We’re trialing a 7:30 and 9:00 parade with only a 22-minute backstage reset between units, and I’m mapping guest flow to keep Main Street clear while keeping energy up with two roaming drumlines. For those who’ve run back-to-back step-offs, did staggered snack cart placement or a pre-parade QR game reduce dwell clumps, and how did you manage the Frontier Gate choke point?
At 7:30/9:00 we’ve used the drumlines as a rolling sweep: flip Frontier Gate one-way during the 22-minute reset and run 90-second hard holds as the line passes, which breaks the “Frontier Gate choke point” without extra barricades. Caveat: you need two ops on paddles and a clear radio cue. @parade-ops, would that timing play nice with your 9:00 step-off?
We had good results tying the QR game to a timed “unlock” 12 minutes after the 7:30 step-off, redeemable only in Adventure Plaza, which yanks dwell off Main Street before 9:00. Also move the cold-drink cart 30–40 yards downstream of the west-gate pinch so the line forms past the constriction; , a balloon seller there will undo it, so we blacked out vendors in that zone. @Maya, can you lock vendor placements during the 22-minute reset?