Zach Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 As you may have worked out from my name, I code stuff for the internet. One such thing that I made, is Theme Park Queue Times, which provides live queue time data for 11 parks around the world(more are being added). You might ask, what is the point, considering all of the parks already have apps, however these apps only display queue times within the park, my website allows you to view queue times anywhere. The site also has some interesting graphs and statistics on each ride, and I am adding more features every day. I hope you find it useful, feel free to make suggestions as to how I can improve it. Park list Alton towers Thorpe park Chessington Disneyland Paris Epcot Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios Animal Kingdom Parc Asterix Silver Dollar City Liseberg Gardaland Walibi Hersheypark PortAventura ...More coming soon! Cal, Fred, Cornflakes and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted September 21, 2014 Report Share Posted September 21, 2014 Ooh I like it, particularly the data over time. That'll become really fascinating once it has a good few months worth of data on it! Zach 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted October 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2014 We now have general stats for each park, for example http://queue-times.com/park/thorpe-park/stats. These update every day, and the longer we have the website up, the more accurate the stats will get. We also have cool dynamic images for each park, e.g: Coaster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted October 4, 2014 Report Share Posted October 4, 2014 I don't really understand how you do this, but it's fantastic! Thursday's the day to go then, who'd have though? I always felt Tues and Weds were quietest. The only (unavoidable) problem is the source queue time data, which from Thorpe is often shockingly bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 I quite enjoy it - look at the difference of average queue times between a busier Alton Towers on a weekday and Thorpe Park. Thorpe queues are almost double the length on average! Tis interesting and will paint a rather cool picture once you have a lot of data - that's if the parks themselves dont change the code or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 I quite enjoy it - look at the difference of average queue times between a busier Alton Towers on a weekday and Thorpe Park. Thorpe queues are almost double the length on average! Tis interesting and will paint a rather cool picture once you have a lot of data - that's if the parks themselves dont change the code or whatever. What features and statistics would you be interested in seeing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 PortAventura support added! Catch up with your favorite Spanish theme park at https://queue-times.com/park/portaventura?sort=queue_time Cal and OldFarmerDean 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyLovesVortex Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 hi. thanks for posting this website it's 1 of my hobbies.. observing the parks and their queue times, even though I'm not actually their. (not sure why, it just is). so I've totally been having fun with this! just a few observations (I hope you don't mind?) I noticed in the magic kingdom area, their is no information about the tomorrowland transet authority which led me to believe the ride had been removed. but I checked wikipedia and it is still their also in silver dollar city, it says a lot of them were updated 45 years ago. (that's weird!) and quite hard to believe. chessington wasn't even a theme park 45 years ago could some more parks be aded? I'd like to see aditions of universal orlando and island of adventure, and also seaworld orlando hope you understand all I'm doing is giving feeback on your site. not saying you did a terrible job (far from it!). I love the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Just to gauge interest, how many of you would be interested in a text message service for queue times within the park. You would enter your phone number + carrier at the start of the day, then you would receive queue times for all rides every 10 mins (you could change the frequency) as an SMS message. You would be automatically unsubscribed at the end of the day. The service would be entirely free, and the following carriers would be supported (UK only): O2, Orange, T-mobile and Vodafone. It wouldn't cost me anything to add either . pognoi and Cal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I would personally find that useful, and I don't see why not seeing as it's completely free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pognoi Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 If you added virgin & EE to that list it'd be fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted April 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Well I'm nearly ready to start testing the service, if you want to try out a beta of it, message me and I'll help you set it up All UK carriers are supported! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted April 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 ITS WORKING! pognoi, pluk and Jack F 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Good idea, but the use of 3 letter abbreviations mean you have to be fairly familiar with the park to work out what everything is. It also means Storm in a Teacup and Storm Surge have the same 3 letter code, though Storm Surge gets such long queues it's not too hard to work out which is which! On the main site there are a few issues with some of the parks too - the various Seaworld & Busch parks include things like shops, lockers and toilets, which makes it harder to find the useful data. The Epcot list would benefit from a reduction in-ride attractions too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Project LC Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Maybe have it so it only texts you the coasters queue times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Maybe have it so it only texts you the coasters queue times. That would be good. I'm not sure how you sign up for it, but if you do via your website it would be cool if you could select which rides you wanted, how often etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slendercat Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 This is great stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack F Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 We now have general stats for each park, for example http://queue-times.com/park/thorpe-park/stats. These update every day, and the longer we have the website up, the more accurate the stats will get. We also have cool dynamic images for each park, e.g: How do I get this cool photo thing? ;3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Project LC Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 On crowd calendar you have spelt Thursday "Tursday". Just something you may want to fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted April 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 On crowd calendar you have spelt Thursday "Tursday". Just something you may want to fix. How have I never noticed that , thanks for pointing that out. How do I get this cool photo thing? ;3 Just go to / Set your image to https://queue-times.com/image2/thorpe-park.png?sort=queue_time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Posted April 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 I know no one even cares about this anymore, but I added the queue times for Heide Park, see them here. pognoi and lewumbrajumbos 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 I know no one even cares about this anymore, but I added the queue times for Heide Park, see them here. Not true, I think it's a great concept and really clever how you've managed to get details of the queue times at so many parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattgwise Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 I know no one even cares about this anymore, but I added the queue times for Heide Park, see them here. Definitely not true at all. I think its very useful. I have told everyone who visits any of those parks on there about the queue-times website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 Agreed with the above, it's a great site, I'd love to know how you achieved it. BTW, is there a reason why Legoland Windsor isn't listed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDan Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 Any chance of Europa-Park being added? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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