Cedar Point announces TT2 will be operational!

A crack in the support, boy that's serious. You'd never see a B&M coaster get a crack in a support!

Wait a minute...

This comment makes me "Fury"-ous!

Im wondering if this will prove to be a Fury 325 anomaly, or a Wicked Twister season 1 issue.

And, the fact that something else appears to be going on with the trains makes me wonder if there is any commonality between the 2, where one issue exacerbates the other and vice versa.

Could certainly be 2 completely separate and relatively minor issues that happened to crop up simultaneously, but this is one of those things that make you go hmmmm...

They failed to maintain the lagoon sufficiently.

What this project needs is someone like Gordon Ramsay or Jon Taffer to step in and get Cedar Point and Zamperla in line.

They should've themed it to a Space Shuttle launch. The frequent delays, scrubbed launches, uncertain availability, constant expensive maintenance requirements, and catastrophic and near-catastrophic shedding of debris could be part of the ride's storyline.

well, what's perplexing with the ongoing train struggles is that they are replacing seats from one train to another -- so I don't think it's a recurrence of the stress on the train issue (because they wouldn't be a fix). The "rumor" is a problem with the restraints (but, again, not sure why that's a problem with some, but not all seats?)

I'd be surprised if the rumored weld/crack issue is anything serious because I don't think the forces are enormous on it (not real lateral forces?) or would be particularly challenging to calculate?. It may just be a one-off fabrication issue (like Fury 325), rather than a serious structural ongoing concern....

But, yeah, Zamperla and CP could sure use a clean run with this ride....

^ yeah, hard to make sense of the seat swapping.

Tony said they anticipate it will re-open tomorrow FWIW

https://www.wkyc.com/article/entertainment/places/cedar-point/top-thrill-2-closed-cedar-point-weekend-update-tony-clark-sandusky-ohio/95-8ec3cfd5-3541-4dbe-8534-1f4ea2adeecf

^What's the rush in reopening it? This ride has had more issues than Britney Spears going through a midlife crisis.

Give TT2 a conservatorship and reopen it when it has it's ducks in a row.

Obviously the issues last year that closed the ride after the second weekend of the season were major and unexpected. But (and I know this is hard) let's all pretend that last year didn't happen and TT2 was a new for 2025 ride.

Six weeks into the season the ride has run consistently, save for what will end up being a three day downtime. Let's also pretend that one of those three days wasn't Coastermania. Would any of this have been all that notable for a first year ride? Or would it have just been chalked up to growing pains?

I feel like we can't let last year's debacle get in the way of being understanding when typical first year issues pop up this year. It's the same with Steel Curtain over at Kennywood. If there is some kind of maintenance issue that shuts the ride down for a day or two here and there, it's not at all related to all of the doom and gloom of the years it was closed. It's just the normal growing pains of a first year ride.

But it’s not a first year ride, or even a second year ride. It’s a 20 something year old ride that has been frankensteined.

RtRM YouTube just did a video where he showed the seat swaps. It was actually just the seat back plastics/fiberglass shrouds that were swapped, not the seats themselves.

2020TpForSale:

But it’s not a first year ride, or even a second year ride. It’s a 20 something year old ride that has been frankensteined.

It's as much of a first (or second) year ride as Steel Vengeance was in 2018.

2020TpForSale:

What's the rush in reopening it?

Because I'm going to be there on Father's Day and I have been waiting.

Patiently.

OK?

^^Respectfully disagree. When SV opened in 2018, they didn't have the strong majority of the year prior to run physical testing on the "completed" attraction, and then an entire offseason to re-engineer improvements to the design based on that testing. This is year two, regardless of how little it operated in year one.

As a disclaimer, this is purely speculation going forward. But I assume that with the train reworks, they likely added a decent amount of weight to the trains to reinforce them. If the structure was designed for the very lightweight aluminum chassis in TT2.0, possibly the new trains could be fatiguing the structure at a much faster rate. Either way, it's not common to see major structural rework like this on a steel roller coaster. And that it's only June of year 2 and we're doing this again, does not bode well for the longevity of this ride IMO.

^ And this isn't event the part of the ride that's been standing for 20 years. This is the brand new structure with only what 8 full weeks of cycling? I'd be a little concerned with the reliability here as well

The cracked weld could be the result of a defect when the support was built. If they find additional weld issues or if the problems on the spike continue that is another story. Perhaps they really did not understand the forces that would be involved with this ride. The original trains were not properly designed to handle the stresses of the ride and if we continue to see structural issue then there could be design flaws there as well.

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They should've themed it to a Space Shuttle launch

I always thought the whole race car theme was stupid. There.

Well, it's testing this morning ..... so not likely to have been a big deal...