You arrive at Magic Kingdom Park and anxiously walk down Main Street U.S.A. You walk past all of the surrounding shops, balloon-carting cast members, and the delicious smell of popcorn floats through the air. Everything seems to be going swimmingly, until you see the wait times! YIKES! A 90 minute wait for Thunder Mountain Railroad here and a 60 minute wait for Pirates of the Caribbean there! Where do you start? How will you know the wait times for rides, all the way across the park, when you get off your first ride? Well, simply said…”There is an App for that!”

Brent Pope, age 44 of Jacksonville, Florida, has come up with the perfect application for Walt Disney World Theme Park lovers toting an iPhone along with them on their Orlando vacation. He has developed “Wait Times,” a downloadable App for the Apple iPhone. By selecting from a list of rides in the park, guests use “Wait Times” to see how long lines are at Magic Kingdom Park. The App solely relies on guests inputting wait times to the App in their iPhone, as they experience ride wait times. For the program to be successfully accurate, only a handful of guests need to be inputting information for wait times. It takes as little as 12 people in a ride line to make it completely accurate!

“Every time I go to the parks, I walk off a ride and think, What do we do next?” says Pope to the Sun Sentinel. “The one thing that is so frustrating is you have to walk all the way across the park and when you get there, it’s a 90-minute wait.”

Verizon and Disney have joined forces to create a cell phone App for Verizon users to see official wait times within the parks, find shows in the park, restaurants, and character meet and greets to be launched at the end of the year. But, for now the “Wait Time” iPhone App is the one main solution to this common problem. Disney does post their wait times for rides throughout their theme parks, but the company doesn’t post any of that information online. Same goes for all of the other Walt Disney World Theme Parks, Universal Orlando, and the California theme parks. If the App is successful, Pope hopes to create Apps for those theme parks, as well. But, how will Pope get the App off to a good start? Pope will be visiting at least one Disney Park a day for the entire 2009 summer, in order to begin adding in wait times to the App. “Basically, it will be bring-your-kids-to-work day every day for me,” says Pope.

iPhone owners can add the “Wait Times” App for as little as 99 cents! And, here on OrlandoFunTickets.com, you can continue to save time and money by getting your Discount Disney World Tickets ahead of time. So, download the App and head to Magic Kingdom for a time and money-saving day filled with fun!