TTD Down for rest of season

Intamin should build a factory in Sandusky.

Finished up with the LAST regular operation ride of 2005. I rock!! :) Saturday night, red train, front seat.

I was three trains away when it broke down Sunday. Luckily I had already ridden it 3 times Friday and once earlier in the day. I saw one rollback as we were walking up to get in line for the final time, and then while I was three trains away there was a rollback followed by lots of problems. It looked like they were going to launch again, but no. We waited in line for about 20 more minutes and left. Just as we got out of line they were putting up a sign in front of the line saying it was closed for the day.

That ride breaks down a lot, but it was my boyfriend's first time riding and we had so much fun! Waits were only about 15 minutes Friday night. We should have ridden it more!

MrScott said:
Everyday or, at least every season.

The operational status of this ride has been unacceptable for the last 3 years. I think both the manufacturer and CP are to blame, somewhat. Cp has tried very hard to keep it running (while spending the least amount of money (SPARE PARTS).

I think I'm having a stroke. Either that or I just said something smarter than the CF board ever thought of.

I'm going to lie down now.

MrScott

Smarter than they ever throught of... They thought of it, but they don't have millions just laying around to blow off. I'm sure maintenance is fed up with TTD's drain on their budget.

I'm starting to get the feeling that taking the giant ride down isn't a horribly bad idea.

Craaaazy talk...

CP could definitely afford to stock the spare parts, even if we're talking strictly from a PR standpoint. Its not like they wouldn't need them sooner or later, and if they bought 10 shurflabomashingomometers at a time, as opposed to one every few months, wouldn't they get a better deal? At least on the shipping? ;) It would seem that if they can spend oodles of money (though still not enough) on the maintenance of MS, surely they can spend a decent amount on one of their flagship rides like TTD.

All-in-all, though, seems like she had a pretty good season. So, CP gets a B- on their progress report, WAY better than the D+ KK's reputation has given that other park.

but MS has money spent on things like tracking, paneling, etc..

Dragster has SOOOOO many [moving] parts that are put together to make it work like it does every time that it is not at all cost efficient to get spare parts for everything. It would make no sense to have a spare 10,000 hp drum sitting around.

Well, they could just acquire parts that are likely to fail.

Isn't that every part? ;).

I agree if something major, like a one of the big fluid reservoirs, chambers or the motor itself it would not make sense to have those lying around, as those are prolly million dollar custom “parts.” Regardless, either Intamin Engineers are dumber than we thought or the manufacture screwed up royally as these major parts should not be having such catastrophic failures.

However, if it’s a smaller part like a valve or those pumps that give out every week they should be hanging around, even if they are custom. I seem to recall it being down for a week waiting for the valve in early June of 03. Then it opened up for about a day then the oil got dirty ;).

Since we will never know the parts that failed recently, it’s probably kind of pointless to speculate if they should have had a backup or not. Two days in two months is just absurd, and I think they are lucky this happened now and not in June. We can blame Intamin all we want, but ultimately it’s up to CP to deliver, as Mr. and Mrs. Guest don’t give a crap if a part is on order or who screwed up with what.

With all that said, Thank god Intamin doesn’t design planes ;)

EDIT, on a side note since we are comparing this with baseball, it's funny they say TTD will operate in 2006 . Thats basically the same as saying the Pirates and the Royals will play baseball in 2006 :). *** Edited 10/11/2005 2:42:27 PM UTC by Joe E***