doctornick
Well-Known Member
I asked this in another thread, but never saw an answer. Apparently, there was FPs distributed for LM. Where are the FP machines for this ride?
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Walls down - Fantasyland soft opening status
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danlb_2000
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muteki
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Nothing more than a gut feeling here. Just a "wow that seems high." I can't pretend to have any numbers or reasoning as to what it should be, but from the outside looking in, that is a lot. Is 80% still necessary to keep the fast pass line at a reasonable length even after the return times are enforced?
I don't think any particular number is "correct", but it seems to me that you give more or less leeway to the FP side depending on it's length, which can change. If 80% is necessary to accomplish this, one would think you would need to give out less fastpasses.
Now that would just suck.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
That's what I figured, but I hadn't seen it confirmed anywhere. Thanks!
Long term, Mermaid should have its own machines (across the walkway next to 7DMT). Is Pooh getting machines somewhere closer to the actually ride as well?
If so, I wonder what they will re-purpose the Philharmagic machines for in the future.
Neverland
Active Member
Actually, FPs for each hour are usually only 30-60 percent of the capacity for that hour. So if 1000 people can ride an attraction in one hour, 300-600 would have had FPs (in a perfect world where there are no downtimes and no passes that get people in the FP line, like GACs or GR tour guides). The percent varies from attraction to attraction. Peter Pan's is pretty high, and Mermaid's is actually sort of low for now (but downtimes and GACs make the FP line long). The 80-20 thing people are talking about is how many people are taken from each line (and it's not specifically 80 people to 20 people, it's just 4x). Since FP has priority, their line must move faster. Many times, the FP queue and the standby queue are the same length, but the big difference is that FP moves 4x faster. If they took 10 from Standby and 10 from FP, both lines would move at the same speed and FP would be useless. Even if it was 15-10, FP would still be slower than it should be. The goal is for anyone with an FP at any ride to wait less than 5 minutes. If the FP line is long, the ratio can be upped in favor of FP until it goes back to normal.
Lots of reasons. I don't mean that it had one big 3 hour downtime, I just mean that it went down so many times, that all those smallish downtimes added up to being about a fourth of the day. There was a 3 and a half hour downtime today though.
Magic Kingdom paper.
I'm disappointed.
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I saw. I also saw Winnie the Pooh on Magic Kingdom paper as well. Well, at least we still have Disney printed napkins and cups.Magic Kingdom paper.
PeterMarcus
Active Member
Ooh, lucky you! We were there yesterday (Sunday) about 3pm, and LM was down and the CM said it would be at least an hour before it was up again. We had plans at Food and Wine, so didn't get to do it. Also, we did Belle, which was fun, but at one point while we were waiting in line it was down for about 20 minutes (luckily we were in the air-conditioned house at that point). The CMs said: "Maurice is tinkering with the equipment and it'll be back up in a few minutes". So, they are definitely still in "Dress Rehearsal" mode.
TubaGeek
God bless the "Ignore" button.
I hope you're not pregnant, because it seems that you missed several periods.
Piebald
Well-Known Member
Won't bother reading through, but stopped by mk yesterday and mermaid was not open. Had a long line of folks waiting outside. Didn't bother with that and checked out the rest of the expansion. Everything looked great, Gaston surprisingly didn't have a huge line, bog looked very nice. Didn't do enchanted tale since it was 50 min and my gf was sick.
I wouldn't show up for this until I know its open for sure. Kind of disappointed mermaid wasn't running but alas that is soft openings.
I wouldn't show up for this until I know its open for sure. Kind of disappointed mermaid wasn't running but alas that is soft openings.
NowInc
Well-Known Member
In case you didnt see the threat I made for this..here are the useable pictures I took (having to manually focus in a dark ride sadly yields a lot of blurry photos)..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreggs/sets/72157631775953438/
HAD i known this was going to happen, id have brought a better camera/lens with me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreggs/sets/72157631775953438/
HAD i known this was going to happen, id have brought a better camera/lens with me.
Mawg
Well-Known Member
It wouldn’t have come across as a mindless rant if it had periods. It seems someone came up with a good joke and was just dying to find a place to use it. Nice job, it is a funny joke!
KitchenKabaret
New Member
I will be at MK on Friday. Is the area expected to be still at "soft opening" status then? I know there's a post that said it started on the 12th and will continue for a week, but I wasn't entirely clear on what that meant.
Rob562
Well-Known Member
This Friday will most likely be the last day of the current guest sneak preview/dress rehearsal period. CM previews start on Saturday.
-Rob
Grumps
Member
I spoke to a very friendly and sociable
CM the other night and she said that they would still be doing tests on Friday.