Wicked Twister Down Alot

You can see similar ones on Millennium Force (which are green ). Next time you exit the station look behind the train and there is a whole slew of them. Also on the brake run there are a ton. They look like little rectangular boxes and are between the ties of the track.

When we got to the park the sign at the entrance said that Wicked Twister would open later today. Then we got in and it was running shortly after that. Then an hour or so later, the ride was down again, only to be opened again later.

I'm not that impressed with this ride's uptime.

It has uptime?

I've seen it run once since May and I'm there 2-3 times a week.

*** This post was edited by Joe E. 6/29/2002 1:24:04 AM ***

I've been there 4 times this year and each time it has been running the nearly the whole day (minus some minor downtime).

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"Meh."
Wicked twists: 7
Danger: Hgih Voltage!

Intresting that they made it so you couldn't see what was going on with the WT...they tilted one webcam and froze the other one.

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

I think the ride is Satan!!:)

Whenever I see the ride from a distance,the two spikes remind me of Devil Horns. I've thought that since the first time I saw it!

it has a mind of its own, it runs when it wants to!

It's Satan! It's Possessed!!! :)

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If you look just above the rear support, the bottom rail of the box track (not the running rails) has some sort of cylindrical brace on it. Also that black brace which is in the middle of the box track has been painted yellow. It's a good thing they have the right color touch up paint unlike some other Intamin in the park ;).

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The world I love, the trains I hop, to be part of the wave, can't stop.

I just hope it will be working in a week I plan to be their all next week.

I went to Cedar Point on June 23rd and WT was down once but when i got on it was worth the wait.

WT has had a lot of downtime, especially for a new ride at the park, its kinda been dissapointing...I am so glad I was able to ride it the 12 times I did before the crack developed and such...
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matt2003 said:
WT has had a lot of downtime, especially for a new ride at the park

So did Snake River Falls and Magnum, to name two, when they were new. They seem to be doing OK now.

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Virtual Midway
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The Nitro at SfGadv is a new ride too...i remember when it was just built....still it didin't have half as much down time as the WT does....its a new ride...it ran pretty smoothly.

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

And who said anything about a crack? I must have missed that press release.

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"We used to hate people, now we just make fun of them. It's more effective that way." - KMFDM, "Dogma"

Exactly, nobody knows what the problem is. All we know is that there has been some down time. I sometimes thunk that people think they know more than intamin and CP about some things.

Some downtime Alex?????...the ride been down 90% of the time since it opened lol...thats Some Serious downtime

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

90%? I heard 89%, but I just pulled that number of out thin air. Maybe your sources are better.

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Virtual Midway
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I say stop complaining and just ride it when its open. Having a ride open half the time is better than having no ride at all.

CP_Jigga said:
The Nitro at SfGadv is a new ride too...i remember when it was just built....still it didin't have half as much down time as the WT does....its a new ride...it ran pretty smoothly.

Unfortunately, Great Adventure can't say the same for like 1/3 of the rides in the park, including like half the flat rides and the Robin side of the Chiller. :( I was very disappointed to see Medusa running with only two trains and stacking consistantly when I was there. Really, the Nitro crew was the only good crew we saw down there. Even with the WT fiasco, I still feel very confident that all rides will be open when I visit CP. I've wandered around many times and not seen a single ride down and even if something is down, it is one or two rides, not 1/3 of the park! :)

-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew

I was acctually Amazed with How the Nitro runs...runs like clockwork...in and out in and out...non-stop. I was there alot of times this year...Pretty much every time i was there the nitro was running flawlessly...the medusa had some problems and alot of the other rides had some problems...But still The WT has one of the biggest down time i've seen.

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

Thats because theres a former Magnum crew worker running it. ;)

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