Disstevefan1
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Any word on boarding groups, Genie+, ILL?
As you say this is a must do and for sure everyone will want to experience it when it officially opens.
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Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot
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As you say this is a must do and for sure everyone will want to experience it when it officially opens.
lentesta
Premium Member
Ha! I know Disney loves to overcomplicate things.
I think they're designing this as a walk-through. It might require a standby queue right after it opens. If it stays that way I'll be moderately surprised. When's your next trip?
Disstevefan1
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We are unsure when our next visit will be, we know it will be during the cooler weather.
This does look to be designed as a simple walk through, no boarding groups, G+ ILL intended, but we know it will be a "Figment popcorn bucket" conga line situation when it first opens because its NEW!
I wonder what they intended to do in order to handle the initial crowds?
UNCgolf
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What did you think about the potential capacity issues -- both in terms of general space and in terms of the use of the interactive items?
TheMaxRebo
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While it is designed as a walk through, there is the potential for bottlenecks at places where there are interactive elements people will want to spend some time with and then like the disappearing water screens there are only 2 (it is a short effect people will want to film themselves, etc) so I do think some form of crowd control is important
Easiest thing I think would be to have a standby queue and if it gets too long (as not really a ton of space for a long queue) use like restaurant style offers for when you get called back to be in the queue
But Disney will probably use VQs to start since they have the system already vs something else
Fear
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Okay.
Disstevefan1
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Disstevefan1
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I have to disagree.
When this is open to everyone, unless they do boarding groups, G+ or ILL, this place will be "Figment popcorn bucket MOBBED".
UNCgolf
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Here is another look at Journey of Water with crowds somewhat similar to what it will be like when operational.
Full review coming in the next couple of days
Does this mean they've decided to have a hard (and relatively small) cap on how many people are in the walkthrough at any given time? Or is it more hopeful that it won't be significantly more crowded?
It will have a hard cap.
UNCgolf
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I'm interested to see what they do if it draws long lines. Does it end up on Genie+ and/or VQs?
Yeah me too! Will be an interesting first few days for sure.
UNCgolf
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Ignoring the fact that a walkthrough shouldn't ever have boarding groups/a VQ IMO, if it actually is really busy, it would be a good time to get rid of the totally unnecessary Cosmic Rewind VQ.
There is a capacity limit posted (forgot what the sign said). So, I'd imagine one of the reason there's a 'concierge desk' at the entrance is to enforce the limit once they reach it. Two come out, two allowed in.
151 is the posted "bathing load"
UNCgolf
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151 seems like a very small number -- do they have an estimate for how long they expect people to spend inside?
LittleBuford
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Disney really could use a good copyeditor.