KK BIG breakdown?!?!?

Who thinks this ride is going to reach the downtime that X experienced?

I highly doubt it will be THAT bad. After all, Intamin has built a few rockets before Ka. No one, not before, or since, has attempted anything like X.....well, until this coming year! ;)

My opinion, the thing ain't opening for the rest of the year. Judging by history, it seems when there is a major malfunction of any ride Six Flags has built, there is no sense of urgency in getting it back on line

For reference-

Superman

Mr Freeze

The Chiller

X

De ja Vu

. . . . and I am sure there are more. I hope I'm wrong, but that's just my hunch.

'Tuan, you remind me of, well, me. ;)

But SFI seems to have come around to the realization that they need to *dominate* the NY and Chicago markets...I think they recognize the importance of Ka in claiming the NYC demographic. They're in danger of losing the Philly peeps to Dorney if they fail to get Ka up and operational.

SF is bad about this kind of (initial) ride-debugging, as you noted. And GAdv's history certainly suggests nothing better. But I'm gonna go with my heart instead of my head on this one....mostly cause I want to ride in August! ;)

OK YOU GUYS ARE ALL WRONG ABOUT SUPERMAN AT DARIEN LAKE........ I"m late on this but I lived in Buffalo at the time..... IT WASN"T ANYBODIES FAULT except the passenger. IT happend at the end of the ride waiting to pull into the station, the guy stood up and fell out... Superman didn't have seatbelts installed only lapbars.. Within a few days seatbelts were installed. I rode Superman opening day and was there the week before when testing was going on... Superman had many roll backs that day after leaving the lift hill.... Get it right jesus mary...

Well, I hate to break it to you 'gator, but I've specifically instructed the ride ops to watch for you in August and shut down the ride upon sight. Looks like you won't get to ride it. ;) :P

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crazedcpfan said:
OK YOU GUYS ARE ALL WRONG ABOUT SUPERMAN AT DARIEN LAKE........ I"m late on this but I lived in Buffalo at the time..... IT WASN"T ANYBODIES FAULT except the passenger. IT happend at the end of the ride waiting to pull into the station, the guy stood up and fell out... Superman didn't have seatbelts installed only lapbars.. Within a few days seatbelts were installed. I rode Superman opening day and was there the week before when testing was going on... Superman had many roll backs that day after leaving the lift hill.... Get it right jesus mary...

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First of all, ALL CAPS is very frowned upon and will deter people from reading your post. Second of all, if the passenger was able to stand up anywhere outside of the station, the ride malfunctioned. The lap bars should not disengage (and actually, from what I understand are not even able to disengage under normal operation) outside of the station.

I also recall that the person was not ejected while in the final brake run, but I'm not nearly as sure of that as I am of my other two points.

So in short, stop trolling.

Any new news on KK??? Six Flags hasnt updated their website.

It's not open, it will not be open anytime soon. I believe (like Antuan said) that it probably won't reopen this year. IF it does, we should all consider ourselves lucky.

Does anyone know what is going on with Kingda Ka now. I haven't seen any news about it and was just wondering because I will be going this week. Thank You

Read my above post....still applies

As Peabody said one message up from yours... Kingda Ka is currently not open and we'll be lucky if it opens this year!

Ka should be open late aug-early sept as long as Jersey does not give them problems with inspections.

*falls over laughing at the thought of Jersey not giving them problems* see Tsunami rumors last season and KK rumors before opening...Jersey is not easy to get to sign off on things.

This is my question. What is really wrong with Ka? When TTD frayed a launch cable, it was up in a matter of days. In my opinion, Ka will never run as good as dragster. Although TTD was down alot early, now it runs great, but since Ka is at a Six Flags park, the ride will never be taken care of because the ride requires alot of work and Six Flags won't bother themselves with the work. Look at what Six Flags did to Geauga Lake. It's a good thing that Cedar Fair owns Geauga Lake now.

So if the problen is the launch cable the ride should be up in days, not weeks or months.

First off do not group all the whole six flags chain together. each park is run differently.

secondly i have talked to the mechanics myself. They probably work harder then most of the people on these boards do.

Also i think six fglags is doing a great job considering this is most likely an intamin design flaw.

There are a couple of differences between kk and ttd. six flags gadv has been working on getting this fixed. there have been numerious people who have said they witnessed groups of people working on the ride.

The latest is their were 2 groupsd of mechs working on the launch track and the cable was no where to be seen.

CP Junkie, read this topic from the beginning. The reason for the breakdown wasn't the launch cable, and was much more catastrophic than anything that has happened to TTD.

Also, you can't pin this breakdown on intamin. The ride must be run properly and taken care of. Look at Deja Vu, Six Flags can never keep that ride running. Lack of care, it seems. By the way, if anyone hasn't noticed, I hate Six Flags, except for Kentucky Kingdom, which houses Greezed Lightnin', a true Anton Schwartzkoph masterpiece!

So it's safe to say that I never really need to ride Ka, because it will never run as smoothly as Dragster and because Dragster is taken care of. That's the blind truth. *** Edited 7/3/2005 11:41:42 PM UTC by Cedar Point Junkie 2007***

You also have to realize that Six Flags built Ka only to spite CP. But a problem like this should have never have happened since Six Flags saw the problems that dragster had its first year. So, that's what Six Flags gets for trying to build a coaster only to say that they have a better one than CP.

You CP fanboys are just jealous that you dont have the tallest fastest coaster anymore...