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No, but that makes actual throughput estimates overoptimistic in the real world.
In the real world, with little kids on a new ride, throughput will not be great, at all.
And they were meant to have sorted the capacity problem...somehow.
 
rob666 said:
No, but that makes actual throughput estimates overoptimistic in the real world.
In the real world, with little kids on a new ride, throughput will not be great, at all.
And they were meant to have sorted the capacity problem...somehow.
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While I don’t deny that that is the case, throughput estimates assuming that every seat is filled have always seemed to suffice. In the vast majority of cases, they provide a decent barometer of whether a ride has high or low throughput when talking about throughputs.

You can never tell how many riders will actually be in a train, and you’d like to assume that they would be full or mostly full in the vast majority of cases.
 
John said:
At least they'll be allowed to fill all the seats, unlike half the other coasters.
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Why is it that they aren’t allowed to fill all the seats on Rattlesnake and Dragon’s Fury again?

Spinball has no similar restriction, so I’ll admit that that has always surprised me.
 
zeock said:
The problem with UK enthusiasts in general (including me) seems to be that we take John Wardley's word as gospel.
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I think if you do that after a decade or more you'd be bordering on naïve. John is a great guy but he did ply his trade with Mr Varney, don't forget - both marketers.
 
I do think they missed a trick with not including a transfer track so they could run two trains. The throughput conversation is getting boring now though because we are all in agreement.

However as for the stature and manufacturer of the coaster I think it's perfect for their target audience. It will look very thrilling to their guests and it will obviously be incredibly smooth and reliable as it's made by the best in the business for such qualities.

Chessington are on to a winner with this I reckon.
 
Transfer tracks on shuttle coasters have to be fast to provide any real benefit. It's OK on the likes of Pulsar as the fast turntable only takes a few seconds to revolve but most B&M transfer tracks are very bulky and far too slow. As far as I know the only fast switches they've ever done are on twin station flyers, a design completely unsuitable for trains moving at high speed.
 
Other option would have been to set it up like Operation Enterprise with the train rolling into a transfer table which then transfers sideways to a swing launch but then is a complete circuit to the end. Probably the 3rd best Mack I've ever done, behind Wild Maus XXL and Euro Mir
 
If this thing gets anywhere close to 840 pph that would put Smiler to absolute shame. It was running 3 trains on my last visit and seeing throughput of around 650.
 
How many of the target audience are going to be standing in that yet unbuilt queue line theorising over the throughput? How many are going to be looking on reasonably excited and slightly in awe?

That's the deal. Let's not be disparaging towards the 'GP' - the World of Jumanji will do exactly for the park what they want it too and for us... We'll moan a bit and move on
 
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