The team is surprisingly big. That is why they were able to tackle Potter opening day and the many other days that Wizarding World has hit capacity. It is also why they are able to coordinate events like Grad Bash and GradVenture relatively incident free. With a crowd that large you are going to have issues, it's not a debatable subject. How the company handled any high capacity event prior to the creation of the "Event Operation" team is beyond me. There are still a huge amount of people there and when you have that many people in any one place minor things will happen and issues will too.
Then why during the mardi gras parade you can't find an employee to save your life. Also, while watching the concert there was not many people around to stop people from smoking or other things they should not be doing. I just don't understand why crowd control should be an issue for a theme park. They should be used to dealing with crowds, I mean it is a theme park, crowded every summer. I mean MK has tons of people in front of the castle every night for fireworks and parade and stuff like that, but you still have employees directing people out of the park and it never seems to be a nightmare like some are saying for the pitbull concert.
I've been to Magic Kingdom enough times where the park closes after fireworks to know it was a nightmare and I've been to Mardi Gras' with terrible crowd control. They are of the same beast.
Not sure if Pitbull always goes big like this with the stage set up as i've never seen him at Universal, but the set up he had was very impressive compared to what artists normally do during Mardi Gras.
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The team is surprisingly big. That is why they were able to tackle Potter opening day and the many other days that Wizarding World has hit capacity. It is also why they are able to coordinate events like Grad Bash and GradVenture relatively incident free. With a crowd that large you are going to have issues, it's not a debatable subject. How the company handled any high capacity event prior to the creation of the "Event Operation" team is beyond me. There are still a huge amount of people there and when you have that many people in any one place minor things will happen and issues will too.
Thanks Jake. Crowd control is a lot harder and more complicated than you can imagine. Don't judge until you've done it and had to deal with crowds like that.
The crowds last night were not as bad as last week but the food lines were the longest I've seen them in a while.
Uhhhh it was 4:20 of course the food lines were massive, munchies anyone?
I think each band brings their own because the set ups have been different for each band I've seen
They brought out anything left from beads to the doubloons. I know firsthand that the bucket they gave us of them that was full was gone by the end along with all the beads they gave us :thumbs: