Testing...

When processing the season pass I could see MF testing. I only seen the blue and yellow train.
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Cedar Po!nt Rocks My Socks

Awesome! Cedar Point is really going to be awesome and so is Millie! How long was it testing?

SWEET

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Gas for drive to Cedar Point: $25
Ticket to Cedar Point: $43
Drink while in line for ride: $3
Travel 410 feet in the air: Priceless

They ran a one train operation yesterday and will run a two train today.

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Screamsters 2001
Millennium Force/Screamsters 2002
Rip Cord/Screamsters 2003

I process in on tuesday, can't wait to see her run.

Sounds like the red train will be the last put together. It takes time to get the trains from many peices to a whole train. It might be a 2 train operation on opening day again this year. No biggie, It doesn't hurt the capacity too badly and the line shouldn't be very long especilly with TTD on the other side of the park.

MF's 3rd birthday is coming up pretty quick. :)

:edit: I can believe I pasted the same thing 4 times and didn't even realize it.
*** This post was edited by SteelMonsters 4/24/2003 8:13:19 PM ***

"I only seen..."

Wow.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

At 3:30 I was looking at the web cam and I could see one going up the first hill.

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Corey
Times Going Full Force - 19

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Jeff said:
"I only seen..."

Wow.

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hehe...gotta love "i only seen" sounds like the people around here in Missouri... "I ain't got none" I can't wait to start working i'm on MF this year and its going to be awsome... We will have an awsome crew!

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Teenie Weenie the Giggle Queenie!
Wicked Twister Crew 2002
Millennium Force Crew 2003

Actually, if you look at the archived photo on the webcam that's in the parking lot, you'll see Millennium Force cresting the lift.

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Corey
Times Going Full Force - 19

As of 1 pm today, Millenium Force seems to be doing all out testing. Everytime the web cam changes there is a train on the lift hill in a different position. Good Signs.

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Race to the Sky(420 feet) for your thrill of a lifetime! Then plunge down 400 feet for the heck of it!

Well what did you expect, that they'd fire it up next Friday and see what happens?

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

Ride operation is really easy; getting them to run is a real pain. They are redundantly safe but manufacturing and maintaining them is a real downfall especially after an off season.

It's not about who makes them, it's about redundant safety. Complexity has more part to fail, so why do they keep engineering them to be more and more complicated? That easy to answer, first of all it provides more safely. Secondly, some things aren't possible using simple circuits. Multiple blocks, quicker station movements, consistent train placement in the station in an exact position, and other very useful things.

Engineers and mechanics pay the price for demand for more sophisticated designs.

Added note: There are many reasons that us ride hosts can't reveal any mechanical issues to guests. The media is always looking for things to exploit. A bad choice of wording can mean something totally different from what is intended. The media is pretty much trained to exploit whatever they can, and ride hosts don't have the discipline to make decisions dealing with them.

*** This post was edited by SteelMonsters 4/25/2003 10:22:18 PM ***

One mechanic I've talked to from another park says that proof of Satan's existence is switches that don't work. And just think... Dragster has hundreds of them!

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
"Pray that your country undergoes recovery!" - KMFDM

As seen today through the viewfinder of my video cam from Battery Park. Yellow train looked to be complete. Blue Train was in the station and Red Train only had 7 cars on it.

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Thats right Virginia, I am Santa Claus.