BDK Media Day!!!!! - CoasterBuzz

I'm glad they had this day so the ride ops will be slightly faster for my visit on Sunday.

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Just one train, MikeMir. The other way in the storage shed. No need for two as of yet. In the afternoon, 20 people max. were riding.

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Make it to SFNE for S:Ros and BDK!!!!

I have a question, didn't the park have B&M fill the tracks with sand like Talon to make it so quiet?

I dunno, I think they did because it is very quiet. I'm not sure. It also seems the developed a new chain dog because it doesn't ratchet. The lift is also energy saving.

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Why ride rough coasters when you can ride smooth ones?
1.Medusa-SFGAdv 1.Batman:The Chiller 1.Mo

Is double trouble still going to be open??? It looks like it's not from the pics....

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Coaster_fanatic, the chain dog doesn't make the ratcheting. That's the clank of the anti-rollbacks on other coasters, however this one's was silent.

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Make it to SFNE for S:Ros and BDK!!!!

Yeah, the chain dog(well, it's the same type of device) ratchets on the Antiroll backs, I wanna know how they got it not to ratchet. The antiroll backs work because on one test they stopped the lift and you could tell it caught an antirollback

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Why ride rough coasters when you can ride smooth ones?
1.Medusa-SFGAdv 1.Batman:The Chiller 1.Mo

wickedtwisted said:
Is double trouble still going to be open??? It looks like it's not from the pics....
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Well, considering that Thursday was a media day for B:DK, and not DT, I'm assuming that it wasn't supposed to be running.

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coaster_fanatic_kid said:

You guys are going to die in that queue, there are no covered areas that you will be under for more than a couple seconds. Man, that was a bad choice by Six Flags, but it's a great ride, so it doesn't matter.

Well, its better than standing on a huge slab of concrete we like to call the S:RoS queue.

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Cool! sounds VERY Intense. I would definately like to ride that. What is there meant by rough corkscrews?? Usually most new B&M's are very smooth.

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Correction on those scorkscrews. On media day they were slightly rough and now they are very smooth, just very intense.

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Make it to SFNE for S:Ros and BDK!!!!

On opening day I found the corkscrews to be quite rough also, very rough in terms of a B&M. I also found the zero-g roll to be forceless, maybe it was just where I was sitting?

Excalibur, did you sit outside seats, particularly left?

The corkscrews weren't that rough. Beginning of the day, the second one banged me 2 times each time around, end of day it was down to 1 time. I felt it get smoother as the day went on, and 35 rides on this baby is not enough!

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Why ride rough coasters when you can ride smooth ones?
1.Medusa-SFGAdv 1.Batman:The Chiller 1.Mo

Yeah I sat far left in the front and back, it wasnt very rough but I didn't expect it from a new coaster. Next time a keep my restraint a little looser for the zero-g roll.