What Exactly Happened To 'Windjammer'

That listing on the used rides site could very well be an old listing that has been removed since the ride was demolished.

I know it had a TON of problems and couldn't sell even for the very reasonable price CF put on the ride...yet I can't help but feel sad for ANY ride leaving the planet. Speaking of used-coaster prices, who at BGW believes there's a buyer out there for the ridiculous $4.5M Drachen Fire. Togo really should have tried a little harder to fix WJ, but KBF was probably SO disgusted that the lawsuits were filed before a mutually-acceptable solution could be reached. Got to see WJ last year, SBNO, never got to ride it...
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Why did the yellow track have to be retracked?

What did spiral Cone do and how did it break?

I rode Windjammer a couple of times, but I never really had any problems riding it. Sure the yellow Track wasn't ever racing us, but over all the ride was actually a pretty descent ride. I never had a problem with hitting my head or finding it to be a "rough ride." I actually kinda enjoyed that ride.

Yes, Kraxelridah is 100% correct. The ride had numerous problems and rarely operated. When it did operate, patrons complained. Knotts filed a lawsuit against Togo to refund the ride and remove it from their property. I never heard what the verdict was, but obviously it has been removed NOW.

I find it hard to believe that it can be sold due to the way it was brutally ripped out of the park. This ride was not carefully dismantled in a manner that would suggest it could be rebuilt.

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Rebuilding WJ, considering its current condition, would be roughly as hard as rebuilding the WTC from its remaining "parts". Seriously, the ride was reduced to scrap metal...
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It is now the nice B&M track sitting in SFNE's storage lot right now :)
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bigkirby, I could have SWORN that Diet Coke I had earlier today was made from WJ...sure TASTED like crap...LOL!
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Alex Nagel said:
Why did the yellow track have to be retracked?
What did spiral Cone do and how did it break?

1) Parts of Windjammer yellow were replaced and realigned because of incredibly rough transitions
2) The spiral cone is what made Windjammer very unique and added greatly to its theme. The spiral cone was a cone-like mechanism sitting in the center of the helix finale. What it did was emitt a spiraling wind effect while releasing artificial fog. Thus, creating a visible, man-made "hurricane" that matched the movements of the helix element perfectly as riders would think they are being spun around in the eye of the pacific storm. Clever isn't it? I'm sad because the entire ride was a very clever concept and it was very well themed. Incredibly well themed, more than some other notable mentions today.

http://www.twistedrails.com/kbf/images/0630/0630-01.jpg

In the picture above, you can point out the Spiral Cone mechanism which I described above. Look a bit northeast of the u-turn at the top of the lift. You can see 3/4 of the helix finale. And that UFO shaped "cone" is what it looks like.

DawgByte II said:
The Windjammer COULD have been used as an indoor ride!! As an indoor ride, there is no wind resistance (unless you count the air-conditioning ). If somebody bought the ride, they could have enclosed it.
I guess maybe the reason it wasn't (aside from being rough), is something somebody mentioned before... that it took a very large footprint for a somewhat small ride.
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You must be out of your mind. Despite what many of you think, Windjammer takes up A LOT of space. Don't let its statistics fool you, or even the pictures. The ride spans quite a large parcel of land, and not let you forget it is a racing, two-tracked roller coaster. In order to have housed WJ indoors, you would have to have built a VERY large building. Even the Flight of Fear, and RocknRollercoaster rides don't take up as much space as WJ.

My conclusion to this ride (even though I never rode) is that it was well theme, cool name, good layout, and in my view looked AWESOME. Train racing must have been cool to...as all racing coasters are.

One word to describe it would be unique

But the problem was design sucked....

This is also the way viper at SFAdv is.

It has AWESOME theming, an awesome first drop, and two awesome inversions. But the problem is it is way to short and rough (But I know how to brace myself so I have no problem with it)

I also describe it as unique...I glad that their is a good chance that it will reopen for 2002

Alex Nagel said:

I glad that their is a good chance that it will reopen for 2002

Are we talking about the same ride?

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NO NO

I am talking viper sorry for getting a bit off topic

If you goto http://www.twistedrails.com (?) They have the complete destruction of WindJammer, and now are covering the construction of XLR8OR.

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I was also one of the lucky, or unlucky, souls to ride Windjammer. I went to KBF about X-Mas 99' time, and I remember that day that both trains were running. I only remember it racing a few times, though. When I finally got to ride it (walk on, now I understand why) I only ran the red side, and it was rough. However, my little sister and my lil cousin rode the thing like 7 or 8 times. I guess the head-banging doesn't apply to youngin's...
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I rode that stupid ride plenty of times. I disliked that dreaded last turn before the brakes. I would bash my head every time and it felt like somebody gave me a left hook directly to my right ear. It didn't matter if I put my head back or leaned foward either. Every time! Damn, I hated that.......

I didn't think it was too rough... there are some good TOGOs. I don't think ME in LV is that bad. King Cobra had nice airtime. Whatever...

Koppman said:
I rode that stupid ride plenty of times. I disliked that dreaded last turn before the brakes. I would bash my head every time and it felt like somebody gave me a left hook directly to my right ear. It didn't matter if I put my head back or leaned foward either. Every time! Damn, I hated that.......

That was probably the most painful part about the ride, the sharp turn into the brakes after the helix...OUCH. And also, once, I bashed my head into the metal grab bar (yes I hit it against the grab bar) in the turn entering the helix. Needless to say, it was quite painful.

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