Timberliner Testing resumes on the Voyage

Honestly, the Wildebeast ERT is still well worth it!!! That water coaster is bad ass and the lines for it are excruciating!!

Uh... I'm not aware of any Wildebeest ERT.

Well, that's too bad, but kudos to Jeff/Holiday World for letting us know up front. I don't think it would have had a major impact on the event attendance anyway.

In all honesty, the PTCs aren't painful to ride in. I plan on enjoying the PTC Voyage one last time.

No Timberliners? I am going to hold a season pass burning outside the gates. ;)

Well I guess I'll truly be able to compare the PTCs to the Timberliners now. A little bummed they wont be in operation but it's understandable. I'm still just excited to FINALLY get on Voyage! :)

On a side note, I hope that the reason the trains aren't quite ready is more of a "we've been too busy" rather than a "we've had unexpected problems."

TTD 120mph said:
I'm still just excited to FINALLY get on Voyage! :)

I'd say, since you're new to Voyage, that this is a positive thing for you. Everyone should experience it with PTC (Especially the way it was running at HWN). Not sure I'll get out there next year for the Timberliners or not, but I will get them one day.

I posted this on Gravity Groups FB wall and this is their response.

Any news on Voyage's Timberliners? We are thinking of heading there tomorrow and on closing day. I would love to get at least one ride on them this season.

We don't expect them to be open to the public this season.

That's the answer I would have expected, too. I'm looking forward to giving them a shot next year.

I am a little curious as to if there will ever be any elaboration on what happened this year?? Full testing all throughout May, some in June, and then hopefully/presumably in Aug, it's just a lot of testing. I know Flying Turns and Shoot the Rapids also had big delays, but it just seems from an outside view that something unexpected came up, and I wonder what that was?

I was just glad to get an honest real answer rather then just ignoring the question. Kudos to GG for that at least.

I think waiting until next season is the sensible option at this stage.

How many coasters next year are due to use these trains? I guess that maybe be more pressing as those coasters don't have trains already, yet at the same time I guess the testing on Voyage is important for the 2011 coasters. *shrugs*

Aren't they building four coasters for next year at this point? Do the math, and it should be obvious that if they're going to sell trains for those, they need to be right from the start. Retrofitting all of those trains to correct some issue would be expensive.

Like I said before. There were some parts that needed changing on the trains but a big problem is the tracks already warped to the way the PTCs run voyage. that should be gone after they can work full time on it..

After hearing the answer to the trains not fitting the tracks question at holiwood nights I figured there was a good chance that was the track were and tear was an issue. I am worried this may push other parks away from putting these trains on existing rides if the ptc trains cause this kind of damage but this maybe the GG and HW/SS crews being overachivers and striving for a perfect debut of the new trains and doing work that may not be nessesary but is still benifitial to the end result which is an even better best woodie in the world.

There's a lot of chatter here that is not based at all in fact.

So if you know the difference between what is just speculative chatter and the facts, what are the facts? I'm just as curious as the next person, but the only person here who seems to speak the truth is you, Jeff.

I don't speak anything... which is kind of the point.

When I say figured I mean guessed I don't work for GG or HW so I don't know what is the real problem I am just speculating if anyone takes what I said as fact that is their own stupidity I only offer a hypothesis not a proven conclusion.

True, I don't know if there are actually continual problems with the trains but it was stated at HWN that the track is part of the problem. Others included stronger seat shocks were needed..

Mike said when he feels its safe for his family they will open it. Can't get any truer than that.