JoeCamel
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168 riders per trip and a trip every 7 minutes. Running 15 hours a day for now. The wonder of cablecars and Swiss engineering
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I'm going to throw this guess out here for an area that hasn't been mentioned, which I don't want to be right, but, replacement of the Matterhorn? (although I guess that you might need more space than that...)
PhotoDave219
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The numbers are legit. I just don't recall anyone touting rides or press releases with 2500 HRC before.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
I have standards too, all be it very low ones, but Id return the Mails calls, they may be raving, mental, border line, racist xenophobes, but if you cat laugh at that what can you laugh at?
PhotoDave219
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They dont pay enough.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
I would be more sympathetic had I not suffered for years with the its Crown Copyright, you get hee hawww no matter what you took malarky. Id feel worse had they actually been good stuff
Goofyernmost
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OK, so using those numbers and if it ran constantly for those days, which it didn't because some was the soft opening and there have been many stops for tweaking, that would amount to 21,600 per day times 38 days equals 820,000. That isn't a million. That was my question. How could it possibly be 1,000,000 in that short a time? If it was even close to the number that I put there, it still would be impressive, but, I cannot see that it ran all those days for 15 straight hours with no problems and no stops, and that there was a full train in each direction every time. A little over estimating I think.
It doesn't really matter because it is obviously a good attraction, but, I don't think that over blowing the numbers was necessary.
The "Disney By The Numbers" site states that 10 million people visited Magic Kingdom in less then 10 years. That's a little more then 1 million per year, per year not 38 days. It just seems a little high and doesn't compute in my mind. Must be the Harry Potter magic.
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PhotoDave219
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I just want more money.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
But what about the art, its surely about sharing the creative vision, paying bills is over rated
PhotoDave219
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Since we're talking Hourly Ride Capacities.... I stumbled over this.
http://crooksinwdw.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/theoreticaloperational-hourly-ride-capacity-at-wdw/
Can anyone give any insight to the accuracy or the validity of the numbers?
http://crooksinwdw.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/theoreticaloperational-hourly-ride-capacity-at-wdw/
Can anyone give any insight to the accuracy or the validity of the numbers?
PhotoDave219
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Sometimes crap pays the bills.
71jason
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I believe those numbers are one-way.
fascinating information
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Correct, each train can make a cycle in 7 minutes and there are two trains, so that would bring the total to 1,641,600.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Well you can put faith in an unsourced random website. Or you can chose to believe Universal or not who has the means to count every single rider explicitly through their turnstiles boarding the trains. It does seem a bit goofy when you have such a high capacity attraction.. but nothing wrong with having a little fun with celebrating things that are actual progress.
Since you don't like their numbers... taking your 38 days. Assume a middle number of 13hrs a day.
1,000,000 / 38 days = 21,600 a day. 13hrs a day = 1661 /hr. If it's running 'full' at 336 riders per cycle.. that's basically 5 cycles per hour to hit their 1M. If their target is 8mins/cycle that means their total theoretical would have been 90 cycles a day = 30,240 per day.. or 1,149,120 after 38 days.
Basically they only had to be running at 85% efficiency to hit 1 million after 38 days.
CDavid
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How do you know that what is missing didn't matter to the majority of guests? The fact that people still flock to the parks proves absolutely nothing. We all know Disney has made major cuts in the guest experience, with rapidly increased prices for a lesser experience. Just because people still come doesn't mean what was cut wasn't important, it just means people generally still see enough value in the experience to continue paying.
You are grossly underestimating the importance of detail in a themed environment, even when such details are not directly observed by most guests. High-end or rare items were never meant to be fast selling items; Instead, the purpose was part of the theme and setting of the shop, land, or pavilion in which they were found. In Frontierland you would expect to see frontier items. The same generic "Disney Parks" stuff you see everywhere doesn't exactly set the same tone - even if it sells far better. As such, the land has indeed lost something of the total experience, and it does matter. As has been observed many times, all the little details do add up, even when you aren't consciously aware of them.
PhotoDave219
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But Still, we're talking the same amount of guests that POTC, Mansion and it's a small world handle.
Cesar R M
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CDavid
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What is % attendance? Percent of total number of persons in the park who experience that attraction???