Recent content by rushtest4echo

RCFD requested it, publicly. They got sick of nightly brush fires.

^ You've clearly gotten it all figured out. :rolleyes: Getting rid of ticket media wasn't required Removing room keys wasn't required Having a way to pay for stuff without a card wasn't required Making advance dining and ride reservations via the web wasn't required Having interactive signage...

You've made that point several times. It's a terrible one. Even the Cedar Fair parks have parkwide wifi going in now. The backbone upgrades and non-public wifi channels are used for an immeasurable amount of behind the scenes stuff. The majority of it has nothing to do with monetizing or FP+...

The fastpass portion of MM+ was a miniscule portion of the cost of the entire project. The rest was infrastructure related which literally brought much of the resort out of the stone age. Tens of thousands of rooms, thousands of POS systems, new network backbones throughout the entire property...

Amongst all of VB's issues with capacity, tapu, lockers, food, unreliable slides, queues and the other stuff that the most disappointing aspect is really the terrible choices relating to materials and the weak theming throughout much of the park. I almost fell over laughing when my wife and I...

If the new paradigm in water parks is that I'll be expected to queue for 30+ mins for minor slides, 90+ mins for family raft slides, and 150+ mins for the headliners then count me out. No amount of theming, food, interactive experiences, beach chairs or lazy river is going to change that. At...

What a massively low bar for comparison. The worst most botched opening ever, literally hundreds of thousands of vacations ruined and we're congratulating them for not being that terrible? Again, I really thought VB and Uni at large deserve more credit than that. But like I've said before- it's...

Lines were lengthy for much of the day, as in 30-40 minutes for the biggest slides including the hydro magnetic around lunchtime. Which is typical for even the big/most visited parks. Still, we rode the Master Blaster at Typhoon Lagoon with a 10-15 minute wait to our hearts content during...

Just got an email letter showing interactive Tapu elements. That's just blatant false advertising at this point. When I walked the park before opening I just assumed they'd rush everything together at the last minute. Seems like they tried that but still could get much of it done. Can anyone...

What stretch? I've already mentioned two that are flat out 1/3 or 1/2 the throughput of other similar slides at typical water parks. Others around the park have single raft load areas where many of those same models have two load areas for rafts which hugely helps with dispatch time consistency...

The massive flaw in the arguments of the Universal apologists responses to 2-4 hour queues is that those are NOT NORMAL for any water park on planet earth, virtual queueing or not. The biggest slides at any other water park on the busiest of days rarely exceed an hour. I've been to water parks...

Who would have predicted all of the disastrous issues with Tapu and the queueless system? :p:p:p Still though, having "no queues" turned out to be the disaster I knew it would. Unfortunate. I really thought they'd have some sort of ace up their sleeve that I wasn't considering. Instead, the...

Cash grab

That's going to be dumber than anything Disney has going with transport (and their transport, especially to water parks, is really dumb). Water taxis take 10-20 minutes depending on several factors. The walk over to the bus zone is another 10 minutes. Then there will be a 10 minute wait for the...

I'll start by saying that I can't stand when a one-in-a-hundred rider can't be accommodated and throws a fit. Working in the field I do, there are always issues with safely accommodating people with special needs and or bodily proportions. Some manufacturers are ridiculous with their inability...