Millennium Force Valley??

According to one of my friends, over the weekend, when they were at Cedar Point, Millennium Force was shut down due to valley between the over bank #1 and the second hill.

This really doesn't seem possible, but this is what i heard... any confirmation?

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*** This post was edited by Rctycoon2k on 6/5/2002. ***

I'm pretty sure it's happened before. I've seen the train barely crawl over that hill.

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how?!?! thats when it reaches 93mph, right?

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It reaches its top speed at the bottom of the first hill

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I don't think it rolled back this weekend, but sure, it has happened before on cold mornings.

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The second hill is bigger than the overbanked turn I believe, so it is quite possible in cold wheater.

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Go AVS!!! AVS will repeat!!!

The Av's aint gonna repeat are they? ;)

WOO HOO LETS GO RED WINGS!!!!

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Does CCI know how to make a bad coaster?

Man I wanna ride MF with my 30 minute extra time from being at a resort of CP. Are the lines long for MF during this time? What about night?

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Hypersonic where are you?

Uh....what if the operators had a train cresting the hill and another train was stuck on the bank? Would they bounce back or would they explode like in RCT?

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Hypersonic where are you?

They wouldn't explode, probably just hit eachother, injure everybody on each train, probably kill a few, and completely ruin both trains. But the operator would stop the lift he knew what was going on.

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Go AVS!!! AVS will repeat!!!

The ride op wouldn't have to. The computer would shut itself down. From the top of the hill all the way to the first brakes of the brake run is a block. The computer will not allow more than one train in a single block at a time. All coasters are set up this way...at least I think they all are. Some of the old coasters may still be manual...

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*** This post was edited by CPgenius on 6/6/2002. ***

Maybe its the new wheels.

Acutally, MF rolled back about three weeks ago. The blue train didn't make it off the island.

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How do they get get the coaster out of the valley when this happens ?

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In the recent case at CP, they used a series of winches to pull it over the hill back across the lagoon.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I remember being there they day that it rolled back. I'm pretty sure that the cause of the rollback was high winds that morning. Weather at the point was pretty bad at the beginning of the season. It was fun watching them pull the ride back through, and everyone walking by, staring and pointing.

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Just sit back, and enjoy your record breaking ride on Millennium Force!

Will the safety gooroos (i dont know how to really spell that ... ) make them alter the ride this winter to fix that? Or is the computer control satisfactory enough that they'll let it stay the way it is? I have also noticed that the 2nd hill does bring the trains to a very low speed over the crest.

Fix what? Nothing is broken. If the train ahead doesn't clear the brakes, the next train out doesn't crest the lift. It always has been that way, it always will be.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

in the case about if a train was in the overbank and one was cresting the hill, first of all the computers would not let the ride op dispatch the train if the computer didn't sensor the car going anyfarther than the overbank, therefor the 2nd train would never collide unless the train would happen to stall out somewhere else in the ride when the 2nd train would already have crested the lift hill...

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No, a train will never, NEVER, crest the lift hill until the preceeding train has entered the brake run. End of story, it's called blocking and almost the entire length of MF is one block. Two trains are never allowed in one block, therefore this isn't a problem.