I've been checking the app to see when the queue closes because I want to ride again and prefer to wait until the evening, and what's frustrating is they arbitrarily close the line too. Sometimes as early as 7:30, other times 9:00 (with 10:00 closings). So you don't know when it will open or close. To guarantee a ride, you'd probably want to be in line by 7:00-7:30 at the latest.
You’re right. I have never worked at a theme park. But from the perspective of a theme park guest, the experience of getting kicked out of line multiple times and all the downtime was not fun. I get that it’s a new high tech ride. Which is why they should have had more soft openings and technical rehearsals. I also understand they wanted to tie the opening to the books. It’s amazing how some people dismiss legitimate criticism by saying I’m a Disney die hard. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have held a Uni AP for around 15 years. I criticize Disney and Uni when each deserve it. That said, I really enjoyed the ride. It’s right up there with EE for best coaster in Orlando IMO.
Just out of curiosity, which of those two coasters is better in your opinion?
Gotcha, that makes sense.
I’m a fan of trains and mountains, so Everest is my personal favorite of the two. Both are great though.
Well, softs were planned. Everything was going smooth during testing, they locked a date and then ... something happened (I still never heard exactly what) that brought everything to a halt. Unfortunately you can't just reschedule actors, media and such on a whim so now they were stuck.
Interesting
Things often go awry when a new complex ride opens. Heck, at EPCOT alone Universe of Energy didn't run reliably for a year, Spaceship Earth required someone to manual turn the cars for a year due to issues and Imagination never actually ran correct in its entire run.
I dismissed your “legitimate criticisms” because, in the past, you’ve disparaged Universal as the lesser of the two properties while wearing pixie tinted glasses that would make Elton John jealous. It’s hard to take opinions like that seriously.
I feel bad for the people not as fortunate as I am who are not able to come back as often. They’ve spent thousands of dollars to see Hagrid bc Uni’s marketing is telling them it’s open only to find it darn near impossible to ride.
If they're dumb enough to spend thousands of dollars to ride one ride.....
Ha.
Completely agree with that assessment.
Not to mention, the time the queue opens and closes changes every day. I'm fine with opening late and closing early if that's what it takes to get the thing running correctly, but I think a defined opening and closing time needs to be set. In other words, if the ride is operational, guarantee the ability to queue up between 1:00 PM and 2 hours before park close.
