no brakes entering tunnel

Anyone else have this happen.. going into the tunnel today on one of my four rides the brakes never slowed us down it was full speed and full throttle ahead the whole time prob the best ride of the whole day...

considering the brake fins are fixed (as in they can't be lowered) I don't think you "never slowed down". Maybe you didn't slow down as much as other times, but there's no way you kept speeding right through.

The entrance to the tunnel is a blocking point. If the previous train hasn't cleared the first set of brakes and drive wheels at before the turn into the station at the end of the ride, the train entering the tunnel will stop and wait for that block to clear. If there's no train on those first set of brakes, you'll roll right onto the launch and take off. Personally, I enjoy the ride much better when you don't stop in the tunnel. The pacing flows better between the first and second halves of the ride if that delay isn't there.

I've only been on it once, and the time I was on it, the train slowed down a tiny bit and then just blasted us off again. I didn't know what to expect and it was fantastic.

^^ Tim explained it well, but I'd like to expand on that.

If your on the front train of the 2 train set, you almost never come to a complete stop because the train ahead of you is almost always past the next block already. But, if yur in the second of the 2 trains, it will depend on wether or not the other train has made it through the next block yet, and it seems, more often than not, it isn't.

For this reason, I will probably always ride the front train.

*** Edited 6/29/2007 2:30:46 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

I like it better when it slows down. It makes the tunnel so much cooler.

i like it with no stop.. it just seems to keep going and it was awesome..

I like the ride much more when you slow down in the tunnel. You get to check out the stuff inside the tunnel more, and it makes the launch out seem much more intense, IMO

You always slow down, it's just that sometimes you get stopped. I belive you are slowed to about 5mph by the fixed mag brakes.

I like it better when it slows down, it just adds to the anticipation of the ride. I like it too because the launch is more sudden then Wicked Twister.