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[Hyde]

Interesting to hear about your luck with Goliath. During a visit to SFFT, a group of us were also spited by Goliath due to weather. As I recall, the ride op was rather unimpressive with the whole scenario, announcing that "the ride is closed due to weather, and everyone must leave the queue or be escorted out of the park by the police." Rather harsh, wouldn't you say?

 

[rtotheizzo17]

^Might be a tad on the excessive side? Then again this is a Six Flags park, wouldn't surprise me if they need the riot police every now and again.

 

[bmac]

Interesting to hear about your luck with Goliath. During a visit to SFFT, a group of us were also spited by Goliath due to weather. As I recall, the ride op was rather unimpressive with the whole scenario, announcing that "the ride is closed due to weather, and everyone must leave the queue or be escorted out of the park by the police." Rather harsh, wouldn't you say?

Not sure how different things are with SOP policies in Texas but saying that at Great Adventure would get myself sent packing right then and there.

With getting spited by coasters I guess I'm one of the lucky people. My only spited ride so far is the kiddie coaster at Rye Playland and that simply was because I was too tall to ride it, which was back in 2011.

 

[Hyde]

^ Agreed, it was very excessive and out-of-proportion. As a former Cedar Fair employee, I know I was never taught that way. :razz:

 

[rollermonkey]

I've been spited so many times at Cedar Point... Took three trips to get Maverick, three to get Dragster and two to get Millenium. Definitely contributes massively to my distaste for the park.

And, continuing the Intaminitis trend, I've also been spited twice by Atlantis Adventure at Lotte World.

Single-trip sprites by Steel Dragon 2000 and Pyrenees were both remedied on a subsequent trip.

Sort of a spite was Gold Striker, as they were still adding Yahoo-appeasement-tunnels when I last visited CGA.

 

[PeskyTrimBrake]

Kingda Ka:I agree with Furie, Kingda Ka was bad. The only thing good about it was the speed and height. The rest was painful. Going 128 mph on a rickety train, painful. It broke 5 times in one day.

Kong: Rickety piece of **** . Neck pain for 2 days after the ride. Worst SLC I've ever ridden.

 

[rollermonkey]

Oh, CanobieFan and I were spited together by the mouse at Gulliver's Warrington. Welding equipment laying around the track doesn't bode well that it opened later that day.


I did forget that I was spited by most of SFoT on my first trip there. It rained and they basically just decided to send all the ride ops home, even though the park was open for like 6 more hours. The skies cleared, and nothing reopened. I missed more than half the coasters that day.

 

[Jarrett]

The family's 2005 trip to Carowinds. Nickelodeon Flying Super Saturator was down both days we went and then they removed a very rare coaster type for a :xcensoredx:ing Vekoma Boomerang, though a decent one to their credit.

 

[njn63]

Kingda Ka - Sunday before Sandy made landfall. I'm guessing it wasn't running due to high winds.

We were 2 of maybe 100 people in the park so I can't complain too much. Ever gotten back to the station and been told you can reride El Toro if no one is in your line? Yep, it happened that day.

 

[bmac]

Kingda Ka - Sunday before Sandy made landfall. I'm guessing it wasn't running due to high winds.

The hydraulic engine nuked itself before the storm hit, that's why it was down around that time.

 

[Hyde]

Another spite-of-sorts that I will throw out there is the relocation of Superman:Ultimate Escape/Steel Venom from Geauga Lake to Dorney Park. Steel Venom was always down whenever I visited Geauga Lake, and finally was permanently closed in prep for its relocation. I was not able to ride the roller coaster until finally visiting Dorney Park two summers ago, and hopping on Possessed. It was the final piece to the Geauga Lake coaster creds - a 7 year endeavor from my first visit to the park.

Visiting Dorney Park however was very fun, as I was also able to take in Stinger (formerly located at CGA) and my beloved Demon Drop 1st Gen Intamin drop tower of former CP fame.

 

[njn63]

Kingda Ka - Sunday before Sandy made landfall. I'm guessing it wasn't running due to high winds.

The hydraulic engine nuked itself before the storm hit, that's why it was down around that time.

It was running the night before but I didn't have time to ride it (we stopped for a couple hours after spending the day in NYC).

 

[bmac]

Kingda Ka - Sunday before Sandy made landfall. I'm guessing it wasn't running due to high winds.

The hydraulic engine nuked itself before the storm hit, that's why it was down around that time.

It was running the night before but I didn't have time to ride it (we stopped for a couple hours after spending the day in NYC).

My bad, I mistook it for Irene. Kingda Ka did have issues before Sandy hit also, but nothing like what I was recalling with Irene. Hurricane names suck when you don't have a year to associate with

 

[rtotheizzo17]

Kingda Ka:I agree with Furie, Kingda Ka was bad. The only thing good about it was the speed and height. The rest was painful. Going 128 mph on a rickety train, painful. It broke 5 times in one day.

Kong: Rickety piece of **** . Neck pain for 2 days after the ride. Worst SLC I've ever ridden.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

 

[AirtimeFreak]

Just in general coasters running one train, nothing worse than seeing the same set of faces roll back into the station.

 

[Hyde]

^ Never visit Hersheypark then.

 

[ECG]

I don't get the Hersheypark reference you keep bringing up Hyde. Skyrush, Storm Runner, Fahrenheit, Great Bear, Lightning Racer, Wildcat, Comet, Sooperdooperlooper and Wild Mouse (of course) all have multiple train/car ops. Only Trailblazer and Sidewinder use single trains and one of them is a the Vekoma boomerang - so not much of a choice there. Cocoa Cruiser, the new kiddie coaster, will also have a single train. Only two of the 11 major coasters use single train operations, so why do you keep mentioning Hersheypark anytime the subject comes up?

 

[bmac]

I don't get the Hersheypark reference you keep bringing up Hyde. Skyrush, Storm Runner, Fahrenheit, Great Bear, Lightning Racer, Wildcat, Comet, Sooperdooperlooper and Wild Mouse (of course) all have multiple train/car ops. Only Trailblazer and Sidewinder use single trains and one of them is a the Vekoma boomerang - so not much of a choice there. Cocoa Cruiser, the new kiddie coaster, will also have a single train. Only two of the 11 major coasters use single train operations, so why do you keep mentioning Hersheypark anytime the subject comes up?

Last time I went most of the coasters were running 1 train or weren't running at full capacity, the only ones still going 100% were Farenheit and Storm Runner. It depends on the days you go really, cause when I last went Hershey had only a few thousand people in the park that day.

 

[ECG]

Almost every park runs single trains on off-days, so that's not really a valid argument. Hersheypark is generally a very busy park, especially between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and when one talks about a park using single train ops it should refer to the majority of the time, not off-days.

 

[Hyde]

^^ That was my experience as well, all coasters were running one train except Skyrush, Fahrenheit, and Storm Runner. And even then, the rest of the coasters were only running two train operation, which still makes for a slower ride operation.

Take my criticism of Hersheypark with a grain of salt however - I have always been critical of Hershey's seemingly deliberate choice to not use MCBR. I guess you could say I fall into the camp of viewing MCBR as a necessary evil to improve ride throughout and capacity. Their load speed also leaves something to be desired. I love the coasters, just not the way they are managed, which makes me a negative Nancy of sorts.