Not sure if he's been linked here but this YouTuber orlandave is doing update videos about every week on volcano Bay progress and changes. He's not the greatest at videos and editing but does a good job pointing out minor changes that happen.
Not sure if he's been linked here but this YouTuber orlandave is doing update videos about every week on volcano Bay progress and changes. He's not the greatest at videos and editing but does a good job pointing out minor changes that happen.
That was nearly 30 years ago. Has Universal management not learned anything since then?
Curious- if I go first thing in the morning, and everything is "ride now"- could I scan, for example, both oh ya and oh no one after the other and be able to ride them within one hour? Or if you do a "ride now", you have to "ride now".
Because if it's the hour thing- that'd make touring a little more interesting.
Nobody asked me, but this is what I think Universal should do to reverse any PR damage from opening the park before it was ready.........When all construction is finished, systems are all tested & ready to go, Tapu straightened out, etc.....Issue a public apology for opening the park before it's time....Stage,publicize, & invite the local media & public to a "New, Grand Re-opening of Volcano Bay". Have one week of special activities and special entertainment for The Grand Reopening. Give all customers during the Grand Re-opening a commemorative 2017 VB Medallion, a token for a Free Coke & Free Fries. Do this Grand Re-Opening in late August or early September, after the summer crowds have thinned....Do this, and it will help alleviate & soothe any ill feelings from the public, especially locals. People love free stuff. And, most important, it will give Universal a marketing boost during the time when attendance may slow..... Turn a negative into a positive.
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I disagree, I think they just need way more stuff to keep them entertained. A lazy river, wave pool, lounging, and eating is only so fun. They need to boost their things to do while you wait than kill tapu tapu.
This logic is flawed. By taking away slide X the lines will become larger for honu, krakatau and slide x. The wait would be more like this;THIS. It's not the one-ride at the time, it's that everything outside the pool and lazy rivers has it. We have a perfect example of this with recent history...
When Disneyland first installed FastPass they went too far. They installed it on way too many attractions. Just taking the West Side of the park, it was on Indy, Pirates, Mansion, Splash, and Thunder. That left Jungle Cruise, Tarzan's Treehouse, TSI, Riverboats, and Pooh without it. Even with those few rides the walkways were crowded, and while people COULD do those attractions all they wanted (like VB's wave pool and rivers) they didn't want to ("Hey kids, let's go spend ANOTHER hour on Tom Sawyer's Island while we wait for Pirates"). And this doesn't even factor in that at least at Disneyland you have the option of waiting stand-by! The result?
First of all Disneyland disconnected Mansion and Pirates (and Roger Rabbit and Star Tours) so you could now hold two at once. Then they fully removed FastPass from Mansion (except for Holiday) and Pirates completely. This was a much better situation for the guests as they could hold FastPasses for the big attractions while riding others.
This, in my mind, is the fundamental flaw with TapuTapu. I see slides everywhere, and can't ride any while waiting. Arguably the best approach would be to keep TapuTapu on the big headliner attractions and then have a bunch of slides with normal waiting in line.
Today (totally made up):
- Krakatau: 200min...play in rivers/wave pools while waiting
- Hanu: 150min...play in rivers/wavepools
- Slide X: 30min...play in rivers/wavepools
Potential Future:
- Krakatau: 200min...play in rivers/wave pools
- Hanu: 150min...wait in "regular" line and ride Slide X three times.
Yes, those wait times would change if we changed up which rides had TapuTapu but the point remains that just like at Disneyland, people want more options of what to do while waiting. Instead of playing in the lazy river for the third hour I'd be more than happy to wait an hour on the steps for a slide!
Loved all that you said- but sadly, you didn't change the capacity at all.Today (totally made up):
- Krakatau: 200min...play in rivers/wave pools while waiting
- Hanu: 150min...play in rivers/wavepools
- Slide X: 30min...play in rivers/wavepools
Potential Future:
- Krakatau: 200min...play in rivers/wave pools
- Hanu: 150min...wait in "regular" line and ride Slide X three times.
Yes, those wait times would change if we changed up which rides had TapuTapu but the point remains that just like at Disneyland, people want more options of what to do while waiting. Instead of playing in the lazy river for the third hour I'd be more than happy to wait an hour on the steps for a slide!
This logic is flawed. By taking away slide X the lines will become larger for honu, krakatau and slide x. The wait would be more like this;
-Krakatua - 215 Minutes
- Honu - 165 Minutes
- Slide X - around 150-300 minutes
Loved all that you said- but sadly, you didn't change the capacity at all.
In your scenario, the capacity doesn't change- and the virtual lines would be significantly higher.
Heres just a random example:
10 single person slides- each can do 100 rides in an hour. 1,000 Rides, yes?
All 10 rides are virtual with Tapu Tapu- 1,000 rides an hour.
Say there are 2,000 guests. Everyone wants to slide all the slides equally- thats 2 hrs wait for everyone on average.
Now- lets take your scenario where only 5 rides are virtual- 500 in an hour.
5 rides are traditional- 500 in an hour.
The same 2,000 guests are now waiting 4 hours on average for the virtual slides.
The same 2,000 guests are now waiting 4 hours on average for the traditional slides.
They get to ride 2 slides in 4 hours. Or one every 2 hours. Exactly the same as if they were all virtual.
Now- I get what you're saying regarding perception- so take the guests looking up at a traditional line- and they see it's 4 hours worth of waiting- then they don't get in line. Maybe those wait drops to 1 hour because only 500 of the 2000 are willing to wait that long for a 20 second slide. But that still does nothing but increase the wait times of the headliners- as there are less virtual slides to queue for.
It's an all or none thing for Tapu Tapu- splitting it up or allowing reservations would only make it worse in every scenario.
Faster ops, less technical downtime (maintenance), more rides, or less attendance are the only fixes. Nothing else.
Where Tapu Tapu is a problem- is that people are still "in line" when they normally wouldn't have been in line traditionally. Such as lazy river, eating, pooping, playing in kids area, etc etc. So Tapu Tapu in and of itself creates slightly larger lines- so they need more Tapu Tapu rides without increasing their attendence, and that would, in turn, reduce times amongst all the other Tapu Tapu rides.
TOO. MUCH. MATH.
BANS FOR ALL!
kidding...