lentesta
Premium Member
I have a much more limited dataset (my own experience plus what TP publishes), but there was one day (Jan 6, 19) when there were high waits at Kilimanjaro Safaris early, as mentioned in the volatility post. My explanation was Everest being down. The family behind me in line had a FP for Everest that changed to a flex-FP. It doesn't work for FoP, so say half goes to the Safari, and half to Dino. That goes to the FP line, not standby. If all that happened in an hour, you'd have no capacity left for standby and those waits could spike. However, that is something Disney would know as it's happening.
Unplanned ride stoppages is the primary reason Disney's doing same-day FP drops, so this makes sense.
Do you have more user submitted datapoint than the few dots shown? I've looked for some of my submitted times and didn't see them.
They should all be in the data files. If you don't see them there, they were filtered out for some reason. Let me know an example time and date, and I'll ask the stats team to look.
I started looking at this when trying to figure out what would happen with Galaxy's Edge crowd & wait wise. Not using FP is a great operational decision. Consider a capacity of 1800/hr. A 3 hr, no fp+ line, has 5400 people in it. A 3 hr standby line with FP+ taking 2/3rds of capacity only holds 1800. That's 3600 people in line that you'd need to entertain otherwise. After RoTR opens and they get to 2hr lines for each (assuming still no FP), that's 7200 people in line. That's 2.5M guests per year, or a huge attendance increase for DHS. To answer the question @danheaton posed to you of 'where will the Galaxy Edge crowds go?', I'd propose, many of them will be in the standby lines! The other question I had a guess for: 'where will the GE crowds eat?', I say Epcot. Skyliner over for more dining options.
That's exactly the math I'd use to explain why there'll be no FP.
As for where they'll eat, I think the highest-rated place in DHS right now is the Starbucks(?). I don't think there's enough dining options there for those kinds of crowds. I'd expect Epcot and the Epcot resorts, plus Disney Springs, to get a lot of traffic.