Major Attraction Capacity

[wisblue]

Does anyone know where there is decent information about the daily (or hourly) capacities of the major attractions at WDW? I've seen some numbers thrown around but I don't know how accurate they are, or if they are someone's best guess based on ride vehicle designs, loading cycles, etc.

 

[siskaren]

I would doubt that that sort of information is made public.

 

[wisblue]

I would doubt that that sort of information is made public.

I wouldn't expect Disney to announce it publicly, but I thought someone may have figured some of them out by calculating how many vehicles generally load per hour or something like that. For example, I have seen numbers like 15-20,000 per day thrown around for Soarin, and that seems reasonable to me based on number of seats per cycle, length of the cycle, and two sides operating.

I would be interested in similar reasonable estimates for some other attractions.

 

[chartle]

1. Does anyone know where there is decent information about the daily (or hourly) capacities of the major attractions at WDW? I've seen some numbers thrown around but I don't know how accurate they are,

2. or if they are someone's best guess based on ride vehicle designs, loading cycles, etc.

1. You will find nothing official, though sometime it kind of slips out.

2. This, anyone with knowledge of say roller coaster design can figure out guess hourly capacity by knowing the number of trains, how many people can fit in a train and the average dispatch interval.

 

[wisblue]

If there isn't anything better, does this seem like a reasonable way to get ballpark estimates?

The Touring Plans website and Unofficial Guide have always described load speeds for attractions and have listed an estimated wait time for each 100 people ahead of you in line. Using Soarin as the example, they say that the expected wait is 4 minutes per 100 people. So, I could calculate the total capacity per hour as 1500 because there are 15 sets of 4 minute blocks per hour. Put another way, if 100 people get boarded in 4 minutes, then 1500 people would be boarded in 60 minutes.

If 1500 people can ride per hour, and the park is open for 12 hours, that would produce a total capacity for the day of 18,000, which is consistent with the estimates of 15-20,000.

If we agree that this approach will give us a reasonably accurate measure of a rides hourly capacity, we could go through the same exercise for every other attraction, using those Touring Plans estimates. Does that make sense?

 

[michelle06]

As Wisblue said, The Unofficial Guide provides this information in their books.

 

[Cais]

If there isn't anything better, does this seem like a reasonable way to get ballpark estimates? The Touring Plans website and Unofficial Guide have always described load speeds for attractions and have listed an estimated wait time for each 100 people ahead of you in line. Using Soarin as the example, they say that the expected wait is 4 minutes per 100 people. So, I could calculate the total capacity per hour as 1500 because there are 15 sets of 4 minute blocks per hour. Put another way, if 100 people get boarded in 4 minutes, then 1500 people would be boarded in 60 minutes. If 1500 people can ride per hour, and the park is open for 12 hours, that would produce a total capacity for the day of 18,000, which is consistent with the estimates of 15-20,000. If we agree that this approach will give us a reasonably accurate measure of a rides hourly capacity, we could go through the same exercise for every other attraction, using those Touring Plans estimates. Does that make sense?

That's not a bad ballpark method. If I remember right, your numbers are a little low.

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[Laketravis]

I did that just last week for Soarin - a load/unload cycle took 8 minutes. That is from the time I walked thru the doors to my seat until I was leaving my seat and the next group was coming thru the doors to take their seats.

Capacity is 184 guests when both sides are running. Under optimal conditions, that's 7.5 cycles per hour = 1,380 guests per hour or 16,560 over 12 hours.

 

[fairy8i8]

I did that just last week for Soarin - a load/unload cycle took 8 minutes. That is from the time I walked thru the doors to my seat until I was leaving my seat and the next group was coming thru the doors to take their seats.

Capacity is 184 guests when both sides are running. Under optimal conditions, that's 7.5 cycles per hour = 1,380 guests per hour or 16,560 over 12 hours.

And we wonder why they are tiering. With only 2 major rides in the park, not everyone can truly make it on both rides with numbers like that.