Top Thrill Dragster 2022 Status

TwistedWicker77:

MillieMichael - I actually remember you as an area supervisor and heard great things from people who worked in your area. Back when supervisors really did not play favorites and cared about retention, but still had area managers like Debra that kept expectations realistic for ride crews.

Thank you; that's very kind of you to say! I loved my time at the Park, great memories -- even better people working there at that time -- alas, we moved to Orlando, and life kept on rolling. I LOVED working with Debra -- worked with her every year I was there.

The rampant speculation finally ends on Tuesday morning!

I hope it does....

Looking for

manufacturer

Ride name

POV and offride video

Specs of the ride

List of all records

Quantity and color scheme of trains

What all is going inside the track since no more queue line

And lastly, I don't know if they'll tell us this but is this reimagining money allocated already or was it used from a future project?

I'll bet they hold on to enough details to keep the speculation going till may.

Think I found a leaked station over the track pic though:

Edit: Just my luck to post a dumb joke leak right before this

So... I saw this posted on Twitter.

https://www.zamperla.com/top-thrill-2/

EDIT: looks like a triple launch... forward (with rollback) backward up a 420 foot Spike... then forward over the tophat... then brakes and back to the station. Not sure if the site going live was intentional or not, but it seems to be legit.

Wowza. 😳 That's a big oversight if legit.

Three 20 person trains. Very interested to see how quickly they can be cycled and what the predicted capacity is.

Well, big disappointment.

https://web.archive.org/web...-thrill-2/

Link for the main site it isn't loading for me. Here's an archived copy.

More:

Should have mentioned it when I first posted.... Hat tip to @scoobycoasters on Twitter. That's where I first saw the link.

Someone pour one out for that poor person at Zamperla or their agency who made the call to push that update live under what they thought would be an undiscoverable URL instead of pushing it to a staging site. That's rough.

Briella:

Well, big disappointment.

Wow, complaining about the ride 20 hours before it's announced may be a new record. Not one I'd be proud of, though.

Not surprised in the least that someone is already “disappointed”. Always that one person.

To the person whom is complaining about disappointment. The only thing disappointing about this is the name. Is it really being called Top Thrill 2?

SRE123:

Is it really being called Top Thrill 2?

That's gotta just be a placeholder, right?

I hope so

If this is true, it’s far better than I expected. Backwards at a hundred? The only thing I’d be disappointed about is the name.

Surely, that can't be the actual name... Top Thrill 2??? Please no.

Besides that, I like it. It's a much taller spike than I expected!

Top Thrill 2 is clearly a placeholder. Zamperla may not even know the actual name of the ride.

Renegade:

If this is true, it’s far better than I expected. Backwards at a hundred?

Agreed. Backwards at a 100mph is awesome, and then that's a lonnnnng straightaway to be going 100+ back towards the tophat to really feel the speed. I can't wait for that.

Also, a 420' spike 😳 That is an absolute UNIT. I know the train won't max it out, but being close to 200' up looking straight down on Wicked Twister was one of the most intense moments I can recall on a roller coaster. One of the things that always stuck out to me on the original Dragster was that your mind was still trying to comprehend what just happened the previous 8 seconds when you got to the top of the top hat that you never truly got an appreciation of how high you were. I can only imagine what 350'+ is going to look like facing straight down and stalling out.