A Disneyland game

LadyDarling

LadyDarling

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I thought up a fun game for those of us who go to Disneyland often. :sohappy:

Guess the wait at an attraction!

For example:
I may be going Sunday. What do you think the wait will be on the Tower of Terror at around 11am? I'll take a picture of the sign an post it and we'll see who gets closest! :)

~Jay
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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50 minutes. I can feel it.
Hey, did you ever think that DCA's Tower's lines are shorter because it has another drop shaft? I mean, say each elevator in MGM's Tower can hold 20 people (this may be wrong, but go with me for a minute please) and there are 20 rides per shaft per hour (again, go with me please). Multiply that my 2 drop shafts and you have 800 riders per hour. Now, since DCA has another shaft, you add another 400 people per hour. That's 1200 per hour to MGM's 800. Say both Towers have the same popularity and 2400 people per hour want to go on the ride in both parks. Which 2400 People will be on a shorter line? *Insert Jeopardy theme here*. That's right, DCA's. If you take away one of DCA's Shafts you may find that both rides have the same wait times. You just need to do the math (and have alot of free time to do it :p)
 
LadyDarling

LadyDarling

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Corrus - (my apologies if I spell that wrong) I am sorry you feel that way! It was honestly all intended in good fun, just like your Disney ABC post on the Disney Trivia board. It doesn't matter to me how many times I or others do or don't post. I was just trying to get some chatter going on a great, often too quiet board. I'm sorry you're not enjoying the good clean fun of it! :) I've always enjoyed your input on the other boards. But, as always you are more than entitled to your opinion. :)

~Jay
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
50 minutes. I can feel it.
Hey, did you ever think that DCA's Tower's lines are shorter because it has another drop shaft? I mean, say each elevator in MGM's Tower can hold 20 people (this may be wrong, but go with me for a minute please) and there are 20 rides per shaft per hour (again, go with me please). Multiply that my 2 drop shafts and you have 800 riders per hour. Now, since DCA has another shaft, you add another 400 people per hour. That's 1200 per hour to MGM's 800. Say both Towers have the same popularity and 2400 people per hour want to go on the ride in both parks. Which 2400 People will be on a shorter line? *Insert Jeopardy theme here*. That's right, DCA's. If you take away one of DCA's Shafts you may find that both rides have the same wait times. You just need to do the math (and have alot of free time to do it :p)
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That doesn't exactly work b/c MGM's is set up to run 4 shafts at once, and since only the first half of the ride is in the first shaft, they can have both shafts cycle through in one ride cycle. That's 4 elevators running per ride cycle. Since the entire ride takes place in one shaft at DCA, they can only run 3 elevators per ride cycle, since the other elevator in each shaft can't enter until the first one's ride is complete. The capacity probably works out pretty evenly with DCA having a shorter ride time, but I have heard it is less.
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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ISTCNavigator57 said:
That doesn't exactly work b/c MGM's is set up to run 4 shafts at once, and since only the first half of the ride is in the first shaft, they can have both shafts cycle through in one ride cycle. That's 4 elevators running per ride cycle. Since the entire ride takes place in one shaft at DCA, they can only run 3 elevators per ride cycle, since the other elevator in each shaft can't enter until the first one's ride is complete. The capacity probably works out pretty evenly with DCA having a shorter ride time, but I have heard it is less.
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Oh, um, ok . . . I don't get it. Thanks for the input! I'm sure it makes sense, it's just the fact that I am better at understanding what doesn't make sense than what does that discombobulates my brain :hammer: .
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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during any ride cycle on the MGM tower (ride cycle being the time it takes one elevator to return to the loading area after leaving), two elevators cycle through each of the two drop shafts, because once one elevator leaves the first shaft to head toward the drop shaft, another elevator can begin going through the show scenes--each of the two sides of MGM's tower can have two elevators going through the ride at any one time--they just stagger when each elevator starts its ride to keep the two elevators from entering the drop shaft at the same time. At DCA, since the entire ride takes place in one shaft, they can only run one elevator in each shaft per ride cycle, times 3 drop shafts, equals 3 elevators with 21 guests per ride cycle. MGM has two elevators times two drop shafts, equals 4 elevators with 21 quests per ride cycle. That's the best way I can explain it. DCA's version does, however, offer more efficient loading (which I won't even go into, but it has to do with having two floors to enter on) and a shorter overall ride time to try and increase capacity. Evidently, crowds haven't really necessitated great work to keep the capacity up, though.
 
LadyDarling

LadyDarling

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Soorrrryyy!!

Alright. My plans changed AGAIN! I'm not going until Wednesday. If anyone wants to change thier guess, please edit your original post so that I am not accused of trying to boost anyone's posts again... I'll post the result Thursday!
Thanks for your understanding!
~Jay
 

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