why only 3 trains?

When I got in line, it was passed the picture booth. I am not disappointed in the ride. It was the first thing that went good, today. There must be alot of new workers there, this year. I could've, easily, lost my cool even before getting through the gate. Waited in two separate lines, nearly the full line length, then a shorter line before I got in. I guess it was just preparing me for what was in store.

As Jeff Spicolli would put it,"AWESOME! TOTALLY AWESOME!!"

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why only 3 trains shouldnt be the question. Why only 5 trains is the question. Some how the "...Yellow train checks out the course..." was the only train not there. Where did it go? Finally got to see the purple and Black Cherry trains up close...very nice. Black Cherry still had water dummies in it though.

Yes, I was quite surprised when I only counted a total of 5 trains. I've said all along that I'd never seen all six on the webcams. The 3 train operation sucked, but I'm sure they will work this week and be much better by this weekend.

By the way, I got in at 9 for JCC via the Magnum entrance. All of the Red Cross people were in line ahead of us. Therefore, I managed to be about somewhere between the 15th and 20th JCC member in line, but still had 100 people in front of me. In all, I only waited 1 1/2 hours, getting off at 10:30. At that point, the line streched to the Sky Ride station.

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Chris, I must have been right by you in line in the morning, because that's about the time I got off too. I also ran from Magnum Gate with JCC.

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I heard from a worker in the Dragster queue that it was taking so long to launch the trains because it was taking too long for the pumps to restore pressure in the hydraulic system. Could this be part of the reason they went to 4 cars, not because it couldn't send 5 car trains over the top consistently (it can), but because it was taking too long to store up enough pressure to launch 5 car trains over in a timely fashion? If this is true, I hope this is something they can fix during this season, if not over this week.

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Was the Mantis running?, and did they run three trains?

ralph, that's about the same time i got on and off the ride. you wouldn't happen to have been the people standing behind us talking about the "Gemini can't keep it up..."post, were you???

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Due to some unforseen difficulties we didn't make it to the park until noon. Went straight to Dragster and was told the line was at least 4 hours long - at this point the line was completely out of the queue section and ran the length of Dragster, past the grandstands, all the way to the station. We waited a bit, but seeing such sporadic launches and watching how slow the boarding process was, we decided to go ride other rides and come back later. We left 2 friends in line who decided to wait.

After riding MF, Gemini, Magnum, Mantis, WT and Raptor with very short lines, we got back to Dragster about 4:45 and saw that the line had shortened drastically to the point where it no longer stretched outside the queue. We excitedly ran to get in line, only to be told that they now estimated the line to last 6 HOURS!!! Our friends who we left in line had still NOT YET GOTTEN A RIDE! We left disgusted and never got a ride on it. Our friends finally got on sometime after 6 pm - their only ride on any coaster for the day. They all agreed it was amazing - but CP has got to do something about the capacity. I watched the loading platform and there were plenty of times when the ride-ops (for whatever reason) just didn't seem to be moving very quickly - including large breaks of time without even boarding a train, while one sat there empty in front of them.

Very dissapointing day for many people that I spoke to...

Well, I was there yesterday and TTD was an indescribably surreal experience. However, what was totally describably sucky was the wait. I got in the park at 9am with us other Joe Cool's and was in line for TTD a few minutes shortly thereafter. They were indeed only running 3 trains and my wait was about 3 hours and 10 minutes. :( Needless to say, that sucked! We suffered having only 3 shorter trains that were lucky to launch every 1-2 minutes. I know crews have to be broken in, but come on. They just spent the whole day on Saturday practicing on Longaberger. 3 trains on that ride is uncalled for. What is more, I did a count and there were only 5 trains on site. Where was the 6th one?

Well, any way you slice it though TTD is a winner and completely incredible - almost bordering on too fast to take it all in. Hopefully CP works the kinks out and soon or I may not get to ride this again this season. You know how season pass holders like to avoid waiting in lines.

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cyberdman

The braking mechanism that is required to stop a 5 train coaster in the case of a rollback at the time isn't strong enough to fall within safety specs. Hence, for now, 3 trains.

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That makes no sense, please elaborate.

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cyberdman

No, it doesn't make sense. Moron is making stuff up. I saw a mis-fire and the train stopped so far up track it took forever to get back. Not to mention that half of the final brakes have been removed because they were such overkill.

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The yellow train will be back, it's taking a little vacation. Also, I heard that the trains could have all 5 cars back as early as Friday.

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I heard the same thing Pete, from one member of management with another member of management standing right beside them.

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cyberdman said:
They were indeed only running 3 trains and my wait was about 3 hours and 10 minutes. :( Needless to say, that sucked!

Oh, what I would have given yesterday to only wait 3 hours and 10 minutes!

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My first ride ever on MF during AAA day back in '99 was about 3 hours. I figured with Joe Cool it would've shaved some time off that wait length for TDD this year, but nahhh!

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After I got off work at 5:00 I changed and headed over to Dragster. I expected the line to be long and I already decided I was going to wait anyway. I met some really nice people in line and we all talked to keep is busy for the 4 hour wait. The launches weren't consistant at all but I expected they wouldn't be. However, when the trains did go out of the station and stacked in front of the launch, the launches were one right after the other.

I was excited to see part of the tree next to the launch up. Hopefully things will be running better this weekend. Despite the three, four car trains and the time in between some launches, the ride overall was spectacular!

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The capacity didn't bother me. I knew it would be slow. I got in with the JCC swarm from the Magnum entrance and waited less than 2 hours. And I walked to the ride, laughing at how silly everyone looked running. The crew could have been trained for a year and they still wouldn't know what to do with a station full of people. Perfection will come with practice. Hopefully the yellow train will come home soon (Vanessa) and they will get all 6 on the track. I'll give it a month or so before everything is running smoothly. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the ride ran all day though. I didn't see any rollbacks or any major downtime. I think that is pretty decent concidering the new style of ride this is. Everything will iron out and all will be good. Congrats to CP for a great opening day!

Greg B said:
The launches weren't consistant at all but I expected they wouldn't be. However, when the trains did go out of the station and stacked in front of the launch, the launches were one right after the other.

Yeah, when they did have the 2 trains loaded and back to back the interval was about 50 seconds or so. When they get 6 trains going constantly the line will move fast and smooth.
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