Does Fuji-Q Highland Have the WORST Operations in the World?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2019
- This Japanese amusement park has a reputation...and not a good one. Countless horror stories surround it regarding incredibly slow dispatches, which lead to terribly long lines. But is it all true? We paid Fuji-Q a visit and decided to put them to the test!
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They are Japanese, very patient and very polite. I bet they shake the hand and properly greet every guest before riding
TOUGH MAN RANDY SAVAGE True though, when I had a stop at Narita Airport they were so nice and friendly. And an older lady even gave me some Yen to pay for a drink.
Penguino Sei I had a similar experience, the people there are so unfailingly polite. This makes me wonder whether they’re more geared towards safety or guest happiness (shorter wait times) based on their general politeness.
Very true. I remember I asked this lady in Kyoto for instructions and she accidentally sent me the wrong way. 3 mins later and I’m pretty far down the road, I hear her screaming after me and chasing me lol and then she told me that I’m going the wrong way. And then she even took one of my suitcases and pulled it down the road ❤️ I almost cried when we said bye, because I’ve never ever experienced such a helpful gesture from a stranger like this, not even in my own country.
Thank you for your nice opinion!! I so happy!! I am japanese I'm not good at English sorry.
@Giullia Naomi Viana Murata I wouldn't say like kings but the Japanese do take customer service and overall customer happiness seriously.
A major part of the problem at fuji Q is the abundance of low throughput rides and single trains that contribute heavily to the long lines there.
And the fact that it rains there constantly.
low throughput rides and 1 train ops in Japan, that's asking for lines 5 times longer than they should be
After the accident in Expoland, the Japanese government changed things to all parks in Japan
The problem I found with Fuji Q was not the speed of the ride ops, but rather, the time between unloading one train and the next train being allowed to board (a couple minutes in between) and then also how slowly it took people to actually get to their seats. Once people were actually seated the ops checked the restraints relatively quickly, it was just the lag time in between that made it take forever. So I don’t think this video is super representative of how slow the dispatches are but I’ve also only been once.
Wow guys, in this video you can really tell just how much Taylor has grown up. Its like watching Malcolm in the middle, and see Frankie Muniz grow up. So basically Taylor is the Malcolm in the middle of roller coasters
This comment spoke to me on a spiritual level
I was thinking the same thing a couple of days ago with the Blue Flash review! Hopefully he can drive the community in the right direction after people like TPR...
Oh we’ve been waiting for this lol! Love your insights and opinions at the end!
Omg yessss! I have been waiting for this video for so long!!! Thank you Taylor!!
Love these dispatch videos, especially the comments and music when the operations are sped up. Please keep making them!
Can’t be as slow as twisted timbers operations. That’s literally a 45 min wait in the station alone
Twisted Timbers wasn’t that bad when I rode it. It was running 2 trains for once. Dispatches were a bit slow, but that was because they were having a new kid do it while someone with more experience watched him. Which meant I very nearly avoided getting stapled by asking both of them to leave me room. The only time I had to wait some was the second time I rode. It was near closing and it was raining so they were taking a train off while we were in the station. Then we had to wait for a few trains to go. SFA is worse.
Wasnt bad for me, but it was also a walk on so maybe i just wasnt focusing on it.
I marathoned it last month and didn’t have to wait very long. But their loose article policy was a bit complicated and involved.
I’ve been waiting for another one of these!!! Love you vids Taylor!!!
Who else likes Taylor's vids before watching them?
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This was my experience as well here. Nagashima Spaland was far worse for me and was by far the worst dispatches I have seen especially on acrobat.
Taylor Your Videos are the best! I love your parodies, analysis for new coasters, coaster fights, coaster awards, reviews, AND park fights!
basically all of your videos!
Isn't Six Flags America the park with the worst operations?
Nah, La Ronde is worse, and when you get away from first world countries it can get even worse than that.
SDA was actually fairly ok the last few times I went
Alejandro Garza I’d vote for Mt. Olympus.
I never been to Mt. Olympus! I might go there next year!
When I went to Fuji q I timed Eejanaika on my watch and there was a train every 7 minutes
Peter Shelton That was actually my experience on Expedition GeForce and no one seems to talk about that coaster’s dispatches.
