6 hours for Outer limits: Flight of Fear at Kings Dominion. We had waited almost 3 hours opening year of the ride.. get within 50 feet of the station and the ride breaks down (gotta love that reliability of PKD's launched coasters). Since we were so close to the station we decided to wait it out.. 3 hours later they close the ride and kick everyone out giving us a pass to board any other coaster in the park from the exit ramp.
Next longest wait would be 3:45 for Hypersonic XLC, hey i'm back at PKD again and guess what..we're inline for one hour.. ride breaks. We then proceed to wait like die-hard coaster fans we are for XLC to reopen. Maintenance hauls away two drive motors.. and we spend 2:45 waiting in the station. Now the cool part of this story is there were only 15 of us who stayed when they announced the ride may be closed for some time. The XLC staff gave us free water, pumped up the tunes in the station and we all talked coaster talk with the staff. The main operator (forget his name... I think it was Tim) was a great guy as well as a big coaster fan. I spoke for everyone in the station when I asked if those of us who were die-hard fans could get more than one ride in. The staff gave us three consecutive rides before they even opened the flood gates to the GP. Hats off to the XLC crew! And major props to the guy who went got out of line to get everyone some food! (he got back in).
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Riding the rails from the East Coast to the West Coast