question about q-bot

[mschulz5]

I'm sorry if i sound stupid but there's been talk about it and I was just wondering what it is.

[Papas]

It's a little machine that is an additional fee that you can use to skip the full queues for rides that are selected (correct me if i'm a little off), not avalible at SFGAm.

[twixmix0303]

Like fast pass at Disney World? I don't know what it is either.

[planea380]

Its like disney.

[greatamerica76]

http://www.lo-q.com/ this site will tell you about it. : )

[Papas]

Its like disney.

No it's not. Disney's FastPass is free, and it distributes tickets and has it's own lane. Q-Bot costs $ and you use the exit.

[twixmix0303]

But it's the same in the sense that you get a time to come back to a special line. Anyway, it costs money? I really don't see why they say line jumping is prohibited, but if you pay them $10, they'd be glad to let you cut. (How about making it free...oh wait, I see another possible season pass perk for in the future )

Another thing I'd like to see is self-service machines for purchasing day tickets, and turnstyles where you put the ticket in yourself, so they can hire less employees for at the gates and more for at the rides.

[Great America Guy]

yeah but then people could just walk into the park if no one is supervising

[Papas]

Well, not to menchin if you have computers running admissions where would the ethics go? C'mon people, guests need employees to do stuff for them.

[FParker185]

Disney has that system in place for admissions, you stick your ticket in and either spits it back out and tells you to go to Guest Relations, or unlocks the tunstyle and tells you to have a nice day as it spits the ticket out the other side of the machine. It's a pretty cool system, lets the disney parks have 20-30 turnstyles open at peak periods with maybe 10 attendants (may actually have been less), though with one or 2 security people a short ways inside the park looking for people who look like they have just cheated the system or have been informed of cheating by the people watching the secutiry cameras.

Also in Europe and the UK several parks I was at were testing out systems where you buy your admission ticket from an automated machine. I guess an extention of that here in the US would be print your own tickets at home which SF is trying out at several parks and I think it's Busch parks that have had that for maybe a year or 2 now.

Also, back on topic, Lo-Q is a electronic device (basically a modifyed RFID Tag for those familiar), but it's similar to a pager that you scan at a kiosk at or near the enterance to a ride and it puts the ID in the system and assigns the pager a wait time equal to the current standby wait, and when that time is up it beeps and you head to the ride. Also it will tell you if the ride has gone down or other circumstances that make your wait possibly invalid. You can scan it at as many rides as you want, but you can only be in one virtual queue at a time, as soon as you make it to the ride it will automatically place you in the virtual queue for the next ride you scanned it at and so on and so forth. Cool system, though SFOG tried out a system that starts turning it quite evil for an extra fee (I think double the rental price) you get a gold q bot and you only have to wait half the current stand by wait time (a bribe for "legal" linejumping would be one way to look at that).

[mallclerks]

Normal ticket allready cost $40+ for one day....

I just dont see how people are dumb enough to pay $10.00 more to cut for 4 rides

Not to mention, on something like say, Raging bull, the line starts at the stairs, so your still going to have to wait a good 5-15 minutes (depending on how fast there going)

So, unless your rich, I just dont see why people do this (If say, It was my first and only time ever at the park, and only had 3 hours to be there, then yes I would use it )

But like said above, Its line jumping to the rest of us paying customers, which is BS

[Papas]

You just answered your own question there.

[punkbunny24242]

Normal ticket allready cost $40+ for one day....

I just dont see how people are dumb enough to pay $10.00 more to cut for 4 rides

Not to mention, on something like say, Raging bull, the line starts at the stairs, so your still going to have to wait a good 5-15 minutes (depending on how fast there going)

So, unless your rich, I just dont see why people do this (If say, It was my first and only time ever at the park, and only had 3 hours to be there, then yes I would use it )

But like said above, Its line jumping to the rest of us paying customers, which is BS

I will admit that I shell out the money for the Fast Lane pass each and every time that I go there. Of course I see where you are coming from.. I completely understand but you say "Its line jumping to the rest of us paying customers" and I want to question that comment. Those darned passes are pretty expensive to the people that purchase them. On Raging Bull you have to wait 15 minutes versus 2 hours.. that's why I buy them. Of course there was a time that I could not afford them but I never complained about the people that did purchase them. It's a program that is offered by the park so why would I get upset with someone that uses that option. Now if someone just came up and cut in front of me I'd be pretty upset.

[Carlo]

I have purchased them as well. $15 is not that much money when the wait is 2 plus hours long. Most of the time I only get them when I see that it is going to be very busy day. I can see how people can feel like you pay money to cut. But in reality it is not cutting. In fact it does not really slow the line down. The reason is because, if there was no fast lane then all those people using fast line would be in line with you which would cause the wait time to be just about the same.

Carlo

[w00dland]

No offense to the people who buy/use them everytime they go...but why? I used them on one of my 13 trips and thats because my uncle and cousins went with and bought them for me. It sounds like a waste of money to me, and another great way SFI makes ALOT of money...

[Papas]

A lot is two words.

And yeah if you have double digit visits every year theres really no reason unless there all on busy days, but I know a lot of people that think $15 for 4 rides is awesome on busy days. Hey, it's working.

[rct2wizard360]

I really dont want the q-botz (as strange as it is) Well I'm at school and I gotta head out!

[SfGaMownz]

I've used the Q-Bot system at SFOG in 2003. Its really a good system. The prices are outragouse though, itslike $20 for 1 person $30 for 2 and so on.....the only reason why I used it is because we processed our passes there and the coupon booklets had a coupon for a free Q-bot. Beyond the price though the system really is genius. It is a semi-fair system unlike Fastlane. You go up to the ride and scan your Q-bot by a sign and it will tell you what ride you have scanned, that ride will be your next ride and it will display the time at which your ride is schedualed for, it is somewhat the same as the regular queue line, usually shorter by 5-10 minutes.

The genius part about the system is the fact that you can go wild and scan as many rides as you want. An excellent idea would be to do rides at seperate ends of the park in order because then while you are walking to the next ride your already in line. In the time that you wait to go on your next schedualed ride, you can do anythine such as eat or go on another ride. You also get to do this on as many rides as you want during the course of the day. If SfGaM put a Q-bot system in I would use it if they gave one of the free coupons like at SFOG. I dout I would ever pay for it though, its still ALOT better then fastlane.