Manufacturer says 500 per hour, tests with just dummies is 350 per hour.
Is this for Mandrill Mayhem? I thought the listed throughput was 840pph? That’s what the planning application implied, anyhow.
In what way can you "not really complain", though? That's utter lunacy.
I say that because the H&S thing (not allowing people to stand behind the airgates) isn’t really something Chessington can do anything about in day-to-day operations.
Would they have benefitted from doing something like buying full height airgates? Probably. But that’s not really the fault of the staff on the ground attaining the throughput; they can’t do anything about the H&S restrictions preventing people from standing on the platform.
Ostrich Stampede is getting about 5 minute dispatches.
That would equate to about
504pph, assuming full cycles of 42. That’s not too bad for a filler flat ride, in my view!
Good thing they solved the capacity problem, the queue could have got really long otherwise.
I’m still a bit stumped by this comment from John Wardley. Even now, after the ride’s opening, I’m not sure what he could have meant.
The ride’s throughput is seemingly equal to, if not lower than, that of most regular shuttle coasters. I guess he could have been referring to the virtual queue, but the inclusion of 3 full length queues for main queue, Fastrack and RAP would suggest that that decision was made pretty late on. And I believe John referred to B&M “solving the capacity problem” rather than Chessington, so unless the virtual queue was B&M’s idea, the virtual queue being the “solution” wouldn’t match John’s comment.
It seemed like an odd thing to say if he wasn’t referring to something in particular; even if Merlin had told him to say something positive about the ride before the Q&A, surely he could have honed in on something other than the capacity rather than talking about the capacity?
