Good to hear you're back. Your posts were always interesting.I just returned from my first trip to Universal after 4 years, and holy bananas, this roller coaster is amazing. I get sick on anything Hulk/RRR or above, and I didn't even come close to feeling sick on this. I'm bewildered and ecstatic.
I just returned from my first trip to Universal after 4 years, and holy bananas, this roller coaster is amazing. I get sick on anything Hulk/RRR or above, and I didn't even come close to feeling sick on this. I'm bewildered and ecstatic.
Final push, vote Velocicoaster!
Final push, vote Velocicoaster!
They are still struggling with Express at Velocicoaster lol
From Saturday -
Standby Posted: 115
Actual: 28
Express was using the main switchbacks in the main raptor statue room, standby started just inside the raptor windows.
Woah, is this pretty common? As in, if I see the wait time posted that high I should go ahead and get in line anyway?They are still struggling with Express at Velocicoaster lol
From Saturday -
Standby Posted: 115
Actual: 28
Express was using the main switchbacks in the main raptor statue room, standby started just inside the raptor windows.
They seem to be struggling with scanning express tickets as well since by the time we passed metal detectors the entire post-detector queue was completely empty, even though the queues were rather full before lockers.Huh they must be messing around with the merge.
This was at night when the park was surprisingly busy, but during the day the wait-time will definitely be a lot more.Woah, is this pretty common? As in, if I see the wait time posted that high I should go ahead and get in line anyway?
I've never seen Touring Plans stat numbers for inflated wait times at Universal. I'm guessing they don't get enough guest tests to legitimize a number. But they do that weekly at Touring Plans for the WDW parks, and the average is that the 'actual' standby line wait numbers are 60% to 64% of the park's standby 'posted' wait numbers. I'd guess that Universal is probably in that neighborhood also, and probably done for the same reasons.
It's a busy season now so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but it'll be interesting to see in May when things slow down.It seems like the ride would be better off for everyone if they took away Express. Express isn't running fast enough to please those that pay for it and it has really inflated the wait times for standby. It's like nobody is winning right now.