Volume 1, No. 5. April 6, 2001
It’s a virtual line!
Six Flags Over Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia, announces the arrival of the Lo-Q Virtual Queuing System, March 24, 2001 (about 60 "Q-Bots" for five rides). Delivered by Lo-Q Plc.
To introduce its new virtual queuing system, which will cost $5 per person to rent once the program is fully implemented on many more rides, Six Flags Over Georgia offered vouchers in its season pass handbook on opening weekend. "We planned to give away 50, but we had a great response and ended up giving away 60," said Marci Tanner, the park’s public relations manager.
The system, which features a pager-size device that reserves the guests’ place in line and then tells the guests when their time to ride is coming up, also generated good feedback among users, Tanner said. "Some said it was the greatest technology they’d seen and it was the best thing that happened to them in a theme park." One of the unique attributes of this system was also duly noted: people could get in virtual lines more than once on a single ride.
For a full report on the Lo-Q system and the trend toward virtual queuing, see the current issue of Amusement Today.
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