Disaster Transport... Lights On?

I was riding Cadillac Cars Saturday and I saw them too.

Only a few of the strobes on Raptor's roll still work, the majority of them are out.

While riding the train a couple of weeks ago I saw a repair guy working on the MF lift hill lights.

Hmmm...that's promising.

Didn't Maverick used to have a train noise in the tunnel, and some blinding LED lights that made the tunnel exit more of a surprise? Last several rides it has just been darkness to a clear exit. I never got to ride with fog in the Maverick tunnel, but the fog, train noise, and lights would have added so much.

Also, on my train ride this year, none of the skeleton scenes were turned on at all except the gun scene before Snake River.

Oh, and my friend rode Disaster Transport the other day...said it was back to complete blackness with no theming. Ugh.

Perhaps the maintenance guys are just too consumed by TTD and Maverick these days. :(

The Millennium lights are looking really good now. Someone definitely did some work on them.

Are MF's lights back to the way they were when it was new. Or just costantly on in one color?

Well, boy do I hope they get Boneville up and running.

CP is usually really good with keeping Boneville up and running.

Friday the lights were changing colors and seemed pretty bright. I was riding skyscraper during the Hot Summer Lights and was at top during the fireworks and it seemed Millennium's lights were kind of doing a light show, that I have never seen before.

The Millennium Force lights look great and if you stand in the right spot, they add to the Starlight Experience.

Excellent...glad to hear Millenium lights are fixed.

Boneville & Disaster Transport I just don't understand. I know all those things didn't just break at the same time. Seems like it's a matter of people turning on switches for lighting & sound...Christmas Vacation style.

To me it seems like Cedar Point adds what they feel are "extra things" (that we know as "theme") to its rides and they just don't maintain them. And that's just the unfortunate bottom line. Disaster Transport and Maverick's water-bombs are some examples.

Boneville has been working on all my trips. The fire scene however is hit and miss.

Disaster Transport will go down as one of the great mystery's.

I dont know who said it on here, but someone on here once said they saw three people NAKED, hiding out behind those side hallways for disaster transport next to the line area in the old "Jacks toy factory" section.

Are you sure that's what you saw? Kinda creepy to see THREE nude folks running around in there, strange enough naked people period..........:{

PrawoJazdy said:
Boneville has been working on all my trips. The fire scene however is hit and miss.

Disaster Transport will go down as one of the great mystery's.

Really? This year? I've been there twice, and the intitial Boneville scene was turned off: no shootout, skeleton moving head in jail, etc. Then, the "I've been working on the railroad" scene was completely off...the banjo cart scene completely off...the fire scene completely off. There was no sound on any scene except the gun pops right before Snake River. Funny thing is that of all scenes, that's the only one I wouldn't mind turned off.

Maybe it's a bad sensor on the train or track that intermittently triggers throughout the days? It all worked perfectly last year consistently, which impressed me. This year, pretty much nothing working so far for me.

I don't know what you guys are smoking, but I was just there on Sunday and Millennium's lift hill was completely dark. Also the blinding blue lights at the end of Maverick's tunnel don't work anymore. The water bombs rarely all work at the same time. At most on Sunday I saw 2 go off at a time. They also aren't timed up with the train anymore. These problems to me seem easy to fix.

Speaking of lights, it doesn't seem like PT has had the lights up top on this year.

What about Power Towers Lights,there hardly working at all.

So revisiting the same topic, which is the main topic of this forum - isn't there some kind of quality control in check when it comes to lighting/special effects on the rides? That is a part of what you pay for when you pay for admission; I least that's what I thought. If I want to go up or down a hill, I can walk about a mile from my house and there is a huge grassy hill there, I can trudge up, and then roll down; what a blast. Very irritating when the rides (no matter how long they have been there for) don't have the full effect.

Sure, there's quality control.

There's also a budget.

So, they have to fit "quality control", or more accurately maintenance, into the budget. The rides that get the most focus are going to be the biggest ones and the newest ones. So guess what, they get the largest cut of the maintenance budget. As the park has expanded its ride selection, it has been speculated that the maintenance budget hasn't kept pace with the expansion. This means that those older rides are going to see their allocation spread to help cover the necessary work on the newer, bigger rides.

As a result, unneccessary things like robots and smoke effects get disabled or removed in favor of keeping fresh wheels on Maverick or replacing shredded cable on Dragster or replacing seat-belts on Millennium.

DT is the only coaster which is entirely indoors. This is the main factor which attracts people to it. Well, that and the air conditioning and 46" height requirement. Since they let the theming go away during the 90's, I see no point in trying to do a "patchwork" job now.