Ride Status Thread 2007

by **Danny** on July 7th, 2007, 10:45 am

When I went Friday, one car was half-up the tower with a large box above, and there were maybe 3 people in the ride area talking and pointing some things out but I didnt hear anything. I hope it'll open soon!

by **BP317** on July 8th, 2007, 7:08 pm

The box is a maintenence cart they put on top of the catch wagon to ride up/down the tower to inspect the cables, and yes it has seen some action and the ride has done some cycling also, when itll be ready to open I have no idea.

by **Danny** on July 15th, 2007, 11:31 pm

I talked to a maintenece man who was cycling the Giant Drop today, and he told me they are trying to have it open within the next two weeks, or even sooner than we think, but he really couldn't tell me more because he didn't want to "get my hopes up"

by **FRD714** on July 16th, 2007, 6:34 am

^Giant Drop didn't cycle at all yesterday, right?

I should add Dejavu ran great yesterday. No downtime at all from what I could see.

by **Danny** on July 16th, 2007, 10:53 am

^ No, it did cycle a few times around 5.

by **FRD714** on July 16th, 2007, 11:19 am

Hmmm I didn't see it and I was in line for Bull at that time.

by **Danny** on July 16th, 2007, 2:38 pm

^ Yeah, I was going to get in line for the bull when the lady giving out line tickets told me it was a 2 hr wait, so then I go to Fiesta Fries to get a coke and we that the cars are coming down very slowly, and the man in the controls talking on the phone, then he cycled all but 2 cars twice, so trust me im not lying. (I know you didnt accuse me)

by **BP317** on July 17th, 2007, 1:56 pm

Looks like they are almost done working on it.

by **sfgam12321** on July 21st, 2007, 12:21 am

I went tonight and saw about 4 full cycle tests. I think all the cars. Pulled up like normal then dropped like normal and breaks kicked in the normal. So now it shouldn't be long.

by **FRD714** on July 21st, 2007, 8:28 am

^The brakes should always kick in normal.

by **rct2wizard360** on July 21st, 2007, 3:14 pm

Drop is open.

by **demon boy** on July 21st, 2007, 6:52 pm

^Yeah, i'm glad, Its been testing for 3 days

by **sfgam12321** on July 21st, 2007, 10:55 pm

Ya I got on it tonight....

by **DejaVuGurl1203** on July 22nd, 2007, 12:04 am

Hopefully I'll get on it Monday.

by **Dvo** on July 23rd, 2007, 4:32 pm

^Yay! I've never been on GD. Though I've been on Drop Zone at Kings Island, so I'm not really missing much. Still, I love drop rides. I'm definitely riding it next time

by **tillenterprises** on July 24th, 2007, 9:59 am

That's great news! I wonder if all the other drop rides they closed are also open too, now. (particularly, STOP at St. Louis, since I didn't get a chance to try that last year when I was there, and we were thinking of going sometime this year)

by **tillenterprises** on July 25th, 2007, 1:59 pm

Just out of curiosity- what the lines like for Giant Drop now that it's reopened? I was wondering if the accident at KK would cause a drop in popularity of the drop towers, like it did with the Edge at GA and the Skyway at SFSL.

by **cowboy1192** on July 25th, 2007, 7:12 pm

^^not sure, but I do know that when I went to SFOT, STOP there was pretty long (even though they are completely different). I was expecting people to get them confused and not ride it.

Guess I was wrong :roll:

by **diggerg56** on July 30th, 2007, 6:36 pm

tillenterprises wrote:Just out of curiosity- what the lines like for Giant Drop now that it's reopened? I was wondering if the accident at KK would cause a drop in popularity of the drop towers, like it did with the Edge at GA and the Skyway at SFSL.

Yesterday (Sunday) the line was almost non-existent in the early afternoon.

by **[jonrev]** on July 30th, 2007, 11:28 pm

tillenterprises wrote:I was wondering if the accident at KK would cause a drop in popularity of the drop towers, like it did with the Edge at GA and the Skyway at SFSL.

Probably not at all Drop Towers, but the one at Kentucky Kingdom will definitely lose a ton of ridership.

by **FParker185** on July 31st, 2007, 5:30 am

I'm going to go ahead and guess SFKK's drop will quietly disappear in the near future similar to The Edge that was at SFGAm until it had it's accident, it lingered for a year or 2 then was taken out.

Normally parks wouldn't remove a ride after most accidents, but with one as gruesome as this one, ridership just wont be there if it does reopen at all.

I wouldn't completely discount the idea of SF moving it to another park perhaps, but it'd be difficult to escape the media as they'd surely find out where it came from and what it was involved in, in what ever market SF or any other chain that would try and install it.

by **BP317** on July 31st, 2007, 3:10 pm

Yay for Space Shuttle America, now if only they'd get a bulldozer over there :twisted:

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by **sfgam1992** on August 5th, 2007, 9:26 pm

Splash water falls and king chaos were closed today.

by **rct2wizard360** on August 5th, 2007, 10:27 pm

When I was at the park Saturday, Drop was about a cycle wait until around 4:00. I saw the line was going back, but probably not that far.

Kept hearing people talking about it all day.

I really do like how it looks from the highway all lit up.

by **revolutiongurl** on August 10th, 2007, 11:25 am

I went to the park yesterday and STT was running,
Just in case anybody was wondering.

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