So would you guys say all these issues mainly stemmed from a rushed development/construction? Or is this park just particularly unlucky?
Punga? No, it's due to ProSlide engineering.
Punga’s ending, Honu’s slightly altered angles (which was never a major issue, but it cut it a little past the ride envelope they wanted), and Kala Tai Nui’s Ending are the only main issues able to be attributed to ProSlide themselves (not to discount the issues and how they could violate trust, because they were bad).
A lot of Volcano Bay’s issues popped up because they were rushed. Theyreally needed about another month or two to play test a lot of elements, but Uni pushes the park to be open for the lucrative summer season. Some mildly consistent testing of the slides with people (apart from a very small handful of TM previews) would have given Uni real capacity numbers to work with. Effectively all electrical errors were/are Universal problems. The lack of Tapu test and adjust is a Universal problem (I know it’s a 3rd party system, but Universal effectively took ownership of it. Almost all of Tapu’s initial issues apart from falling off (which still happens) were Universal.
I can’t think of a single person in Universal Corporate that is “proud” of the opening of Volcano Bay, but now that the park has grown into itself it is one of Orlando’s best balanced waterparks.
