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Postby jwlnroe on Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:53 pm
icantwaittilxflight wrote:if they were snapping pictures, i'm sure that they got a video.. hopefully that will be posted tomorrow!


twitter says it will be posted on youtube tomorrow :D
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Postby icantwaittilxflight on Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:46 pm
jwlnroe wrote:twitter says it will be posted on youtube tomorrow :D

yeah I saw that! I'm excited!! I cannot wait until this summer. I don't care if I have to wait 3 hours.
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Postby BURTONxBLUNT on Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:57 pm
^^^you will probally be waiting more than 3 hours more like 4 to 5 hours and at fright fest on saturdays it will probally reach a 6 to 8 hr wait knowing how crowded fright fest is on saturdays
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Postby Corkscrew07 on Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:06 pm
^ That's highly unlikely, but I would expect waits to range around 2 hours most of the year regardless of the day.
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Postby CoasterZ on Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:26 am
I like rides as much as the next person but I do not see 6-8 hour lines lol that is a bit much. Your going to waste your whole day on one ride... even fanatics have limits imho.
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Postby SFGAm Viper on Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:34 am
I can guarantee you the line won't be that long. That's ridiculous. I don't know of any ride anywhere with a line that long. Ever.
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Postby Ace on Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:07 am
If I had to guess, once the crew learns the ride and gets into a groove I would say that capacity will probably be pretty similar to viper. Now I have no recolection of Viper when it first opened, but I have to imagine it kept the lines moving pretty well. No way the line gets longer than 3-4 hours at the very most.
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Postby icantwaittilxflight on Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:37 am
8-9 hours seems absurd. It seems like Thorpe and Dollywood have figured out the groove of things, so I'm sure that our capacity should be pretty good. The hardest part is definitely going to be getting riders of and new riders on fast enough. Does anyone know how long the ride is from dispatch the final break run into the station? I guess we will find out today when they post the video. I'm just hoping for a 2-3 hour line. Depending on the day. Midweek will definitely be shorter than a Saturday or Sunday. I always try my hardest to shoot for a Tuesday or Wednesday. I think they are opening it to pass holders first because they know that there are less of them. Then they can see how they should run the ride before the GP comes running at them at full force.
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Postby SFGAm Viper on Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:00 am
Who really goes the first couple weeks without a season pass anyway? My guess is almost everyone will be a season pass holder unless they got free tickets or something.
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Postby mrsix on Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:47 am
Get to drive by the park today excited
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Postby sfgam#1 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:55 am
Someone asked on twitter when are the covers going up and they said "very soon". Usually when they say soon they're talking about today. I think that's why the trains are on the transfer track.
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Postby Ilovthevu' on Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:41 pm
Ace wrote:If I had to guess, once the crew learns the ride and gets into a groove I would say that capacity will probably be pretty similar to viper. Now I have no recolection of Viper when it first opened, but I have to imagine it kept the lines moving pretty well. No way the line gets longer than 3-4 hours at the very most.


Sadly, you are probably right even though X-Flight contains 16 more seats.
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Postby ttd rox on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:14 pm
Apparently the video is on their channel already but I don't see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66-3jcGv2k&feature=plcp&context=C4f58e59VDvjVQa1PpcFPxgdGj7ctb5mEWl2BVAuFYod-LnQDBTGA%3D

EDIT: Nevermind, it's up!
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Postby RagingBull14 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:15 pm
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Postby ttd rox on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:17 pm
It hit the first Zero-G nicely but looked kind of slow like the other Wing Riders on the rest. I'm not complaining though! Still looks very neat. :)
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Postby rct2wizard360 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:28 pm
From what I heard it was faster on the following test runs.
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Postby sfgam#1 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:28 pm
Well It's not fast but you gotta love that wonderful hang time !!
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Postby gottastrata33 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:32 pm
It was its first run, so it crawls a bit. But the first drop was way quicker than I thought, esp in the back, damn!!
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Postby sfgam#1 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:56 pm
I think the 2nd train is on the track !!
EDIT: No it's not my camera glitched :/
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Postby DejaVu2001 on Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:58 pm
^ And what gives you that idea? I haven't seen anything that would suggest that the 2nd train is even at the ride yet.
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Postby icantwaittilxflight on Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:56 pm
it hit the second zero g roll really nicely as well.. Its seems to me like you hit the inversion pretty quickly, then it slows down a lot while you're exiting that same inversion. Can't wait to see how it will be with the hangar, control tower, and water jets in place!
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Postby ttd rox on Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:30 pm
It's testing once again. It's currently on the brake run.
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Postby RBullFan97 on Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:35 am
Looks great from the test run! Sure, it is a tad slow at parts, but the drop looks awesome, and it's always nice to get another inversion-focused coaster
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Postby B&MGuy35 on Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:13 am
Totally off topic....but Raging Bull is running today!!
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Postby DejaVu2001 on Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:33 am
^ Raging Bull ran yesterday too. Today and tomorrow Raging Bull, Giant Drop, Vertical Velocity, The Dark Knight Coaster, Little Dipper, River Rocker, Ricochet, Whirligig, and possibly others will be running for crew training. Whizzer, American Eagle, Demon and whatever else doesn't run this weekend will run next weekend.
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