Waits and Uptime Reports - Hagrid’s Magical Creature Motorbike Adventure

[cwoms1991]

Easiest way to count is just to check the lisence plates. The last two numbers indicate the train so once you see the same one twice, that's how you know you're counted all of them.

Yup I’ve been doing that every time I come. Still haven’t seen the rumored JKR license plate though. Hopefully one day. Thanks for the tip though.

 

[cwoms1991]

40 minutes now and I’m in the final room with Hagrid above riding the bikes around. Again the estimated wait was 120.

 

[cwoms1991]

Just got off. 46 minute wait when posted a 120. They are now “duplicating” the motorbikes, which I assume means adding more trains. We’ll see how that goes and I’ll start counting once I see people on them.

 

[jrn14]

That's great.... but adding more bikes makes me nervous ha ha.

 

[cwoms1991]

That's great.... but adding more bikes makes me nervous ha ha.

Same. I don’t know why they do that during the middle of the day, especially when it ran so smoothly. Everything was spaced out so nicely and trains were crisscrossing on the track. It was beautiful. But now it’s been down since I got off.

 

[JungleSkip]

Same. I don’t know why they do that during the middle of the day, especially when it ran so smoothly.

They need to try this stuff out during the day while people are riding to see if what they're tinkering with in the system even works during real load situations.

 

[cwoms1991]

7 trains are running back to back with about 15 seconds in between of them. But there is a large 45 second gap in between of those 7 if that makes sense.

 

[TommyJK]

I told my cousin head over now lol. How many trains?

Report back if your cousin got to ride and how long the actual wait was.

Seems like it's been running OK today and the app wait time has been much greater than actual wait time (probably to play it safe in case of operational delays)

 

[cwoms1991]

Back in line again. Still 7 trains running. Techs sometimes on the trains. Seems like there are different plate numbers running then when I was on earlier. Maybe cycling different trains throughout the day. Hoping to get on before the storms roll in. Posted 120 again and I’m in the egg room after 10 minutes time.

 

[fryoj]

7 trains are running back to back with about 15 seconds in between of them. But there is a large 45 second gap in between of those 7 if that makes sense.

By doing that rather than keeping them evenly spaced, they can essentially test a higher train count. They can test everything with rapid fire dispatches, and if something gets backed up, they have the 45 second gap to catch back up. Where if they had 2 more trains on, it would cause a stop somewhere.

 

[Nick]

People are still discussing it. In fact, certain sites are even writing articles as recently as today about how people who are on vacation just to see this ride aren’t getting on.

And I believe there’s a way to have the app notify you when the ride opens.

You have to actually have the app opened up for the notification thing to work, so it's useless.

 

[Teebin]

Yellow and orange on radar is within 5 miles now so they have shut it down temporarily.

 

[SpatulaShack]

By doing that rather than keeping them evenly spaced, they can essentially test a higher train count. They can test everything with rapid fire dispatches, and if something gets backed up, they have the 45 second gap to catch back up. Where if they had 2 more trains on, it would cause a stop somewhere.

Good point! Today is very encouraging. Maybe they cracked the code (pun intended) yesterday when the ride was closed all day.

 

[Alicia]

You have to actually have the app opened up for the notification thing to work, so it's useless.

Can it be open in the background?

 

[Nick]

Can it be open in the background?

It won't matter. The app has to actually be fully open. I've tried before.

 

[cwoms1991]

In line for 25 minutes and the ride is down now due to weather in the area.

 

[Alicia]

It won't matter. The app has to actually be fully open. I've tried before.

Absolutely useless feature then.

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

Just getting out of work, COUSIN RODE AND LOVED!!!!


I don't know exact times but I know she got to the ride around 2:15 or so give or take 10 minutes and said she waited a little over an hour! She's hoping to get at least 1 more ride in tomorrow but she said absolutely worth the wait which makes me happy!

 

[Teebin]

It won't matter. The app has to actually be fully open. I've tried before.

Did you make sure that your system has notifications for the app set to on? On an iphone it is a completely separate setting if disallowed when you first download the app.

 

[Captain Tragedy]

Uhhh I was getting notifications on my lock screen last week when I set the app to tell me when a ride opened. The app definitely does not have to be open.