News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions

Incomudro

Incomudro

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britain said:
Great to hear, but will the ride itself be at least as good as Star Tours? I consider that a great ride. That is expected to be replaced because Millennium Falcon is ostensibly better, but I'd hate to lose Star Tours for something that's not quite as good (terrific packaging notwithstanding).
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Well, the Falcon ride is being built many years after Star Tours - and even though Star Tours was upgraded (greatly) in recent history - we still have to expect that the Falcon ride has the benefits of time and technology on its side.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Evan-500 said:
The greatest thing they could do is build interactivity into the attraction. I hate on Mission Space that it really doesn't matter if you press things or not, or if you press something for fun and nothing happens. Don't give us specific rolls, just let us play around, press buttons, move switches, and have things happen. That would be insane.
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I can see it now. I'm in the back seat of the Falcon while some kids from Eugene, OR are crashing the ship into an asteroid. Then I'm sitting in the dark for the rest of the ride because we are virtually dead.
 
yookeroo

yookeroo

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phruby said:
Problem is your always interrupted by an AA version C-3PO.
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Can I be interrupted by her?
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Old Mouseketeer

Old Mouseketeer

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britain said:
The thing that interests me is that, going by the films, the MF is a big ship, but not vast. Han is able to run from the entrance ramp to the cockpit in a few seconds. Granted there are other rooms to explore, but the MF portion of the queue will simply have to be a fraction of the total queue for this attraction. So it makes me wonder about what the rest (likely the majority) of the queue will be like.
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There was a rumor somewhere of moving the ramp to the opposite side of MF. This would take the cockpit out of sight of the queue.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Curious Constance said:
And Tiki birds at 4:00!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nice catch. Those are parrots that are distant descendants from the parrot colony that has live in the nearby City of Orange for decades. The Trader Joe's in Orange has the local story written out and illustrated above the checkout stands; in 1964 the Barnum & Bailey Circus train came to Orange on the Santa Fe spur line to San Diego, and a crate of trained parrots got loose. They quickly took up residence in the growing suburban community of Orange, and their descendants have lived there ever since. Orange has had wild parrots living in backyards and parks since the 1970's, in the 1980's they arrived in next door Villa Park, and in the 2000's they began to expand to nearby Anaheim, Yorba Linda and Tustin. Apparently a small colony has now taken up residence at the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure.

But if Disney was smart they would lure them over to Adventureland instead.

As for Star Wars Land, I hope the parrots don't show up there. It would ruin the theme. And I've been running the numbers in my head on this Millenium Falcon ride that uses a carousel of rotating pilot's pods that seat six (instead of the more accurate three humans and a Wookie). Even with four separate carousels and a dozen pods on each carousel, with a four minute show time this thing would have lousy capacity of 1,500 riders per hour or less. Or am I missing something?
 
TP2000

TP2000

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mickEblu said:
Yes you are. The Force TP. Use the Force.
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I'm trying. Honest.

But all I can think of is the row-assignment CM saying "How many?" to the endless line and I say "Six" and she says "Pod #1" and we go over and take 30 seconds to board the pod and then the door closes. And every 60 seconds another pod slides in and she loads another six people into it. With four carousels doing that simultaneously, that's a six-seat pod loading every 15 seconds. And that means that if every single seat is filled and every single pod leaves on time every 15 seconds, the Millenium Falcon ride can get 1,440 riders per hour.

A Google search reveals 1,440 is roughly half the hourly ridership of Pirates of the Carribbean. And 500+ less per hour than Haunted Mansion and Big Thunder Railroad, or several hundred less per hour than Indiana Jones or Space Mountain or Radiator Springs Racers.

Yikes.
 
Curious Constance

Curious Constance

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TP2000 said:
Nice catch. Those are parrots that are distant descendants from the parrot colony that has live in the nearby City of Orange for decades. The Trader Joe's in Orange has the local story written out and illustrated above the checkout stands; in 1964 the Barnum & Bailey Circus train came to Orange on the Santa Fe spur line to San Diego, and a crate of trained parrots got loose. They quickly took up residence in the growing suburban community of Orange, and their descendants have lived there ever since. Orange has had wild parrots living in backyards and parks since the 1970's, in the 1980's they arrived in next door Villa Park, and in the 2000's they began to expand to nearby Anaheim, Yorba Linda and Tustin. Apparently a small colony has now taken up residence at the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure.

But if Disney was smart they would lure them over to Adventureland instead.

As for Star Wars Land, I hope the parrots don't show up there. It would ruin the theme. And I've been running the numbers in my head on this Millenium Falcon ride that uses a carousel of rotating pilot's pods that seat six (instead of the more accurate three humans and a Wookie). Even with four separate carousels and a dozen pods on each carousel, with a four minute show time this thing would have lousy capacity of 1,500 riders per hour or less. Or am I missing something?
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That is so cool!!!! I wish we had wild parrots!!!
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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TP2000 said:
I'm trying. Honest.

But all I can think of is the row-assignment CM saying "How many?" to the endless line and I say "Six" and she says "Pod #1" and we go over and take 30 seconds to board the pod and then the door closes. And every 60 seconds another pod slides in and she loads another six people into it. With four carousels doing that simultaneously, that's a six-seat pod loading every 15 seconds. And that means that if every single seat is filled and every single pod leaves on time every 15 seconds, the Millenium Falcon ride can get 1,440 riders per hour.

A Google search reveals 1,440 is roughly half the hourly ridership of Pirates of the Carribbean. And 500+ less per hour than Haunted Mansion and Big Thunder Railroad, or several hundred less per hour than Indiana Jones or Space Mountain or Radiator Springs Racers.

Yikes.
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Yeah not great capacity. I think you re pretty spot on with the 1500 per hour. Isn't that what the rumors have been saying too? Or was it closer to 1800? I think the Battle escape attraction is supposed to have better capacity but I don't think by very much.
 
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The Mur

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I think your capacity math is wrong -
12 RV per carousel with 6 riders each. If we assume a cycle time of 6 minutes (being a bit more conservative than your 4 minutes) then there are 10 cycles per hour so each carousel is 12x10x6 or 720 per hour or 2880 for all four carousels.
If the cycle time is 4 minutes then we get to 12x15x6x4 or 4,320

Lots of assumptions in there but I don't think it is quite as bad as thought.
 
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