Webcams??

I always thought the rain was a problem with the kicker wheels on the new coasters. Since the wheels are what really stop the trains (completely), water could make them not stop. Is this a bunch of bull?

Maverick is slower then MF, so I would guess rain pelts to the face wouldn't be too much of an issue for the riders.

My first ride on MF was in the rain. It was a slight drizzle until about 3/4 up the hill....then the bottom fell out. That was brutal!

I don't know about the kicker wheels.

^ ok, now drop the temp and make that rain freezing rain. That ride was brutal.

^ You and I may have been on the same train :)

I remember MF in freezing rain/sleet.

OUCH! My ride in the rain was in August, so at least it was warm!

I assume it will follow the same rules as MF. It will run in light-moderate rain, but close for heavy rain. Luckily the launch is in a tunnel, but blasting out of that at 70 mph into a full out rainstorm would still be quite painful.

^^^ - I want to say it was either last spring, or the year before. I don't remember exactly, but it was with my sister. Thankfully, I've always got sunglasses on at the park (even at night) but my sister didn't have anything and just pulled her hood over her head and put her head down for the entire ride.

^^ Not to mention quite an experience in itself. It would be "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG OMG OUCH OUCH OUCH I CANT SEE AHHHHHHH SWOOOSH" For lack of a better term.

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I didn't have any glasses, and I tried to tough it out. My girlfriend had her eyes closed and head down the whole time. I was determined to see something, but big raindrops at 90 mph are almost like acupunture (although since I have never had that, it is a guess as to what it feels like). I can't imagine sleet.

The beauty of working on MF is even if it was raining harder than they normally would allow operation for the public, we would still test ride in the morning. On a normal day, it would be a race to see who would get to test ride. On mornings where the rain was pouring... It was more a matter of who was willing...

The worst was cold AND rainy days. Then you would have to deal with the pain of the raindrops and the fear of rolling back out on the island, and being stuck in the front seat of the train in the rain by yourself until maintenance came and let you out...

::sigh:: I miss working there...

^ I would so do that

^^ - not to mention you're not riding it for fun, and despite the rain still have listen for any possible problems. Can't say that those would be fun days to be working.

Just saw another train going up the lift, if anyone wants to know.

Dang it Corkscrew! We were trying to get off topic and talk about MF, and then you come along and start talking about about what the topic is actually about! Geez!!! :)

I know I'm such an idiot! Geez! ;)

I thought the topic was about the Webcams being down again, not a play-by-play of the park testing its newest ride?

Well the thread about play-by-play testing was closed and pointed here.

True, but it is in the Maverick forum, not MF, which is what we had started talking about. Either way, oh well.

Maybe the cranes are to add another train to the track.