Kong - skipping outside portion

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JT3000

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celluloid said:
The amount of trucks has little to do with staffing. They are unmanned ride vehicles.

There are different things it could be.

Something with outdoor course tracking(not likely)
Something with other trucks not cooperating(likely)
Doors to temple(fairly likely)
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I'm aware there's no one on the trucks. Reducing the number of vehicles a ride is running reduces its number of cycles (and its capacity), allowing a park to cut corners on ops & technical staff & reduce the potential need for repairs as a cost-saving measure. Less esteemed parks do this all the time. The alternative possibility is that the other trucks (or that section of the ride) are already broken and they don't have anyone fixing them in a timely manner. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Either way, it's not a good look when a ride isn't running at full capacity, whether its accidental or intentional.
 
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sonoma15

sonoma15

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celluloid said:
Yes. It is a shortage of trucks when it is a two truck capacity. The rainy day operation of bypassing the outside is implemented.

Between the first row no longer in use(you don't really want it) and this change. It is sadly a much reduced capacity and lesser experience.
The kinetic energy outside and believing there is a large scale excursion too. :(
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The outside portion is not being skipped because of capacity. I've seen it running with more than 2 trucks many times since the outdoor portion broke.
 
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celluloid

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sonoma15 said:
The outside portion is not being skipped because of capacity. I've seen it running with more than 2 trucks many times since the outdoor portion broke.
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No one is saying you are seeing it skipped becuase of capacity. The operation of two trucks is a reduced operation of what it could be. When the outdoor portion is being bypassed you are seeing as a result is a reduced capacity. It cannot be run with max capacity operations without the outdoor section as load and unload would be backed up. It is a shortage of capacity when you see two trucks. The cause, can be various, and the latest is not weather.
 
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sonoma15

sonoma15

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celluloid said:
No one is saying you are seeing it skipped becuase of capacity. The operation of two trucks is a reduced operation of what it could be. When the outdoor portion is being bypassed you are seeing as a result is a reduced capacity. It cannot be run with max capacity operations without the outdoor section as load and unload would be backed up. It is a shortage of capacity when you see two trucks. The cause, can be various, and the latest is not weather.
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Ah, I thought you were saying that the outside portion was being skipped because of a shortage of trucks, that's my bad.
 
Andrew25

Andrew25

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Tom Morrow said:
Anyone have an update? Has anyone experienced the outside portion lately?
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They're having issues with the outdoor track, doesn't look like any work has been done.

I know WDW gets lots of criticism, but its time Universal starts to get it too. Can't wait for Epic, but my fears of them "neglecting" the current parks to an extent due to resources being spread thin are coming true unfortunately.
 
Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow

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If we can have a stickied thread for 15 years about the status of the yeti, then occasional updates on this issue are fine too. The quality of the ride experience takes a pretty big hit without the outside intro. It's not a particularly great ride to begin with so I feel this is pretty important.
 
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ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Tom Morrow said:
If we can have a stickied thread for 15 years about the status of the yeti, then occasional updates on this issue are fine too. The quality of the ride experience takes a pretty big hit without the outside intro. It's not a particularly great ride to begin with so I feel this is pretty important.
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Yes, this is unacceptable and decisions like this make me worry about how EU will be maintained. Better go during year 1!
 
Andrew25

Andrew25

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ToTBellHop said:
And now the 3D glasses are gone to save money. They are hellbent on ruining this ride.
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I tend to defend Universal a lot on these forums from some ridiculous arguments... but boy have they've been making it difficult these past few months now.

I understand that cost cutting is expected at times... but we already lost a significant portion of the ride, now they get rid of another? Smells like a corporate decision, probably from someone who doesn't seem to care about the guest experience, or probably been on a ride since last April.

Thankful that Universal Creative and their Entertainment teams keep creating great things... but boy do their operations/management team suck.
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Andrew25 said:
I tend to defend Universal a lot on these forums from some ridiculous arguments... but boy have they've been making it difficult these past few months now.

I understand that cost cutting is expected at times... but we already lost a significant portion of the ride, now they get rid of another? Smells like a corporate decision, probably from someone who doesn't seem to care about the guest experience, or probably been on a ride since last April.

Thankful that Universal Creative and their Entertainment teams keep creating great things... but boy do their operations/management team suck.
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I just don’t know what the endgame is here. It’s not a spectacular ride to begin with. But it is a headliner that gets its own land.

Why make it worse?
 
Andrew25

Andrew25

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ToTBellHop said:
I just don’t know what the endgame is here. It’s not a spectacular ride to begin with. But it is a headliner that gets its own land.

Why make it worse?
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The corporate mandate to save on costs doesn't care about the guest experience, unfortunately. I can care less for Kong, more worried about what other ideas they have to cut costs.

Time for #ThanksEpicUniverse
 
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JT3000

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JoeCamel said:
Maybe they will devalue this enough to tank it then they can rebuild with a JW themed dark ride and reinstall the entrance gate to the land....

A boy can dream
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Probably not enough space for the one in Beijing. More likely scenario, if allowed, is they continue to ignore it and let the whole thing become an embarrassment until it eventually closes, replacement TBD at a later date.
 
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JoeCamel

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JT3000 said:
Probably not enough space for the one in Beijing. More likely scenario, if allowed, is they continue to ignore it and let the whole thing become an embarrassment until it eventually closes, replacement TBD at a later date.
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I'd be happy with smaller RVs driving esses through foliage and AA dinos
 
Tom Morrow

Tom Morrow

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Andrew25 said:
Thankful that Universal Creative and their Entertainment teams keep creating great things
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The track record isn't as great as theme park fans like to believe. Going back a decade:

2014: Diagon Alley - great as a whole, but Gringotts and Hogwarts Express are not as stellar as they could have been.
2016: Hulk redo - technically a plus, but always came off as doing the bare minimum to refresh the ride. Made worse in some ways, like the lack of cool, memorable launch audio.
2016: Kong - It's okay.
2017: Fallon - I think it's okay but most think it's not very good.
2018: Fast - bad
2019: Hagrid's - great
2020: Bourne - bad
2021: Velocicoaster - great
2023: VillainCon - bad
 

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