Originally Posted By MickeyChick Did they completely remove the Pirates Fast Pass machines, or are they just covered up? I was wondering if they might go back to Fast Passes for this ride again when they re-open it with Captain Jack this summer.
Originally Posted By dzy76 Do you think they'll go back up when it reopens? With the movie coming out and it being changed, I would expect horrible waits at POTC this summer. I'm hoping they'll consider it.
Originally Posted By ni_teach > Do you think they'll go back up when it reopens? I hope not. POTC is the fastest moving line in the park. The ride can handle over 2,500 people an hour. Fast pass makes the Line LONGER.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I seriously doubt they will come back. Like it was said above, FastPass made Pirates worse rather than better. It's much faster now.
Originally Posted By berol fastpass was a bit of a waste on it, tho maaaybe the redo will keep it from being a walk-on half the time.
Originally Posted By dzy76 I guess I've never used FP on POTC when I think about it. I can't wait to see the changes, heck I just can't wait to see it again period!
Originally Posted By bravebrother >>I hope not. POTC is the fastest moving line in the park. The ride can handle over 2,500 people an hour. Fast pass makes the Line LONGER. << Thats exactly right. Even when the first movie came out and the ride was seeing it's longest lines in years it was still only a 15 minute wait max. All fast pass did was create two lines for a ride that did not need it
Originally Posted By SuzieQ ^ I frequently saw it 45 minutes to an hour that summer. But that was with Fastpass still in place. Once fastpass went away, I didn't see it get over 15-20 minutes.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Fast pass makes the Line LONGER. >>> Well, only for those people not having a FastPass. I agree that of all the rides in the park, Pirates doesn't need FP, even if there is a momentary spike when the movie comes out. Also, I doubt they would have removed the machines last year only to bring them back now, unless perhaps the removal decision had been made before any thought about ride changes coordinated with the 2nd movie.
Originally Posted By bravebrother SuzieQ you are right.I also remember seeing the times posted for 45 minutes but they never were actually even near that long. Disney usually pads the posted wait times but They really padded the Pirates wait time for some reason. I actually remember in summer 2003 I got in line for Pirates with my girlfriend and she seen the posted wait time of 40 minutes and asked why we should wait that long. I laughed at her and said we would be on in 15 minutes tops. I think we got on in 10
Originally Posted By indysoarin19 The funny thing with Pirates is that you could end up waiting on the bridge and it would still be a short wait (assuming no FP). When I went on Grad Night last year, POTC just kept churning out riders and it was the one decent wait the whole night. As much as I like FP, I am glad it's not on Pirates.
Originally Posted By PirateJohn I was fortunate in that it was only a few weeks after I hired in to Pirates that they removed the FastPass machines. Even to the day I left Pirates more than a year later people would still ask where the FastPass machines were. Me: "Sorry, we don't have FastPass at this attraction." They: "You used to!" Me: "And we used to require an E-Ticket, too!" One guest paused and said, "hmm, I'm old enough to remember that!" We both got a chuckle out of that. When they still had the machines but were covered up, we had an enormous sign right in front that said "Fastpass Closed." We'd be standing immediately adjacent to the sign and still people would come up to us and ask where the Fastpass was. On one day, a guest waiting for the rest of his party was sitting on the brick wall near me and was watching this happen (literally every minute or two) and was laughing about it. He and I ended up getting into an exchange in which we traded creative ways of standing next to the sign as people approached to ask where the FastPass machines were. (e.g., sitting on the sign, draping a leg over it, holding it like Elvis holding a microphone, etc.) That guest and I were laughing ourselves to tears.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ <-- actually had to wait the posted 45 minutes the summer the movie came out.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ The line zigzagged all but a walkways distance from the the railing at Rivers of America, went up and over the bridge, and down toward Indy. I know most of the time wait times are padded, but they weren't on that trip!
Originally Posted By PirateJohn <blockquote>The line zigzagged all but a walkways distance from the the railing at Rivers of America, went up and over the bridge, and down toward Indy.</blockquote>We've measured the length of the line many times, and even when it got that long, the line would never be more than 30-35 minutes. We'd pad the heck out of our wait times just to keep the line from growing. I've had leads tell me to put twice the real wait time on our display.
Originally Posted By monorailblue Pre-Tarzan and Indy, Pirates had a very nice overflow between the load area and the treehouse, so switchbacks in the main walkways and all that weren't used much. I remember waiting in that overflow many times--enter under the bridge, move through as normal, but cross into overflow before feeding into the loading area queue. Now, I'm not mad at all at Indy for co-opting some of that space, but Tarzan was not worth it, as far as I'm concerned.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ What can I say, PirateJohn? Perhaps there was some sort of delay that day, but I definitely waited 45 minutes. I remember because we commented that the wait time was actually correct, lol
