I just stumbled upon Flight of Fear's Wikipedia page where it claims the capacity is 2000 riders per hour....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_Fear

 

HAHAHA.  I would imagine 2000 was the theoretical capacity for the ride running 4 trains.  I believe it only ever ran with 3, and now it runs with only 2, I think.  I would be stunned if it does more than 800 people per hour.

The Wikipedia editors who primarily work with amusement park articles continue to stubbornly rely on RCDB, despite the fact that many of its claims are easily proven false.

 

This is part of the reason why I no longer regularly edit Wikipedia.

...Wikipedia stubbornly refuses to accept primary sources, while gullibly accepting virtually any secondary source (or editor).

It's rather sad.

^,^^ Those reasons and more are why teachers and college professors won't accept papers with Wikipedia as a source.  

Although I don't completely eliminate Wikipedia; rather, I just always try to cross reference it with something else.

Yeah no, nowadays the ride feels like it's almost as slow as Backlot Stunt Track.

 

 

Wonder what it'd do to capacity if the ride didn't full-stop at the MCRB...

Wonder what that'd do to maintenance..

also I think what slows down Backlot's capacity is the separate loading / unloading stations that the train has to move to before loading.

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That actually works in the ride's favor usually. If people weren't getting off, they'd be sitting there doing nothing. 

Yeah, that probably actually speeds things up.

Yeah I figure the original RCDB source (which Wikipedia is using) is probably the original ride documentation/specification.  I don't understand the differences in the early Premier "spaghetti bowl" models and the later ones (Poltergeist, Joker's Jinx, another in China).  The later models don't even have a mid-course brake, so they are technically designed for less trains.  So is the excess speed hurting those rides?  

 

I also find it funny that Banshee is likely operating with an hourly capacity which is equal to Flight of Fear and Firehawk combined.  Maybe that is a bit of a stretch, but it certainly feels that way sometimes.

Yeah.. idk, but I'm definitely jealous of the lack of a MCBR for the clones. That's what has always landed Flight of Fear to not be one of my favorite rides.. because, you aren't just slowed and trimmed... like.. you STOP.. then you can feel the ride going too slow for what was designed as you always feel a force towards the inside of a turn.

I have a question concerning this- why were Flight of Fear's trains reduced from 6 cars to 5 cars?

I often assumed parks did that sort of thing (taking a train car, reducing operations an entire train) so that they can save some money and use it as parts.

Thatd be a much welcomed "addition" for the next season. Refurbishment will be done to increase the ride capacity of Flight of Fear and Firehawk..
Easier said than done at this point though

 

 

EDIT- I didn't double post, someone's post seems to have disappeared.

Not so much to do with the capacity but has anyone noticed the "upgraded" lights in both the spaceship and the spaghetti bowl? In the spaceship there are now pulsating LED lights that change colors.  In the bowl there are many LED floodlights making it brighter than the 3-5 working floodlights that were there in the past.  I just noticed this on my last trip and it definitely wasn't there at the beginning of the season.

I did not notice, but I will take note of it this coming weekend as me and my riding partner finally ride FOF together