Boodangy
Mega Poster
Park have posted their newest episode and there is some on and off ride of it testing
Cedar Point | Top Thrill 2 | Triple Launch Renovation | 2024
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Fun seeing the vantage of the wheels too!
Lead car to come; these are a hodgepodge of trains on site that were shipped up after IAAPA; notice the train has blue and silver cars, which will be sorted ahead of next season.
Peter Immelmann
Mega Poster
Absolutely, and I'm sure these ideas must have been on the table. However, I guess CP wanted to minimize the risks and just let Zamperla do the bare minimum in changing the actual layout. Actually, could be a wise dicision from a reliablility point of view but definetly a bummer when it comes to 'what could have been' (guess you could have done all sorts of crazy stuff also on the brake run side). Anyway, the spike will be phenomenal no matter what, so that will be the selling point for me.
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CaliAngel
Roller Poster
You know what? You're absolutely right, and now that you mention it I'm surprised there wasn't more of a stink from enthusiasts about them doing absolutely nothing with the brake run side.
I suppose you'd have to consider how much it'd effect dispatch times and/or capacity which will probably be pretty mundayne with 3(?) trains as it is.
Just a shame to see all the energy go to waste and straight into a brake run.
I'veGotFourB&MsInMyGarden
Mega Poster
I've thought for a while that an enormous vertical loop on the break run side would have been awesome. Sure, it's not the most unique element but I'd assume that it would have been around the 250ft mark (at least) which would have been cool on-ride due to the sheer size and it would have also looked amazing off-ride on the skyline.
I wouldn't have thought one extra element would affect capacity that much.
Plus it'd have to the be tallest loop and the tallest inversion in the world. And we all know how much Cedar Point loves their records (cough, cough, Valravn, cough...).
Steely Dan
Mega Poster
^ I've had that exact same thought.
An absolutely gigantic record breaking vertical loop would've been really cool, and a great way to make it even more of a complete ride, but it probably wouldn't have come cheaply.
Oh well, the revamped ride we are getting will still be loads of fun, and it's an incredibly better outcome than CP scrapping the whole thing.
An absolutely gigantic record breaking vertical loop would've been really cool, and a great way to make it even more of a complete ride, but it probably wouldn't have come cheaply.
Oh well, the revamped ride we are getting will still be loads of fun, and it's an incredibly better outcome than CP scrapping the whole thing.
Crazycoaster
Giga Poster
I mean honestly they have already paid to build a second tower which is as tall as the first, that can’t exactly have been cheap. The coaster now has the current 2nd and 3rd tallest element on any coaster in the world, and that’s not even built using oil money.
CaliAngel
Roller Poster
That first front launch looks weak.
Back spike trip looks about 100+ feet short of the tower height.
Glad this ride is not going bye-bye but...I'll just leave it at that.
Can we at least give Six Flags the props they deserve for buying one of these from Intamin, and holding on to Kingda Ka as it is? Probably the last we'll ever see a hydraulic launch of that magnitude.
Back spike trip looks about 100+ feet short of the tower height.
Glad this ride is not going bye-bye but...I'll just leave it at that.
Can we at least give Six Flags the props they deserve for buying one of these from Intamin, and holding on to Kingda Ka as it is? Probably the last we'll ever see a hydraulic launch of that magnitude.
Hutch
Strata Poster
I mean... I can't give them props when they kinda let Kingda Ka go to s***.
I loved TTD, but Ka was without a doubt the worst Intamin I've ever been on.
MLDesigns
Hyper Poster
JackFish
Mega Poster
That is extremely accurate. Ka needs some maintenance soon or the harmonic vibrations might be the end of it.
Aaron Smith
Mega Poster
The vibrations aren't too bad at all near the first (within the first 4 rows). I actually found my rides in 2023 to be pretty enjoyable as long as I could prevent the restraint from tightening too much. From what I've heard the back of the train is unbearable.
Hutch
Strata Poster
I gave it a second chance and tried the front row like everyone would say, and it was STILL bad.
I doubt Six Flags will do much with it until it's too late (kinda like how they're handling Toro)... pretty sure some wild animals have set up a nest in the second station since the park has ignored it for over a decade anyway.
I doubt Six Flags will do much with it until it's too late (kinda like how they're handling Toro)... pretty sure some wild animals have set up a nest in the second station since the park has ignored it for over a decade anyway.
I will also gladly remind the group: we are genuinely here because of one significant accident that majorly wounded and sent someone to the hospital. In lieu of that accident, TTD would be operational as it was. Being able to still have a Top Thrill at the park is the greatest achievement of all, especially on the heels of the recent Dodonpa closure announcement. It turns out firing moving parts at sigificant g-force and speed, hundreds of cycles a day, is a really bad idea. 
VonRolland
Hyper Poster
Interestingly they have a seat missing