Behind the Rides: TTD

Yes, the tower lights.

All the lights work just the timing is a little off for the lights on the tower.

So according to a comment on Behind the Rides 2, T&T said they could not take pictures of the hydraulic room, because it is a "restricted area"... Interesting. There are so many pics of it out on the net... Including some on CP's site if I'm not mistaken??

Is Intamin feeling the need to hide something?

Is Morgan up to something sneaky?

Top Thrill Dragon 2007??

Just a guess but maybe they dont want things like "And here we have the _________ that controls __________ : [insert picture]" to be in the entry.
Maybe there's things that they just dont want to be shown...things that havnt been put on the internet. Things we havnt seen yet (what I dont know). We've seen the room and know what it looks like but there's no detail pic of a specific part of the machinery and how it works. At least not any that I know of.

Again just a guess.

Vince982 said:
Yes, the tower lights.

How I wish they would bring those back....

Josh M. said:
So according to a comment on Behind the Rides 2, T&T said they could not take pictures of the hydraulic room, because it is a "restricted area"

Well, restricted area is different than them not taking/posting them due to a request from the manufacturer....

Tony and Tyler said:

Dan, at the request of the manufacturer, the hydraulic room is a restricted area.

I'm wondering if significant changes were made to the hydraulic room at the end of last season, and if so, there may be no pictures of the new area. Perhaps Intamin came up with some a better design for the room, and while the main components are the same, there might be differences. Maybe it's not just coincidence that TTD is having it's best season so far.

TTD 120mph said:
We've seen the room and know what it looks like but there's no detail pic of a specific part of the machinery and how it works. At least not any that I know of.

You know, I was just thinkning about that when I was going through some video tapes to find out what was on them the other day.

I have a video of the XCelerator hydraulic room from Solace a couple of years ago that has an explaination of the entire workings. They actually had a Q&A in there with someone (can't remember who) down below explaining components and the actions of the motor. It's actually really cool.

Jeff Young said:

I'm wondering if significant changes were made to the hydraulic room at the end of last season, and if so, there may be no pictures of the new area. Perhaps Intamin came up with some a better design for the room, and while the main components are the same, there might be differences.

I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps major changes happened and they don't want other people/companies seeing this. However, I'd have to think that if they did it to TTD, and Kingda Ka was having the same problems, they'd make the same mods to KK, making it redundant to hide something that they already have access to.