EvilQueen-T
Well-Known Member
i know there's a lot of break downs of the rides (drives me crazy too) but doesn't it come down to the fact that the rides are aging and the parks are open much much longer hours than back in the day? for example take magic kingdom...back in the day when the rides were new the parks opened at 9 and closed max at 10 or 11pm. they always had basically 11p-9a to keep on top of repairs, tweaks, and basically just shutting down machines rather than them running and running nonstop. Now the parks may close as late as 3am and reopen at 8am over and over again on top of the rides being decades older. i think we have to face that it's like keeping an old car running...they break down more frequently and no matter how often you do refurbs they're still old machines running full time for long hours.