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Ride Status Thread 2008

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Postby coasterkidd100 on September 18th, 2008, 3:03 pm
^It is about time they added some more cars to TDK.
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Postby CoasterNick3157 on September 20th, 2008, 9:24 pm
^ oh trust me they are gonna need it.
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Postby coasterkidd100 on September 21st, 2008, 2:29 pm
^They are going to need them for FF that is for sure! To bad they are not running all 10.
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Postby BMRider on October 8th, 2008, 9:58 pm
Dark Knight is running 10 cars
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Postby sfgamguy on October 10th, 2008, 11:01 am
whizzer is running 3 cars (I have never seen that before)
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Postby DejaVu2001 on October 10th, 2008, 11:08 am
^ Then you haven't been there alot, or you've had bad luck. Whizzer runs 3 trains pretty much every day from mid-June to mid-August and every Saturday and Sunday during Fright Fest.
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Postby sfgamguy on October 10th, 2008, 6:04 pm
^ I go there a lot but just about every time I go its closed or stuck or has an insainly long line
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Postby monsterfan99 on October 13th, 2008, 10:24 pm
Demon was down all day Sunday and Monday. Not sure why.
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Postby tp41190 on October 14th, 2008, 9:51 am
Does anyone know why Demon doesn't run 3 trains anymore? I haven't seen it this year but I saw it run 3 a few times last year...are they doing a re-furb on Yellow?

And for Whizzer, the 5 times I have ridden Whizzer this summer it was only running 2 trains :(
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Postby guitarhero119 on October 14th, 2008, 10:57 am
Demon ran 3 trains for a good portion of the summer. I have no idea why its closed now though.
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Postby demonbulleagle on November 8th, 2008, 1:42 am
There were some mechanical problems with the block section.

I have seen it running 3 trains at least 3 times I went, and I mostly went on less busy days so...
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on November 16th, 2008, 10:52 pm
demonbulleagle wrote:There were some mechanical problems with the block section.

I have seen it running 3 trains at least 3 times I went, and I mostly went on less busy days so...


The line for Demon is so short, I dont see why would they use 3 carts. That would be more work for them. And the line would probably be the same.
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Postby BP317 on March 28th, 2009, 10:26 pm
The ride status has been updated to reflect opening day.
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Postby onyxhotel08 on March 29th, 2009, 12:11 am
Yikes 1-2 trains, 2 cars RC and 5 cars TDK of course water rides closed....anyone actually excited about next weekend if it is open??? Anyone?
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Postby BP317 on March 29th, 2009, 12:37 am
I dont know about the accuracy of the reduced capacity, im sure theyll have more trains ready by next weekend at least on some rides.
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Postby FParker185 on March 29th, 2009, 3:26 am
onyxhotel08 wrote:Yikes 1-2 trains, 2 cars RC and 5 cars TDK of course water rides closed....anyone actually excited about next weekend if it is open??? Anyone?



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Postby Ilovthevu' on March 30th, 2009, 12:26 pm
Wow, a lot of stuff is only 1 train! Batman the Ride with one train is unseen except for CAD when they suspect no one to be there (They figure to minus a train so the mechanics can go home earlier), but than it's like a mob of people in line. The newest kids section is going to be closed. Maybe, that's because of that roof collapsing, but how about putting walls around the fountain, and open it.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on March 30th, 2009, 12:34 pm
^ You're forgetting that "roof" over Wiggles would effect everything except Big Red Planes and Fruit Salad. If it really did collapse, I wouldn't think they'd want guests going near it. As for the 1 train ops, it certainly is less than ideal, but I doubt crowds will be an issue. Considering Maintenance effectively lost an entire month of time to rehab the trains, I think they are in OK shape.
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Postby BP317 on March 31st, 2009, 6:49 pm
Ilovthevu' wrote:Wow, a lot of stuff is only 1 train! Batman the Ride with one train is unseen except for CAD when they suspect no one to be there (They figure to minus a train so the mechanics can go home earlier), but than it's like a mob of people in line. The newest kids section is going to be closed. Maybe, that's because of that roof collapsing, but how about putting walls around the fountain, and open it.

Most likely due to something being wrong with the other train that night, the mechanics dont leave any earlier if the rides running 1 train and SFGAm isnt a park that just drops to 1 train on major rides in the middle of the day.

The latest ive heard about Wiggles is that they fixed the issue and it will be open (maybe except for Big Red Cars).

Keep in mind im now on the other side of the country and nobody that runs this site really goes there anymore, so its not as easy to have 100% accuracy like previous years. The ride status is now relying on outside sources (also known as anyone who will contribute to it) :lol:...
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Postby rico28 on April 1st, 2009, 2:32 am
Like all of County Fair section, Wiggles World likely open at 11am with the rest of the section.

Its amazing that that at least one train on each coaster is operating with all the crazy weather we are having :lol:
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Postby Ilovthevu' on April 1st, 2009, 10:03 am
^The trains are probably refurbed in a warehouse building, and inbetween the bad weather they probably cycle them to get how many test runs they need on each one.
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Postby BIGCZAR1996 on April 1st, 2009, 8:40 pm
[quote="DejaVu2001"]^ You're forgetting that "roof" over Wiggles would effect everything except Big Red Planes and Fruit Salad. you would know
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