Gazza
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^In my experience I thought it was fine. Yeah I had to wait 60 mins a couple of time for rise of the resistance and for Slinky Dog Dash, but then on the other hand I got on pirates of the Caribbean in 10 mins. In fact, here is my trip report from 2023 I stayed at Magic Kingdom 9am-4pm and according to my trip report I took 16 rides on attractions. So that's more like 2.2 units of entertainment per hour. Granted I skipped the line on Tron and 7 Dwarfs, but even without doing that, 14 rides in 7 hours is still very good. I don't think I've ever had a day at a Disney park where I "only got on 5 rides all day". Statements like that are cope, they are well run parks.
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So just on this, in the industry theme parks should aim to provide 1.5-2 Units of Entertainment per hour. That is, guests want to experience some form of attraction about every 30-45 mins On some days this will drop because "you cant design the church for Easter Sunday" and on certain days you'll get 2hr waits because its too expensive to build out capacity if you only get smashed a few days per year. But if a park is routinely getting 2hr waits on more than say 10-14 days per year then that might indicate there's not enough capacity for the attendance.
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Tropical Cyclone Alfred - Impacts on the Theme Parks
Gazza replied to themagician's topic in Theme Park Discussion
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Get the blue fire station music playing somewhere, particularly from 2:25 https://youtu.be/uS5Ixb0qCdk?si=a_spulOwodycLS3n
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Hey did anyone notice that Dreamworld has started playing the music from Vliegende Hollander around main street. Makes me happy. For some reason I kept thinking it was Pirates of the Caribbean music and then 30 mins after I left the park I was like "oooooh I remember where that's from!". Any other new music that has popped up?
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What ride should replace Doomsday Destroyer?
Gazza replied to Prequel's topic in Theme Park Discussion
No the ride actually had a design oversight where the wiring looms were only long enough to reach between sections, so if the ride were ever dissembled, it would require cutting. -
You can have light curtains that turn on when the train is parked. If a guest walks through it sets off an alarm. Meanwhile in Denmark: Funny story, I was in Korea, I was catching a high speed train and i decided to walk to the front to get a photo of the nose cone. As soon as i got near there, an alarm went off and a message in both Korean and English..."You are in a restricted area, please return to the main area of the platform"...I scurried back red faced. It's common to even have CCTV in warehouses which use AI to pick up if workers deviate from designated walkways etc.
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Damn wanted to nominate Jamberoo for best ops.
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I just keep thinking of parks like Tripsdrill, Hansa Park and Emerald Park that have opened rides with concrete shell stations and zero theming:
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Personally, I love the visuals of the Kansas Twister dueling boomerang on board, impressive! That's such a short runout includes both a flyby and a racing section.
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^Theres not that much space, the track after the station along the "back wall" where the gas pipes break is pretty much right up against the adjacent scene of the car crash, so you might gain like 4m if you did as you describe @New display name
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Where? I thought the bit where you park and hook onto the cable was pretty much straight after the turn around the car crash scene. The launch already starts back as far as it can.
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For superman, I take the view you could continue the LSMs vertically up the top hat (since its straight on the entry), so no need for a swing launch.
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Dunno, then how does Tangerine Twist and Teal Twirler fit in with that? I thought the slide tower they built with Kaboom and Super Ripper was pretty good. Wide variety of slide types, had something for the kiddies too.
