Dueling Dragons - CoasterBuzz

Lord Gonchar said:
A quote from the IOA website:
"They’re the world’s first inverted, dueling roller-coasters. Soar 125 feet in the air and reach speeds of 55 mph on TWO UNIQUE RIDES "
That's their capitalization, not mine. I'd say it's two and that's not really opinion - seems like fact when the park it making it that clear.

Well... a park would try to put out the maximum number of coasters that it can count to the public.
Some parks don't hesitate to count rides that are at the edge of what a coaster may be.

;)

Here's another idea to ponder. Dualing Dragons, along with many other racing and\or dualing coasters have two complete full circuits. If you take one of those full circuits away, you have one complete circuit. Is that half a coaster? Now, with moebius coasters such as Kennywood's Racer, Grand National, and Montana Rusa, even though they have two different rides and two different sets of brakes and two different lift hills, it's still one complete circuit. -- Making it, IMO, one count in your track record.

I think my method takes away all the unsureness (sp?) of RCDB's or such. (RCDB says that if two complete circuits share supports, it is one coaster.)

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To answer ntroble24's other original question: If you're an AAA member, try their local offices for discount tickets. IOA's Web site used to have info on combo tickets for several Florida parks. And some hotels, restaurants, and shopping malls have ticket booths with discount tickets available. You can find good deals on nearly everything except the Disney parks.

Thanks for your answers.

Is God three or one? ;)

Anyway, DD's line moves like a bat out of hell. It loads two 32 passenger trains (four across which is faster to check for the ops) simultaneously and has separate unload. I was there a year and a half ago in March and the line went out of the castle (though not all the switchbacks were open) and it took less than 45 min.

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What is the total PPH of Dueling Dragons? It must be quite phenominal, especially with the two platforms per side. I'm guessing around 2500 people per hour.
*** This post was edited by Marcus Sheen 8/25/2003 3:46:52 PM ***

The line will barely ever reach 45 minutes. The outside is really only used for halloween.

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How many trains were running when the wait was outside the castle? I waited that once with six trains on the ride and the wait time was TWENTY MINUTES! I couldn't get over it, that's a LONG walk, and for it to only be twenty mins blew my mind.

Long live Dragons capacity!

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You suck big time.

Let's see what the PPH actually is. Time for some math...unless someone knows it already...

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*** This post was edited by ThunderStorm 8/25/2003 4:45:22 PM ***

The number I had always seen for Dragons was 3,200pph, not sure where I saw it though. Seems reasonable to me, that thing eats people like nobody's bidness!

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You suck big time.

Adix...you brought up an interesting discussion...which one's the b*tch and which one's the butch? ;)

Anyways, I always considered them seperate coasters, but according to some underground coaster ring, racing coasters, no matter how different, seem to always be counted as 1 coaster. It seems that way with a lot of racers, even though DD clearly has an exception with completely different track plans.

When you think about it, Superman the Escape is 2 coasters aswell, just on one structure.... wait, is that even a coaster? ;)

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I just got back and can definitively report that it is still two different roller coasters -- and that Fire is still far, far better than Ice.

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No, Ice wins! ... Or maybe I just have a natural predisposition for going to the right...

I'd guesstimate that the dragons pull in about 3000+ people an hour, with two tracks of 1500/hr.

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Legendary said:
The number I had always seen for Dragons was 3,200pph, not sure where I saw it though. Seems reasonable to me, that thing eats people like nobody's bidness!
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You suck big time.

The Dragon's *eat* people? Lol

Fire is by far better.

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Its defintly two different coasters. Two layouts completly different. Two names for both the sides. Fire and Ice. Jus look at the name too Dueling Dragons Its plural.

They are listed as two coasters in the coasterbuzz database. Who wants to challenge that? not me.

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I call DD one *attraction* with two coasters (since the layouts are so obviously different), but that's me.....whatever works for you is fine...:)

BTW, Fire is way WAY better IMO....Ice rattles like a Vekoma...

I count them as two, but then I count PKI's Racer and recaR as two, too!

I'm going to count them as two also. Were going down to IOA next week. I'm hoping that Hulk will be coaster # 50 for me.