spacemt354
Chili's
Yep, we're talking about DHS. And that's your opinion. You're simply not grasping the reality that some major factors for the 100+ min waits in DHS are completely tangential to whether or not the attraction is popular.
Hourly capacity and park settings have as much of, if not more of, an integral component into the attraction wait-times. Popularity doesn't always equate to longer wait-times.
Nope. FP stays.
"More" family friendly well designed attractions? Any additional offerings to the park that are enticing for park guests. Giving them more options. I'm not going to be an armchair imagineer, because we have already gone far enough off topic, but you can use your imagination. Anything from an eclectic mix of dark rides, kid rides, an E-ticket, anything to take some heat off of TSMM.
Now your next counter might be..."well more attraction offerings = more people in the park, which would cancel out any decrease in wait-time" Not necessarily...because spreading out interests throughout the park is critical for keeping wait-times reasonable. I'm not suggesting TSMM will change overnight. All I'm saying is you will see a significant decrease in wait-time if more attraction offerings are available to guests.
That's my opinion. Feel free to disagree, but that's what I believe.
I think you're just missing the point because you feel people have a venomous hatred of the ride. I don't hate the ride. I think it's a great offering. And yes, it is quite popular. But would you rank it on the level of ToT? Everest? Splash Mountain? Haunted Mansion? I wouldn't.
But again, big picture here. People are willing to wait because, well, what else are they going to do? It's not like they have much more going for them in terms of rides (DHS is down to 5 now, including TSMM) so 4 more things throughout the day. If you get the proper FPs you can knock out ToT and RnRC in an hour (maybe even less) and Star Tours is a 10-20 min wait. GMR maximum wait of 30 mins.
Then maybe you catch a show or two and grab lunch. If you started at 9am, it's now 1pm or so. What else do you plan on doing at DHS? If I was part of a family who only comes down to Disney every few years, I'd wait for TSMM, whether it's 1 hour or 2 hours, just simply because it's one of the newest attractions is the park (even 6 years later), there is nothing else to do, and I would like to spend more time in the park. Or I would have gotten a FP for it (if available).
Not everyone is waiting for TSMM because it's the best thing ever. From experience, some of my family members hadn't been to Disney in years and were willing to wait because they simply wanted to say they rode it. That same year we ended up going to DL at Christmas, and the wait-time on Christmas day for TSMM was 30 mins. I remember counting at least 5 attractions that had a longer wait-time (RSR, Cali Screamin, ToT, Soarin, GRR) TSMM is absolutely a good attraction, but some feel the ride is overrated because you're essentially waiting 2 hours to play a 3D video game. I would put it on the same level as Buzz, Anything more than 45 mins and it's simply not worth it.
I would be willing to bet that a Pixar Place expansion coupled with Star Wars would reduce TSMM's wait-times because they offer people more things to do throughout the day and it will spread out the crowds. More people will be in the park, yes, but newer offerings will assist the crowds at TSMM.
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