Ride Time Guesstimates

If the ride is L-TH-B, how long will it be?

Some assumptions:

1. 1000 feet from station to the tower

2. 400 feet up, 50 feet across, 400 feet down

3. Average speed 50 MPH

Then the ride time is:

(2850 ft/5280 ft/mi) * (1 h/50 mi) * (3600 sec/1 h) = 38.9 secs

Pretty short!

-- Harley

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CP fan since 68.

Playing Devils Advocate.... How'd ya come up with an average velocity of 50 MPH?

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Tommy Penner - Variable X
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"Pessimistic people are the happiest people on the planet. They're either right or pleasantly surprised."

32.9 seconds. :)

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

I was thinking somewhere around 40 seconds, with a higher average speed...about 80.

4 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes, 56 seconds.

Thats my Guesstimate.

And about as close a guess as anyone elses would be.

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Joshua Wilcox

38 seconds......

If these guestimates are close, this ride is a waste of money.

Millions of $$ for a <40 second ride?
*** This post was edited by putergeek 10/15/2002 1:33:14 PM ***

More like Millions of $$ for 4 years of fame... then it get's topped with another taller and faster ride... of course at CP.

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If the roller coaster scared you...

RIDE IT AGAIN!!!

I think we will be lucky if its that long, or atleast the actual ride not sitting at brakes.

putergeek, I guess its safe to assume that you wont be riding it next year then, right? If it is a waste of money that would mean no one will want to come ride it which would mean CP wasted their money. Because you know CP does everything to please coaster enthusiasts and thats what they base their marketing strategy and planning on. Its not a business, its about pleasing about 5% of the crowd that comes to your park (end sarcasm).

I hope alot of coaster enthusiasts take your opinion though. The lines should be alot shorter that first week then (when all the enthusiasts show up to ride). Which means I get to ride more! Somehow I doubdt it will be that way though. Alot of people here are going to complain about this thing online. But they will probebly be the first ones in line when it opens.

I'd like to see how the huge spike in attendence next year will be written off as a "waste of money"...

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

CPTwister: Will I ride it next year? I dont know. I have no trips planned and will not make a special trip to ride it. With not knowing if I will fit on the ride ( I cannot fit on WT), I stand by my statement.

CP_bound: Do you mean a large spike like they had for WT? I believe that when the general public hears that the ride is <40 and remembers some of the wait times that MF has had, they may say the same as I have above.

Just my opinion. I don't own a park, nor do I have the desire or the talent that CP does. It's just my opinion.
*** This post was edited by putergeek 10/15/2002 1:32:54 PM ***

putergeek, your point would be stronger if you used the correct sign. You keep saying "greater than 40", I believe you're looking for < 40, or "less than 40"...

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--Greg
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MF count: 54

CP's attendance for the year is up 3%, not bad considering they are the only amusement company not experiencing attendance drops in the down economy. Six flags attendence is down 11% for the year. Looks to me like WT wasn't such a bad investment after all.

Shawn

Ok, so we're all saying that it'd be somewhere around a 30-40 sec ride if it's just a L-TH-B ride. But how long would it be even if it did have some elements to it. With the speed it's going, i don't think it'd be much more than a minute or so.

Xcelerator is about 24 seconds long from launch to initial brake (KBF lists the time as 1:02 on their web site, but that includes the brake and the coast into the station). Having ridden it 20 times on the day we went to KBF, I will tell you it is a great 24 seconds!!! The launch, the trip up the top hat and the initial shot straight down are all great elements of the ride. The overbanked turns are fine, too, but the other elements make the ride. Adding 200 feet of vertical will add about 3 seconds to the ride (less than 1.5 seconds in each direction at over 140 feet per second which is roughly the AVERAGE speed from the base up the first 200 feet and then down again -- the rest of the ascent and descent are in the Xcelerator number), a ride with the same two banked turns will come to brakes at about 30 seconds (using the same times for braking as KBF figure about 1:10 or less). Would I wait for this ride? Absolutely. I just hope that they build the station big enough (the queue lines on the platform are for TWO rows each which means that you only have a 50% chance of getting to sit in the first row if you are in the "front car" line). This was due to a small design flaw according to KBF management...

Greg, he was right. He said, when the ride is less than 40, alot of the public might not want to ride it. He meant less than, not greater than and he had the correct sign.

Official BS Guess-

33 seconds wait... no, 32 seconds... wait... no... 88mph!

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*** This post was edited by Michael Darling 10/15/2002 5:33:58 PM ***

10 seconds

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