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SeaWorld Orlando's Future Plans

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This should be a great addition for the park. A much-needed indoor ride that will exit into an excellent animal exhibit. The Mack Airific design should help with capacity too. Assuming a 36-seat capacity and a 4:30 ride time, the simultaneous loading/riding should theoretically mean a throughput of 480 people an hour per theater. The question would then be how many theaters are there going to be?
 
This should be a great addition for the park. A much-needed indoor ride that will exit into an excellent animal exhibit. The Mack Airific design should help with capacity too. Assuming a 36-seat capacity and a 4:30 ride time, the simultaneous loading/riding should theoretically mean a throughput of 480 people an hour per theater. The question would then be how many theaters are there going to be?
Remember that this is SeaWorld operating the ride, it takes them 4-7 minutes to load a single train.

Hoping for 2 theaters.

It's never too late for a flying theater. . .
I think it's fine, but doubt we see much interest around it that can draw significant crowds. The awe of motion simulator tech has gone away, but this should do well as the single indoor experience in the park.
 
Remember that this is SeaWorld operating the ride, it takes them 4-7 minutes to load a single train.
This is true, but hopefully the fact that the normal operation of the ride requires dispatching on a predefined interval (rather than a roller coaster where trains can just pile up on the brake run) will encourage ride ops to move fast enough to make the deadline. Otherwise they'd have to halt the ride experience and leave 36 people dangling in a dark theater every time there's a delayed dispatch on the other side, which will be extra awkward if the final turn around and moments after are a scripted scene of the ride like RiseNY.