Dragster Cable

Isn't the cable on dragster right now only about a month old???

It's a Worse start of the week at Schlitterbahn, very sad story.

Hopefully nobody was hurt in TTD

Staaber said:

RCMAC said:
Your sister is there, put her on the case.
What is this, National Weird Titled Thread For Nothing Day?

Just telling everyone what I heard, stop being a jerk.

To be fair, Mac was not being a jerk, and "Dragster Cable" is a very vague title.

noggin said:

Staaber said:

RCMAC said:
Your sister is there, put her on the case.
What is this, National Weird Titled Thread For Nothing Day?

Just telling everyone what I heard, stop being a jerk.

To be fair, Mac was not being a jerk, and "Dragster Cable" is a very vague title.

Fair enough. Just glad no one was hurt because the description I got was it sounded pretty scary.

RCMAC said:
Your sister is there, put her on the case.
What is this, National Weird Titled Thread For Nothing Day?

My apologies RCMAC....

The cable is still in place but we were told TTD will not open today, a few maintenance workers are inspecting the track near the launch.

Story from Fox 8 on this issue.

So did it just come out of line of the guide it normally follows, or did the end detach from the lanch mechanism?

Yes

^Never has a reply like that been so beautifully written than this. It's magnificent

I was right at the end of the hill when it broke. The cable didn't merely detach, a segment broke off and flew over me landing somewhere in or around the trees by the witches wheel. There was also some sort of debris that came off of the coaster a little smaller than a bowling ball.

Maybe that tire finally came down.

Maybe the Uric Acid finally caught up with the ride.

It's time we RMC it ;)

I still have that folder of webcam captures from when I posted that image. There was a neat little wet spot on the ground when he left. A couple days later there was a paper taped to the wall, assuming it was the webcam picture.

It is easy to see what is plaguing Dragster this year..THE PAINT. When it was first built it was shiny and new and had many many problems. As the years went on ,the paint began to fade and the coaster started becoming more reliable (for the coaster anyway). Breakdowns were less and less and uptimes were increasing, During the off season Cedar Point decided to repaint the coaster into its familiar color scheme and what happens.....deja vu. Downtime increasing,parts breaking and parts flying all over the park. Maybe some coasters should be allowed to fade and run well :)

Aaronosmer said:

This guy sure loves to make the situation sound a lot worse than it apparently was. He sounds like he could have been narrating the events of 9/11 or another major crisis.

campfreak06 said:

Thanks, djcarl! I've been searching high and low, and have found very little myself on this....

...and that is exactly what the park would prefer. This incident is similar to the one that happened with Skyhawk a couple years ago. Both involved cables in some way, and both occurred near park close, which was a really good thing for the park.

I'm guessing that part of the park's emergency situation plan is that a ton of security is dispatched to "clear the area". That means get everyone away from the area so they can't take pictures and/or videos. It also would not surprise me if they ran interference on anyone that did happen to get pictures.

I always knew Intamin was gonna snap one day.