I expect mostly the latter - it seems to be a very reliable ride! But also I suspect there is a portion of guests who are too scared to ride. It is an intense roller coaster and there are no shoulder restraints, which is a psychological comfort to many people, even if not necessary.
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Maybe roller coaster hesitancy? Let a bunch of others go first and see if they survive? 
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The thing about hesitancy is that it is perfectly rational, but there are many layers of testing and protocols before being made available to the public, so by that point no one should be worried.
(Wait, are we talking about roller coasters or something else? 
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Exactly!
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Even if I could ride it I donāt know that I would want to. Lap bar alone just doesnāt seem safe. Add to that a plus size YouTube person did a video and he got to ride but said there were times he felt he was slipping out. He loved it but looked a bit freaked out. I donāt care that he rode it again. The thought of feeling like I could slip out is a big nope!
Hubby & I rode this yesterday. Neither of us are large people - Iām 5ā3" on a good day & 135 lbs - & I was worried about the lap bar only thing, too. I never felt like I was going to slip out at any time & neither did he. Itās not so much a lap bar as a complete lap locking contraption.
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Lap bar only is perfectly safe. Many of the newer coasters, it is becoming the standard.
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You say that and I want to believe you, but somewhere deep inside me goes NOOOOOO! 
Particularly when I see people with their arms up on it. Gives me the heebie geebies!
Iām happy to not ride it. Iāll watch a YouTube POV video and be happy. I just want everyone else to ride it and stay out of the WWoHP 
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Len talked about it on the Disney Dish podcast today. He said after pulling it down, he felt secure. Then a TM came by and pushed it down and he yelped and then joked that the TM needed to buy him a drink. In other words, he felt completely secure.
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Isnāt there also a seatbelt as a backup?
Not that I could see from videos I have watched. But how these restraints work these days, if something fails, it wouldnāt release. It takes power to release it (barring some type of manual override). Without power, it canāt release. And the ride wonāt go unless every lap bar is locked and in proper position.
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Nope. Not at the moment. Have had a year of that plus other stuff. However, love this comic!!!
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They are pumping a LOT of people through. Theyāve even got a single rider line going
Image via @Schmoofy on Twitter taken at 11am Wed. 5/12/21
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Velocicoaster is listed as āClosedā in the app right now. Wonder if that means they arenāt actually going to open it up for soft openings every dayā¦or if it is just temporarily closed.
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According to the people I follow on Twitter, who go practically every day, it was open earlier this morning. (one of them is there right now)
TMs are telling people it is closed for the day for a technical issue with the trains. (Who knows if that will change later in the afternoon)
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Must be that lap bar falling open while upside down?
(I jest! Donāt freak out, people!)
Anyhow, thanks for the update.
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Iām torn on whether I want to ride this. Iām more excited about the line than the ride.
Too many rollercoasters ā Iām thinking of RRR, for example ā are simply disorienting and motion-sickness inducing. Sure, speed is exciting. But if you canāt take in whatās happening, I donāt see the point.
Disney has always avoided this with its rollercoasters. Hagridās avoids it. But VC looks like the whole thing will just be a blur.
Frankly my favourite rollercoaster in Orlando is SDD.
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There was a time when I would have thought you crazy but the last couple of trips have left me blacking out on the rides like Hulk and RRR and fighting to not faint so I agree. But Hagrids is better than SDD.
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Iāve felt a little motion-sick on Hagridās, though not every time. I felt it on SDD, but only after Iād ridden it three times in a row during an After Hours event.
My main complaint about Hagridās is that Hagridās lips are not synced with his words. I feel like Disney would not have let that pass.
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