Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 I saw this on Screamscape.com! Anyone know anything else about it? Here's, the link, but not really any information on it... <a href="http://www.screamscape.com/html/disney_s_california_adventure.htm" target="_blank">http://www.screamscape.com/htm...ture.htm</a>
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Originally Posted By lesmisfan what people dont understand about fastpass on mania it wouldn't do much for your wait time. Right now its pretty much a 45 minute wait without fastpass. with fastpass the regular line will be a couple hours and the fastpass line will probably be about 45 min. Over at disney world they have this problem. it is a low capacity attraction and fastpass does not work on it. Didn't do much for pirates way back when. Fastpass works great for people eater attractions like space mountain and california screamin,etc.
Originally Posted By debtee Well Christmas week it was up to an 80 min wait, so FP would have been a benefit, in my opinion!
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I think what he is saying, is that if the line normally would be 80 minutes long, and they introduced fastpass, then the fastpass line would be expected to be about 80 minutes long, and the regular line would be probably twice that.
Originally Posted By debtee Yeah maybe but in the 9 days we were there that line was always like that at TSM, yet at the same time Space, Haunted and Indy was 20 mins max and all of them have FP. So I don't know? Maybe it's just so popular with little kids that it's always going to be busy? It's a great ride!
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I think Space, Haunted, and Indy probably have higher capacities in number of guests riding per hour, so it works better for those rides. I'm only guessing though, don't really know for sure
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 They should have thought about this BEFORE the designed the ride...
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 well im sure they did...the whole reason why they built it with no fastpass is because of disneyworld (ya i already heard about that problem from a cast member), but you'd think theyd fix that for DCA....
Originally Posted By ni_teach debtee said: Christmas week it was up to an 80 min wait. But everything was a insane long line at Christmas time. That is not a fair way to judge the time or length of lines.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan "I think Space, Haunted, and Indy probably have higher capacities in number of guests riding per hour, so it works better for those rides. I'm only guessing though, don't really know for sure " pretty much correct. Altough haunted mansion doesn't use theirs until they have haunted mansion holiday up and running.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan and i was thinking, in my opinion, people have been spoiled by fastpass. I remember growing up their was no fastpass and my family and friends and I though an hour wait for the big attractions was a decent wait. Now I go to disney and no one wants to wait more than 20 minutes tops!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I don't understand why in the world they didn't do this ride as an omnimover. It's the most efficient ride system there is and would work perfectly with this attraction. The "ride" part of it is sort of a waste (the spaces in between the various target screens), and the load time is slow.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan well they probably wanted it to be more fast pace than buzz and stopping at each game would not be plausible with a omnimover because of how slow they are. the only thing about omnimovers is they are constantly moving which makes for a great ride capacity.
Originally Posted By danyoung I'm not sure I agree with lesmisfan's numbers on this. I think FP could work if they limit the number of FP's in any given day to keep that line down. I also don't think it's true that a standby line will double in its wait time. It'll move much slower, true. But with FP people will see a 45 minute standby line and opt for FP. But then, I do agree that it didn't work well on Pirates, and once they took it out the line has rarely been longer than 20 minutes or so.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 When did they do that for pirates? And where were the machines....I was probably too young to remember...
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Didn't do much for pirates way back when. Fastpass works great for people eater attractions like space mountain and california screamin,etc." Pirates is a bigger people eater than Space Mountain & Screamin'.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "When did they do that for pirates? And where were the machines...." They added FP to Pirates around 2000 or so, when they were adding it all over the park (Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Indiana Jones, Roger Rabbit, Haunted Mansion and Autopia all got it around the same time). The machines were through the bridge entrance to POTC, on the left side, under the trees. The standby queue used the right side of the queue, and the FP queue used the left side. I'm not sure exactly when they took the machines out, but I think it was around 2004, in the preparrations for the 50th.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan also another problem with fastpass is the time line is not enforced. Say you get a fastpass for between six and seven for an attraction, that is when your supposed to go, not before and not after, that was the original idea. But so many attractions now take fastpasses way way way after their time which everyone has caught onto and there are more people in fastpass at one time than there should be.
