Iron Dragon VR

I was skeptical before I tried it but the experience was great. Major boost to the amount of fun had on Iron Dragon, I'm excited to have it return this year.

Bumping this thread as I have a couple questions about this year's VR run:

1. Do you need a reservation or do you just get in line after 6PM?

2. What is the wait time like, on an average Tuesday-Thursday?

3. Was it worth the wait and/or hassle, or just a big pass?

1. Just get in line.

2. Monday, it was just over an hour at 7:30

3. Didn't ride.

1) I'd get in line at 5:30.

2) Don't know.

3) Ride it yourself and make up your own mind on those issues.

Maybe it will push people through quicker. I never rode the vr but i know i seen it take like 5 minutes to load a train.

also i know those phones are so expensive so it probably became more economical to use oculus, especially with the recent price drop.

I thought it was a cool experience. I wouldn't make it a regular though because the line is terribly slow.

Yeah I thought it was super cool, however it made me extremely motion sick and at times I had to sort of squint and even close my eyes. I think my head was positioned a TINY bit off during calibration which didn't help, i'm sure. This year for my trip, I'm going to have a few Scop patches, so hopefully that curtails the motion sickness.

bigdude1 said:
Maybe it will push people through quicker. I never rode the vr but i know i seen it take like 5 minutes to load a train.

also i know those phones are so expensive so it probably became more economical to use oculus, especially with the recent price drop.

Well, according to VR Coaster's website, oculus is not practical, as you would have to have a whole PC setup on the ride itself. I know there are small PCs, like, really small, but those are expensive.

How late in the season does this run?

I haven't had a chance to try the VR yet on Iron Dragon. My ten year old daughter is too young to take part. She and I usually ride all the coasters together, but I would feel bad riding the VR version of this with her riding the normal way -- not to mention she would be peppering me with questions on the entire ride: "What do you see, Dad?" "What's going on now?" "What does it look like?" "What happened when we did [such and such maneuver]?" etc.

Do they allow VR and non VR riders together in the same car? Either way, I would hate to make her wait in a longer than normal line for just a regular ride; so I will probably just wait until some evening when I can sneak over to the park by myself or else try to pawn her off on her mom to go do a couple of flat rides while I take a VR spin.

They allow non VR riders. The VR ride is fun and worth a try if you can stand the queue. I, however realized that iron dragon is the slowest coaster ever (my opinion only), mostly because the VR experience still seems to take forever and without seeing the track, there is still zero force on it..

This is from the park webpage, Running from June 9 - September 4 (Daily at 6 p.m. when park closes at 10 p.m. or later) Unfortunately, the age limit is 13, so your choice if you want her to stand in line with you.

So after talking it over with my kid, we decided to ride it together this past Monday. She is turning 11 next month and is tall for her age. We probably would have been successful if we lied about her age, but I'm not going to teach her that it's okay to lie to get something that you want. The ride attendant was trying to decide whether to hand her a headset and asked her age. I told her my daughter was only ten and not old enough yet. So ultimately she rode it normal while I rode it VR.

Was it worth it? I would say yes. It was a bit disorienting for me in a few places, but I didn't have any motion sickness issues. It was a little bit crazy at the end while we waited to pull back into the station. They told us to keep the headset on until we were all the way in, so I was staring at the final scene for a long time while the train in front of us was loading up in station. When we started moving again back into the station, the VR scene I was watching did not move. I had to ask my daughter if we were moving or standing still and that really played games with my senses.

A few girls in the car behind us were angry because their goggles did not work. One kept saying, "I waited 45 minutes in line to stare at a horse's butt for the entire ride!" I'm not sure if they said anything to the ride op's or not, but they did hang around at the exit gates without leaving the platform.

I managed to brave the ridiculously long line and rode Iron Dragon with VR yesterday. It was a really cool experience. Wouldn't mind seeing some of the other, less popular coasters at CP get this treatment. CCMR and maybe Corkscrew come to mind.

Corkscrew VR. It could be that you are a giant slab of concrete and the VR would be a giant jack hammer and it would continuously hit you on the head the entire ride, matching the non VR ride experience itself. I'm in.

I've done it twice now, and I really enjoy it. Last Sunday when my daughter's headset was really laggy, they let her ride again, which was nice, because the line was long enough that there was no way we were going to wait again.

Last Monday I noticed VR started at 3pm rather than 6pm. When did this change?

^ It went from 4:00 until 8:00 when I was there last week.