Alarm after launch

I searched through archived forums and could not find the answer to my question. After the train initially launched and gets ready to decend the front spike there is an alarm that sounds. My first thought was that it was to warn the crew that it was coming back through the station. Then I realized that it only buzzed on that first pass. It does not seem logical to me that it is to warn of the passing train because it goes once. What is this buzzer for?

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Blue people fly sideways when it rains....

Is this 'alarm' followed by the words 'welcome to wicked twister' by any chance?

Think it may just be the beginning of the recorded announcement you are hearing.

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'Welcome to Alaska!'

"Alaska?? Nobody said we were going to Alaska!!"

It could be the ending part of the spiel/music. The recording continues even though the train has already launched.

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Tommy Penner - YoYoBaybeeMan
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"If it doesn't shake, it will break." I remember someone on here saying that one time and just thought i would quote them.

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Finally Da Great 1 has come back to CEDAR POINT!
MF: 11 WT: 5 TTD: 1 Raptor: 25 Mantis: 15 Magnum: 35 MS: 27

That's the end of the music. It's the end of the song "The Winner" by The Crystal Method.

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

Makes sense. I have never heard the full song. It just corresonds so well with the train getting ready to come back down the front spike.

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Blue people fly sideways when it rains....

It is an awkward sound...but speaking of real alarms I recall many times last year a wierd siren would sound off sometimes when it would have its nightly breakdown. It was kind of like those British police sirens with the 2 alternating tones. Anybody remember this?

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CP 2K3: 13
"What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?" - Strongbad

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a wierd siren would sound off sometimes

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That is the warning horn to let the crew know that the train is being moved.

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82
Technical Services 2002-2003
Fright Zone Screamster 2002-2003
*** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob 7/20/2003 8:36:17 PM ***

Not to knock you at all Rob, but that doesn't warn us of the train moving. It's the light curtians that make that noise, when the ride is reset or powered on they do that. Also when the ride is moving or enabled and something breaks a light curtian, the one that was broken beeps. The only warning of the train being moved in manual is the op saying "Clear" and in auto mode, the brakes and contacts lifting up.

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Matt - '02-'03 WT crew
Awwwww man, I think I got dain bramage!

Yeah, the weird siren that he's referring to is just the end of the song... though the actual end is a faint techno blippy thingy right after the siren.

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TPFKAV
WT Crew 2003
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