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Most of the discussion in this topic hasn't been about "people who looked at this forum" - it's about the general public who pay full price without being told in advance that rides will be closed, which the best-in-class theme parks are very good about doing. It's about understanding why a park that was once voted "best in the world" (and is still considered so by many) is not following the examples of those best-in-class competitors. And, as discussed in this thread, this type of problem is not endemic across the industry. Most parks have opening weekends without multiple ride closures outside of routine maintenance. CP struggles with this in a way most parks don't. I'm sure there are complex reasons for it, but to say that it's expected at ANY park just isn't true.

The same could be said for Disney but they still post their known closures. It's just good practice and good customer service in this industry.

^^great post. Let's add to the fact that they closed the park early for OSU day Friday, which was fair, given the weather and the fact that about 1.5 rides were operating - but they didn't post any notifications on their website and people were still showing up at the park after it closed! After hours and hours of complaints on social media, word finally started going around that they'd honor the tickets at a later date. That may have been communicated via email, I'm not sure, but they really should have been broadcasting that on all possible channels.

This was NOT a season pass only "preview event". This is a sign of the continued inability for CP to get their shit together in time for opening day - they now subtly renamed it to a "preview", while charging full price, without really publicizing it as a limited event.

50-100 cycles could be done in a couple of hours.

^they aren't mutually exclusive.

The version at SWSD was pretty foul a couple years ago. Barely edible.

^I agree, Memorial Day itself is typically not that bad - lots of people have wrapped up their vacation and are heading home. It may not be dead but it won't be packed to the gills either.

Oh I certainly don't disagree with that. But there are a lot more variables in play here. Sometimes manufacturers (and parks) grossly overestimate the theoretical capacity. Can you imagine a world where Xcelerator actually runs 1300 people per hour? That's a fully-loaded dispatch every 55 seconds! Completely unreasonable. But the estimates we typically see from B&M are much more reasonable. Then it comes down to the crew and the park's emphasis on efficiency. Disney will almost always come quite close to their theoretical max, because they just run like that. Six Flags generally won't. So to say that there's some nonsense mathematical formula you can apply to it - which the original poster implied - is absurd. My original point was that Knotts has installed many low-capacity attractions in recent history, and while we'd all love to see them put in a people-eater, it doesn't seem to be a high priority for the park.

Wow, this is the dumbest post I've seen in a long time.

How many rides do they have that exceed 800 pph? Silver Bullet, and maybe Ghostrider on a good day? That hasn't stopped them from putting in lower capacity rides even in recent history.

Long.

I think the point was a "restraint failure" as in a restraint that came loose and ejected a rider. That was not the case on Tx Giant.

^Yes but that won't help you much if nothing is open