Rumor Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath

larryz

larryz

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Bocabear said:
in the last 18 years of visiting WDW I have actually never seen it...though I am sure it happens on occasion
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Well, I've got the T-shirt. It's happened often enough to me to leave an impression. Maybe it's the time of year or the time of day I'm there, but ... it is what it is. Or what it was.
 
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smile

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Purduevian said:
Maybe this will help!

Situation 1: Short Ride
Assumptions:
1) Na'vi River Journey takes 45 seconds to complete its circuit
2) Each Boat can hold 6 people
3) It takes 15 seconds for 6 people to unload and 6 new people to load into the boat

Scenario 2: Na'vi River Journey has four boats
- The four boats now get spaced evenly across the ride spaced out every 15 seconds. One boat is leaving the load, one boat is 15 seconds in, one boat is 30 seconds in, and one boat is 45 seconds in, entering the loading area.
-Theoretical hourly capacity = 6 people per 15 seconds = 1440 people per hour can start their ride

Situation 2: Longer Ride length!
Assumptions:
1) Super Na'vi River Journey takes 1 minute and 45 seconds to complete its circuit
2) Each Boat can hold 6 people
3) It takes 15 seconds for 6 people to unload and 6 new people to load into the boat

Scenario 2: Super Na'vi River Journey has eight boats
- The eight boats now get spaced evenly across the ride spaced out every 15 seconds. One boat is leaving the load, one boat is 15 seconds in, one boat is 30, 45, 60, 1:15, 1:30, and one boat is at 1:45, entering the load .
-Theoretical hourly capacity = 6 people per 15 seconds = 1440 people per hour can start their ride
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allow me to possibly clear some haze regarding added duration/rv's...

the above is correct:

in sum,

45 to complete circuit plus 15 unload/load means 60 secs from dispatch to dispatch - so, a single boat goes from dispatch to dispatch 60 times an hr
60 times an hr times 6 people per boat means each boat cycles 360 an hr
360 per boat means 4 boats cycle 1440 people an hr

105 to complete circuit plus 15 unload/load means 120 secs from dispatch to dispatch - so, a single boat goes from dispatch to dispatch 30 times an hr
30 times an hr times 6 people per boat means each boat cycles 180 an hr
180 per boat means 8 boats cycle 1440 people an hr

x seats going thru x times an hr - pretty easy

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however, while the amount of people cycling thru every hour is exact in both instances, at any given moment, the former scenario is taking 30 guests off the pavement, while the later is absorbing 54
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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marni1971 said:
Yes, it could.

But we’ve been over this many times before.
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There are two different 'types' of capacity. The physical number of guests a ride accommodates at one snapshot in time and the number of guests a ride can allow on in a given period of time.

The first (what you are talking about) is the only thing increasing number of RV's via ride length achieves. Assuming no change in dispatches or RV size. It's also a sort of meaningless type of capacity. The same "thing" can be accomplished with a longer queue. Albeit guests used to like longer experiences rather than longer 'experiential' queues.

But that's ultimately not the relevant capacity we are talking about. Mostly because Disney and modern guests seem to value a hard number of attractions they can accomplish in a day. Not the amount of time physically spent in a ride vehicle. Otherwise Energy would still be a thing.

So increasing ride length is unfortunately meaningless when we talk about capacity as far as the usual nature of this conversation is concerned. Although many of us still equate longer attractions as a superior experience.
 

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