The Gemini

Is it just me but it seems like the Gemini's breaks are just a little toooooooooo hard!!!! at the end,cause last year me and my bro. rode it and when we hit the breaks it was like hitting a brick wall!!!!!!
Let me know if you all have experience the same problem
Thanx

haha those are amazing trims, the whole ride is smooth then you hit those,and its like oh that fun.

It wasn't that bad this year. Last yeah it was pretty hilarious when the train would come into the station and everyone would simultaneously say, "Ugh!"

Riding front seat this year on Raptor the breaks were a bit hard. We got out heads banged up pretty bad coming back into the station.

Do the ride ops control the breaks when the train comes back into the station? Or does it automatically break?

Those darn breaks. I just hate it when the ride ops abandon the ride in mid-cycle to go smoke a cigarette . . .

^^ The trim breaks during the ride (just before the last turn in to the bunny hops and the trims just before the helix) are controlled by the ride op. They can be turned on or off. The breaks just before the station are on auto. For example if there is still a train in the station then the breaks will bring the on coming train to a complete stop. If the station is clear then the breaks will slowly let the on coming train in to the station.
Well unless your on the red side then it dont matter because it seems like that side come to a complete stop weather or not there is a train in the station...

Brakes. :) Thanks for pointing that out Mike.

What is with these titles lately? The Maverick... The Mantis...and now, The Gemini? Why didn't you just name this: Gemini Brakes and be more specific?

You are just complaining The Corkscrew Headache haha. I couldn't pass that one up.

Haha that was good. But really, Walt made it clear that more specific titles should be used...

Some people in the community will never learn thats just the thing.

Gemini's station approach brakes are semi-automatic. They will stop the train unless the operator opens them manually, and I believe that if there is a train in the station the control system won't allow the operator to open them manually.

The terrible thing is that the ride is designed to never stop on those brakes. Yes, they are a block brake and those brakes allow the ride to handle six trains safely. But there is no approach brake before that block brake, so the train slams into the block brake at full bore coming out of the helix, resulting in a stop that is comparable to the train crashing into a cinder block wall. The intention is that under normal conditions, those brakes will be used to slow the train as it approaches and enters the empty station.

Now, do we need to discuss all the difficulties that make it so that on a ride that used to routinely operate six trains without ever stopping on the station approach brake now runs either two or four trains, and almost always comes to a sudden stop on that station approach?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I don't know much about ride engineering or how the darned things work....but Gemini is one of my favorite rides and it beat the CRAP out of me at the very end all three times I rode it this year. The last time it we rode it there were only about 8 people on our train and it slammed into those brakes so hard that my ponytail holder flew right off my head and it was looped around three times!!! TTD and MF didn't even come close to anything like that!!! Is it just me, or does the helix seem extra fast this year?

It's a lot better this yea. I thought it was a relatively smooth ride compared to past years.

Dave...

I think that would be the combination of the air gates, and the pointless seatbelts they now have.

Add those two things together, and you have a long dispatch time. Even when they are running two trains on one side, they stack almost every time.

To whomever it was who made a comment about the Raptor brakes... they're not as hard as they've always been. They used to be painful, even when you braced yourself.

^I think I wasn't bracing myself good enough for the brakes. The second time I rode, I braced myself and I didn't take a beating. :)

I noticed the Gemini was a a bit on the rough side coming to the breaks! I know that I always make a point to brace myself for tht ebreaks a=on most rides! Which side is smoother? Red or Blue?