Very good. And thanks for being blacked out while I'm there, but we'll have to do a sweet SFMM video.
I'll get a Dole Whip soon enough, I'm getting the new Citrus swirl (orange and vanilla swirl) and you look like you enjoying Small World soo much. That talking potato is sweet, better in life, "why is woody never hungry? Cause he's been stuffed for years..."
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Universal Orlando Mechanical Engineer Marathon down, Goofy to go.
For Space Mountain, they are fast because they allow loose articles on the actual ride itself (They let you take cameras on the rides I think even.), there is no spiel (talk, stall for 15 seconds, open gates), you didn't show the people getting off the ride (add in time), there are only 12 riders per train, and I think they haven't checked the restraints yet. They also have checked people's height at the front of the line.
I would compare it Big Thunder Mountain Railroad instead. They have a spiel, load and check restraints at the same time, and get off at the same place. What's key to that loading time is that at least at Magic Kingdom, they make people check there own lapbar. They tell you to push up on it so they don't have to bend which it takes less time. There is also no seatbelt, but how can you trust people without a seatbelt. They are always trying to get that extra space between them and the restriant. A second precaution seems necessary more than ever because of how SOME people act in amusement parks.
One of the stupidiest things I ever think of, is having a train sitting there with no one on it, and the person is spieling, and than you have to wait so long for the gate just to open to get on the train. When people are getting off the train, say the spiel (Before you enter V2's station watch for step up as to not trip.) When, almost everyone is gone, open the gates even if it's 10 seconds before all the people are gone because those gates take time to open.
Turnstyles also back up people. You have one exit that everyone has to go through, and you have a turnstyle. They take time for everyone to go through it. In my opinion, it's better for them to be before the exit of a ride like on Batman the Ride, but than you would have to buy an automatic gate, and those take time to close. V2 has an automatic gate, and how long does it take for the person to get outside the gate, and for them to actual close the gate? It might some seconds, but it adds up. The thing with V2 though is that the train is long (It's 14 rows with every row having spacing!), and you have the exit towards the front of the ride instead of the middle of the ride so that doesn't help either.
In my opinion, it's so hard to figure out what's the perfect solution for capacity if you need seatbelts, spiels, and turnstlyes / automatic gates. Disney gets rid of that stuff.
For Deja Vu, they had such sayings as There goes the floor ... after the ride was loaded. They would almost say the whole thing, and than push the button (it seemed to me). How much time was wasted by doing those spiels? They were fun to hear, but couldn't they have said them after they pushed the button.
"I've been staring at the world, waiting. All the trouble and all the pain we're facing. Too much light to be livin' in the dark. Why waste time? We only got one life. Together we can be the CHANGE. So go and let your heart burn bright"
/\ ALL Disney rides in every park require that loose items ride with you, on coasters if your afraid of loosing keys/wallets/cameras you can put them in the pouch in front of your seat and backpacks go on the floor.
In Space Mountains case, when everyone sits down they send the train into the track segment where they tell you to pull up on your lapbar (just like Big Thunder not physically checked). Also the wheel chair riders are loaded onto a seperate track and works like a transfer track.