Breaktime by Kevin Macleod at 2:53? That has to be a new record!
Great video, i never knew they had bad dispatches. Better than six flags america. Anyway, hope you go on another air launch coaster. A certain one in Illinois...
Regarding the slow operations, the coasters that had bad times seemed to also either have slow boarding or were particularly complex rides, which explains some of the slowness. There's also the fact that some of the riders took their time boarding the rides.
Fujiyama has lines on one side of the track and the storage lockers are on the opposite side. So essentially, when it is your turn to ride, you have to walk through the cart to get to the lockers, then after securing your stuff, you have to come back to the cart to take your seat. Poor planning and logistics but the ride is awesome!
As Joan Jett says- Fuji Q doesn't give a damn about their bad reputation..... Because they have some of the best coasters in the world. You are going regardless of their operations...
They also receive double the amount of rain in a year than Seattle Washington gets lol. So that could also be part of the problem. The fact that they even have coasters running during rainfall is a + in my book never mind the slow operations. In six flags great adventure near me (without the flash pass I'd not even go) shuts down the best rides if a drop of rain falls lol. So yeah that's my take anyway. It would be as I'm a meteorologist so my first thoughts when going to an amusement park is "Are Thunderstorms or Rain in the Forecast" lol.
I love Joan Jett btw lolol
And they really do. My favorite is Dodonpa. But I liked it more when it had the big old top hat hill. I haven't been back to Japan since they converted that awesome end of ride top hat into the huge vertical loop it now has.
80 seconds for an 8 person two row train is terrible. Not solid. All the rides that you said weren't bad had low capacity trains.
Daniel Blaney for a park that’s always considered to have the worst operations in the world? Yeah. 80 seconds is actually pretty good. Doesn’t matter if they have low capacity trains or not. I’ve seen operations much worse on rides with low capacity trains.
Very cool video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
I'm shook with the bow at 3:22 while loading . People are So polite in Japan.
Awesome I love these!
Not as bad as I though it’d be, honestly. Thanks for sharing!
I will visit tomorrow. Unfortunately Dodonpa is closed at the moment, and I hope Eejanaika is open. To the operations: I was at Tokyo Dome to ride Thunder Dolphin and they took over 5 Minutes per Ride (!) to unload/load the train. It was horrible.
It's ya boiii in row 1 on Fujiyama!!
I went to this one theme park in myrtle beach where they waited until the train was full to run it, and had a train capacity of 2 but they were only running 1. I must have waited 30 minutes to be dispatched and there were a total of about 10 people in the station. smh family kingdom
That is ridiculous.
@@StamfordBridge ikr!
Sounds like something Fun Spot would do
Sounds like the old Pavilion
William Pippin no kidding. When I went there I was younger but still remember it being dysfunctional.
Yay japan content! Can’t wait to hear your opinions!
When I visited in May they were a lot worse. Eejanaika was sending out one train every 5 minutes, Do-Dodonpa was also only running 1 train and there was a good 2-3 minutes between each one.
Great video! I wondered how you pronounced Eejanika.
For your next coaster tour, you should go to China. you could visit
Sun Park
Quancheng Euro Park
Chuanlord Holiday Manor
Floraland Continent Park
Great Xingdong Tourist World
Lewa Adventure
Chimelong Paradise
And more!
Next coaster trip you should do a joke video like 'how fast are the airports operations'
Mitchell Henry yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Looking forward to the Nagashima one 😂
Or Universal Studios Japan!
I went there for a full day in 2018, in line to enter the park before the gates opened, and only got on 3 rides (Eejanaika, Do-Dodonpa, Takabisha) and it took nearly 6 hours. Fujiyama was single train operations all day, didn't bother. It was bruuuuutal.
I actually didn't mind the long waiting times, got myself hyped up and not only that prepared me for the hell that is the Fujiyama. (my friend ditched me to be in the first cart seat on it, by myself, in december)
The line was very long for jujiyama so I suggest getting a fast pass if you really want to ride it. I think we waited 1.5 hours?
Sweet. I'm visiting japan at the end of the month, and will be hitting this park plus Nagashima Spa Land and Universal Japan!
