Your park's trim brakes
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Da Poodle
Coming in 2003-The Spawn Of Magnum!
Whizzer: 0 (I dont believe those things on the 2nd hill are trims...if they are they arent used, ive also seen some wheels but again not use to slow)
Demon: 0 (Mid Course never hits..it may accidentally scrape a fin brake but not actually be in use)
Raging Bull: 2 (and then the Mid course is used too)
Viper: 0 (damn straight!)
Deja Vu: 0 (has rollback brakes but arent used to trim..unless theyd LIKE to valley it) :)
American Eagle: 2 (top and bottom of helix....i hate when the one at the bottom of the helix is used! (not too often) the last set of brakes before the final helix is the block, and, of course, it is used)
Iron Wolf: 0
Batman: 0
V2: 0..lol unless you count the holding brake!
Shockwave: 0...well it has none anymore! Only a block that was used as a trim, and i dunno about anyone else but i liked when this almost stopped the train as you got great hangtime threw the ending)
Spacelys: 1..i guess....there is a brake before the turn into the station...probably so you dont get kiddie whiplash :)
Unannounced Red and Blue coaster with an "S": :) id assume what SFoGs has but doesnt use.
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SFGAm Viper
V2- Coming back off the front spike both times you are slightly slowed down then accelerated to the correct speed for the new rear tower.
That's it. We will have a few more next year with Zonga; trims all over the place!
Perhaps I'm just unlucky, 'casue what I'm about to write isn't pretty:
Demon's mid-course always slows me down some. It's also very noticeable from the midway.
Raging bull has three, as far as I'm concerned. Both trims always hit (in my experience), and that mid-course is horrible.
The Eagle has three (per side). As far as I know (and I could be wrong), the brake before the final helix is not actually a block brake. Just because it's capable of stopping the train (grrrr...) doesn't mean it can be used as a block. Anyone know more?
Shock Wave actually had trims right after the first loop. They were quite violent in its later years. And, of course, the mid-course invariably slowed the train down. But since Shock Wave's gone, it doesn't count any more.
According to General Public, Superman has/will have two trims.
All I have to say is, Thank God for Viper and Batman!
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I hear America screaming...
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Visits to Knoebels in 2002: 10 and PPP!
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Visits to Knoebels in 2002: 10 and PPP!
XBox Live Gamer tag: Coasterpunk
High Roller: 2 sets of very strong trims.
Wild Thing: One very long stretch of very heavily used trims
Mad Mouse: Hard to say. Maybe 8-10 sections of trims usually only one being used. Hardly affects the ride at all.
Excalibur: One set of 4 brakes on first drop. Another which the ride isn't greatly affected. First drop still have airtime in the back seat although the brakes may have weaken it somewhat the drop still works and that's what counts!
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Ok....im going on working at the park and seeing/running/hearing these coasters everyday and talking to other employees about them.
(SF)Great American said:
SFGAmViper: Actually, Whizzer has block brakes on three of its hills, and they always slow me down.
---I dunno about them being blocks.....but they have never slowed me down on any ride in 1998-2002..except the one right before you go around the lift.
Perhaps I'm just unlucky, 'casue what I'm about to write isn't pretty:
Demon's mid-course always slows me down some. It's also very noticeable from the midway.
----Again, never been on in 50+ trips and all the days i ahve worked...and makes no noise at all (are you SURE you arent thinking PGA?) I walk under this ride everyday going into SWT..never a sound from the block (which is after the tunnel)
Raging bull has three, as far as I'm concerned. Both trims always hit (in my experience), and that mid-course is horrible.
--hmmph! i try not to respond to people complaining so much about the brakes on my main ride. But that is a block used as a trim...it isnt "just a trim" and it hits based on the rides speed most of the time. So if you ride on slower days it hits even less..but sometimes it barely hits on hot days....do you just pick the worst days??
The Eagle has three (per side). As far as I know (and I could be wrong), the brake before the final helix is not actually a block brake. Just because it's capable of stopping the train (grrrr...) doesn't mean it can be used as a block. Anyone know more?
---It is a block, remember Eagle used to run 3 trains on each side. I know it is a block.
Shock Wave actually had trims right after the first loop. They were quite violent in its later years. And, of course, the mid-course invariably slowed the train down. But since Shock Wave's gone, it doesn't count any more.
---LOL Shockwave never had brakes after the 1st loop (except in 1999 i believe, they put some up there and tested them but then took them down right away) GASM at SFGAd and Viper at SFMM, however, do have them there.
According to General Public, Superman has/will have two trims.
All I have to say is, Thank God for Viper and Batman!
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I hear America screaming...
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SFGAm Viper
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Is that a Q-bot in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
It sure sounds like brakes to me. Chhhh chhh chhh chhh chhh
I've stood in the exit of Face/Off during many hundreds of ride cycles and I can assure you that the station brakes do not trim the train at all during normal operation.
If the computer is satisfied with everything, the brakes aren't used on a moving train at all.
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Face/Off '99-'00, Top Gun '00, King Cobra/Days of
Thunder '01
The Beast / Shake, Rattle, and Roll / Flying Eagles '02
Wild Thornberry's River Adventure '02
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"I may be wrong, but I doubt it", by C. Barkley (and Shaq thought HE was "The Big Aristotle")...;)
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Face/Off '99-'00, Top Gun '00, King Cobra/Days of
Thunder '01
The Beast / Shake, Rattle, and Roll / Flying Eagles '02
Wild Thornberry's River Adventure '02
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Is that a Q-bot in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Oh, and I've *never* had a Q-bot in my pocket....ROFL. Why is it that gay humor is just FUNNIER than straight humor...oh well, I'll leave *that* one to the philosophers...
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So you believe that you are studying us, then kindly explain why you are the ones trapped in your seats.
*** This post was edited by FoF 1/31/2003 8:57:49 PM ***
Boomerang: 2 (The Station and before the lift to go backwards)
Alpine Bobsled: 3
Nightmare: 0
Stemin Demon: 0
The Comet: 0 (Thank God!)
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