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Dollywood | Lightning Rod | Launched RMC

Fantastic set of POV photos from Upstop Media:

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For anyone how has visited Dollywood the last few days: how was the reliability of Lightning Rod?
Was it down often? 1-train-operation? Seems like it's hit and miss to get the credit?
 
Boris1981 said:
For anyone how has visited Dollywood the last few days: how was the reliability of Lightning Rod?
Was it down often? 1-train-operation? Seems like it's hit and miss to get the credit?
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While we were there for the US live it won't down 3 times all day. Once for about 15 mintues, once for about 45 minutes, and once for about an hour and a half (lightning in the area for the last one). It was running 2 trains all day but dispatch times varied greatly (and walk of shames were fairly frequent which increased dispatch times). I suspect times will decrease as the ride is open longer though.
 
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Looks like it took the term hot rod a little too seriously...

They really are having a hard time with this thing arent they, hopefully they will get it open soon :D
 
And we wonder why B&M took so long to get a launch system they were happy with...

I'm not doubting that RMC don't know what they're doing, and they're very competent engineers just having some bad luck, but I'd hardly call this ground breaking ride a success at the moment*.

*That is until you're lucky enough to ride it and realise it's the best roller coaster in the world.
 
I mean, could we have picked a better time to ride it? It was down before and after our trip. We had like a 5 day window to ride it and we hit it perfectly. Boom!
 
I'm a little skeptical about this picture.
-The person who posted this picture on Instagram doesn't even claim its hers. She got it from Reddit. This picture appears to be taken from inside the Car Ride in a place that's only accessible if you're an employee.
- The car is made from a bunch of fiberglass, if you've ever seen fiberglass burn you know it burns black and not white.
-If this was a legit fire, you would see a plethora of people on that platform in fire gear and a handful of trucks below. Not just one guy.
-The one guy in the picture appears to be wearing a brown colored jacket and is bent over. Where I work, we wear very similar jackets to protect our arms and torso from sparks when welding or grinding. Stick Welding does produce a lot of smoke similar to what you see here.

So unless Pete issues a statement about a fire on LR, it's safe to conclude that this is just a picture of a guy welding something, possibly the recalled part.

EDIT- I do see now where the train is there. The picture is very grainy.
 
All valid and well made points, Jay. Only thing I question is why they'd be doing it there and not in the maintenance shed. They had all the gear, extraction and fire suppression systems in the maintenence shed, why are they doing it with the train half up the hill?

EDIT: Unless they're not welding something to the train, they just want the train there to check for clearance or something, but I'd be surprised if they aren't able to just do that from their design drawings.

Open question, not a criticism. :)
 
jay37415 said:
-The person who posted this picture on Instagram doesn't even claim its hers. She got it from Reddit. This picture appears to be taken from inside the Car Ride in a place that's only accessible if you're an employee.
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I think it's grainy because of the zoom.
I think it might have been shot from the exit of River Rampage which gives the appearance that was taken inside Rockin' Roadway.

So unless Pete issues a statement about a fire on LR, it's safe to conclude that this is just a picture of a guy welding something, possibly the recalled part.
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Word from DW is an electric motor overheated.
http://www.local8now.com/content/news/D ... 31761.html
http://wate.com/2016/06/21/spokesman-mo ... ing-smoke/
 
It appears they are trying to get it back open today.

The banner saying its closed is down from their website. May stop by tomorrow for a quickie.
 
jay37415 said:
It appears they are trying to get it back open today.

The banner saying its closed is down from their website. May stop by tomorrow for a quickie.
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Not sure about that, I still see the banner...
 
Crazy this ride is still closed. I've seen nothing to the contrary since. Even crazier is that we managed to hit it in the 5 day window the ride was open. Not only hit it, but got night ERT on it as well. What luck!
 
Snoo said:
Crazy this ride is still closed. I've seen nothing to the contrary since. Even crazier is that we managed to hit it in the 5 day window the ride was open. Not only hit it, but got night ERT on it as well. What luck!
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Elsewhere someone posted a park employee claimed there was a delay on the parts and they just arrived.
 
Latest update from Irvine Ondrey Engineering, one train operation as part of "technical rehearsal":

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took 4 laps on it yesterday. Signs in front of the coaster give the whole "Technical Rehearsal" spiel. Only one train was running and it seemed to have more issues as the day went along (summer heat maybe). But during both significant downtimes, they switched trains.

While waiting for the train, I peeked into the repair bay and I did happen to get a picture of all the used cylinder that have been replaced from the reaclled
Also, my first time riding was back in May during the first trial run. I did notice that the trains are running a lot faster now than in May. The ejector on the quad down was a lot more forceful. Lets hope they can get this thing dialed in.
 
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