Taylor, I'd be very curious to to see you test the operations at Chinese parks. I visited at Happy Valley Shanghai among others as you know. I timed the Dive Coaster dispatched a train every... 10 minutes 😮
You may use the waiting music's full loop would you get the same experience there 😅
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So do Chinese park make you "STRETCH" before riding "dive coaster" ?
@@chorokee Not really actually. Some ride ops half-heartedly count to 10 and ask guests in station to stretch, but most people don't bother with those really.
Rock n Roll Duncan would have been sub 30 second dispatches, that thing is on fire!
Fuji J Highland has bad operations, Do Do Dompa has entered the chat
I think the bad operations thing started or blew up because of the Person The Shall Not Be Named did a trip report there several years ago and it was bad on his visit. But, as we know, operations at amusement parks can often change drastically from season to season.
Worlds worst operations....shwos an almost perfect one first
That was a really small train tho
I went earlier this week and I won't lie, I thought the operations were awful. When they were loading the train it was fine, but they kept doing these drawn-out safety briefings before hand and they also did Eejanaika with only one train, which was pretty ridiculous. Basically, the operations are that one glaring flaw in an otherwise outstanding theme park.
They are probably like oh crap here comes coaster studios, better ramp things up 😂
After all that I had heard about Fuji Q, believe me, I would not have been surprised if it had topped La Ronde as the worst park you’ve ever been to. But this was a pleasant surprise for sure!
Can’t wait for the DoDodonpa review - will Taylor declare it more intense than Intimidator 305?
Eejanaika is slow because of the complicated restraints and you aren't really sure what to when you get into the seat.
So cool rides!!!😊❤👍
Am I the only one who thinks that the music used for the wait on Voyage Dans Le Ciel sounds like the music from the JG Wentworth commercials?
eejanaika can't be expected to have fast operations, they have like 7 buckles and have a really weird station system. when i went i was really confused and the person thought i was japanese because i'm chinese (similar physical features) and they spent like 5 minutes on me
I’ll put up with anything to ride Fujikyu’s amazing coaster lineup.
Can you do Fiesta Texas’s dispatches?
I know this video is old. But man, I grew up going to Europapark (like every Swiss in the Germanside of the country does) and I wasn't prepared for the low capacity. Like come on, what's that with Eejanaika. Only 1 train in operation? But one hour line? Like wtf... Get more ready and let them go. At least 2 or better 3 trains. Because you wait so long, even if you are ready.... Like WTF...
Okay, Eejanaika is heavier than every ride in Europapark added up, but even then....
I did not know that the slow operation is known. I was really surprised.
The thing is, the operation itself is not very slow, but the waiting in between is so annoing. Even if you are ready with your shoes off, you have to wait another minute until your train comes. In this time you would have time to get even some passangers get to the seats ect.
Same goes with the other coasters. I didn't hear a lot of coasters going on. But you had to wait for about a hour or more. In Europapark you see so many trains going on, but even then you wait about 1h or even more - for Silverstar or Bluefire you usually wait about 1-2h on a busy day.
Finally. New stock music.
For the mad mouse the theme park I go to they don’t stop the ride for you so you have to jump in while it’s moving and if you don’t buckle idk what happens
Wow oh my I have no words at all for Fuji-Q highland park!!!...😱😱😱🤨🧐😢😭🤬🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢🎢
me and my brother actually got weird looks because we pulled down our restraints ourself, i guess they aren't used to it. maybe that causes some of the longer times?
This is also the country where they literally push people into subway trains to not be 10 seconds late.😂🤷♂️
I vote lego land Windsor. Wow took about 7 minutes to load 10 kids on a chair-o-plane
They don't have bad operations, they just prioritize safety over speed. There's nothing wrong with that. Sure, it takes a while, but they gotta do what they gotta do. (This is coming from a coaster operator btw)
I had a 20 minute dispatch on Lightning Rod. Someone peed their pants, so they had to clean it. Then someone had to move seats because it wouldn’t fit. THEN they had to move again because they still wouldn’t fit. And T H E N they had to lift and lower the restraints again because they unlocked them for that person. It was also ONE TRAIN OPS!!! 😂
Wait, someone peed their pants, while waiting to be dispatched!? Wtf?
