WT will equal extreme line-ups

You have to remember.. when running 6 trains. That's alot of people.

Leave it to you Dave to go and look all the info up.. hehehe

-------------
June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82 - Farewell my good friend..

....actually, Dave is probably the only one around with that kind of info "at his fingertips"....LMAO....

1 minute ride cyclye

1 and a half minute load time to launch.

2 and a half minutes total

32 people per every 2 and a half minutes

60 minutes divide by 2 and a half is 24 cycles an hour

24 times 32 is 768.

768 is your final capacity number. I have been around impulses so long i know this is accurate. The cedar point ride ops are not super human people.

*** This post was edited by Drop208 on 4/4/2002. ***

Lets face it guys, the people working at Cedar Point are idiots, and this thing is going to have 6 hour lines. People will get so angry they will never go back to Cedar Point again and they will go out of business within 2 years. SFWOA will then buy all of CP's coasters and run them at half capacity until the end of time.

The End.

-----------------
If the shoe fits, find another one.

I think the load time can be cut to 1 min. easily. I think I read somewhere that CP will have six people checking restraints, so a 1 min. dispatch should be workable. That comes out to 960 per hour, close enough to 1000.

Thats if everything runs perfectly and we know that isnt going to happen. Human ride-ops + human riders = Not going to reach PPH goal.

-----------------
=========================
"The Peoples Elbow" or "The Spinaroonie?. Cant decide which is the most electrifying move in sports entertainment!!! LOL

Drop208 said:
768 is your final capacity number. I have been around impulses so long i know this is accurate. The cedar point ride ops are not super human people.

And, you have operated every Impulse in the country to come up with this conclusion?? Whateva...Why dont we just wait and see if they will reach this goal or not.

-----------------
Dayuum, Your HOT!

ravenguy98 said:

Lets face it guys, the people working at Cedar Point are idiots, and this thing is going to have 6 hour lines. People will get so angry they will never go back to Cedar Point again and they will go out of business within 2 years. SFWOA will then buy all of CP's coasters and run them at half capacity until the end of time.
The End.
-----------------
If the shoe fits, find another one.

I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or what, but CP going out of business in two years??? Are you crazy??? And never the less SFWoA doesn't have the spare money to buy 15 roller coasters. I sure hope you are being sarcastic.

And as far as the capacity issue, WT will not be as popular next year, and at the end of this year. People will go back to MF taking away some of the wait for WT.

Remember Chitown... one of the Raptor ride ops flat out said they hit capacity some six or seven hours straight. And a 90 second load time? Please... not at that park.

-----------------
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"

RubberDucky,

I'll go out on a limb and say that rg98 (the other rg, LOL) was indeed being sarcastic....

He was joking rubber ducky

I thought so, just making sure, cause that is truley a false statement.

-----------------
www.geocities.com/tycoonkingdom

Chitown is right. It just can't go smoothly all the time. You have to account for all the peeps that can't figure out what seat belt latch to put the belt in. The peeps who are holding stuff then have to get off the ride to take the things off. The LIM computer system will have missfires. The LIMs will over-heat. It will probably have a small window for operating too. Being right on the coast like that with those huge flimsy towers. Yea I know they're designed to bend, but look at what happened to Vertigo.

-----------------
"This time I think ... I think it's ... it's going to work!" - Dr.Bruce Banner

*** This post was edited by IOArules on 4/4/2002. ***

I'm not sure that people understand how long 90 seconds actually is. Watch a clock for a minute and a half. It's an eternity on a ride platform.

-----------------
Without the chaindog, you'd never get up the lifthill...

I would believe LIMs overheating could cause "delays"....but doesn't WT have a different cooling system?

As far as "problem guests", those that slow down load/unload, I have to admit being amazed at how rare they really are at CP....not saying they don't exist, just that they are nowhere NEAR as plentiful as they are down here....

I would expect the first month capacity to be close to 600-700pph. I think CP can get the capacity close to 900 by the end of the 2002 season. When companies figure out the capacity per hour, they dont account for all the variables that make the time longer. Intamin advertises the Impulse on having a capacity of close to 1,300pph! Do you really think that is possible on a shuttle coaster?? NO!! So people, the lines WILL be long for this line, especially in it's inagural season.. face it..deal with it!

-----------------
WCUSA-The World's largest theme park is coming!
Theme parks will NEVER be the same!

Folks, please go back and read the other post. Jeff did the math there. It works. He's right about Raptor too. The record for dispacth intervals is about 325 in a row. It's really easy to hit intervals with only 4 ops checking harnesses too, even with all the problems that happen daily. I've worked there, I know. Problems happen on every ride, but we still get it done.

Guests fumbling with seatbelts? Happens all the time. About 50% of the time we've gotta fasten the seatbelts for them. It's easy to fasten them in no time.

The wind? I'm sure they've taken that into account. The different supports on Wicked Twister may change things. The sad events with VertiGo were a little different. The removed cables and Vertex Shedding contributed to that.

I'm just glad there's a month left before all this will end. Just like the speculation with TR:TR. People didn't believe then, just like they don't now. Sooner or later, some people are gonna be proved wrong.

-----------------
"Hey, cool my voice is on the lift!"
2002 Wicked Twister Crew

This is just silly. There will be long lines for WT regardless of whether the ride-ops move at a record pace or not. So what's the point here? Yes, there will be long lines opening year, WT is no different than any other new coaster. Yes, CP will move people as quickly as possible, nothing new there. And the next question is...

-----------------
Coming Soon: Coasters "American" Style.

I dunno. I've never heard of long lines at CP...

-----------------
Without the chaindog, you'd never get up the lifthill...

Nice attitude towards hitting that capacity Montu. However, no matter how fast and hard the crew works it won't happen. Trust me you'll come close but hitting max. capacity on that ride will not happen.