Apollo's has been suffering from quite a bit of downtime. It just now having restraint issues and its closed. Was closed and down for a while this morning as well.
Apollo's Chariot
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Nerfed? I thought it was running pretty good Thursday Night with the exception of the final break run. Ouch lol
The last ride of the night the brake run pretty much threw us out of our seats, but that’s mostly because the trims on the section under the lift hill completely missed, so it was like the ride was like “Whoops, I guess we should slow you down now, huh?”
I imagine that Apollo needs some time to warm up. She has been sitting for almost an entire year.
Apollo tends to run sluggish during the first half of the day, even late into the normal operating season. There’s a dramatic difference in the speed of the ride between the morning and late afternoon when it’s been warmed up and running for a full day. Since it’s been sitting dormant for months like @BGWnut said, the ride is already going to be running slower. Factor in the cooler temperatures, new problematic programming, and the shortened operating hours, it’s going to be a while before we see the ride running at it’s peak again. It still feels great to get rides on it again, especially since the trim isn’t hitting on the second airtime hill, it’s been delivering some crazy air and absolutely flying through the turn around.
I think of coasters like ships they are always shes.
The brake right before the turn into the station absolutely KILLED me on Thursday. Like it was BAD.
Given how rapey Apollo is, I’m pretty sure it is male.
They weren’t hitting on Thursday night, when you’re in the back you’re fully floating. It was glorious.
Apollo's Chariot has pnuematic friction brakes. B&M mag brakes were developed shortly after in the early-mid 2000s. Griffon uses them as trims to slow the train down to a more manageable speed just before the main run of friction brakes on the MCBR and final brake blocks. B&M uses magnetic brakes much more on their installations nowadays but still only as trims, never by itself in a block.