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Dunno, I was there to enjoy my day with my son not perform KPI measurements. I leave work for working.

Why isnt it “relevent”? Id say as a park guess I couldnt care less about a cycle time Im only interested in how long my wait is to ride Also I assume you meant Dispatch Interval as Cycle time is the time it takes the train to complete a l Surely as big of a theme park world expert as you knows the difference

Don't you guys understand that the queue line wait time is directly related to the cycle time?

Look I think asking how long between dispatches is totally a valid question. Saying thatthe length of the queue is irrelevant, is also kind of stupid.

What if you are in the station and are sitting around for ages. I've experienced that too in some places. Or worse still waiting for a minimum number of guests to cycle.

I don't think your comments are wrong with regards to measuring ride operations success as time between dispatches, but like others have said, joe shmoe simply won't care; parks will though like you've said, more dispatches+more maintenance+more cost. I don't think your theory is on the extreme side of the conspiracy theory spectrum, but unless someone from VTRP speaks out, or a previous employee breaks an NDA to confirm/deny this, it will only ever remain a theory, on both ends of the argument.

I'm happy to be proven wrong - but all the kickback i've gotten so far is just pretty poor personal insults - no logical discussion. No one knows why Rivals has seatbelts (but Levi doesn't) and why they won't let anyone do their own seatbelts.

If a guest gets on a ride then it dispatches immediately - great.. but it's gonna suck when they have to wait 10 mins for a second go when there's no queue. The ride from the TPW POV is 1m55s (ish) from the start of the lift to clearing the brake run block. 40 seconds of that is spent on the lift, so you could theorteically run the chain slower til the previous train clear that block (like levi does). So by my math it's physically possible to dispatch a train every 90 seconds. Europa manage to dispatch Blue Fire trains every 30 seconds, with bins on the unload side of the station. I just feel like every damn guest gets a really shit experience from the really slow operations and its bad for the whole industry. Just ask the European/US youtubers that just did the parks (Coaster Studios was complaning and they had the impossible to buy magical white wristband!)

Mate, respectfully - fuck off. You've quoted my reply "the only thing that matters to a guest is how long they have to wait. If a ride only cycles once an hour, I couldn't give a shit if its a walk on" - How the fuck can you disagree with that? If a guest walks onto a ride and is immediately dispatched, do you think they're going to care if the operators take 10 minutes between dispatches? Nothing in your long, analytical rambling addresses my commentary. While the ultimate aim of your long-winded ramble is to show that improved and more efficient operations will reduce wait times (spoiler - we all fucking know this), the average guest isn't going to pay attention to (nor care about) the speed of operations if the wait time was short, or substantially less than advertised. And if you really want to be pedantic, it's 146 seats you can sell in a day, because there's two seats dispatched at minute zero. I call bullshit. From Dispatch to station park, DC Rivals cycle time is 2:30. Can they do better than 5 minute dispatch intervals - you bet. Can they easily halve it to 2:30? No. That is 100% peak efficiency, with absolutely zero fuckups. Nobody with loose items, loose shoes, difficult harness lock, not even rotating crews between station positions (something necessary for safety to prevent fatigue) - absolutely nothing can go wrong. I've seen an awesome crew work DCR, and dual train ops they could probably get it down, but your version of armchair theme park operations says everything is easy. You're wrong. I'd suggest that is a theory. You've nothing to support that except your own interpretation of operations that you've very clearly denigrated on many previous occasions. LOL.

Be an innovator not an imitator.

I much prefer the 2018 map. I remember around 2018 it was my first time back at Dreamworld in several years and that map made me feel Iike there was so much more to do at Dreamworld than Movieworld. I honestly think they should go back to that style and bring back the maps in hard copy form at the entrance. They are a great keepsake and a quintessential part of a theme park visit. Dreamworld seems to have an incredible amount of momentum now and they really should be capitalising on their size, most Google reviews comment on dreamworlds range of activities and low wait times.

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