Walt Disney World has opened a single-rider line for Remy's Ratatouille Adventure at EPCOT.
A single-rider queue long has been offered on the original installation of Disney's Ratatouille dark ride, at the Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris. But this is the first time that single rider has been opened on Remy's in Orlando.
Remy's is a trackless dark ride that uses six-person ride vehicles, with two rows of three. That makes it an ideal attraction for single rider, given the usual distribution of guest party sizes. Theme parks use single rider queues to fill the odd seats that would otherwise go empty when loading parties onto ride vehicles, allowing the ride to operate close to full capacity and reducing the wait time for everyone.
But - when working properly - single rider can be a big time savings for the fans who use it. Just don't be that family that uses the single rider queue for the time savings but then complains when everyone in the family is separated and seated apart. (Or, as someone who often visits the parks solo, don't use the single rider line unless you're actually, you know, a single visitor.)
Disney is telling guests that the single rider queue for Remy's is a test, so it might not be available at any given moment. But since the ride was designed with a single rider queue, I would not be surprised to see this option become one that is offered whenever the regular queue fills to the point where single rider loading offers a capacity advantage.
Walt Disney World recently has been testing a single rider queue on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Other WDW attractions to use single rider have been Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, Expedition Everest, and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster.
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It's the same deal as on Radiator Springs Racers here in California.
I think any ride that has an odd number of seats per row of its vehicles should have a single rider line. However, for vehicles like Ratatoille where there are no dividers in each row, groupers should take a similar approach that Disneyland CMs make with the single rider line on TSM where parties with small children are not grouped with single riders.
A ride I regularly access via SR has extremely low capacity, and they don't even have a SR sign or anything. In this case, I agree that only someone truly solo should use it. Frankly, I think they would quickly eliminate SR if more started using it. Otherwise, though, I have no issue with people together using SR. At a point, though, it's a bit foolish. Five people may have to wait 10 ride cycles for everyone to get through, which seems more hassle than it's worth.
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I gotta say, isn't that a wee bit awkward to have a single stranger riding with your family in this style of ride vehicle?