I am so tempted to just wait, stop at a certain point on the tram during a dead walk thru, and just do one of these while they say "Keep Moving"
For me this is ESSENTIAL. Nobody and I mean NOBODY wants to wait hours just to go through a maze with ZERO scareactors in it. I don't even want to wait 5 minutes and for that to happen. If it means waiting an extra min or 2, we will understand. You could even announce it and people will go "oh okay." Sometimes grasping what the hold up is will make people get it. Kinda like when you go to a store and the cashier says "sorry, my register is down, just need to reboot it."
Probably too expensive to impliment, but it would be nice if there could be some kind of system akin to standard ride vehicle location indicators at dispatch where actors have basically a switch in their boo hole that they can activate to indicate to a monitor the hosts at the front of the line or supervisor have that they're in position, and can switch off when their break begins, so if a large chunk of sensors indicate that a shift change is in progress, they can halt the line for a minute or two to let them swap out.
Completely unnecessary. There are security cameras throughout the entire house. And as we've all seen, there are ops scattered throughout the entire house. All it takes is minimal communication between the Scareactor & Ops leads/staff.
Yeah, obviously I don't personally have experience, but having a bunch of numbered positions with green or red dots feels a lot easier for ops to see on the fly and make fast line changes compared to trying to sus out who's where in 20 small windows monochrome nightvision footage while guests are also passing.
That’s a bummer to hear. Even tho I’m kind of numb to the scares, my trick is that I always just kind of walk real slow and act like I’m anxious about entering each room. I know scare actors will read that too, so I usually get most of the scares, as well.
"IT'S MY FIRST TIME! DON'T RUSH ME!"
I imagine even with more extensive training, if the higher ups throw out an email or a walkie talkie call to your supervisor that says "the lines are too long let more people in or we'll cause problems" or "express guests are upset that they have to wait 5 minutes instead of -20 for a 2 hour long line" all that training kinda goes out the window in favor of that demand, and that's more or less what I imagine is going on. In my experience no matter what the realities of operations are and how many actors you have in place or how well you're pacing the line, demands from the people above your supervisor end up with having to screw over whoever they ask to be screwed over (usually the lower employees or whichever guests are paying the least to be there).
