Quick Questions

[Bowser]

Previous experience in running the ride?
I know if I do the Beach on a Sunday morning, the only ride with a queue will be the Big One.

The parks know the visitors like shepherds know their sheep, they all get hefted in the end.

Sorry I meant a brand new ride.

 

[AltonLover123]

How do parks calculate queue times before a new ride opens?

The new ride at Efteling has just opened on 180 minutes main queue, 90 minutes single rider. Obviously they know the throughput but beyond that? Is it likely to be quite inaccurate initially till points of reference are created?

Edit: someone in the Efteling thread said they queued for 50min so guess I was correct

Most queue are built with a theoretical amount of people they can hold in each space. They’ll do some maths to figure out if x amount of people are at this point versus the theatrical throughput then the queue time will be x. Of course, real life is very different and they’ll soon realise that these figures may be off and work out reference points once they bed the ride in.

I think I remember reading Hyperias planning documents and I believe it contained the theoretical figures for the queue line. It may have been a different ride but I’ve definitely seen one somewhere.