Well, they added these things called "quick passes", so you can get into disneyland, and naturally head to the ride you want to go on eventually.
For instance, I went on the day of space mountain being reoopened ..last year? First thing we did was go get a "quick pass" for it. I think it gives you a time slot(1 hr or so, but a couple hours after you chose the quick pass for that ride) where you can basically skip 1 and a half hours worth of wait. And then you only wait 30ish minutes.
It's actually very smart, other theme parks do it as well. But they do limit it to 1 quick pass per person per ride at any given time, so you can't get 15 quick passes at once
Space mountain was cool, although I didn't really get the big hype about it, old one was perfectly awesome(just a little bumpy and could rough up the neck

), and this one is practically perfectly smooth, and the layout and all the stuff got modernized and has much more appealing looks.
I'd rather of hopped on space mountain for the previous 2-3+ years it was down, it was my all-time favorite at Disneyland, and wasn't as much fun without it
