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I think there is really only one..........................and that is, regardless of what the capacity is, how many people are actually riding.But, in the end all you really need are two variables:
You guys have been having an interesting discussion regarding ride capacity. However, capacity is irrelevant unless it is used. That is why my original questions had to do with the % of capacity that rides operate at.
On the average, over the course of a day, week, or year, RnR or Pooh has a capacity of x but only operates at y% of that capacity, the ride services z people. If x times y% of capacity equals a larger z for a particular ride, it would mean that that ride, in general, had longer sustained lines and was more "popular". One could even argue that a ride that has a larger y% would have the longest sustained lines, and by one of the measures I believe crusader supplied would be more 'popular'.
Ultimately, and all I have is an orifice to pull from and no hard numbers to back it up , I think Pooh has longer sustained lines over the course of an entire day/week/year. Sure, RnR might have the time measured longest line at a particular point during that day/week/year, but on the whole I usually see longer sustained lines on Pooh. BTW - I do think that RnR and Pooh are good contenders if we want to match a thrill ride and non thrill ride head to head. Pooh is one of the newer and perhaps most popular non thrill kid ride, while RnR is one of the newer and perhaps most popular thrill rides. So what does it all mean? Well, I'm not old on the concept that what the WDW public REALLY wants is thrill rides.
Matt makes a potentially decent point, but I'm still not sure I agree. I believe he implied that even if RnR didn't have the longest sustained lines, it might be a draw that brings people to WDW. However, thrill rides have never been the weenie when it comes to WDW so I'm not buying. I'm also not sure that is territory that Disney wants to get into.
Ultimately, Disney has determined that a lower thrill, higher theme, 42 to 44 inch height restricted E ticket will be the biggest draw for the AK. I happen to agree.