scott7

Exactly. It's kind of amazing how much the line tapers off in that time frame, almost like people forget about it. I think by that time most people have either (A) got their X2 ride in (B) Assumed the line's still too long to get a ride in © Are on the opposite side of the park or (D) plan on hitting it on the way out. Of course it's still X2, so the line usually doesn't just vanish, but compared to earlier in the day it's almost always much much better.

It seems with X2 that most people tend to ride it either right at the beginning of the day or right at the end. The first few hours seem to be the very worst, as it appears that the majority of people in the park go straight there, making for some very long lines. The general consensus among the people in line tends to be that "it's only gonna get worse," so they wait it out. The remaining people who don't brave it in the morning seem to save it for the last ride of the day, thus leading to some fairly long lines again at night. This leaves the time period in between as an opportune time to ride X2, as lines are often much more bareable in the mid-afternoon than at other times. X2 seems to be different from the other lines in the park in that instead of starting out small and getting progressively bigger it's line starts out quite big and then gets smaller before increasing in size a bit again near the end of the day. I'm not sure if this is neccesarily always the case, but over the course of several visits in the past year this seemed to be true.