Rollbacks may be awesome (never had one) but the recovery time is way too long. When it's the first train of a pair, a lot of time is spent unloading loaded trains, then backing them up one at a time at a painfully slow speed. I've read that the station blocking has never worked as intended but there really needs to be a way to quickly back all the trains up one block rather than the slow, one at a time, manual method.
As far as I know, Wilderness Run ran smoothly all day. So, not every Intamin had issues. :-)
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Thabto- My buddy and I were at TTD for the entire ERT (Exclusive Rollback Time). Would've liked to said HI and shake a hand. Oh well.
We were on the first rollback train of the night and got 2 rollbacks out of 5 launches. Yeah I was impressed that they kept Dragster open with all the issues. I had to laugh when the guy in the booth said "I give up!" over the PA after however many rollbacks and shutdowns. Also we were on the second to last train and it was flying up and over the top hat. I kinda thought there might be a brake fin stuck in the up position. We could hear the magnetic whine when we were in the station right before the train started to climb. And we could feel a shimmy/vibration while on the train right after the catch car disengaged.
As for MF, I heard it was stuck on the lift early evening and I know it was stuck from 9 till after 10. We kinda hung around to see if we could grab one last ride before ERT but they announced at 10:10 that it wouldn't reopen.
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