Number Ops on a Ride
What is the number of ops on the rides at you local parks and how does it vary from busy to lite days?
Adventuredome:
Canyon Blaster has (3): controls, unload and load normally, with an extra load and unload when busy (2 train op).
Rim Rummer has (5): controls, unload, load, lift, and chute for normal 2 boat operation. an extra load for 3 boats.
Imax Cineplex has (3): two ops running shows, and a line person. Sometimes when its slow they will have one person inside alternating shows.
Sandpirates (swinging ship) (2): one on the load side at controls and one at unload.
All the others have at least 1 op and may get extra help when busy.
MGM (when open for special events):
SkyScreamer has a minimum of 8 when running both sides: two flight suiters, two expiditers, two controllers and two assitant controllers.
Lighting Bolt has 3: Controls, loader and unloader
Manhattan Express @ New York New York has 4 or 5: controls, unload, load1, load 2, and sometimes grouper
Speed:The Ride has between 3 and 6: Controls, unload, and load are the norm, but also have an extra loader, unloader and platform person when needed.
Stratosphere Tower:
Big Shot usually has 3: one in the tower and two loaders.
High Roller has 3: two at the load station, one at the unload station.
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*** This post was edited by baddboy on 5/17/2002. ***
A "grouper" is a WAY-underrated person IMO.....I know us Floridians get kinda spoiled sometimes, but increasing capacity and reducing empty seats kicks butt.....sure, staff costs money, but as discussed on another thread, happy patrons spend more money than PO'd ones do.
Of course, a single-riders line works even better....;)
CP as at least 5 on every Ride all season long, it never varies.
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The Beast and Night, They go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Well, I know how many are at my rides... don't know about others yet...
Vortex: 4 - Op, Lift, Loader, Exit
Shockwave: 3, but can operate with 2 - Op, Grouper, and Loader
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-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew
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Roller Coasters or sports? I guess there are questions nobody can answer!
For my two rides:
SOB runs a normal 4 person shift: Greeter, unload, Load and controller.
Top Gun runs a normal 3 person shift: unload, load and controller. I think White Water Canyon needs 6, controller, load, unload, line, Tower 2 (the shack by the gate control) and tower 3 (the one that gets ya with gysers accross from the lookout).
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SOB crew in twenty 02
Disneyland Paris:
Space Mountain
Greeter 2 (entrance of ride, under the huge Space Mountain sign. Check heights, gives infos, etc.)
Greeter 1 (entrance of mountain, mix stand-by line with FP line using a video camera.)
Fast Pass Ticketing (at the FP distributor, make sure everything works and answer the guests MANY questions)
Fast Pass recuperation: check FP time and pick up tickets. Check heights.
2 Groupers (assign seating, 1 by loading station)
1 unload, 1 load and 1 dispatch by station.
control tower (in the control tower, at the middle of the station, lots of pictures when you're sitting there, lol)
Mountain 3 (guest relations, lol! Move wheelchairs, empty the station, help the unload, etc. He's on the annexe side.)
Which gives us a total of 14 ops! Now... if we have LOTS, we put sweepers in the waiting line, Mountain 4 (for the other station) and rover (check the lines, so nobody cut!)
Dreamworld down here has a single operator on most rides when it isn't a holiday, and of course thats not to say that some of these days aren't packed.
Cyclone, the new old Arrow coaster has one op most of the time to load, unload, check restraints on both sides, and dispatch the train.
Thunderbolt, the other looper, has one person to do all the same. In fact this ride rarely ever gets more than two people operating it even on the busiest days.
Now this is where it gets sorta scary. Tower of Terror, one of the tallest and fastest rides in the world, has often got a single person operating it.
Next we have Giant Drop, the worlds tallest ride, and tallest freefall ride. This ride usually has a single lady operating it, and she's not a very nice one at that, often forgetting her happy pills.
Meanwhile down the road at Movie World, they have 6-8 people running Lethal Weapon, the SLC. Doing a seamless 2-train operation.
Wild Wild West, the mega-themed flume, has usually got around 6 people running it. One organises people into groups. Another sorts people into boats. One helps with unloading. One squigies the seats after the people get off. One sits in the control room and monitors all the cameras, and deals with loading problems. And there is one lonely sole up in the mountain in a dark room to monitor boats as they come past.
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So what if the best coaster in Australia is a second hand Arrow?
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