Yep. With 5 trains operating, and a hold up at unload or load, the next train will hold outside of the unload station, and the next one after that will hold at the projection scene. This prevents that train from having to come to a hard stop at the brake zone before the yeti in the event that the hold up still is not cleared by that time.
I love AK. The safari and the walk through in Asia are extremely enjoyable for animal lovers. I wish they would add Australia and the America with animals and a ride or 2 each. The space by Asia is perfect for this and if they did this the capacity of the park would increase tremendously. My wife and I can spend a full day there and still not see everything. If and when they do this second expansion AK will be a 2 or 2 1/2 day park.
Pandas. That is a great idea.
I dunno, it might be harder to do that than one would think. How long would a train have to sit for it to be triggered? What if it's triggered, but the train is cleared to move one second later and now that extra "scene" was cut short for everyone? What if a train gets stopped there for 15 extra seconds and everyone sees the extended projection - but if those 34 people ride again and sit there for the correct length (i.e. A shorter length), they'll think they missed out on half the scene and get upset that their ride experience was cut short. No, I think that would cause more troubles than it's worth.
I was wondering myself why they made the Yeti so complicated and heavy. Is it a case of an engineer totally overthinking the project? Couldn't they have done something more simple like the AA of Cap'n Sparrow in Pirates - not to mean simple in that I could build it - but easy to operate and maintain? Maybe a fine set of light up eyes with fake fur, teeth and claws on a light weight plastic frame of a growling Yeti AA, and a swinging arm may have been all that was needed to make the effect realistic in the fleeting few seconds it is seen?
