From Nostalgia to Thrills: Our Ultimate Disney World Ride Ranking
Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning
Dan and Leslie Lowry
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On today’s Disney podcast, we’re ranking all of our favorite Walt Disney World rides across Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. From the classics that we love to ride anytime we go to the newest thrill rides with the best technology that require some patience to enjoy, we’re talking about all of the best rides in the Most Magical Place on Earth. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | We just rode rock and roller coaster starring the Muppets for the first time, |
| 0:03.8 | and it got me thinking we have not talked about our favorite Disney World rides in some time. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello and welcome to a Dick to the Mouse. |
| 0:09.8 | Today is Wednesday, June 17th. |
| 0:11.9 | You're listening to episode number 807, and today we are ranking our favorite Disney World rides. |
| 0:31.7 | Music rides. Hey everybody, Dan and Leslie here. Thanks for joining us today. It has been a minute since Dan and I have spent that many hours in a theme park and one day. And I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty tired. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, man, we do not spend eight hours in a theme park very often anymore, but we did today. And I mean, it was a lot of fun. But also at 96 degrees with Florida humidity and sunshine, it was a little warm out there. |
| 0:58.5 | It was a little warm, but the crowds were not bad. So, I mean, there's the blessing with the curse of the of the horrible heat, right? |
| 1:05.6 | That's that not as many people are here. So it was nice was nice. But yeah, so we actually got a lot of content. |
| 1:13.9 | We're pre-recording this by one day because I have an event on Wednesday that I have to be at. |
| 1:18.9 | So anyway, if any groundbreaking news comes out on this actual day that this is posting, |
| 1:26.0 | then you'll know why we're not talking about it. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah. So it was actually less crowded than it was a month and a half ago when we went to |
| 1:32.2 | Hollywood Studios and tried to, you know, hang out and find a table at baseline and do some |
| 1:38.4 | things. And it was just like oppressively crowded. And today it wasn't that bad. We did rock and |
| 1:42.8 | roller coaster starring the Muppets was a 45 minute standby wait. So we were going to do single rider, but we thought 45 minutes we can do that together as long as we can ride together. So we did that. It was okay. So full disclosure, rock and roller coaster is not my favorite ride because of how it bangs my head around. I will say like I don't think they did anything to the tracks, but I think they may have changed like the headrest or something because it didn't feel as bad today as it has in the past. I always try to like push my head back so it doesn't bang between the headrest, but it's still like vibrates. Like if you're going upside down, like I don't care how hard you're forcing your head back into the headrest, like it's still going to kind of bounce it around a little bit. |
| 2:19.5 | Yeah. And that's what I don't love because I always come off with a headache. I didn't come off with a headache today. So I don't know what they changed besides maybe the headrest because it wasn't down long enough to replace a track or anything. So they didn't, you know, I don't, Maybe it's just, maybe, I don't know, maybe I just was anticipating it and, and dealt with it better. |
| 2:35.8 | I don't know. |
| 2:36.7 | You dealt with it better. |
| 2:38.1 | I don't know, maybe I just was anticipating it and, and dealt with it better. I don't know. Dealt with it better. I don't know. Well, whatever it was. I, it wasn't as bad. I actually agree with you. I didn't think it was as rough. Now, Jennings was there with some friends and he said that he thought it was rougher. So, you know, but I don't know. I didn't feel like it was as rough. And I thought the theming was really cute. And I feel like it makes sense. It actually makes more sense to me than Aerosmith does with like it being the Muppets. It's basically the exact same storyline. So instead of Aerosmith being late for a concert, it's the Muppets being |
| 3:07.5 | late. So it's the same storyline, same pre-show just with Muppets. So it's like substitute Stephen |
| 3:12.2 | Tyler for, you know, whoever Muppet. And it's basically the exact same. The rides the exact same. |
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