The attraction is worth many rides. Depending on where you sit, you will have a slightly different experience. It is recommended to sit in the 3rd row.
The first image shows guests boarding the Runaway Railway. The second image shows what the car looks like when it leaves the train early in the ride. The third photo shows Daisy’s tireless efforts to find the perfect car to enjoy her room.
Courtesy Disneyland, Kirsten Acuna/Insider
I love finding the perfect seat to sit on a ride. The boarding area for the runaway train is 8 rows. A guest boards his one of the train’s four carriages. Each vehicle he is in two rows (pictured above).
The Runaway Railway starts off as a unified train, but the carriages interrupt early in the ride, each independently following a magnetic path and zooming through multiple rooms.
Schwartz said the attraction was designed to give guests a different experience than all of the attraction’s cars. All cars go to the same room, but I noticed that some cars spend more time in certain rooms than others.
After my first ride on line 7 on Wednesday, I had a mission. It’s about finding the car that’s been in Daisy Duck’s room the longest. Later in the ride, the four cars spill into the dance studio, where Daisy harmonizes the cars before turning the room into a dance party with a fun conga melody.
Depending on which car you’re in, you’ll experience two seconds of conga bits before moving on to the next room, or a few seconds of groove to the beat. Wednesday I rode his 7th row, 1st row, 8th row in that order. My first two tries of him were the first vehicles out of that space.
So I went back to the attraction on Thursday and got into the last two cars in rows 3 and 5. Of course, my objective wasn’t just to be the last car out of Daisy’s room. We also wanted to determine if one car would improve the overall ride quality.
I boarded in the 5th row, 3rd row, in that order. It took me until the last ride to get the conga time I desperately needed.
During the five rides, we also made some observations.
The vehicle you boarded may not return to the station at the same location by the end of the ride. All but the fourth car change places by the end of the ride. (My understanding is that the fourth car is accessible to her ADA and can be segregated to a separate loading dock.)
If you start in car 1, you will be near the train’s caboose (car 3) as you approach the exit of the ride. If you start in car 2, you will be in car 1. Train No. 3 will be the second car.
Shaver-Moskowitz told me he enjoys the front row because he can spend more time watching Goofy in the cab. rice field. Car 1 starts near Goofy, but goes far away from Goofy at the end.
Row 3 is the best place to sit on Runaway Railway. Not only does it spend the most time in Daisy’s dance studio, it’s the first car to enter most of the rooms front and center. Plus, by the end of the ride, you’ll be right behind Goofy and get an up-close look at him giving a short monologue that’s exclusive to the Disneyland version of the attraction.
If you want to see Goofy, we recommend aiming for row 1, and if you want to spend more time in Daisy’s room, we recommend aiming for rows 3 to 6.
