Originally Posted By MPierce >> Thanks. And saw your email. Will get back at you over the weekend, but feel free to write first ... if you aren't too hung over. << Like Luther Van Dam's body has bulit up an immunity to ptomaine poisoning, mine has built up an immunity to hangovers.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Oh and if the ride turns out to be anything over 5:30 minutes in length, I'm okay with that. Solid D ticket>> It won't. Not even close.
Originally Posted By njDizfan Judging purely by YouTube times of Haunted Mansion videos from WDW and DL: WDW - 146 ride vehicles took 7:50 minutes to complete = 3.22 seconds per vehicle. DL- 113 ride vehicles took 6:50 minutes = 3.54 seconds per vehicle so with mermaids 104 ride vehicles at the WDW HM pace we would come in at 5:34. I know purely speculation but unless the ride times for HM are incorrect you cant argue with the math.
Originally Posted By magnet So, are you saying that you know how many ride vehicles there are on the HM tracks at both WDW and DL? How did you count this from a youtube video?
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself "DL- 113 ride vehicles took 6:50 minutes = 3.54 seconds per vehicle" The info I have puts DL's Mansion at 131 vehicles, not 113. Average time from point to point is 6:35. Track is 786ft. Kinda funny to compare all these to World of Motion. THAT was a long ride. 141 vehicles covering 1,749ft of track in 14:20.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>^^I so miss WoM ... so much better than TT.<<< TT is really growing on me, went on twice this trip....but there's such a feeling of loss when I walk into that building, or when your car enters the first scene after the lift hill....You can see the whole building's interior...and it's empty. :-(
Originally Posted By njDizfan yes, Lee I apologize I had my numbers inverted, 131 ride vehicles. So the major number that could be variable would be the speed of the ride vehicle. With you calculations on World of Motion that would be 6.09 seconds per vehicle. Man that was a long slow ride. I don't remember did it stop at all during the ride?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>yes, Lee I apologize I had my numbers inverted, 131 ride vehicles. So the major number that could be variable would be the speed of the ride vehicle. With you calculations on World of Motion that would be 6.09 seconds per vehicle. Man that was a long slow ride. I don't remember did it stop at all during the ride?<<< No, but you would speed up or slow down to make a separate train of Omnimovers or a continuous flow of them.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Kinda funny to compare all these to World of Motion. THAT was a long ride. 141 vehicles covering 1,749ft of track in 14:20. << Lee never misses anything.
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself >>Lee never misses anything<< I do. I was just channeling my inner Martin Smith for a second there. lol
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^You need to get Martin to get his British arse over here and post with kids that are his own age ... or at least closer!
Originally Posted By TP2000 Let's not forget that you can't just count the total number of Omnimover vehicles. You have to subtract the number of vehicles that travel backstage between Unload and Load and thus do not factor in to the ride time. There are always 6 vehicles on the Load and Unload belt in all the schematics of the Mansion's and Little Mermaid I can find online. Mansion at Disneyland has 131 total vehicles, but 17 of them travel backstage, which gets you 114 vehicles providing a roughly 6:45 minute long ride. Mansion at WDW has 160 total vehicles, and 14 of them travel backstage, which gets you 146 vehicles providing a roughly 7:45 minute long ride. Little Mermaid has 107 total vehicles, and only 3 of them travel backstage, which gets you a total length of 104 vehicles providing a trip time. And what is that trip time? People are saying anywhere between 3:30 minutes and 6:00 minutes. Judging by the statistics we have here, I'm betting the trip time for Mermaid is somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00 minutes. I said this elsewhere, but just based on the number of vehicles and size of the building, if this is a 4:00 minute long ride they are going to have to get the queue jogging at a decent clip before they hit the fast moving Load belt. Run Grandma, we're goin' on the Mermaid ride!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> ^^You need to get Martin to get his British arse over here and post with kids that are his own age ... or at least closer! << Definetly! Tell him there's a big Manchester United following here at LP. We all get together on week-ends, and go out in the street, and beat up Americans! Martin has got an unbelievable library of everything past, and present at WDW. He is an unbelievable wealth of knowledge concerning Disney.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 You don't need to do math. Just listen to what folks at WDI are saying. This is an attraction that will last for somewhere between four minutes and 4:20 depending on load/unload. That's it ... let's not geek it up by inserting facts!
