This morning the group was able to make a choice. You could either wake up early and rope drop the new Millenium Falcon ride at Hollywood Studios or you could choose to sleep in and have the morning to yourself at the hotel. 8 of us made the choice to head over to Star Wars land and see the new ride. Lots of other Disney fans had the same idea as us so the line was already long before the park even opened. Luckily we were able to hustle in when the rope dropped and head over to the ride. While we were waiting in line we were able to see a cast member, The Mandalorian, and his cute but powerful friend, Grogu.
The new movie Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu came out last night so this ride was rethemed to match that movie. We had two groups fly the ship and I think it’s safe to say, we made it out successfully (with only a few life threatening crashes). After that ride we chose to ride the other Star Wars ride, Rise of the Resistance. This line however was very long so we chose to all enter the line as single riders and we were able to get on the ride in half the time. After a fun morning at Hollywood Studios, we headed back to the hotel for some project work.
For project two in this class, we were split into 4 groups. 2 groups were assigned project 2A and two groups were assigned project 2B. In project 2A the students are tasked to figure out Work Scheduling for a restaurant in Disney. In the first part the workers work 8 hour shifts and will have a one hour break either early or later in the day. Based on how busy this restaurant is at different times there is a required amount of people that have to be working, so our goal is to minimize the amount of total people working throughout the day. This task was much more complicated and complex compared to the examples that we had done previously in class. Then to make the problem even harder we are allowed to give the workers an hour break any time throughout the day, meaning that we can be more efficient in minimizing the total amount of workers for the day, but makes the problem much more complex. Project 2B focuses on the queueing data we collected at Magic Kingdom earlier this week. The groups with this project were tasked with creating a simulation for what the first 2 hours of Magic Kingdom would look like for Big Thunder Mountain's and Tron’s waiting queue. We had to use our data taken over 30 minutes, to simulate the next 90 minutes for the following data points: Number of people entering the line per minute, number of people exiting the line per minute, number of people on each ride, and the time that occurs in between each ride. After using the randomization feature on excel to find data points for each of these categories for the first 2 hours of the day, we then have to see what the wait time would be throughout those two hours. After each group worked on their project for several hours, we called it a night and stopped working for the day.
After finishing working on the projects for the day, we were told that we would be going to Animal Kingdom in the evening, though it was already 4:30pm and the park closed at 6:00pm. The professors then changed their plans to go to Epcot, and to get back at the hotel at 9:30pm. Though because of the very early morning the next day, almost everyone decided to stay at the hotel. Though the students decided that if they could go to Epcot to just ride Guardian of the Galaxy, they would be willing to go do that. A group of 7 decided to go on the quick trip to Epcot, while the others stayed to get dinner at 5 guys and relax.
While waiting in the long line for Disney the group of 7 played fun games with each other while the professors went to get food. The estimated wait time was around an hour, though tragedy would strike when the group was inches from the preshow room. The ride shut down. Though we didn’t notice the announcement at first we found the lack of movement strange until we realized what was happening. We stuck it out for 2 hours, before giving up. This was extremely disappointing for us and we were all very sad.
After meeting up with the professors under the Epcot ball we expressed our disappointment, but not all hope was lost. Dr. Harris used his sweet-talking skills with the Disney Visitor Experience people to get all 7 of us fast passes for the next time that we ride Guardians of the Galaxy. This helped to raise the mood and we went back to the hotel to get enough sleep before for our Keys to the Kingdom tour tomorrow.
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