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Mandy wrote:
alicemouse wrote:I don't know if this is information that all CM's would have access to or are allowed to share (please don't tell us anything that would get you in trouble!), but I have three burning questions about the parks:
1. In the Unofficial Guide, they talk about the wait for TSM being 4 minutes per 100 riders ahead of you (meaning that on a 12-hour operating day, TSM can process 18,000 riders). Not only is that number mind boggling, but that would mean that when you enter an hour-long queue, there are 1500 people in front of you! (I feel like it doesn't look like that many people when you're in line.) I know if depend on the efficiency of the ride operators, but on average, which rides would you say have the highest and lowest hourly capacity in each park?
2. Given the tremendous ride capacities plus the number of people still ambling around the parks, each park most hold A LOT of people! What is the approximate range of attendance from a "low crowd" day to a "high crowd" day?
3. What is Disney's annual (or daily) fireworks expenditure?
1. I have no idea on how they figure out the wait times. I know they have certain points in the queue where they can be like its such a wait from that point. I know Peter Pan's Flight at MK has a very low capacity which is why it's a forever wait almost all day. I know that Star Tours has a high capacity because they have over 400 people either on the ride or waiting to board at any given moment. That's all I know for ride capacity.
2. At Hollywood Studios a 20,000 attendance is low and like 30,000-40,000 attendance is high. While at MK 40,000 is a relatively low day while 60,000 is a high day. I have no idea for the other two parks.
3. I have no idea on the fireworks but I do know that the Walt Disney Company is one of the largest fireworks buyer in the world.
Cool! Thanks, Mandy 
So on a low attendance day, using our TSM example, you could just about get everyone in the park on the ride one time. Assuming of course that my capacity recollections and calculations are correct, on a high crowd day, fewer than 50% of the guests at the park that day would even get to ride once!! Now I feel bad for double dipping!! Well...maybe not REALLY 
Spook wrote:I read somewhere that the fireworks were $200,000 per day 
I'm not sure if thats accurate or not though as it wasn't an official Disney book. I also think that might have been for just Wishes
WOW!! I asked the gal who did our UnDscovered Future World tour a few years ago, but she wasn't sure of the answer. She did say that she was pretty sure that they get a bulk discount, which would of course make sense, and that there are proprietary Disney fireworks colors! Disney has actually worked with the manufacturers to create specific shades of fireworks to represent its characters in the shows! I think our town spends like $25,000 for July 4 fireworks and they're like I'm sure most other people's hometown fireworks are...meh. Wishes is certainly 8xs the show that good old Hanover, PA puts on! LOL!
