trip. 
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I went straight to Battle of the Ministry yesterday and that worked out well. I waited in standby (I didn’t have express and single rider was not open yet). Took about 35 minutes and I got to see the queue as previous ride was with express. I had no idea that by the end of the night it would be a walkon but it was. I rode it 3 times yesterday. Same with Hiccups and Mine Cart. It was an excellant day to not have express, but not sure I would risk it on a regular day.
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Thanks everyone. I believed this had to be a mistake on the part of TP since absolutely no other ride including the headliners had any wait times over an hour at anytime throughout the day, but maybe not. I guess time will tell.
I did think about it not opening until later in the morning but changing my time didn’t change the two hour wait. Not planning on getting EP since I font have any waits longer than 30 minutes throughout the day. Fingers crossed.
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I would recommend treating Epic predicted wait times with a bit of caution - since the park hasn’t been open for a whole year yet, there is limited wait time data for predictions. You can read some recent discussion on this issue here and here. Len has provided some useful info on available data in the second thread.
Fingers crossed February ends up with low crowds for you.
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I don’t know that this is true. I have been there 5 different days now (over the last month) and the lines are pretty crazy. TP does not have enough info yet to predict. Express will make your life a whole lot easier. Epic is tough without it, unless you get a day like Sunday when it was 30 degrees at open, 45 as a high and back in the 30’s in the evening which kept away many people. It was kind of tough some of the days with express to be honest. We have had long waits with it.
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