Heartline Removed!

^^^

John, send me a PM with the dates you're going to KI and HW.

Are you planning on making it a Stricker's Grove / KI weekend trip?

Don't know if this is correct place to put this, but has anyone made any comment about the height restriction being raised? I thought the whole idea of a family coaster was why they made the heght restriction 48" to begin with and now its 52"? Just strikes me as odd... Especially with the heartline roll being removed...
Edited for spelling *** Edited 5/19/2007 5:41:25 AM UTC by Aaron_toledo***

Maverick is far from a family coaster Heartline roll or not. CP just said Maverick caters to more people since it isn't 300 or 400 feet tall. Giant drops scare a lot people away I guess.

People used to get excited about Millennium Force's track appearing to fold under itself. Maverick actually does fold under itself.

Magnum gives riders a lot of airtime. Maverick should give out a good amount too.

Wicked Twister has a launch. Maverick has a more wicked launch.

I hear some screaming, but I don't think it's family.

^That is true. Maverick's first drop from the back seat looks insane.

*tearing up*

Dreaming of what could of been...

http://rcdb.com/ig3570.htm?picture=36

I see little kids, probably 7 or 8 riding Magnum and Millennium Force all the time...

This "S-curve" seems like it might be quite similiar to another of Cedar Point's coasters. After the 3rd inversion on Mantis, there is that sudden change of direction making the right turn into the brakes, which is actually my favorite part of the ride.

Aren't there two other s-curves already on Maverick? Right after the first drop. So now the ride just has three S-curves.

^ The new one will probably be much tighter than the original 2. This will be a pretty small amount of space to change direction.

I thought the whole idea of a family coaster was why they made the heght restriction 48" to begin with and now its 52"?

Maverick was never intended in any shape or form to be a "family" ride.

It may have never intended to be a "family" ride. But once of the reasons they chose this ride, was because they thought it would appeal to more of the family than a TTD or Raptor would. So in that regard, losing the 48" requirement keeps a decent ammount of kids off the ride that might have otherwise ridden it. And now, the people who have know about the ride all along may be disapointed. Like my nephew who is 48.5" He has plenty of new rides this year, and I know he'll have a blast, but I gave him one of the Maverick media cd's and he's been watching it all winter.

*** Edited 5/21/2007 9:19:17 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

There is always the possibility that after this season, Cedar Point may revert back to the original height restriction. I believe Millennium Force did that.

They may have changed the height restriction because of how the water dummies did during testing, which If that's the case I don't know why they would make the decision based on water dummies. Unless the ride manufacturer is the only one who rode the coaster and thought the ride would be unsafe for people smaller then him. Then again, my question is how big are the water dummies that they use to test the trains for some of the tall coasters?

I'm guessing but I'd say they have sensors in the mechanical "dummy" they use for forces and such.

My "guess'" is that the dummy was getting some pretty hard impacts in the neck area at a few points in the ride and they don't want someone 6 inches shorter taking those blows in the temple area.

It would be funny if the reason they removed the heartline roll was the first train came back with the water dummies and they all had their necks crushed like tin cans!

Like Loopy said, they use a mechanical dummy to test the forces on rides before they open. The Discovery Channel once showed this process on one of their roller coaster specials.