(6/6/08) A Screamscape readers visiting Hard Rock Park caught up with some workers leaving the Maximum RPM ride area and asked a few questions about when it might open. They were told that it should be open “within a month” and that the only problem they’re having right now is with the giant revolver lift-wheel either getting stuck or stopping in the wrong place. Once they fix that issue for good, the ride will be ready to go.
There is probably a freaking Mormon Tabernacle Choir-sized chorus of I-Told-You-Sos. It looked like something that some crazed lego fanatic might have come up with.
Of course, I hope they get it right, 'cause I was big into lego back in the day. ;)
well, I think they'll figure out how to get it to work rather than removing the wheel since they do need a way to get the cars to the top and don't have space for a lift hill...
It stinks that the wheel lift is holding it up, cause it's not really a huge ride or anything... it fits in with the park great but it's not some amazing attraction that should need such special attention, IMO anyway.
Sounds like either proxy sensor problems and/or computer communication problems with the proxy sensors. At least Premier has one coaster up and running down there.
As the alternative to the ferris wheel if it doesn't work out, they could always replicate the upward helix on Backlot Stunt Coaster. Now that would kick ass.
Intamin Fan, I think it's a little premature to speculate over the cause of the malfunction given that all we know is that the wheel is "getting stuck or stopping in the wrong place."
True as that may be, Phantom, I think I-fan is spot on: sounds like prox-sensor probs to me too. But what do I know? Had they asked me to design the ride in the first place my end design wouldn't have included a complicated-in-the-name-of-unique and bound-to-be-problematic ferris wheel lift followed by a short and uninspired figure-8 course.
I'd like to meet the person at HRP who signed off on this ride idea...and ask "WTF were you thinking?
All he/she needed to do was talk to parks that own rides made by Premier. I'm sure SFGAdv would tell her how happy they were with Batman/Robin Chiller...or how happy SFOT and SFStL were with the delays opening their Chiller shuttles, or [P]KD and [P]KI about how they tortured guests on FoF until forces to redesign the train's restraints.
This isn't a mistake. A mistake is when you fall down an elevator shaft. Or when you skinny-dip in a school of piranha. Or when you accidentally douche with Drano! No, MaxRPM was no mistake...it's a WTF were they thinking!?!?! ;)
