OPEN!!!!!

Kingda Ka

Well, I'm glad to hear it's open again. I hope it reamins that way...

the next intamin to shut down WILL be DEMON DROP on 6-6-06!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHHA.. jk ;)

^your funny

I'm going to Cedar Point on 6-6-06 so dont say that! It's our class trip....

Loopy said:
You know those silly Japanese and their safety.

Its not so much safety as it is superstition. Whenever the next YotD comes around it will probably reopen. So look for it to sit idle until 2012.

I pick Jr. Gemini to be down within a couple weeks.

just FYI, the guy from Intamin was still around as of yesterday. He is slowly programming it back so they can get the old intervals. Maybe some of you noticed that the MF intervals were really off? They have been working on it from close to 5am the last few nights and hopefully today was their last early morning prgramming it.

Way to go CP, Intamin, and MF workers!

I noticed the lift was not speeding up at the top and I believe the catch car was coming back down slower as well. As a result, the catchcar was not in proper position when the crew was ready to send the next train. I hope Intamin can get it right because it's really slowing the crew down. Thankfully, Sunday was not overly busy so the line still wasn't too bad.

All of this kind of makes me wonder if there's any way to "back up" the configuration of the ride. I mean having to reprogram things after a problem sounds a little bit like BS to me. I realize we're not talking about word documents and hard drives here, but devices like Cisco routers and switches let you dump the configuration to a text file so that you can always get it back rather quickly in the event of a failure.

From what we were told during the Coastermania Q&A, the reason it needed reprogramming was because the new lift motor they installed was not quite identical to the old one since it was six years newer.

Does anyone know a timeframe as to when they might be getting back to the old intervals(or as close to them as possible?) It would be really a shame to see it operate slower that what its capable of for very long.

Today the crew did a great job. Stacking was minimal and the crew really hustled and helped the riders buckle up if the had difficulty. The guy even did mine up because he was there to check it before I started to do it up.

Vince982 said:
Today the crew did a great job. Stacking was minimal and the crew really hustled and helped the riders buckle up if the had difficulty. The guy even did mine up because he was there to check it before I started to do it up.

that sounds like the old CP that I've grown accustomed to.. not the recent robot driven park.. yea!!!!!!!!!
*** Edited 6/7/2006 3:51:15 AM UTC by Bill Horvath***

They also did my seatbelt for me too. Speaking of new programing, I got stuck half way up on sun. because the computer aparently reported a seat belt undone when none were. We had to wait 20 mins so they could come up and check them all. I wonder if this had anyhting to do with it. At leased I got a second ride without wait on the front row :)

It may have been stopped by the computer. Or it may have been stopped for a seatbelt. But it was not stopped by the computer because of a seatbelt. :)

Oh, I just heard the crew said the computer spoted the unbuckled seatbelt. Thats what I meant.

Haha - someone was jerkin your chain I think! :)

Yeah, I had a Mantis employee try to tell me there was some electricity going through the seatbelt or some bullcrap once. I didn't buy it.

Thats what I thought to, untill the head CP machanic ( I forget his name) and not a MF enployee came up on the cart, he told us that someone reported an undone seat belt. And im guessing it wasnt anything sereous because we got on again and it was fine.