- March 1st, 2015, 6:45 am
#71275
and the forecast is for more green and orange rain to fall on Fury's cam...
You guys are completely right about one thing, having the lockers is all about money.
But I am entirely in the Jarsh camp about this. Fury is the big draw for the park. There will be lines, and on their busiest days, the lines will be very very long. Carowinds want to bring a million more people in through the gate, pay for parking, and buy massively overpriced food, drinks and souvenirs. That's what it is all about. It's a business. It's not a charity effort to make coaster enthusiasts happy.
What are those million extra people (in addition to their current normal gate attendance) all wanting to do this year?
They want to ride Fury.
When are the greatest numbers of people going to come to Carowinds to ride Fury?
On weekends in the summer.
If people show up, pay for a ticket and parking, and then see the primary reason that they came has a 3 hour line? They are going to be angry. They are going to feel ripped off. They aren't going to come again. They will tell their friends that line for Fury is ridiculous and Carowinds sucks and not to bother going because almost the entirety of the day was spent waiting for just that one ride. It was fun ride, but it wasn't worth the wait and the day as a whole was a rip off.
If they get to ride it 4 times? along with Intimidator and Afterburn and etc etc etc
As was said above, the most popular parks in the country have been using lockers to keep their lines moving much faster. It works. If Carowinds wants to become of those "great" parks with world class rides, they need do things like this. Carowinds was a rinky-dink park for almost all of its existence, and had policies that reflected that. Frankly, I can't believe they still do it for the other big coasters in the park. And I hope those all get lockers too. Stop wasting everyone else's time in the park with ridiculous slowdown to getting people on the rides.
The better the experience people have at Carowinds, the more often those people will come. The better the experience they have, the more of their friends will be coming too. There are plenty of options for folks to handle their stuff (including leaving it in the car, with a friend, putting it in pockets and of course the provided lockers if you won't accept any of those multitude of free options).
[end rant]
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