Curse of DarKastle

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^ Good point! I had completely forgotten about the waterfall in front of the place. Anyway, lets hope it is, it has been looking awful lately.
 
PzP said:
Instead of being a line in that room, it was just a room where both doors were closed and you watched the show.
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In order for that to work as originally designed they need dual preshow room. One show beginning as one is letting out in a staggered setup. It gives the illusion of a shorter wait. A single preshow room just holds you up.
 
I don't think the problem was the length of the line with the preshow, but the guest perception of it. Guests prefer to stand in a line that is constantly moving. The stagnant pauses during the preshow created the perception of a longer wait. So yes, two preshow rooms are needed to keep the flow rate up.
 
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Well also, a good chunk of the general public doesn't care about preshows. They care about getting to ride the ride. So that could have some effect on the decision.
 
A bit of new information on the DarKastle rehab:
I've heard that the fire effect has actually been improved from what we saw during the ride's first season and there's now a projection system involved. Also, apparently the spinning isn't actually back. Bad news? Well maybe not. By the sounds of it they've actually themed that part of the ride to look like a chimney. Seems a bit odd, but who knows, maybe it'll work better than it sounds.
 
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That's wonderful news! It's great to see that they are really focusing on beefing up their themes.

-Sky
 
I'm glad it was good for you because for me it was awful. the first room had a projector busted. The whole ride seemed a bit off sync with the audio. but the fire place was working. Nothing really going on in the area after that.
 
Being Passmember Preview, it suffered some slow operations today which does often throw the ride out of sync.
 
Crackel said:
^agreed. It took them about 5 minutes this morning for the first ride to figure out how to get us in the preshow. The doors wouldn't open.
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They should just leave them open. :angel:
 
pandorazboxx said:
Crackel said:
^agreed. It took them about 5 minutes this morning for the first ride to figure out how to get us in the preshow. The doors wouldn't open.
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They should just leave them open. :angel:
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Why the hate? Do you find it boring? Is it a perceived longer wait as some other comments in this thread suggest? Mathematically, it is not a longer wait, unless it is empty. The buffer between the preshow and boarding keeps the ride serving as many guests as possible. AKA the rate of service for the ride is slower than or equal to the rate of service for the preshow; the line between the two proves this. Even then at worst the preshow adds on average like 1.5 cycles (don't make me actually do the math) which is at worst like ~2 minutes? That is only for the case where the rate of people arriving to ride is less than the other two rates or at the beginning and there'd be no line or a very short line normally; otherwise, it is the same wait.
 
Crackel said:
Basically it's only longer when there is little to no line. As long as there's a line it's the same.
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Yah, that's the gist of it. Thanks for the the TLDR version!
 
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