I got to the park at 8:30 and went on the ride at 9:50
When I entered the line in the Lost Continent this morning, team members were shouting 3 and 4 hours. When I got off the ride an hour later, the posted wait was 210 despite the line not ending until well past the entrance from what I saw. The Single Rider line was light when I was boarding; getting past the lost continent line was the only hurdle for that line
I think what you're describing is how they thought they'd be able to fight through spacing issues - on most coasters that run 3/4 trains you can fire all the trains through and catch them at the end. But three blocks for 8-10 trains with the complexity of the Devil's Snare right before those blocks is a lot for the computer to process.
You may be able to hold a train at the curve, but from what I can tell they can't address spacing for the entire length of load/unload because it's all one system tied to the speed of the walkway. Load/unload is where you should be able to clear all that up - if you had extra blocks at the beginning in the area between launch 1 and 2 in addition to the three at the end, I would think it would be a lot easier to keep the ride in sequence.
I'm no expert on ride programming, it just seems like continuous load was a mistake. I think we can all agree that this thing is beyond complex - I can't think of a more challenging coaster profile than the stretch that goes Fluffy, switch, LIM, spike, reverse LIM, switch, switch, drop, switch.
Rode today - posted at 210 but wait was only 63 minutes. Here's the weird part. 50 minutes of it was outside, waiting. Once inside the queue literally zoomed.
Most likely before that around 6pm as they seem to be overestimating by more than double.Ride is at capacity as of ~5pm. Last I checked the wait was 150mins so it looks like they're aiming to have it cleared by 7pm
Most likely before that around 6pm as they seem to be overestimating by more than double.
Was there any non-weather related downtime at all today?
Happens everytime lolWell this is all sounding rather encouraging!
....awaits immediate update of doom post....