- Sep 15, 2012
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I got to Diagon around 9:30AM and Gringotts was 240 minutes. It's 12:15PM now and the wait is only two hours. Is this normal? I thought the wait would at least hold steady.
I got to Diagon around 9:30AM and Gringotts was 240 minutes. It's 12:15PM now and the wait is only two hours. Is this normal? I thought the wait would at least hold steady.
Teebin I am no sure who's actually saying this, but they are completely wrong. I've ridden Gringott's now 6 times and I can say without the slightest shadow of doubt that the front car front row is the best for the illusion/immersiveness. There's really no contest here. You're either getting a gorgeous completely unobstructed view of everything (front car) or you're in the back car where you see another car in front of you, seeing the tops of people's heads, and even a pole sticking high up from the back of that car that is right smack in the field of view of one of the main screens.
Again I'm not disagreeing that the second car gives better thrills, but you said "illusion" and there's no way it gives a better illusion than the front car.
After 20+ rides, I vote for row 3. The back car gets the best action on the drop, but there are sightline issues with several screens. Front row is a little too close to the screen for my taste, the screens seem slightly blurry to me there. Row 3 is the sweet spot for me, with decent height on the first drop and a little distance from the screen with no visual blockage.
I wonder if transformers fog is still down and if it's related in any way.
Yeah. It's been down since at least early June. Someone said it was a problem with the nozzles. But since hp had it at opening but has since stopped it almost seems like they haven't restocked on the co2. Cause I would assume the gringotts was stocked a while back before transformers ran out and has now run out like transformers. Idk. The fog effects for both rides are vital to the illusion and need to be fixed asap.
^ I wonder if there are EE sensor type problems happening on the ride due to the fog...
I just can't see it as a sensor issue. Surely they wouldn't go for it when a similar issue has caused well-documented problems in a popular ride (EE) for years? Hard to believe, but smfh if true.
Yeah... the mist on EE was highly pressurized water; the fog on this ride Liquid Nitro. Big diff. I was just yappin my train of thought...
Ah. My bad, I didn't know.
Just rode once more about 9:15pm and there was more fog than last time. The fog machines' duration is still too short (there was no fog lingering when the screen pulled away) but the burst of fog we got seemed acceptably large/dense. I'm more convinced now that it's an issue of the machines cutting out too early.
No clue why the water effects have been down for two days now. After landing, the free fall scene is almost devoid of interaction without them. Really makes the scene feel drawn out.
It isn't CO2, it is LN2 (liquid nitrogen). Marni told us that the TF issue was because of an LN2 thickening device not functioning. Also, and this is important... LN2 is cheap as dirt as it is literally pulled from thin air and it is the byproduct of ammonia or chlorine manufacture (or something like that).
So there, we are all up to speed now..