was hoping to ride this today, but my train in has been delayed to 10:30... not standing in a queue longer than 2h. Maybe if it's operating this afternoon? wishful thinking, perhaps.
It might drop to below 2 hours later in the day, but for what it’s worth, the ride was on 210 minutes for the entire time it was open yesterday.
I should think that it probably will open today seeing as they got the train off the lift hill and supposedly tested it yesterday afternoon.
On a side note, I think the recent saga with Hyperia has shown how much worse social media makes these sorts of things. These sorts of things have happened with new rides since the beginning of time, even back in “the good old days”, but they simply weren’t proliferated all over social media. As much as I can absolutely imagine it can’t have been pleasant to be stuck at the top of that lift hill, and I sympathise with people who were in that situation, it’s an unfortunate reality that general teething problems very much come with the territory on new rides, which much of the frenzy on social media would have you forget.
Air had problems. Nemesis Inferno had problems. Spinball Whizzer had problems. Saw had problems. Thirteen had problems. Smiler had problems. Wicker Man had problems. The list probably goes on. This type of situation is not uncommon with new rides, despite what social media might have you believe.
Heck, as much as people are lauding Nemesis Reborn as a masterclass in pre-opening testing, we should remember that even that had its problems, operating with only half a train for much of its first week.
My point is that these things happen, and they’re a lot more common with new rides than social media would have you believe, no matter how much testing is done.
