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By the way, the Theme Park Guide live blog has said that there is no separate queue for the backwards row- you just need to be allocated row 7.
 
There's no space, it'd cause absolute chaos trying to deal with that - the merge host already has to think about 3 queues and split them onto 2 sides of the train. Not having a front/back row queue is a rare correct choice in an area full of poor choices.
 
If you have a distraught, or otherwise a little disorganised, 6 or 7 year old when the ride is finished, then someone older (easiest to mandate via a height restriction) to guide them off the ride/station quickly makes sense from an operational risk assessment perspective.
 
Tom said:
If you have a distraught, or otherwise a little disorganised, 6 or 7 year old when the ride is finished, then someone older (easiest to mandate via a height restriction) to guide them off the ride/station quickly makes sense from an operational risk assessment perspective.
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The average age of someone who is 1.4m is just over 10yrs old.

The average height of some who is 1.2m is 7yrs old.

How many 10yr olds have the emotional capacity to support a distraught 7yr old? Its not impossible but not exactly the norm.
 
Tom said:
If you have a distraught, or otherwise a little disorganised, 6 or 7 year old when the ride is finished, then someone older (easiest to mandate via a height restriction) to guide them off the ride/station quickly makes sense from an operational risk assessment perspective.
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Agreed. And with the evacuating point made earlier. My daughter was 1.2 metres at 5 years old. No way would she have been able to evacuate a ride at that age without someone she knew to hold her hand. And she was surprised by 13 to the point I had to lead her off while her mind fizzed. It’s not fair on the ride ops to expect them to deal with panicking/shocked children. They’ve got enough to deal with.
(Although, she was 1.4m when she was 8 - height is absolutely no guarantee of maturity!)
 
Skyscraper said:
By the way, the Theme Park Guide live blog has said that there is no separate queue for the backwards row- you just need to be allocated row 7.
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So what happens then if get someone allocated that row that really doesn’t want to ride backwards?
 
I'll admit that I do find it slightly bizarre that they have just the one row facing backwards with no separate queue or anything.

As others have said, I think it would have made a bit more sense to either have all of the seats facing in the same direction or to have half the seats facing one way and half the seats facing another. That way, you'd at least have either everyone getting the same experience or a 50% chance of getting each separate experience.

A different row, where you only have a 1 in 7 chance of experiencing it due to the batching system and no way to queue for it separately or anything, does seem odd to me...

It doesn't even look like they've tried to sell the backwards row, either, which I find very interesting... it's just there.
 
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I don't think they do criticism, but maybe they also have money to burn.

Hopefully O'Neil sampled the offering, given his latest comments.
 
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