TTD Down Guesses

Even Kingda Ka is running much better.

I doubt there will be any major downtime...at all.

I actually heard Kingda Ka was running like last year.

I say May 1st during testing or something, and it won't open until June.

I love Dragster and all but I believe it will experience lenghty downtime again. Probably on opening day just because i'll be there.....lol...I seem to have the worst of luck.

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Cory Marshall
*** Edited 4/29/2006 6:45:26 PM UTC by TTD420atCp***

10 mins after it opens

TTD 120mph, I on the other hand think there will be little of those annoying breakdowns in the middle of the day but do think there will be a week where there needs to be a part replaced.

Anything is possible. The person I mentioned, that said pretty much everything major on Dragster has been fixed, said that there is still some things that will probably need to be replaced. I think he said the cable feed wheels(or whatever they're called) havn't been replaced.....so they're probably next. BUT that's not to say that they havn't already been replaced during the offseason.

I'd be good to get another news report like last year from Bryan Edwards who mentioned what had been improved on Dragster. Last year we were told that Dragster had recieved new cables and a different type of hydraulic oil.
We already know that it has new gear boxes and new.....whatever caused it to brake down for the rest of the season. So has anything else been done to get it to run even better this year?

Walt, another one of those news reports from Edwards mentioning Dragsters improvments would be good if it's possible!^_^

*** Edited 4/29/2006 10:10:22 PM UTC by TTD 120mph***

I was one of the people in line last oct 10th when dragster broke down for the rest of the year,i was soooo close to riding it, hopefully when im there in a week it will be running great.

brieee,

Are you ready for the tulips?

MrScott

Mr Scott, ill be at cedar point the whole week of tulip time,and staying in a cabin at lighthouse point, glad to be getting out of town here :-)

TTD 120mph said:
Even if it does, I'll still skim through the Cleveland cam to see if it ran at all. If doesnt run at all....I'll log it.

Technically, that's not really proof. If it's closed, it might test run, but that doesn't mean it gave any rides. Thus it would mean that it was closed for maintenance.

I think the chances of lengthy downtime (weeks) are minimal. But, given that almost all of the coasters close for maintenance for a couple days atleast once through out the season, I could see it happening at some point in time, but not really at the begining of the season. *** Edited 4/30/2006 12:58:18 AM UTC by DBCP***

If a train appears more than 7 times on the Cleveland cam throughout the day....I think its doing more than just testing.

Well, considering that in a normal day of operation, you can usually find it archived a few times, I guess I can agree... But I have seen it test all day and not open....

*** Edited 4/30/2006 2:16:23 AM UTC by DBCP***

Im going to say maybe July 1.

Trust me, I'm sure that if there is any problems whatsoever, someone on this board will tell everybody. And, we've been hearing since this thing's opening season that "we fixed everything major, Dragster is gonna have a great season." And so far, to no avail. I think any one who's getting their hopes up for a good season is gonna be sorely dissapointed.