Opening Day, not many posts...

Having rode TT2 several times now it does not feel any slower over the top hat compared to last year. The shaking is gone but the speed still feels the same.

MF was having massive struggles over the 3rd hill going into Millenium Island yesterday. After seeing that numerous times it is not surprising where it settled out. What is surprising is what actually caused it, yes the weather was horrible but I’ve seen MF run in at least somewhat similar conditions before. could the new paint have something to do with it? Grasping at straws here lol…

hope they can fix it, millennium relies on floater...

assuming it is a mechanical issue and not weather/conditions related.

Closing in on 24 hours later and the MF blue train is still sitting in the spot where it valleyed. Not for nothing, but back in the "old days" that train would have been removed/winched over the hill overnight during 3rd shift to get the ride open today with two train ops.

Yeah, when MF valleyed on Physics day 2000 they had it up and running the next day. Of course that was the legend/story that an Intamin Rep (possibly Sandor) actually sent the train to work some issues. They didn't care it was windy and the trains were not loaded with the water dummies, which was a big no under those conditions even with their limited data. After it valleyed the Rep immediately took the rest of the day off and was seen at McDonalds just a bit later. Meanwhile there was 30,000 unhappy kids in the park and little of that had to do with CP's own actions. Thus began the fabulous relationship with Intamin. (Of course take this all with a grain of salt)

I would guess a 25 year old ride plus likely understaffing has this now as a "we'll get to it on Tuesday or Wednesday" type urgency.

In fairness, it is possible that the reason they haven't moved the train and rushed to return the ride to service is because they are aware that there is a bigger problem that caused the train to valley, a root cause that might require some time to fix.

It's possible. But the wind was no joke yesterday and I was shocked when they started sending test trains around 6pm.

It's gonna come out that they applied 30 layers of paint and now the track is too fat for the trains to glide across.

Maybe they put the wheels on backwards. Again.

Not sure if it would be anything mechanical with MF when there is video of it taking a whole bunch of trips back and forth before eventually coming to a stop.

Last night that I said the same thing as you guys above. Back in they day, they'd have it up the next day at least with two trains, but I predicted they'd get it up for next weekend this time around.

It has valleyed there before, at least once that I know of. Curious if they had been heating up the wheels that morning or if they sent the train out cold.

I am surprised to see that it valleyed there. If I were to have guessed, I would have said that it would valley between the second and third hills, as when I have watched the ride, as I have found that its typically the 3rd hill that's the slowest. Is that return hill low enough that a cherry picker could pull the train over, or is that a location where they would have to disassemble the train to move it back? Also, was anyone there Sunday to see how many water dummies they had in the train? I seem to recall on cold days when the ride was new, they would fill almost every row with the water dummies. Did they gradually fill the train with fewer in the more recent years?

As far as why they haven't gotten it open yet, I'll agree it does seem that they lack the urgency they used to have for keeping the rides open. Although it valleyed late Sunday, with only one relatively slow day between then and a couple of days off. Maybe they just decided it wasn't worth the extra effort for that one day.

The trains they were sending on Sunday only had a few rows of water dummies in them. The train is difficult to see but the best spot I found was from the old Frontier Fling viewing deck. Looks like maybe the first 5 or 6 rows have the water dummies which is similar to what I remember seeing on the trains they were running yesterday.

There were 2 decent sized salamander heaters below the MF station that I noticed while riding the train but they were not being used when I saw them. The trains were definitely struggling with the 3rd hill and did not have any speed left when they started the descent from it.

They’ll be closed all week so probably figure why rush it overnight when they can go at it Tuesday.

A live cam capture of the Millennium valley was posted to YouTube.

The fact that it almost didn't make it onto the island is crazy. Some cold tires and strong winds at play there. It didn't even come close to making it back over.