Ride Review: Buzz Lightyear in Magic Kingdom

Overview

Location: Tomorrowland
Ride Time: under 5 minutes
Height: Any
Age: All; under 7yrs must be accompanied by someone over 14
Style: Slow, dark ride; spinning.
Accessibility: wheelchairs must transfer, audio description and handheld captioning
FastPass: available
Memory Maker: Available
Seating: 2 laser shooters; 3 max per cart; 2 adults or 2 adults and a child
Loading: continuous loading
Re-riding: 9 out of 10
Extras: If you are a large person, this ride will fit you reasonably comfortably. The legroom is reasonable. Anyone with back issues or similar, this ride is a smooth ride and should not affect you*

Ride Story
Help Buzz Lightyear and the LGM (Little Green Men) to save the day from Zurg stealing all the batteries. Board a star cruiser and travel through the Gamma Quadrant and use your infrared laser cannon to shoot the glowing “Z” target (Z for Zurg). Use the star cruisers joystick and rotate 360′ to hit all the targets in sight.

My Thoughts
This is a great ride for anyone. As it’s a shooting game, it has great re-rideability; I would give it a 9 out of 10, simply losing a point on queue times. It’s a consistent loading ride, so the queue moves fairly quickly. However, the standard queue can be long if Fastpass is being let through too often.
This is a ride I would not waste a Fastpass on though. Personally, I would pick up a Fastpass after my 3 pre-booked fast-passes have been completed. This is a ride I would not wait for a queue over 30minutes and would check back when its 30minutes or less.
Photopass is available. They will take your photo in the last room when you with Zurg.


*Please Note: the information given for riding is subject to your own decision on riding. You should decide for yourself if the ride is suitable, ask your doctor for advice. As the ride is a smooth ride there are minimum jolts or twists, the exception is on how you spin the cart. All information is given based on prior experiences of personal issues with rides.

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