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The World of David Walliams: General Discussion

Also I’m not sure if I’m seeing things, but are they eyes? do you think there be projections on the knight, or just static ornament?
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Great to see another substantial dark ride at the park even if the theme is geared towards young kids more than anything.
Think I'm a bit old for Gangster Granny the ride really.

I'm sure it will be a huge hit with the guests though. Definitely seems a wise investment. Just hope the capacity concerns aren't realised.
 
Looks like there is a mixture of 3D and 2D stuff as well as projections and screens.
Overall probably I’m expecting slightly better than Charlie choc factory but not much.
 
rob666 said:
How does a preshow increase capacity?
No need for big train batching, so no difference whatsoever to capacity.
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It feels like a longer attraction experience and more people are doing "something" at once. With Hex for example there are 78 people in each room (cinema & octagon) and 78 on the ride. So 234 people are doing something as part of the attraction at any time. If it was just a queue and a ride only 78 people are on the ride.
So yes it doesn't increase capacity as still only 78 people go through every five minutes or so, but it increases the length of the attraction and the number of people contained within.
 
rob666 said:
How does a preshow increase capacity?
No need for big train batching, so no difference whatsoever to capacity.
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Because you have more than just the ride itself in the attraction overall. Small capacity ride system, add a preshow with same number of visitors, you get double the capacity in the attraction.

Hex has 2 preshows because the ride is small for example. More attraction time for guests, rather than stood in a queue

jon81uk said:
doesn't increase capacity as still only 78 people go through every five minutes or so, but it increases the length of the attraction and the number of people contained within.
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Yeah you're thinking of throughput, that stays the same because that's dictated by the ride, but overall attraction capacity increases
 
Will be interesting to see what the loading process is like. Could we see boarding gates on the load platform, for example? That would keep the queue moving nicely and help the throughput.
 
So are
OilyWater said:
Because you have more than just the ride itself in the attraction overall. Small capacity ride system, add a preshow with same number of visitors, you get double the capacity in the attraction.

Hex has 2 preshows because the ride is small for example. More attraction time for guests, rather than stood in a queue

Yeah you're thinking of throughput, that stays the same because that's dictated by the ride, but overall attraction capacity increases
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By that logic, does it mean that the Wickerman pre show doubles the ride capacity?
It doesn't.
 
rob666 said:
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By that logic, does it mean that the Wickerman pre show doubles the ride capacity?
It doesn't.
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It doubles the capacity of guests experiencing part of the attraction, yes. It does not double throughput. Capacity and throughput are different yet they are often confused and thought of as the same thing by many.
 
rob666 said:
By that logic, does it mean that the Wickerman pre show doubles the ride capacity?
It doesn't.
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Yes, it does increase attraction capacity. Like i said in the post, it obviously doesnt affect the coaster part capacity of the train

This is usually how attraction capacities are worked out unless specifically the ride parts
 
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