jwlnroe wrote:twitter says it will be posted on youtube tomorrow
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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X-Flight new for 2012
yeah I saw that! I'm excited!! I cannot wait until this summer. I don't care if I have to wait 3 hours.
^^^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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^ That's highly unlikely, but I would expect waits to range around 2 hours most of the year regardless of the day.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Get to drive by the park today excited
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.
Sadly, you are probably right even though X-Flight contains 16 more seats. "I've been staring at the world, waiting. All the trouble and all the pain we're facing. Too much light to be livin' in the dark. Why waste time? We only got one life. Together we can be the CHANGE. So go and let your heart burn bright"
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! Last edited by ttd rox on April 13th, 2012, 1:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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ITS.......UP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66-3jcGv2k
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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From what I heard it was faster on the following test runs.
Well It's not fast but you gotta love that wonderful hang time !!
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!!
I think the 2nd train is on the track !!
EDIT: No it's not my camera glitched :/ Last edited by sfgam#1 on April 13th, 2012, 2:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
^ And what gives you that idea? I haven't seen anything that would suggest that the 2nd train is even at the ride yet.
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!
It's testing once again. It's currently on the brake run.
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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Totally off topic....but Raging Bull is running today!!
^ 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.
They are running Raging Bull and Giant Drop.
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