2007 TTD status: Day to Day

No!.........well ok yeah I will.:D

Any reports today? We got hit by a decent storm today so I'm assuming the same did for CP.

It was hit and miss in the morning because of the high winds (I only saw it run a few times), but later in the day it seemed to be running more consistently. I left at 3:30pm, so not sure about after that. The weather was beautiful up to that point, although a touch on the hot side.

..Al

TTD 120 - You seem to have the magic touch with Dragser this year. Opening day seems to be the best Dragster has had so far. The train you were on in the morning, was the only in a series that didn't roll back. Dragster seems to want to run better when you're around.

*** Edited 5/16/2007 11:55:33 AM UTC by 0g***

Don't tell him that....it gives him an excuse to be an even bigger fanboy. :)

lol I boast about that anyway.
Being Dragsters biggest fan, it automatically acts better whenever I’m around. And if she does act up, all I have to do is sternly say "Dragster!" and then she runs again. I’m what you would call the "Dragster whisperer".;)

Boy, this is going to make Adam jealous...

Went yesterday, 5/16. I only rode Dragster once, because the line was 45 minutes to an hour long all day.

Anyway, when I finally did get in line to ride it, it was running fine, probably because they weren't loading people in the last car of any train. Once I got near the platform, they started letting people in those cars again, and started getting rollbacks/near rollbacks and mechanical downtime.

I waited for about 20 minutes on the platform for second car/first row. Finally, we got on the gold train, and eventually launched...

...and we didn't make it! A ride op came out to ask if everyone still wanted to ride (possibly slyly trying to make the train lighter). We did. We launched again...

...and we didn't make it! A double rollback! Third time was the charm, though, but it was awesome, like a ridiculously huge Wicked Twister.

Your body starts to get adjusted to TTD after three consecutive launches.

This was only my third time ever riding Dragster, too. And my fourth. And my fifth. :-)
*** Edited 5/17/2007 3:37:02 PM UTC by Jakyl25***

Oooooh.... the elusive "double rollback." I really was hoping for one of those on Monday morning, but alas my luck was not as good as yours...

You guys can go ::censors::. :)

I wonder what the record is for most consecutive rollbacks?

The most I've seen at one time was 4.

I was there on half day Monday, two full days Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday it was closed when we got there around 4 o'clock, but opened up a little past 6pm. Tuesday, it ran in the morning up till around little past noon, then didn't see it run till the later hours. Wednesday it ran better, not to many break downs but the line made it not worth the wait.

But got two rides in, first one was just after it opened back up. We waited 10 mins for it.

Josh M. said:
Oooooh.... the elusive "double rollback." I really was hoping for one of those on Monday morning, but alas my luck was not as good as yours...

Well, guess luck was on my side today. I got my first double rollback on the first train of the day! :) And another rollback on my last ride before I left around 5pm.

Mark Small said:

Josh M. said:
Oooooh.... the elusive "double rollback." I really was hoping for one of those on Monday morning, but alas my luck was not as good as yours...

Well, guess luck was on my side today. I got my first double rollback on the first train of the day! :) And another rollback on my last ride before I left around 5pm.

Lucky ;). *** Edited 5/19/2007 3:17:07 AM UTC by Daniel Smith***

Hey Mark! We were on the same train! My girlfriend and I were in the second row! Haven't been to the Point since 2003, only got to ride 2 times then, no rollbacks. That double rollback this morning definately was worth the wait!

Thurs. May 17th:

Up all day. Only loaded first couple of rows most of the day, a lot of rollbacks.

So I think TTD ran pretty well today, wouldn't you say Adam? Good seein ya, btw. Heres to many more last trains.

Terrific day today! 3 rides total.
I know she went down for a little bit due to a brake on the launch but that was easily fixed. But other than that, she ran great!

Last train of the day ROCKED!!!
Oh and great meeting you again ramboozle.

::BUMP::
So it seems (by watching the cleveland cam yesturday, and today) that Dragster is running very well.

Dont forget to keep those reports coming.:)

*** Edited 5/20/2007 3:31:26 PM UTC by TTD 120mph***

Jakyl25 said:
Boy, this is going to make Adam jealous...

Went yesterday, 5/16. I only rode Dragster once, because the line was 45 minutes to an hour long all day.

Anyway, when I finally did get in line to ride it, it was running fine, probably because they weren't loading people in the last car of any train. Once I got near the platform, they started letting people in those cars again, and started getting rollbacks/near rollbacks and mechanical downtime.

I waited for about 20 minutes on the platform for second car/first row. Finally, we got on the gold train, and eventually launched...

...and we didn't make it! A ride op came out to ask if everyone still wanted to ride (possibly slyly trying to make the train lighter). We did. We launched again...

...and we didn't make it! A double rollback! Third time was the charm, though, but it was awesome, like a ridiculously huge Wicked Twister.

Your body starts to get adjusted to TTD after three consecutive launches.

This was only my third time ever riding Dragster, too. And my fourth. And my fifth. :-)
*** Edited 5/17/2007 3:37:02 PM UTC by Jakyl25***

I was walking by Dragster when this happened. I was going to Magnum. My boyfriend and I was like 'whoa two rollbacks'. He was ready to run to it and I was like 'Oh Lord Please NOO'. The thought of a rollback scares me silly.