Rick
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A couple of points about capacity, I'm pretty much of the opinion that large parks don't need to keep adding rides with vast capacities as long as the overall park capacity (in terms of number of rides * their throughput) moves in the same direction as attendance.
Take any large park with a Wild Mouse coaster, it's a great experience but it's such that it can't be delivered with a 4-digit hourly throughput. I'd certainly argue for that kind of ride to remain/be built, than not.
'The experience that we are trying to provide with the highest capacity possible' should be the approach, rather than 'any experience with the highest capacity possible'.
The above isn't only an approach taken by Merlin, Great Adventure, with a comparable attendance to Alton is installing Joker, an S&S Free Spin this year. It's not going to hit half the capacities of any of their 5 B&Ms, but they're not trying to - they're trying to introduce a compact, new coaster to the line up and you can't do that AND have great capacity.
Should Disney Studios not have built Crush?
Capacity is not everything. It's another thing that enthusiasts obsess over, which I think needs a more rational approach.
Take any large park with a Wild Mouse coaster, it's a great experience but it's such that it can't be delivered with a 4-digit hourly throughput. I'd certainly argue for that kind of ride to remain/be built, than not.
'The experience that we are trying to provide with the highest capacity possible' should be the approach, rather than 'any experience with the highest capacity possible'.
The above isn't only an approach taken by Merlin, Great Adventure, with a comparable attendance to Alton is installing Joker, an S&S Free Spin this year. It's not going to hit half the capacities of any of their 5 B&Ms, but they're not trying to - they're trying to introduce a compact, new coaster to the line up and you can't do that AND have great capacity.
Should Disney Studios not have built Crush?
Capacity is not everything. It's another thing that enthusiasts obsess over, which I think needs a more rational approach.