Sunday, January 27, 2013

Wait no more!

Picture this: it's a nice warm day out, you and your family have just arrived at Disney's MGM Studios. The first thing you do is run to your favorite ride! The Tower of Terror. Once you get there you look up to see that the wait time is an hour and thirty minutes. Your family doesn't want to stand in the long lines and wait, but you insist. Everyone in your family is becoming tired and grumpy because the line is taking so long and they can't distract themselves anymore with their cellphones because their battery is only on 10%. And every time you sit down on the brick wall to rest the line moves a little bit and you have to get up to move again. If only someone could come up with a solution to fix this boredom while waiting!
My entrepreneurship idea is to create a conveyor belt with seats on them for people to sit down during their wait time. These seats will be designed like airplane seats, where there is a TV that people can play games on, or watch TV shows. This belt makes the time fly while waiting, and you don't even have to walk through the lines. The belt automatically moves the seats forward until you get to the front of the line, and step on the ride.
There are certain games that are free of charge, but just like the itunes apps there are some games that people could download that would cost a couple of dollars. Although this would be a large amount of money for the amusement park to install, it would quickly repay its self by bringing in more customers. The lines would be moving faster because people don't have to walk, and lets face it there is always those people that aren't paying attention to the line moving ahead of them. People would be in and out of the lines fast and the wait time would decrease. This would attract the crowds of people who hate going to amusement parks because they hate waiting in lines.
This idea will be beneficial to the park itself and to the customers. No more questioning if it is worth a long wait to get on a ride. Problems solved with entertainment provided!

3 comments:

  1. Although I truly think the idea would be awesome, don't you feel that this invention would only add the obesity our country already has a major issue attending to? If everyone went from burning calories walking back and forth to rides, waiting on lines, to sitting down relaxing in line, then sitting again once they reached the ride after consuming popcorn and other fast food throughout the course of the day, societies obesity level would skyrocket.

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  2. Amusement park lines are boring and hot. My one suggestion would be to add some sort of cooling element and like air conditioning or a fan.

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  3. Your idea is really creative and it solves a big problem, but what about the rides that have to take long stairs to get to them because they are so high up? Will consumers who get on those ride be able to use the conveyor belt?

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