Hands Up on Dragster

Yeah I guess you can say I got lucky, well first off Maverick had been down the day before, and then that day it wasn't running for ERT. So we were heading to MF for that's morning ERT, out of the SC gate we turned left, and while walking up to TTD we say trains launching with people in them, then we saw the line was open, so we joined it. This was right at at 9am or 9:02am, we ended up waiting 15 mins for the front seat. Which was incredible!! the front seat line, and the ride. :D

Then you defiantly got lucky as that was one of the few days they opened with ert. You luck sob!;)

Thank God! I was just asking, Adam. Thaks for the reply. I didn't want rollbacks to not happen. I'm still waiting for my first one. Thanks for "not going off on me". ;)

TTD 120mph said:
Then you defiantly got lucky as that was one of the few days they opened with ert. You luck sob!;)

Yep it really felt like a dream, I was like this is never open for ERT, and we were among the first to ride it that day. We might have been on the 12 train of the day maybe.

^^The key is we WANT rollbacks to happen. Rollbacks are to Dragster as prey is to a preditor......or something.:)

^Heck I might have been there that same day cause I've been witness to it a few (and I mean few) times and have gotten on the first train out. Its such a wonderful feeling going 120mph in 3.7 seconds in the morning.:)

Yeah I think it was on the 30th of May, it was a Friday. Riding TTD in the front seat at 9:15am in the morning, was the highlight of the day. :)

^Doesn't everybody want a rollback? :)

I don't know if I will have the guts to put my hands up on the dragster. I do like them up on other rides, but you never know!

I remember as a joke, I toke my buddy who I was riding with to cup our hands as we launched to create resistance. As it turns out he did it and I forgot to and we got a rollback.

The chances of arms being raised causing a rollback are insanely tiny. I remember hearing about a group of British enthusiasts who came for ERT one cold night and they all wore windbreakers and stuck their arms out. Apparently they got a lot of rollbacks, but considering it was cold and windy, I'm sure that had a lot more to do with it.

And rollbacks are hardly a "problem" anymore. Anyone who has spent more than one day in the park in the middle of the summer the last couple years will tell you they rarely ever happen anymore. It's going to happen when it's cold or overly windy (typically only in May and October), but when it's warm, it basically never happens anymore. The days of 5 straight rollbacks are long gone. You would be hard-pressed to get 5 rollbacks in an entire month during the summer now.

Rollbacks! I still need to get a rollback. My friend has gotten 5 of them. My count is 0. I need one.

Just passing this on; last season in line for TTD, on the day the "balancing act" took place, the man in front of us described the single-best coaster experience he ever had, and it took place on TTD.

He explained that it was a rather foggy morning, and he had snagged a front-row seat, and the fog was lying at just the right altitude so that at the crest of the tophat the train broke through the fog revealing a clear-blue sun-lit sky, only to plummet back into the fog moments later.

Within 10 more minutes, the fog had cleared, and the magic was lost...

How does that sound!!&?

I was there that day getting off of Magnum. Good times.

^^If that happened to me, I'd think I died and was on my way to heaven.:)

Ring Racer brings up another good point. Rollbacks in the summer are FEW a FAR between. So there's yet another reason to add to the kicker wheel topic.

About how often does rollbacks occur on the Dragster?

Depends on the day. Rollbacks are more likely to occur in the morning on cold/windy days usually in may, late september and october.

Kevinj said:
Just passing this on; last season in line for TTD, on the day the "balancing act" took place, the man in front of us described the single-best coaster experience he ever had, and it took place on TTD.

He explained that it was a rather foggy morning, and he had snagged a front-row seat, and the fog was lying at just the right altitude so that at the crest of the tophat the train broke through the fog revealing a clear-blue sun-lit sky, only to plummet back into the fog moments later.

Within 10 more minutes, the fog had cleared, and the magic was lost...

How does that sound!!&?

I've seen a few days like that where you couldn't even see the top of Dragster from directly underneath it because the fog was so thick in the morning. It's always a great photo opportunity.

I got a bunch of great pictures from a really foggy night we had last May or June. Most of them are of Ripcord and Skyscraper, but I got a couple cool shots of Dragster (or at least the lower 1/4 of it) too.

Still disappointed that I never got to fly in that fog, although I don't remember why I didn't. I don't think we were very busy.

Ralph, we were riding SkyScraper, that's why you didn't. And we had the no employee flights in the last hour rule.

Oh yah, I forgot it was kind of late into the night. Oh well, still got some awesome pictures out of it.