It seems I'm not the only one, but I'm having trouble groking what the line flow is supposed to look like with the new Forbidden Journey lockers. Perhaps the hivemind here can help enlighten me!
I haven't been to IOA in well over a year, but my recollection for the line then was as follows:
- Primary entrance was through the Hogwarts statues, but this was usually closed and you would be directed to the outdoor queue to the immediate left.
- The outdoor queue could be configured to be either long or short. Long would take you all the way back past the greenhouse, short would cut you over closer to the Anglia.
- Eventually you'd make it inside to the caves where the lockers are. Immediately past the lockers would be the Express or standard line split. However, nothing was ever in place that I saw that would prevent someone from entering the gift shop and going through chaos of the locker area and immediately to the line split, completely bypassing the outdoor queue. (Particularly helpful if you had Express!)
If I'm reading the construction pictures correctly, a new locker location is now being built in the outdoor queue? How the heck are the lines supposed to work with that in place? Or will the old lockers be kept for Express riders and they'll be routed directly there from the main Hogwart's statues entrance, and the standard line will start to the left of the Hogwart's statues at the outdoor queue? But then how would riders make their way back to the new lockers?
I'm totally confused!