Pic of Splash Mountain lap bars......

[Rob562]

If you drove a convertible down a steep hill, would you fall out of it?

-Rob

 

[Candlejack]

If you drove a convertible down a steep hill, would you fall out of it?

-Rob

Yes, I do it daily.

 

[bignick76]

Personally i did not mind the addition of lab bars!!!! That is untill i rode the ride last friday during my family's yearly trip to the world!!!!!! IT WAS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!!!! Im not a huge person but at 6'1 270lbs im not small ether. I rode in the front of the log and the attendant had pushed the lap bar down so tight the whole ride was painfull, maybe it was becaues i was in the front idk but still it was not a magical experience!!!! But all in all the trip was great, cant wait to go back

 

[Lucky]

My only concern is whether the lap bars will slow down the loading process enough to reduce ride capacity. Now it's not an issue, but it could be when spring break hits.

 

[hansel1]

My wife and I rode splash Feb 1st and the loading was not a problem. The ride operators had that going pretty smooth. The problem was that because the loaded the ride quickly the logs jammed up at all the lift areas. 4-5 logs deep. Not a fun ride when you are constantly stopping, bumping and getting bumped.

 

[Lucky]

My wife and I rode splash Feb 1st and the loading was not a problem. The ride operators had that going pretty smooth. The problem was that because the loaded the ride quickly the logs jammed up at all the lift areas. 4-5 logs deep. Not a fun ride when you are constantly stopping, bumping and getting bumped.

OK, so it won't make any difference. That's good.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Splash Mountain has regularly stacked boats, I'm not certain but I think the bottleneck of the attraction is the interval at the drop into the Briar Patch and not load/unload.

 

[Mansion Butler]

My only concern is whether the lap bars will slow down the loading process enough to reduce ride capacity. Now it's not an issue, but it could be when spring break hits.

It will absolutely affect capacity. Even a single second added to dispatch times affects capacity.

What's important is if the loss in capacity is made up for by fewer down times, and I'll bet that's the case.

 

[Lucky]

It will absolutely affect capacity. Even a single second added to dispatch times affects capacity.

What's important is if the loss in capacity is made up for by fewer down times, and I'll bet that's the case.

So a lot of the down time is because of idiots standing up or climbing out of logs?

 

[Thrill Seeker]

So a lot of the down time is because of idiots standing up or climbing out of logs?

Yup. That should be reduced now...

 

[imagineergurl]

Yup. That should be reduced now...

Or creating more downtime than a normal intrusion would cause by station or ride stopping everytime someone doesn't push down the bar, which from what I've heard is almost every other dispatch. Also the system wasn't designed to withstand so much abuse, I can see more longer downtimes being caused from the constant stopping just due to wear on the system.

 

[RSoxNo1]

It will absolutely affect capacity. Even a single second added to dispatch times affects capacity.

What's important is if the loss in capacity is made up for by fewer down times, and I'll bet that's the case.

This is not necessarily the case. If the dispatch time is less than another necessary spacing interval within the ride (time between logs at the drop), then the load time isn't the issue. Capacity would only be disrupted if the longest process in the ride (the bottleneck) is disrupted or something else is disrupted long enough to become the bottleneck.

Normally, the dispatch is the longest process but that's not always the case.

 

[Neverland]

It will absolutely affect capacity. Even a single second added to dispatch times affects capacity.

What's important is if the loss in capacity is made up for by fewer down times, and I'll bet that's the case.

I thought they were dispatching logs exactly as they used to, and just telling the guests to pull down their lapbars before the log enters the ride? The only delay in dispatch would be caused by station stops because a guest won't pull their bar down, right? That's how it is at other pull-down lapbar attractions with no double check. They send cars whether the lapbar is down or up, as long as it's pulled down by the time the car enters the attraction. So the lapbars don't affect anything; it's people not pulling them down that affects things. It's a ratio of ignorant guests and OHRC; the more ignorant guests, the lesser the hourly numbers.

But maybe I'm remembering wrong and Splash does have a double check. :/

 

[cathyy]

I don't see why everyone is up in arms over this. Pick your battles, guys. If you ____ about everything, it renders your complaints about the truly significant things less meaningful.

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Very good point!:sohappy:

 

[iheartdisney91]

i'm just pleased they are re-doing the logs, last few times i've been the logs were molding and gross to cling onto during the drops.

thanks for the pic!

 

[bearboysnc]

If the lap bars really slow things down that much, maybe the third load station will be used more often.

We there on Monday (Feb 7th) they were using 3 loading stations. Managers were crawling all over the place. The only thing that slowed down the loading was an idiot who wouldn't sit down because he was pulling on a poncho.:hammer: