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Welcome to The Sorcerers Guide! We track wait times at the Disney Theme parks to make predictions about crowds and wait times in the future. Checkout our park overviews (with predictions for today's Wait Times), RideRouter (our tool for cutting down on your time in lines), or our Crowd Calendar for our take on the beat ways to enjoy the Disney parks.

Park Overviews

These pages have overviews for each park at Disneyland and Walt Disney World: park introductions, comments on park quality, and wait times in some of the key attractions.

RideRouter

RideRouter is our park planning tool. It uses machine learning and statistics (lots of math) to make predictions about what wait times in the parks are going to be. Then, you tell it what attractions you want to visit, and it jses artificial intelligence to find the best order for your visit. Its goal is to find the route that minimizes your total wait time. You can also make changes in the order to fit your needs and see how that affects the overall length of your day.

Blog

Our blog covers history, news and rumors about what's happening in the parks. Disney has a rich history of discarded concepts and unbuilt attractions, but a good idea never dies at Imagineering. We love looking at what they've thought about and seeing how it turns into new attractions - sometimes decades later. Our blog focuses on that Imagineering history, the science of theme parks, and what's new and exciting in the parks.

Crowd Calendars

We track queue times at Disneyland and Walt Disney World to make predictions about crowds in the parks. We track wait times at the parks every day, and make predictions about how long the lines will be in the future. The crowd ratings here are based on predictions about whether most rides will have wait times above or below their averages. That means that the Crowd Calendar represents how long you can expect to wait in line on each day. We rate the crowds on a scale of 1 to 10.

  • Disneyland Crowd Calendar for Current Month

    Disneyland

  • Walt Disney World Crowd Calendar for Current Month

    Walt Disney World

This approach does not tell you about how many people will be in the park - it tells you about how many people will be trying to ride rides. So if there's a special event (like fireworks in New Years Eve), the park may be packed with people, but we only give the park a high rating if all those people make the wait times longer than normal.

Popular Posts

Height Restrictions Translated to Age Ranges

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Height restrictions keep kids safe, but they can be frustrating. If you have ever taken kids to the parks, you know what I mean. Every cast member measures a little differently, so sometimes you make it all the way to the loading zone and then get turned away. Other times your kids are just slightly too short, and you wish they would have worn taller shoes. One of the most difficult things, in my mind, is planning trips and figuring out how long it will be ’till your kids can meet height restrictions. Especially when some can ride and some can’t, the younger ones want to know how much longer ’till they’ll be big enough. I don’t know any parents that have memorized a growth chart and can say, “My child will grow 1 inch in the next 9 months, so we should plan a trip then.” When we plan trips with our kids, we just keep measuring them and telling them to eat a bunch in hopes they’ll be tall enough for more rides. Fortunately, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has released  data ...
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5 Fun Facts About Disneyland’s Opening

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It’s been 65 years since the Happiest Place on Earth opened to the world. To celebrate, here are 5 facts you may not know about Disneyland’s opening. If it failed, it would have become movie sets Disneyland was expensive to build, and Walt needed more money for it. Roy Disney was the company’s financial leader and was responsible for finding all the funding they needed.. To convince lenders to hand over more cash, Roy told them that the project was low risk. His story was that even if the park proved unpopular, the park could close to the public and turn into movie sets. Frontierland could be used for westerns, Adventureland for adventures, and Main Street for turn-of-the-century stories. I’m not sure what they could have used the Fantasyland circus tents for, though. July 17th was supposed to be a smaller party Disney sent invitations to a selected number of people for the grand opening festivities. The park was meant to open to the public on the next day, July 18th. However, some ind...
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Monte Cristo Sandwich Recipe

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If you haven’t tried a Monte Cristo at Disneyland you definitely need to try one. They are by far our favorite meal at the park. And since we celebrated a birthday last week I thought I’d try my hand at making one homemade. After some searching I found this official Disney recipe: It only took a few minutes to make the batter. The batter is much thicker than I thought it would be, almost as thick as pudding, but it coated the bread easily and fried well. We used “Texas toast” instead of regular bread so the sandwiches were a little thicker. We don’t have a fryer so we just heated oil in a pan and that worked well. I realized I didn’t have any powdered sugar so I couldn’t put the finishing touch on. They don’t look nearly as pretty as Blue Bayou or Cafe Orleans, but surprisingly they tasted pretty good.
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