I’d have rather the ride just be closed than have had that stress. And we didn’t access any Concierge Kiosks for regular guest services for hours after each drop due to the hour-long queue filled with folks who had issues with the virtual line drops. (We had to wait once and it was an hour. The TMs were killing it though, the app issues certainly weren’t their fault but they were incredible.)
I’m okay with rides being closed. The ticket says it A LOT when checking out and buying them. I get it. But somehow this is worse lol
But hey, who knows, maybe they’ll already be on standby by Thursday for all we know. Or they’ll have fixed many of the error messages or person not in park or starting 3 mins late issues with their virtual queue system by then.
I’m hopeful for a better day then than before no matter what.
(Also it wouldn’t have been such a hard blow if it wasn’t for Monsters Unchained being down 90% of the day too. It’s going to be a touch pill to swallow, even in previews, if guests cannot do at least one of these two new dark ride experiences.)
I just wasn't sure we were talking about the virtual line and I do wonder if it better to have no one ride verses random chance verses queue for as long as folks are willing to wait.
I have no idea on what capacity they are at. I was at the park yesterday and did try for the VL thing. After all the noise around linking tickets and everything, when the option for VL popped up, we could get a time slot, were asked how many (did not seem tied to linked or anything) then it would go off to think about it just to come back and say something would wrong should it try again, sure we would say just to learn there were no time slots left -- at the same time, I can't imagine queueing up for 7 hours just to learn they didn't have the capacity that day (by the end of the night, Stardust had one side running and the queue seemed to close around 9 PM due to already being at capacity for the night -- tough to know at what time they would need to call capacity on a ride that cannot offer a ride to most that come through the gate.
In my eyes, the only advantage to the VL is that they can offer slots as the day goes on, as they (hopefully) have a better idea on how the day is going.
Oh well, I am glad I do not have to make choices like that. I mean, let everyone queue up but if the park day is 7 hours and the queue can hold 7 hours....chance letting people see nothing, let no one see the new ride, control how many get an opportunity to see the new ride. I do not see any good options.
Anyway, based on talking to folks, I know of many instances of folks not seeing the 'one ride' they were most excited to see (even b4 ministry came into the picture) that folks are being disappointed during previews, I have a couple of single attraction passes that were handed out after being cleared from a show or queue were a lot of time was invested but the attraction was down.
I do hope people are able to get there $$ worth. I only invested time when I went. I had disappointment as well as a number of great experiences. I was extremely fortunate in being able to visit multiple times which certainly allowed me to see more as on any one day, I would not have done as much as I set out to accomplish.