That's fine. But if you're going to tell the story of Jesus, tell what's in The Bible. That's not a hard ask. Jews want what the Hanukkah storyteller says to be correct. Is it too much to ask that Christians should expect the same for their story?
Try explaining Candelight standby line in Morocco.
Call me a tin foil hat guy then. It's happened way too much for me to think it's not a thing. It's either happening or Disney management is terrible at running the parks. If it's not a thing, I be absolutely dumbfounded.
Yea, it's hard for me to believe it's not a thing. I've experienced it on multiple trips. I have family members who have seen the same trend. If it was 5 or 10min I'd say ok, +/- a certain percentage, it can happen. But when it was almost every ride, and 15 to 30min off at a minimum, it makes you wonder. Only one ride my last trip was within 5min under. There's a big difference between an 1hr and 20min wait and a 50min wait psychologically.
They absolutely do not reduce capacity to sell more LL. It’s not a thing.
Yep,..I have two cast member friends that were told specifically under orders to NEVER tell a guest a "real" wait time. They were told to ONLY repeat the official posted time. If they are at the entrance and a guest says:
Hope you like having guests mad at you, dude.
They wouldn't be pleased if your guesstimate were deeply inaccurate.
This anecdote does not represent reality. The wait times being posted are not arriving from Burbank or some superior entity. The cast and coordinators at the attraction are the ones determining what is posted as the wait time. If they think it’s too high they have the power to have it lowered. It’s their job.
Even someone as jaded with park direction as I am knows they aren't manipulating wait times or capacity (both of which would be recipes for disaster, at best, and lawsuits if proof ever got out). They just often aren't good at estimating. I would have to place a lot of that on unexpected downtime, DAS, and hiccups in ride ops. Maybe with the changes in DAS they may get better?
Has anyone argued that they don’t repeat the determined wait time?
Not that I’ve seen. All that would lead to is every guest annoying the CMs to no end.
I guess it's they suck at running the parks then?
That's probably true, Burbank isn't mandating space mountain needs to have a 85min posted wait no matter the actual wait time. But they have every incentive to sell paid fastpass. And that's a very easy thing to manipulate. From cutting hours so there's less staff to running rides at less than full capacity... To just doing what just about EVERY corporation does that sells things. Make selling product X a priority, and then start holding people accountable for not hitting the numbers. It's amazing the things people will manipulate to keep their job. You see it all the time. The other thing that's a blatant manipulation is virtual queue. It's there for the sole purpose of selling LL for those rides that had it.
I’ve always been told the elevated wait times, as you suggest, are due to the constant possibility of a delay. People are happy to wait in a shorter line than expected. They complain when the wait is longer.
We've ridden BTMRR many times when only one side was running. There are countless examples of lowered capacity through all 4 parks at one time or another.
I don’t think that’s in question. It’s the intent behind staffing/capacity/estimates being argued — that it’s all intentional to sell more Lightning Lanes.
For me I don't believe they do it on purpose to sell more LL. They just at bad at estimating times. For all the data they have they should be better at it.
When was the last time they actually advertised fireworks at DHS on NYE? I know they didn't last year. Could maybe this could be an indicator they want to bring fireworks back to DHS in general or am I reading into it too much?
And on those days when they are unexpectedly slammed, they call CMs to offer extra shifts, move cast around, and work to increase capacity as quickly as they can. They won’t purposely force a 70-minute wait at BTMRR all day.