Wicked Twister offline indefinetely?

So has anyone actually heard anything about when this ride might open? It sounds like they're just waiting on State approval at this point (though I don't know for sure).

We were told today that it should be next week. That they got new parts and they're just waiting on the state inspection.

That's a shame, I was really hoping they'd get it open by Memorial Day weekend since it's going to be our only trip of the year. Thanks for the update though.

Thanks for the answer Jeff

Wicked Twister is now running. Rode about an hour ago

Yep definitely running today!

Sorry to bring this topic back, but yesterday I was next in line to ride and it went down for mechanical and never reopened. And from the webcams, it looks like it's not running today either. When I was in line yesterday, the train stopped outside of the station then the op said over the PA that it went down for mechanical reasons.

Intamin.

I just saw it running or testing on the webcam, so it looks like the issue has been resolved. Hope it's running tomorrow.

Wicked Twister has not had a good season so far, wasn't able to ride it during my visit this past Thursday or Friday.

I rode it today. And it's still running as I sit here waiting for AWE to start.

It had some problems yesterday as well. At one point it was sitting at the end of the track (before you climb up the spike) with people on it still. Maintenance ended up pushing the train back to the station. Not sure what the deal was there, but not much later it was running again.

Twister has some kind of shortage going on recently that prevents the operator to turn the ride on after an automatic E-stop. If the motors won't turn on, then the train can't find home position in manual mode. This results in maintenance having to push it back to the station to unload the passengers.

Do they still use that big rope to help pull the train manually? I seem to recall seeing a rope in past years.

One season when I worked at Twister, the same issue happened. We had 20some mechanics from different areas come to the ride and they tied a rope to the back of the train. Long story short, the rope broke and the maintenance team of 20+ mechanics all tumbled over like dominos. I couldn't compose my laughter, but luckily they were all okay. Eventually the train was pushed back to the station, all guests were battery packed out of their seats, and they were given FOL passes and water for the inconvenience of course.

Out of curiosity, were the brakes triggered making it hard for them to pull the train back? Or is the fully loaded train just that heavy? I feel as if, even though it's heavy (approx. 6400lbs of people alone), the thing is on wheels and wouldn't need 20 guys to pull it.

The brakes were individually put in the "up position" via switches along the launch track. I believe there were that many maintenance guys over there so some could push the train, while some prevented it from rolling back too far out of the station. Not too sure why there were so many, to be honest, but that would be my guess. But, you're right. It is a VERY heavy train, however, not hard to push with less than 10 people.