Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Ministry of Magic - General Discussion Thread

[DarkMetroid567]

So that “the queue is built to handle 7 hours” claim was totally off-base right?

 

[LP159]

How’s downtime been today and yesterday? Does it seem they’ve reduced some of the seat sensor issues/ride-stops?

 

[HandsomePete]

There’s no way it’s just a couple and it held at 190 a good part of yesterday. Something has to have improved

It can't be a lot... relative to "normal" attendance numbers at other parks there haven't been that many people in the park on even the busiest of days, and a good number of people are going to decline to wait 2-3 hours for one thing when there's so many other new things to do.

 

[Clive]

So that “the queue is built to handle 7 hours” claim was totally off-base right?

Clearly. But it's also worth pointing out that the ride does not appear to be operating at full capacity in an effort to avoid downtime, much like Hagrid.

 

[HandsomePete]

But it's also worth pointing out that the ride does not appear to be operating at full capacity in an effort to avoid downtime

 

[JustLikeMe]

For what it’s worth, when we waited 75 minutes on Friday evening the line was moving surprisingly fast - at some points faster than when we toured the queue the previous day - and at dispatch they were loading four vehicles at a time.

 

[RFRees]

For what it’s worth, when we waited 75 minutes on Friday evening the line was moving surprisingly fast - at some points faster than when we toured the queue the previous day - and at dispatch they were loading four vehicles at a time.

What was the posted wait time for that?

 

[JustLikeMe]

What was the posted wait time for that?

It was 150-180 mins all day, but shortly after 7pm it dropped to 90 and then 75 minutes, which is when we got in line.

I did hear that people who got in line yesterday at around 2pm only waited around 60 mins despite a posted wait of 150 mins.

 

[RFRees]

It could just be today, but all guests (including regular admission, not just hotel guests) were able to queue up for MoM prior to 8:30am (which is around when I entered). Just an FYI in case anyone is thinking about rope dropping. Now I'm wishing I would have gotten here even earlier.

The first posted wait time today was 300 minutes. Went down to 200 pretty quickly (less than an hour). I'll update this post when I've exited the ride to give my wait time. Edit: down to 120 posted at 10:30ish. Edit: Ride is having technical issues at around 11am, no one has ridden for about 30 minutes now. Edit: Finally back up at 12, one hour delay.

Edit entered at around 8:30, exited at 12:10 pm. Had the ride not broken down, from 9am to 11am, roughly a 2 hour wait.