2018: Park Operations & Ride Availability

[Error]

Pop down and give 'em hell. The staff were waiting for people at guest services on Sunday, I can't remember not seeing a queue out of the door!

Hopefully to give shit on the Love Island attraction..

 

[Snagglemama]

Galactica is on a 200 minute queue

 

[Skyscraper]

Galactica is on a 200 minute queue

Gone down to 20 now.

 

[imanautie]

Gone down to 20 now.

I wonder if they are now only reporting the non vr queue.

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[delta79]

Galactica is on a 200 minute queue

Air riders must be stuck behind Galactica riders then

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[Snagglemama]

Lol strange goings on. Thirteen is now the biggest queue

I'm going to be an Air rider so expecting it to be walk on for us.

 

[Skyscraper]

Yeah, Thirteen is on 90 minutes now!

 

[Burbs]

I really wouldn’t trust ridetimes for anywhere near accuracy.

 

[Snagglemama]

I really wouldn’t trust ridetimes for anywhere near accuracy.

Lol that old chestnut again

 

[Brad97]

I'm not sure why Towers let people outside the park use ridetimes, I'm pretty sure Thorpe doesn't?

 

[rob666]

BPB pulled the info a couple of years ago.

 

[Rick]

I'm not sure why Towers let people outside the park use ridetimes, I'm pretty sure Thorpe doesn't?

I too am perplexed why they do it! Seemingly the Thorpe and Legoland apps are no longer Geo-fenced. @IanSR is the authority on this stuff.

 

[ringo]

I'm not sure why Towers let people outside the park use ridetimes, I'm pretty sure Thorpe doesn't?

Thorpe do, along with Chessington & Legoland.

@rob666 BPB even managed to get the times removed off Speedypass mobile last year, you can only see the times if you buy it

 

[imanautie]

Part of the reason for them removing Geofencing is because it was enforced by the app, anyone with basic programming knowledge could access the queue time feeds externally bypassing Geofencing. It's why there are dozens of apps and sites with queue times feeding directly of the official app backends.

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[ringo]

Part of the reason for them removing Geofencing is because it was enforced by the app, anyone with basic programming knowledge could access the queue time feeds externally bypassing Geofencing. It's why there are dozens of apps and sites with queue times feeding directly of the official app backends.

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Plus both are officially available via their own websites so no point locking it down either via the app.
https://www.chessington.com/plan/today-at-chessington.aspx

https://www.legolandqbot.co.uk/#/rides

 

[imanautie]

Plus both are officially available via their own websites so no point locking it down either via the app.
https://www.chessington.com/plan/today-at-chessington.aspx

https://www.legolandqbot.co.uk/#/rides

I've not checked Legolands or chessingtons site more then a few months ago, I assume they at one point did what Thorpe did(Geofencing the website).

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[Themeparksandy1981]

I preferred it when the queue times were listed in the queue lines back in the 90’s. It said all along the queue how long was left to ride time. On posts it said queue is 60,45,30 and 15 mins from this point.

 

[imanautie]

I preferred it when the queue times were listed in the queue lines back in the 90’s. It said all along the queue how long was left to ride time. On posts it said queue is 60,45,30 and 15 mins from this point.

Problem with that now is super inconsistency in operations.

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[Rick]

Problem with that now is super inconsistency in operations.

I'm not convinced Ridetimes can accurately take that into account either.

Fastrack and RAP are big barriers to close to accurate queue guesstimates.

 

[imanautie]

I'm not convinced Ridetimes can accurately take that into account either.

Fastrack and RAP are big barriers to close to accurate queue guesstimates.

Which is a compounding problem because where do ride hosts get the current queue time to write on RAP cards?
Either the ridetimes website or the electronic sign at the ride entrance which is now fed directly from ridetimes.co.uk!

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