Tamed Down?

WT was capitalized. :)

Yeah, you won't be taken seriously unless you use your shift key around here.

Relax, guys. Maybe the capital letters cause too much friction. Ever think of that?

Actually, I think it is not using them that seems to be causing the friction.

pierced_c0aster_freak said:
Also i rode Wicked Twister on its opening season and i didnt think it was nearly as powerful as Steel Venom..So if it was weak then and they are saying its been tamed down it must be really bad now..

Actually, depending on when you went during the first year, you may have rode it when it actually had less power than it does now. The ride ran at 100% power for the first month of the season, then had its problems with the track supports failing. The rest of this is if I remember correctly: After they started having the problems with the track, and welding it, the ride didn't go higher than the highest green cross support on either backward pass. Actually, I think for a few weeks to a month during the summer it didn't run at all. After they got all the cross members of the track fixed, it then went to about what it is running at now, although, I think the 2nd rear pass now is much more intense than it was at the end of the '02 season.

cdrptrks said:
Were the bumpers there from day one? I don't remember them being there when we went in 04, but maybe it is just a bad memory. I know that when we went in 04, the yellow supports were not there, and I noticed that the track was swaying like 5 feet in both directions.

The yellow supports were there in 04.

The yellow supports were added in the offseason just before the 2003 season.

The ride sure didn't seem tame when I rode it Wednesday.

The yellow supports were added during the 2002 season. I visited CP the week they were installed. Late at night just as the park closed, a boom truck that was parked next to WT during the day would be raised up and you could see the welding being done. When I arrived back home I sent an e-mail to Monty Jasper, and he told me that extra support was added to give the ride a longer lifespan.

-Adam

Steel Venom at GL added an extra support too. I love WT, I don't think its been tamed down at all, and its good to know the extra supports will give it some extra life.;) Who finally determined that these rides needed more supports? Did CF contact Intamin with worries or was it the other way around?

Im not sure who made the call to add the supports. Either way they have been on there since mid summer 2002.

For as much problems that they have on TTD,I just wonder why they didn't use the sme launching system on it as on WT.It seems more reliable and consitent over the hydraulic one. Look capital letters.(lol)

LIMs would need a much longer launch track than what Dragster has now, which space-wise would not be possible. That is why they opted for the hydraulic launch instead.