I was there on the 30th and 1st and well after seeing TTR in action I am well....indifferent!! The ability to get back in line at 4pm is alot better versus the 8pm wait however I HATE seeing people turned away at ANY time to get in line..On saturday for instance all tickets were given out by 12pm and many were disappointed they had to wait the additional 4 hrs to ride now..even saw a few people right in the line ops face about how they felt about TTR...Now my perssonal experience with the ticket system wasn't all that bad at it was a Saturday as well..I got 2 rides in before TTr started early in the morn and then proceeded to get my TTR for the 1-2 pm block and 3-4 block..I had to wait in 2 seperate lines that did move rather swiftly to get these tickets at 2 different times so standing in line to stand in line later inmo was kind of senseless I did it anyways for the sake of the process...I cam back at my designated times to my rides and still waited EACH time 55 min and 65 min respectively..combine that with my line waits to get the tickets to start with I really didn't save that much time..averaged still about a 90 min wait per TTR!! All I really saw the system acomplishing was that it kept the line manageable at about and hr or so..however no one as we all know could enter the queue anyways without a tic...after my 1st TTR expereince I was pulled aside by a park worker doing a survey on what the public thought..well I kept the poor guy busy for about 10 min with all my input and my ideas regarding combining the GP with the TTR public together..You know the 2 lines into one idea..he ended up writing on the back of the sheet when he was through..the last question was "Do you prefer the TTR or standard system"...well in conclusion I said the standard system..reason being is still can't get away from seeing those disappointed faces on people as they were turned away...and I just don't see the need for fixing something that is not broken...TTR is not as bad as most have been saying on this board and it could work with some minor tweaking..I mean the new hrs for it are 100% better!!
Thats how I see it...
BTW I did get 7 rides on MF in the two days..not bad really with TTR...
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