TOP THRILL Disappointment

Dudes -- I know what is going on here! Cedard Pint is trying to steal your monies!!!! I mean think about it, they came up with Dragster just to get people in the park. When they designed it, Ceder Pines knew that it would break in a few weeks!! Now they are going to keep it broked all summerd and tell people it opens "tomorrow"!!! GENIOUS!

So now your going to insult me just becuase I added in my opinion? Wow how mature. Anyway did I say it moved? I mean just testing out the movment on the hydrolics
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1-Drachen Fire
2-Volcano
3-Flight of fear
4-Alpengiest
5-Apollo's Chariot

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Having management tell you repeatedly over a course of three days "it will be up and running later today/tommorrow/sometime this evening" is just ludicrous.

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at least someone hear has a brain that is capable of understanding the obvious

When CP openned Millenium Force, I was not upset when it had technical problems the days I was there, I just went and enjoyed the rest of the park. As for the "rigging", who has not rigged something to hget it running until you could get it fixed correctly? I know I have many times with my vehicles. As for the management, they did what they had to do to try get people to stay if the ride reopened, I know when I finally got to ride Millenium Force, which was just last year, I went the day that they just got it running after the incident when the one train slid back down the lift hill. I enjoyed it, and I'll go back again. Everything in this world has been invented and has had drawbacks, and every new coaster/ride that is invented in the next century will have technical problems, and we will have to deal with them and work through them until they are fixed. Me personally, if I spent the extra money to stay extra days, I would have ridden every ride I could and IF TTD was repairede then I would have went and got in line.

There is a difference between insulting and stating the obvious

who has not rigged something to hget it running until you could get it fixed correctly?There is also a difference between rigging until getting it fixed and rigging so horribly wrong that they dont know how to get it fixed.
*** This post was edited by Jaisen15 6/11/2003 9:28:36 PM ***

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CoastaPlaya said:
Fighting the urge....fighting the urrrrrge......

If this were SFMM, they'd still be tightening bolts and we'd still be waiting till December for it to even open! You know, like with S:TE or Goliath or Deja Vu. So by that particular timeframe, CP is just plain awesome, no?

Now see whatcha made me do.

-CO

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I really don't see how Magic Mountain has anything to do with this. I've been to both parks, and in defense of one, I can say that Déjà Vu and Superman The Escape were both the first of their kinds, with nothing like them ever erected or tested out before them. Top Thrill Dragster, had Xcelerator to work off with, which was 1/3 of the reason why Cedar Fair decided to put in the smaller model at Knott's Berry Farm- so that Dragster would see less down time by working around problems that Knott's solved with their Rocket.

As for Goliath - I don't have any idea what you are talking about. Goliath was the first amusement park ride to open in the year of 2000, right on schedule for its set opening. And if you're talking about its broken lift-motor/chain, let's also talk about Superman Ride of Steel(s), and Millennium Force while we're at it.

And obviously you dont know the difference
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1-Drachen Fire
2-Volcano
3-Flight of fear
4-Alpengiest
5-Apollo's Chariot

The constant complaining is really going to make the situation better. If people take the time to complain, I'm pretty sure they would have taken the time to read everything that has been stated on this site in the past. The reports of some of the problems, and how everyone keeps saying that if they really want to ride, wait untill things get smoothed out. I'm not just saying this, because I myself have not been up to Cedar Point yet this year. If things happen, I guess people will just have to settle for the best steel coaster in the world. Oh darn!

Ok that made no sense,but I guess sence im a idoit I shouldnt get it anyway.

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1-Drachen Fire
2-Volcano
3-Flight of fear
4-Alpengiest
5-Apollo's Chariot

Whenever a new ride first opens I usually wait a few months before planing a major trip out there. Usually all of the kinks are worked out by then.

"TTD, The best ride of 03"

I've been thinking about this for quite a while now, and I have finally figured it out. This all stems back to the 1980s when the Reagan administration first took office. Back then, rollercoasters were banned in the state of Ohio because the state government feared they would be used to launch Russian satellites. To avoid escalating the cold war, Reagan agreed with Ohio's decision and decided to make the ban national law. With coasters prohibted in all fifty states, Americans were forced to watch such shows as "Cheers" and "The $100,000 Pyramid."

