Dragster train on site

How else would they be shipped?

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Cedar Point has enough magic to ship it however they want

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I see TTD from my living room, I live 4 miles away from the Point, and life couldn't be better.

They could have been shipped bolted to skids on a flat bed like PTC cars. They also could have been shipped in little crates. Heck! They could have also had them shipped in pieces and would have had to put them together piece by piece.

I didn't know that the trains were shipped from overseas. I just figured they were built at a plant over here someplace. The crates they came in look like the kind they stack on ships which makes sense why they were shipped in them and not on a flatbed. ;)

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You got it tom, CP Magic... All they need to do now is "beam" them up onto the track!

not sure if everyone noticed this, but Dragster's trains dont have the standard "T" bar. the restraint has a bar on both sides, unlike xcelerator(i think).

whether thats a big deal or not, just thought i'd point that out.

I don't know what you are looking at coasterdude but from what I *can* see through those opaque plastic sheets are standard "T" bar restraints like xcelerator and millenium force.

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I know at NCC, CP said that it will have -2 G's at the top of the top hat, but there is no way I think this is possible. Does anyone in here realize that on most rides when we get airtime, it's probably actually around -0.5 to maybe -1.0 G's... -2 G's is totally way too high. Dragster should also pull about the same on the pullout as going up, and it will be going faster on the launch than on the freefall side anyway. The fall back down should probably hit about 105-110 mph, while the launch will be 120 mph.

It will also reach 120 on the way down. http://www.topthrilldragster.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/ttd/specs/index.cfm

CPTom said:
Cedar Point has enough magic to ship it however they want

Yeah, they have them shipped from Europe on a train.:)

Cory Patrick said:
Dragster should also pull about the same on the pullout as going up, and it will be going faster on the launch than on the freefall side anyway.

I don't know if you noticed, but CP said two in the LAUNCH, not pull up. The pull up will probably be 4 I think.

Swimmer, waiting to see if Markey will be against negative Gs, to piss us more.

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Bryan said:
It will also reach 120 on the way down. http://www.topthrilldragster.com/public/inside_park/rides/thrill/ttd/specs/index.cfm

It certainly won't reach 120 mph on the way down, do the physics. From a 420 foot height, the train would have to be doing about 50 mph over the top of the top-hat in order to hit 120 mph. It will be closer to 105-110 I'm thinking, which is still extremly fast anyway!?

we were there last year and there wasn't any indication of any new ride/construction going on...how did they keep this a secret?

it appears to be situated across from Millennium Force between the Power Tower and Magnum XL...maybe they cut into the parking lots west of Hotel Breakers...

we're on our way again the 1st week of July...

They're gonna have a hard time keeping that white on the unserside of the train clean.

Shaggy

*** This post was edited by Shaggy on 1/24/2003. ***