News Cedar Point Project 2024: Top Thrill 2 (Top Thrill Dragster Overhaul)
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Intamin has built Red Force. They have also built several coasters like pantheon with switch tracks.
It would’ve been a smarter choice to have gone with a company that has built coasters with similar technology instead of a discount company that has done none of the work previously
It seems speculative to assume Intamin would have been interested and able to succeed at this project any better. Whoever did this project was looking at reusing a 20+ year old structure and would need lighter trains (read: less material strength) to make the height work.
Zamperla is obviously looking bad here, but who else was risking their reputation to take this project on with little upside if you even succeed.
Zamperla is obviously looking bad here, but who else was risking their reputation to take this project on with little upside if you even succeed.
Hopefully Zamperla is blacklisted after this mess(assuming it doesn’t open this season). Taking on a 400ft coaster as your first big ride is insane. And CP actually let it happen. As it stands the ride is more unreliable than an Intamin ride which is wild lol.
Definitely not happy with them right now. How is Busch gardens Tampa? I already have plane tickets non refundable so I’m thinking of going somewhere else if it’s not open.. I’m not going to CP to be teased by something I can’t ride.
Definitely not happy with them right now. How is Busch gardens Tampa? I already have plane tickets non refundable so I’m thinking of going somewhere else if it’s not open.. I’m not going to CP to be teased by something I can’t ride.
Red Force is shorter and has much lower capacity trains. It's not a very good comparison to what was possible with fixing TTD. Converting TTD to a Red Force launch system may have been largely non viable due to Dragsters height.
Intamin could have built a swing launched spike version just like Zamperla did though. Track switches, swing launches, and spikes are well within Intamin's wheelhouse.
On top of that^, and I think clearly the most important of all, a full catalogue of experience with ride vehicles that go faster than 60mph.
Honestly having Zamperla do the track and engineering and then buying trains from Intamin wouldn’t have been a bad call. We never found out if the ride system itself will be problematic but it seemed to be performing okay in the few days it was open. This ride is already a Frankenstein, let’s keep committing to the bit
This assumes Intamin could produce a workable vehicle that can hold up to the stress of the ride and be reliable. That's not a sure thing as Zamperla is quickly figuring out between material strength and weight trade offs.
The question is one of probabilities, no?
Given Intamin's experience, Intamin was very likely to be able to pull it off. Given Zamperla's experience, it was a massive longshot for Zamperla to be able to pull it off.
No one can know how an Intamin TT2 would have turned out, but I think it is completely reasonable to think that it probably would have turned out better than this.
Given Intamin's experience, Intamin was very likely to be able to pull it off. Given Zamperla's experience, it was a massive longshot for Zamperla to be able to pull it off.
No one can know how an Intamin TT2 would have turned out, but I think it is completely reasonable to think that it probably would have turned out better than this.
Apparently the IAAPA Presents event later this month will give an "Insider look" at Top Thrill 2.
The registration fee is a bargain; only $419 for non-members.
The registration fee is a bargain; only $419 for non-members.
I've never done a hard-hat construction tour 3 months after a ride opens!
And they keyboard warriors don’t seem to realize that the social media team has nothing to do with their engineering team
It's very possible they didn't want to reuse anything, B&M didn't. At any rate Intamin would have cost a lot. I expect CP had some idea before the first quote of what it would be worth to them, max., to fix the coaster especially reusing any part or concept from it, or for any ride on the same time schedule. Anything above those numbers is simply not a competitive option, because this a real business not social media.
Don't disagree, but when many brands out there actively engage on their respective social media channels including handling customer service and reputation management operations within the respective social media platforms, I can see why many people out there may not understand why Zamperla on Instagram is simply a marketing function and not much more than that from what we can tell.