bmac
Giga Poster
Re: Rollercoasters that you wanted to ride, but got dismantl
Yes before the rolls were removed, wording is absolute garbage and I'm sorry about that. Batman was the sacrificial lamb for the entire lifespan of the ride as a whole. The entire Batman train was moved to the Robin side in 2007 and repainted red, after the incident with Robin the year before (when the rolls were still there) while Great Adventure was waiting for two replacement cars to be finished and shipped for the other train. Batman's LIMs were also moved between itself and Robin on the spikes (which had caused valleying issues in 2004), and due to that Batman didn't operate at all in the the 2005 season. Duane is actually wrong on RCDB, too. Both Robin and Batman had 7 LIMs until the incident in 2004, after that the park steadily moved Batman's LIMs over to Robin basically as replacement pieces. At the beginning of 2006 both Batman and Robin were down to 3 apiece on their spikes.
Robin opened with the park in 2006 and Batman followed the first weekend of May, operating only on weekends until Memorial Day and then every day until June 5th when Robin had the wheel bogie issue (a total of 20-something days, I think). I rode Batman on June 5th, just a few minutes before that incident happened (The odd thing was that Robin was open a lot less in the 2006 season after Batman finally opened, which considering the track record of the ride Robin was supposed to operate more, which I described poorly in the previous post). After the ride was closed for the rest of the year and the season ended, Batman's entire train was exchanged over to the Robin side while the two damaged cars from the Robin train were sent to Premier for refurbishment (the remaining 3 stayed on the Batman side in the maintenance bay). Robin opened at some point in April (not with the park) while Batman's track was still being finished and then the final incident happened very late June/early July, which is believed to be the same thing as the 2006 incident. Then the ride was steadily dismantled and shipped to a farm in Plumsted, NJ waiting for someone to hopefully buy it.
UC said:
Yes before the rolls were removed, wording is absolute garbage and I'm sorry about that. Batman was the sacrificial lamb for the entire lifespan of the ride as a whole. The entire Batman train was moved to the Robin side in 2007 and repainted red, after the incident with Robin the year before (when the rolls were still there) while Great Adventure was waiting for two replacement cars to be finished and shipped for the other train. Batman's LIMs were also moved between itself and Robin on the spikes (which had caused valleying issues in 2004), and due to that Batman didn't operate at all in the the 2005 season. Duane is actually wrong on RCDB, too. Both Robin and Batman had 7 LIMs until the incident in 2004, after that the park steadily moved Batman's LIMs over to Robin basically as replacement pieces. At the beginning of 2006 both Batman and Robin were down to 3 apiece on their spikes.
Robin opened with the park in 2006 and Batman followed the first weekend of May, operating only on weekends until Memorial Day and then every day until June 5th when Robin had the wheel bogie issue (a total of 20-something days, I think). I rode Batman on June 5th, just a few minutes before that incident happened (The odd thing was that Robin was open a lot less in the 2006 season after Batman finally opened, which considering the track record of the ride Robin was supposed to operate more, which I described poorly in the previous post). After the ride was closed for the rest of the year and the season ended, Batman's entire train was exchanged over to the Robin side while the two damaged cars from the Robin train were sent to Premier for refurbishment (the remaining 3 stayed on the Batman side in the maintenance bay). Robin opened at some point in April (not with the park) while Batman's track was still being finished and then the final incident happened very late June/early July, which is believed to be the same thing as the 2006 incident. Then the ride was steadily dismantled and shipped to a farm in Plumsted, NJ waiting for someone to hopefully buy it.
