M&G's are well known to have terrible capacity due to the very nature of them. Speculation on the M&G has come up in this thread before showing how bad it could be.
What Frozen needed imo is a ride that could handle around 2,000 guests per hour.
Not everything can be a marquee attraction, especially when the design can't handle such a function.
Meet and greets do not "eat up people."
Thats a lot for the company to bank on. The possibility that a family would add an entire extra day just because of the Frozen attraction seems like a stretch.
With how long the lines will be they would need an extra day for it
Or, if both the ride and M&G are made top-tier FP options, potentially making families book in EP over more than one day. But that could also leave people cutting short (or skipping entirety) visits in the other parks....With how long the lines will be they would need an extra day for it
All theme park companies look at a number of factors before deciding to add or remove anything. In this case, it's partially motivated by attendance. It's also motivated by a request to capitalize on an IP quickly, efficiently and cheaply. Also because Maelstrom was scheduled to go offline anyways for a refurb. Among many other factors. The company doesn't care if there are lines out the door, until it starts to translate into real negative guest feedback. Lines look good. They make people think something is worth doing. If a line is too long, people will simply do other things within that park, and Epcot is a park that can absorb a lot of people and not feel crowded. Ops may have said "we can handle this" and it's to be determined whether that's the case. There are so many different factors that go into these decisions, and the company will weigh numbers and surveys and get opinions from execs who may or may not be getting real knowledge from their staff down the line. Whereas the people here will just look at it all from a capacity and length of line standpoint and go "this is gonna be a disaster, let's get the popcorn". Which may be the case. But the company doesn't think that way, and they also look at things in 5 and 10 year increments. Will have to wait and see.
or asking Disney to sell extra fastpasses lol.With how long the lines will be they would need an extra day for it
Lol, the M&Gs only get 300-400/hr.
They needed another theater along with that third for Soarin'.
Unless.. What if they expect the frozenmania interest to fade( by a lot) and quickly?.
Yes, but, the capacity of Snow White and the actual ridership may very well have been two different things. I don't remember Snow White as being a major draw (I could be wrong), if so it may have just canceled itself out with equal usage. By the time they get Frozen done, the majority of the current little girls that worship the franchise now will be in college and the audience will have matured beyond it. Hard to say right now, but, I guess we will find out. One thing I do know about little girls, is that like big girls, they can be very fickle.
A lot of people spend more than 1 minute for each character.
Right, but I think 1 minute is the goal average. And from sitting in M&G lines, that seems about right. I highly doubt the 100 guest/room/hour being thrown around here is accurate.
For what I've seen, the average doesn't seem to be 4 (in my experience at WDW).
