6/8/04

Went up for a late afternoon evening trip with some friends.

Raptor running spectacular!!! No noisy wheels.

Dragster well I got my first ride on it this year. For the most part is was up but went down a couple times for minor problems. One was something with a brake fin on the launch side not cooperating, (don't know what the problem was I got there as they just fixed it), then it went down for about 10 minutes as they removed the blue train for something. Anyway after the start of the year it seems to be running better and a bit more reliable. Except the crew seemed slow by that I mean the people were checked and clear in the station trains, and both trains outside the station had already run and cleared the course. Yet were still sitting in the station with the crews thumbs up waiting to be cleared and get out in staging. Not sure why. But the ride was nice.

MF didn't even bother

Magnum, running very very nice.

MS....who has a match. Very slow, we crept over the second hill, leaning against the back rest I verified it was still rough, so I stopped that. Even before the second half we basically were creeping along the ride with no air. I would have like to ride it when if first opened to see the real MS.

I was there on Tuesday as well, and I heard an off duty employee in line talking about the slow dispatch. The reason is that when it runs only 4 trains, they wait until both have been unloaded to dispatch the two in the station. This is probably so that they will always have two trains to bring into the load station.

About how long were the minor problems?

Not exactly sure on the first one when the brake fin on the launch track had a problem. I suspect 15-45 minutes. The second one was 10 max, just blue train removal. I was watching it from different areas of the park most of the time there and usually it was running. To the best of my knowledge most of the breakdowns now are 10-30 minutes give or take some time.

We were talking to a person in line who had been there 3 straight days, he had like 15 or so rides on dragster and he said most breakdowns have been short periods of time, but it had been running pretty good while he was there. He was there saturday when the cable had it's problems, but he rode it sunday when it went back up.