What happened Sunday?
I will however give CP snaps for adding the status report to the website, and upon entering the parking lot, they are now passing out flourescent flyers, stating TTD is not running. Which is an improvement over the hidden sign at the gates last week.=)
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oh quit whining.. you could be like me and live 17 hrs away (one-way).. we were at CP last week for 4 days never saw a train move. atleast you can wake up one sunny morning and get the urge to ride TTD and actually do it.
we live 2 hrs away from a water park that we have season passes to. we go atleast once a week.. sometimes more. its not that far of a drive.. you can be at CP before your girlfriend finishes getting ready.
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oh quit whining.. you could be like me and live 17 hrs away (one-way).. we were at CP last week for 4 days never saw a train move. atleast you can wake up one sunny morning and get the urge to ride TTD and actually do it.
we live 2 hrs away from a water park that we have season passes to. we go atleast once a week.. sometimes more. its not that far of a drive.. you can be at CP before your girlfriend finishes getting ready.
*** This post was edited by speed_high_2 6/17/2003 1:18:46 AM ***
Hmm, you would have a point, but that is assuming TTD is running. Which since opening day and especially now is a HUGE assumption.
I will give CP credit that they are at least attempting to do the right things in a very bad situation. Pulling the TTD commercial, the status on the website. All very good moves that alot of parks would probebly not do.
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Soak City Wagons 02,03
Day 1: Sunday June 15th
We arrived and saw signs saying the ride would open later in the day. Of course we headed for MF and got on in about 30 mins. While in line we did see them doing tests for TTD. Was running great and all trains that I saw clear the tower just fine. We bolted for TTD as soo as we cleared the exit gates for MF. When we arrived I finally got to see it running up close. Wow people. Dats Fasht!! There were now also people on these trains as well. It seems the ride is still far too unstable for them to let the cue lines fill up and then be forced to apply the manpower and effort to clear them if there is a problem. So at the entrance they were letting in 16 people each time a train fired with a decent sized cue in effect. I would have been inside the entrance on the next lanch when SUDDENLY!!! over the loud speakers I hear. TTD is now CLOSED for mechanical reasons. If you are not in the cue at this time you will not be getting on this ride for a while. The cue lines are now closed. So you would assume there is something majorly wrong. Well, oddly enough for at least the next hour and 30 mins the kept firing off trains, full of people. In the PA message they also informed us that from the time the last train with people launches it would be 4 hours before the ride re-opened. So I waited another hour there just to be sure and left. Came back 45 mins before when she said it would re-open. Now I was hearing that the 4 hour estimate had been changed to a 4-6 hour wait. So I waited another 2 hours 45 mins just to see. Then we got work the ride would not run again that day. Bummer
Day 2: Monday June 16th
I swore to myself I was getting on this ride today!. Arrived at the park for opening. Entered through the Magnum gates. There were ZERO, NADDA, ZILCH signs anywhere saying the ride would not open at all today. Not on the causeway(sp?) not at the Magnum entrance. So we went in hoping for the best. We got about half way to the ride and off she went. Test cars were launching just fine. Regular intervals. No rollbacks. We get to the entrance to see that TTD will not be open at any time today. Well, I wander around the park doing odd's and ends and droping by TTD hoping for the best. But seeing the worst. They were NOT training new crew for this ride. There were problems that were serious enough to force them to get the trains on the transfer tracks, and that what they were attempting to do. Problem now was the system kept failing each time as they tried to roll the train forward off the transfer onto the far track. It kep shorting out each time the second train to go got half way. It took them a good hour to finally get past this and one by one they removed ALL the trains some with water test dummies some without. That was the end of all life on TTD for monday.
Now I can't help but get downright pissed off at CP for the fact that I would have saved my 2nd day ticket for later in the year if I had known it wouldn't open at all. Whatever. IT's all behind me now. Still a little but of a touchy subject for me right now :(
Well thats it. I got the see it launch. I got to see others enjoy it. I got let down big time from my 2 day trip to the park. Everything looked so promising from Saturday. Ohh well.
End of Rant.
Bro Jay
(ps. Jeff. Perhaps now is the time to actually approach CP about the added advertising rev from the GTTP sign that they could put up top of TTD.)
*** This post was edited by Brother Jay 6/18/2003 9:54:23 AM ***
Anyhow, they had the trains on the track during the day with the water dummies in the red one, but as I was leaving, they had transfered all but the red one to the transfer track, and removed the dummies. I won't be around to go to CP until the end of summer, so I just hope they have all the bugs worked out by then. As read in an earlier thread about Intamin, I really think it is true that they are doing a poor design job. I mean, correct me if I am wrong (and there is a good chance I am), but Power Tower didn't have problems like this, raptor didn't, mantis had a few at first, but not that much down time. I don't know, but when they do get their rides working, they sure are great!
Problem now was the system kept failing each time as they tried to roll the train forward off the transfer onto the far track. It kep shorting out each time the second train to go got half way.
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DisastorTransport said:
This could just be a rumor, but a guy who works with my boyfriend said he was at CP on Sunday and TTD got stuck at the top and they had to airlift the people off.... any truth to that?
Crap, I thought that was supposed to be a secret.
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I tried to tell you Jeff, but oh no, you just had to airlift people from the train, with the chance of it rolling either forwards and backwards while people were getting out...sheesh...;)
Sidepoint: there have been commercials running with live shots of TTD, but the fact that I have recently seen no sign of TTD in any of the commercials is a little disconcerting, but hey, I got 5 rides on it back in May. If it closes for the rest of the summer...*cough: not cough* oh well..
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BPMCH said:
I was there on Monday and I have to comment on a post I read earlier in this feed. The post said that there were "zero, zilch, nada signs" regarding Dragster being down. I have to disaggree. There were signs at all enterances and right in front of the ride. Did someone forget to look?
Signs at all entrances ehhh. You make it a habbit to make sure park employees are doing their job do you. Paid a quick visit to all of the parking entrances, and then you walked the lines at the main entrances to make sure all was good. Then you proceed to fly through the park to the Magnum entrance where you left the park only so you could come back in and inspect the TTD status signs. Please; stop blindly supporting the park "just cuz". It is a great park but the people who work in it are only human, and they do make mistakes. So, like I was saying about monday, THEY MADE A MISTAKE.
There was NO SIGN for TTD at the Magnum entrance when I arrived. If you read my post more closely you would have gethered that one one right at the ride entrance DIDN'T REALLY HELP. Like I said. I would have come back later in the year and used my ticket then.
Damn, I still seem to be a little sore on the topic. Sorry.
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GenXerJay said:
Its just disappointing, I've been to CP, twice in 8 days, and I live in Columbus, OH, so its a 2 hr plus drive each way.. and in total I have only seen Dragster test a few times, and never open.I will however give CP snaps for adding the status report to the website, and upon entering the parking lot, they are now passing out flourescent flyers, stating TTD is not running. Which is an improvement over the hidden sign at the gates last week.=)
Indeed I got there at 10:15 am local time and the hand-outs were a good idea on CP part.
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Dude, I was there sunday as well and I was not thrilled at not being able to ride it.
Ask yourself if there is a difference between the TTD and the other rides you mentioned The complexity of TTD is amazing and it will take time. Do you get mad every time rain spoils your plans?
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*** This post was edited by Jeff 6/18/2003 10:30:03 PM ***
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