Capacity Per Hour for Rides

[CarlFredricksen]

Does anyone have a chart of what the capacity is for each ride per hour?

People have discussed the long term popularity of Little Mermaid now that it isn't the 'newest thing'. Waits aren't consistently 60 minutes anymore, rather 20minutes, however with it being a omnivore, it spits out a ton of people, so a long wait doesn't necessarily translate into popularity if a bunch of people are on it.

Curious to analyze riders per hour vs average wait times to figure out what truly are the most 'popular' rides.

If LM has 24,000 riders a day with an avg 20m wait, versus Pan 12,000 with a 60m wait (made up examples)

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Well I believe TLM can hold up to 1,000 people an hour. From peter pan to tlm Peter Pans carts move slower and I also believe there is less of them

 

[Tom Morrow]

Well I believe TLM can hold up to 1,000 people an hour. From peter pan to tlm Peter Pans carts move slower and I also believe there is less of them

That's a bit low, the omnimovers can do at least 2,000 people per hour.

 

[dancotton]

If you want to quickly see next time you visit, you can use this:
http://daniel-cotton.co.uk/foldedcorner/apps/throughput/

It's an android/ios app made by a user called Furby on UK theme park site, that I hosted on Google Play/Created iOS version. And it calculates throughput relatively quickly/painlessly

 

[MickeyMomV]

Keep in mind wait time does not have a direct reflection on riders per hour unless there is no wait. Regardless if there is 100 people in line or 1000 people in line if the ride is moving at the same speed and filling every seat the riders per hour will be the same.

 

[sjhym333]

Interesting thought. Here is what struck me though. Peter Pan is busy from just after opening to close, so you could say that it is popular because it is always busy. But if Peter Pan had a capacity of 2000 people per hour would it still be that busy? Then you need to factor FP in. The new FP system has pushed up wait times on some attractions. I was in the MK last week and Small World had a 35 min. Before Small World was part of the FP system that wait time would probably more in the line of 20 mins. You also have to consider ride vehicles on a track. Small World, Pirates, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Speedway all have the ability to add and take away vehicles and even whole tracks. The number of vehicles will impact capacity and wait times.

I rode Little Mermaid last week without a FP and the wait time posted was 20 mins and most of that was getting through the queue. I think once we got to the load area it took us 5 mins to get onto the ride.

My point is that there a lot of factors that go into capacity/wait times and popularity.

 

[andy773]

The website www.touringplans.com has estimated wait times per 100 people in line.

Little Mermaid wait per 100 people in line = 3 minutes (equivalent to 2000 people per hour)

Peter Pan wait per 100 people in line = 5.5 minutes (equivalent to 1091 people per hour)

They also have info for just about every other ride too.

I think you have to subscribe to the Touring Plans web site to get this info, but I've found it to be well worth the money.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Peter Pan wait per 100 people in line = 5.5 minutes (equivalent to 1091 people per hour)

"in line" would have to be referring to both the standby and Fastpass line. If the wait time was only 5 minutes per100 people in the standby line, that would be amazing as there are never usually more than, by my estimate, 200-250 people in the standby line.

Disney operates the Fastpass queue to take a minimum of 80% of ride capacity from the Fastpass queue, unless the queue is mostly empty. Advanced booking for Fastpasses ensures that there is always a continuous flow of guests entering the Fastpass queue.

 

[Bairstow]

Keep in mind that a lot of the rides are operating at far below their stated or designed capacities due to the massive increase in temporary stoppages to load guests from ECVs and similar. In general, the lower the normal capacity of a ride, the bigger the difference, so something like Peter Pan really takes a hit.

Also, certain attractions with finely-tuned preshow/loading timing have been compromised by the increased difficulty in merging FP and regular guests. Mansion is a particularly apt example of this- every time the queue aft of the preshow is allowed to drain to zero, hourly capacity is harmed.