TP2000
Well-Known Member
You'll forgive me if I take @marni1971's and @RSoxNo1's word over yours in matters like this. So let's say both have an actual, real life capacity of 1700-1750.
Of course, I don't blame you. But that One Millionth Rider that the Disney Parks Blog touted after the first 45 days of operation was very telling. The Falcon at the Anaheim park averaged 1,388 riders per hour during its first six weeks of operation this summer. That means a few hours were 1,600, a few hours were 1,150, and there were lots of 1,300 hours in between.
Turntables shut down for a bit, a kid throws up in one of the cockpits and its taken offline for 30 minutes, a video screen is broken for the day, etc.
I imagine the DHS clone of the Falcon is doing about the same during its first month or two of operation. CM's who work in Anaheim's Star Wars Land who post on another board are saying that if the Falcon gets anything above 1,600 for a single hour that's considered something to celebrate.
But let's just say the real-world realities don't intrude on Falcon at DHS, and that it gets 1,700 per hour consistently for 16 hours every day, day after day, week after week, through calendar year 2020. That's still a fairly weak hourly capacity for an E Ticket. 52 year old Pirates of the Caribbean gets 2,900 per hour, Haunted Mansion gets 2,100, Small World does 2,500 per hour, the Epcot Center Omnimovers all did north of 2,000 per hour, as does the 3-theater version of Soarin' at Epcot. Etc., etc.
1,700 per hour is nothing to really brag about, even if that was something that happened consistently hourly and daily, instead of just once in awhile when the stars aligned, every single guest understood English instructions, not a single guest was disabled, and the CM's were on fire.