Ensō still has the potential to face a capacity/logistics nightmare of sorts. Then again, there's been a consensus in this thread that "the GP wouldn't bite". I'm going to wait out the initial impact before coming to a conclusion on this one.
Well the park was fairly quiet. On days like this Icon is usually a 5 minute wait tops, more often walk on. It was consistently back to the steps and 15 - 20 minutes yesterday. And I didn’t notice it go down once. (That’s not to say it didn’t, but I never saw the gates closed!)
Enso meanwhile, whilst I believe it is considerably reducing main ride throughput, it shouldn’t have any capacity issues itself. This is because you book a timeslot via the app. The same way you book a one shot fast track. And they turn bookings off when a ride is not operating, and for a little while after reopening, allowing them to catch up.
Another point worth mentioning, is that the £15 option was still a fast track of sorts, we had a 4 minute wait until our slot when booking, whilst the main queue was a good 15 minutes, so we were able to make our way straight down and into the seats.
The Enso entrance is under Big Dipper the same way you enter fast track. But when you get to the station it splits into 2. The fast track goes on to join the main queue waiting area, where as Enzo uses the old fast track / RAP gate close to the back of the train.
Sadly the days of being able to marathon Icon time and time again with no waits, on mid week days, are over for now.
Quick note to add, on one train, when it’s not being used, Enzo is a 25% reduction in capacity. On 2 trains, (as it was yesterday) it’s a 12.5% reduction in capacity. And that doesn’t account for the extra ‘faff’ it seems to cause. (Twice we saw somebody waiting for the normal back tow have to be removed from the Enzo seats so they could be sent empty!) This is not insignificant!