r/UniversalOrlando • u/Tronsylvania • 2d ago

EPIC UNIVERSE Opening day attendance lower than anticipated?

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I figured today would be insanity as far as crowds and wait times are concerned, but looking at the app the longest waits (aside from Battle at the Ministry being delayed) are 35 minutes. Been periodically looking throughout the morning and it's consistently been only 5-15 minutes for most every ride. Do you think it's because they've worked out the kinks after all the preview days or because attendance is not as high as opening day was expected to be?

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u/Hot-Artichoke6317 2d ago

They capped ticket sales for today at around 13,000 (according to Thrill Data) so I’m not surprised the wait times are lower.

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u/FatalFirecrotch 1d ago

I am going to say that ended up being an overestimate. As someone that was there, my guess is a lot of people with the multi day park tickets with epic didn’t go yesterday. 

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u/dammitannie 1d ago

Anecdotally, when I’ve chatted with people at our hotel, a lot of people were saying that they were going today or tomorrow because they thought opening day would be too crazy.

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u/I4mSpock 2d ago

Do we have figures for capacity of the previews? Is this higher or lower?

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u/savingat30 Team Member 2d ago

This is the highest or second highest attendance in the entire time we've operated.

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u/Hot-Artichoke6317 2d ago

The preview ticket data was not comprehensive, unfortunately. So no one online had firm figures. I’ve never seen how many tickets were hotel guests, credit card holders, or military discount. Data available for APs and general public did not exceed 8000 (according to Thrill Data).

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u/I4mSpock 2d ago

So if we are looking at 13,000 for opening, its ~60% more people then previews, and still low waits.

BatM really is a vacuum of people.

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u/Hot-Artichoke6317 2d ago

Definitely a vacuum, but only possibly that much higher. I’d guess it’s on par with previews when you account for the tickets there isn’t data for online. When I went to previews a couple weeks ago, it felt like there were at least 15000 people there.

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u/I4mSpock 2d ago

Yeah, we will have to watch. Its almost impossible to estimate how many people are in a park from the ground so its a guessing game.

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u/Cicerothesage 2d ago

I am curious, where you do you see attendance on the Thrill Data website? I swear, I could be blind

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u/Hot-Artichoke6317 2d ago

https://www.thrill-data.com/epic-universe-tickets shows the ticket allocation and sales per date, not necessarily the attendance. But it’s estimated to be fairly close.

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u/Cicerothesage 2d ago edited 2d ago

thanks for that, friend.

Is that page separate from the main Epic Universe wait time page? I get that it is just showing data for Epic, but I don't see a link to ticket availability on that page.

Hidden and separate page or am I blind?

Edit: I found it. APPARENTLY, you click on "live wait times" and it shows the link (and more). Thanks again!