Waits and Uptime Reports - Hagrid’s Magical Creature Motorbike Adventure
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What really matters is that this ride is a complete and very fun success by well thought and expensive design. If it hadn’t been a bugger to keep up and running one after the other I would have been shocked. I’m just thrilled that it is so enchantingly rideable and fun.
- Jul 18, 2008
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I think the real difference here is how honest Universal's been about this ride's problems. TOO honest. Disney still has everyone fooled into thinking Flight of Passage is the most "popular" ride in its history considering it still reaches 180+ minute waits daily even though it's been open for 2 years now.
No mention of the "overheating," no mention of the diminished capacity and that it's actual hourly throughput is closer to Peter Pan than Soarin', which was essentially referred to as 2.0 of that since its inception. Nope. It's so popular, even though most Animal Kingdom visitors balk at the wait time and keep on walking. Get there an hour before rope drop, gotta take advantage of Extra Magic Hours, book onsite for 60 day FastPass window and good luck.
Trust me.. month 1 has been ROUGH for Hagrid's and it's been barely operational, averaging as many working hours per day as a bank teller on a Saturday. But it has a much brighter future than FOP, the other best new ride to come out from both resorts in recent memory. Yet no one's calling that a disaster.
No mention of the "overheating," no mention of the diminished capacity and that it's actual hourly throughput is closer to Peter Pan than Soarin', which was essentially referred to as 2.0 of that since its inception. Nope. It's so popular, even though most Animal Kingdom visitors balk at the wait time and keep on walking. Get there an hour before rope drop, gotta take advantage of Extra Magic Hours, book onsite for 60 day FastPass window and good luck.
Trust me.. month 1 has been ROUGH for Hagrid's and it's been barely operational, averaging as many working hours per day as a bank teller on a Saturday. But it has a much brighter future than FOP, the other best new ride to come out from both resorts in recent memory. Yet no one's calling that a disaster.
- Aug 17, 2009
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Absolutely, but I'll take the honestly any day of the week. Not every guest follows a forum or resource like this, so it's great that they're informing everyone somehow of the weirder operational schedule currently. If it upsets some guests, so be it. You're never going to please everyone.
You started touching on it, but it feels like there's some short term memory about past ride openings. Ride openings are rarely smooth, especially with a new attraction. It doesn't make it a disaster by any means.
Forbidden Journey - Constant downtimes at first
Gringotts - Constant downtimes at first
Fallon - The damn building was shaking and the ride had to be adjusted.
Kong - Constant downtimes at first from the trackless tech
FOP - Overheating issues leading to downtimes
And so on...
Until we hit Test Track/Jaws/Earthquake level of issues, this is incredibly far from a disaster. The ride has been open for a month and some drastic improvements have been made. I have plenty of gripes with Universal, but a one hour downtime is bound to happen.
- Aug 18, 2017
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Add Volcano Bay to that list--remember when it was averaging two stars on TripAdvisor?
Steel Curtain just went down early this evening on it's official opening day at Kennywood. Yes, these things happen to new attractions.
I'm glad social media wasn't around when Universal Studios first opened.
- Jul 18, 2008
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"The app shows everything is closed??"
5 hour wait times yesterday for the new coaster at Kennywood Park. Only one car running. Yes, lines for these new attractions get long, even outside of Orlando. No need to panic for Hagrid. Universal will work it out, and it seems to be getting better.....See if this sounds familiar... Steel Curtain closed early yesterday evening due to technical difficulties. It didn't open until noon today due to those technical issues. and....from Kennywood Spokesman Nick Paradise, "It is not unusual to work through technical issues with a brand new ride, especially one as unique and complex as Steel Curtain"......I do not have an ounce of concern for Hagrid. It's about time to calm down. 
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- Jul 8, 2019
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I’ll try my best.
It was never 20 minutes - I saw that as I waited 140 in a posted 210.
More thoughts to follow later...
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Train goes by every 30 seconds. I dont know how many there are though.
From the past few days, it seems as though they are still having issues with having more trains than 6 on track, if the count is correct by others.
One would think that if they did have more than 6 and one developed an audio problem, then they would just leave it in the mix and not load that train. (unless the audio from it is seriously obnoxious)
One would think that if they did have more than 6 and one developed an audio problem, then they would just leave it in the mix and not load that train. (unless the audio from it is seriously obnoxious)
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