In 1993, President Clinton noticed the rollercoaster ban and immediately called a joint-session of Congress to discuss the matter. After many hours of heated debate, the ban was lifted and Americans were free to once again to soar with the birds.

In order to capitalize on the rollercoaster craze, Cedar Pines decided to build a contraption code-named "GoldenEye". Using the "GoldenEye", Cedar Pines hoped to earn the honor of having the world's most extreme coaster.

During the development of "GoldenEye", Cedar Pines determined that the ride would not last longer than four weeks. Too far into the project to turn back, they decided to finish construction of the ride, officially named "TOP THRILL DRAGSTER."

As expected, Dragster is now broken. While they claim that a fix is only days away, the grim reality is that Dragster will never fly again. Because it travels at super-sonic speeds, Dragster completely ruined its metal rails in only four weeks time. If this coaster is ever to run again, the entire track will need to be replaced.

I agree tservo.even though TTD may be down CP also has the next tallest rolelrcoaster in the US

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Favorites
1-Drachen Fire
2-Volcano
3-Flight of fear
4-Alpengiest
5-Apollo's Chariot

True, they obviously have messed it up more, but, they may have put the correct, or equivilant part in and it may also have failed. As my father-inlaw, who is a mechanic, says, "you fix a problem, and the part may last 5 seconds, or for 50- years, you don't really know". Now I know that the parks mechanics and very qualified people, they may still be learning the full mechanics of TTD, but, if it was a hydraulic problem that was obvious, then they made an attempt to solve the problem, it may have been wrong, I'm not really to say, but they attempted to do their job and repair the ride to the best of their knowledge and capabilites at the time. Besides, if they had a problem I'm sure they contacted the manufacture to get help at repairing the problem, if not, then they did a stupid thing by trying to repair the ride without knowing all of the consequences.

I love the optimism. And while we're at it, they have the tallest "double-twisting" impulse coaster, one of the tallest wooden-twister coasters in the world, a stand-up coaster that was once the largest of its kind, an inverted coaster that was once the largest of its kind, a hypercoaster that was once the largest in the world, a rare enclosed bobsled coaster, a twin racer once the tallest in the world, one of the tallest and fastest anything of their kind, one of the largest anything of their kind, one of the largest Johnny Rockets in Ohio, the biggest Camp Snoopy sign erected since Knott's Berry Farm's, the tallest four-tower S&S that has red, white, yellow and teal for its colors and a very, and the list goes on forever.

You're ignoring me because you know I'm right! Hans Blix is working on the coaster right now and even he knows it is impossible to fix!
*** This post was edited by TOP THRILL PUTZSTER 6/11/2003 9:43:02 PM ***

They had NO place in trying to fix the motor if they had no idea how.

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TOP THRILL DRAGSTER...the next generation of break-downs

Well I was at the park Saturday and was told Top thrill Dragster will not open today, the big sign in the front of the park said that. If you just got back from a four day excursion, Saturday was most likely one of your days in the park. Thursday and Friday had a sign that said Top Thrill Dragster MAY open later today, not will. Its a new technology, dont expect it to be very relaible, and certainley dont blame Cedar point, they tried to do what they could!

I have to agree that it is very unfair that management told you it would be open three days in a row. For something like that, you should defiinitely recieve more than just front of the line passes.

-Just as a note, the Mantis lagoon appears to have been cleaned out this year, and the water looks great...I saw less nuclear fish this year too!!! :)

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I play in a really awful garage band, but it's still fun.

The "motor" you are speaking of is a highly complex nuclear reactor. If Hans Blix makes one wrong move, everything in a 700 mile radius will be covered in toxic particles.

The idiosy continues...4 day excursion ending on Wednesday would disqualify Saturday...

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TOP THRILL DRAGSTER...the next generation of break-downs