The lines wouldn't be 5 hours if Tapu Tapu didn't exist. No one would get in a 5 hour line for a water slide if you would be standing in the sun on the stairs the whole time. But with the virtual queue, they tap away.Yes..but maybe, just maybe the lines wouldn't be 6 hours if the Tapu Tapu system wasn't in place?
Would love to see what would happen if they turned off Tapu Tapu for a weekend to see how the system operates standby only.
As many others have said...Volcano Bay has more rides than Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon, and they have never (in my memory) had a 5 hour wait for a water slide.
So something is off. It's possible that UOR is packing the park with people, but to be honest the photos I've seen don't really show wall to wall people.
I am absolutely positive that they have run the models with the park capacity, so if they can get the down times down and the ops up to speed, it will work. This isn't the first water park to be all virtual queue.