No the train pulled in and there was pee on it and they couldn’t find the person because they got out too quick (which I don’t blame them lol)
rip the wild mouse
Good job
The music with Do dadonpa sounded half Postman Pat half Horrid Henry
GIB at Jinjiang Action Park need at least 15 mins and Dinoconda at Dinosaurs Park will take 20mins per train!
Now at Fuji- q , the flying tooth coaster.
As a ride OP here is my 2 cents. Make sure you start time after everyone is seated. It's out of their hands if people are still standing, putting belongings away, etc. Possibly start when they give down bar
Not a bad idea, only reason I do it this way is so it gives people an idea of each interval, so they can see the total time per train. But you are absolutely right.
Imo my home park and the only one in AZ castles and coasters (has desert Storm) has the worst ops. I was waiting for 5 minutes on one ride for it to start
The logo looks like tue Quick fast food's logo (it's a Belgian fast food)
This is what happens when ride ops don't drill on efficiency.
While some certainly weren't as bad, even there you could shave 5 seconds off.
There is zero communication going on who goes what side.
The times arent bad when you JUST compare times without any other info, but considering how small most of the trains are, these are pretty slow
From what I've seen in this video, I don't think Fuji Q deserves the title of "worst operations" anymore. La Ronde is far more deserving of that tile now, IMO...
When I went there, it was much faster.. I think probably I dont want the train to move which made time past even faster HAHA
The operations weren't that slow at all, la ronde has still the worst operations
Classic la ronde
safety is number one priority
Steel Dragon is the worst. They are ridiculously slow even when the line is super short
Random question: Does riding two different coasters that are both the same exact layout count as two credits or one?
Theme Park Gamer Two credits.
They should count as 1
Wait, why the hell are they running two trains on Takabisha? The thing is designed for five IIRC
Well Taylor I'm a Meteorologist in NYC and this got me thinking, so I looked up weather records for Fujiyoshida where Fuji-Q Highland is. Couldn't the bad reputation very well be that the city has a SUPER RAINY CLIMATE!? For instance, The AVERAGE Rainfall for the year is 72-73 inches! To compare that to a rainy city in the US; take Seattle, WA for instance and their Average Precipitation in a year is only 37-38 inches! For more information on the climate in Fujiyoshida in an Average year (if interested I figured I'd share) check this link out. I mean it was literally raining there in this video. The fact that the coasters even run in that city ever is amazing LOL never mind slow operations. en.climate-data.org/asia/japan/yamanashi/fujiyoshida-6354/?amp=true
When can we get some Fuji-Q Highland coaster reviews?
Matt Tuszak very soon
@@CoasterStudios looking forward to it!
Seems like an American Parks. Ride operators are not really coaster enthusiasts that's why it seems like they don't even care that everybody is talking about how poor the ride operations are. If I found out that everybody talking bad about my job I would try to at least change or bring it to park operations attention.
Nice!
Silver wood has to have the worst operations of any park I’ve been to
Why not trying Parc Astérix in France ?
Six Flags America is very quiet right now
I’ve seen worse at sfog actually there’s can be horrible at times and sometimes they only run 1 train like how hard is it to load and unload I get safety but still come on sometimes I wonder if sfog doesn’t higher the right people cause they be lazy on the jobs!!!
Do they run their coasters in the rain?
yes and no. They will in light rain, but not in heavy rain.
I don’t understand why they were checking multiple cars at once on the wild mouse. 😬
Please do operations for Nagashima Spa Land
you should do KD ride ops
ONE TRAIN OPPSSSSSSS
Hear that six flags America? You’re not the only one...
Are you going to do an Alton towers one soon?
ArchKing10 he’s already done all Europe content
no
Okay hopefully you can go back to Alton towers one day
I’ve heard the lines are horrendous at Universal Studios Japan. Was that your experience?
StamfordBridge yes they were long
Safety doesn’t come with a time limit
I'm sure rain on a weekday didn't play a factor
The most important thing is: safety, not fast.
Plz do adventureland
Six Flags Fuji Q!
You’ve never done operations for California’s great america! You should go back there and see how well they do!
Alton towers operations video please
I wonder if they can’t operate at the same time
Have you done one for Nagashima Spa Land?
yes
@@CoasterStudios cool! Thanks, Taylor