Mäch Tower News
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Nope, the guy behind the controls was of Asian Decent and had the light blue with white vertical stripe on it. Like I said the pic sucks but i saw it very clearly.
I was at the park Monday and from noon on it was going up spinning to the top and dropping the gondola off the pulley platform at what sure looked like full speed to us, we watched it several times over the day??
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cpt Awesome said:
Nope, the guy behind the controls was of Asian Decent and had the light blue with white vertical stripe on it. Like I said the pic sucks but i saw it very clearly.
I was at the park Monday and from noon on it was going up spinning to the top and dropping the gondola off the pulley platform at what sure looked like full speed to us, we watched it several times over the day??
Cerebral
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I was in Oktoberfest for about 3 hours tonight and the were doing a ton of testing on MT. Full speed, with rotation. Everything looked great. Hopefully, we're getting close...
I was in Oktoberfest for about 3 hours tonight and the were doing a ton of testing on MT. Full speed, with rotation. Everything looked great. Hopefully, we're getting close...
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The guy there last night said "a week to a week and a half."
BuschGardener said:
The guy there last night said "a week to a week and a half."
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Well it definitely won't be open when I visit tomorrow to Sunday... Maybe I can be a test dummy?
Well it definitely won't be open when I visit tomorrow to Sunday... Maybe I can be a test dummy?
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So...just in time for all the kids to go back to school and the summer to be over?
Animator said:
So...just in time for all the kids to go back to school and the summer to be over?
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Went to the park today and watched the tower drop twice. Few observations:
1.) The spin of the carriage is actually faster during the initial stages of the ascent, then slows down as it approaches the top. Not to be picky, but that initial spin seems really fast.
2.) When the carriage drops, the catch-car covering which is attached to the carriage actually vibrates. You can actually see it shaking on the way down.
3.) The drop is drastically longer than initial videos. You can't even see the brakes really pull on it till about forty feet above the encasement.
4.) The catch car descends much more rapidly, which will obviously help with capacity.
5.) Talk about advertising; this thing stops people in their tracks. Not a soul wasn't looking up around 12 ish.
With all that said, I am quite disheartened because I won't be able to ride it until atleast October, since I leave on Sunday for Blacksburg. So have fun without me! haha
-Sky
^And i don't know when you saw it testing because for the six hours i was there it was rotating while ascending. I was there from open til around 2 ish.
Went to the park today and watched the tower drop twice. Few observations:
1.) The spin of the carriage is actually faster during the initial stages of the ascent, then slows down as it approaches the top. Not to be picky, but that initial spin seems really fast.
2.) When the carriage drops, the catch-car covering which is attached to the carriage actually vibrates. You can actually see it shaking on the way down.
3.) The drop is drastically longer than initial videos. You can't even see the brakes really pull on it till about forty feet above the encasement.
4.) The catch car descends much more rapidly, which will obviously help with capacity.
5.) Talk about advertising; this thing stops people in their tracks. Not a soul wasn't looking up around 12 ish.
With all that said, I am quite disheartened because I won't be able to ride it until atleast October, since I leave on Sunday for Blacksburg. So have fun without me! haha
-Sky
^And i don't know when you saw it testing because for the six hours i was there it was rotating while ascending. I was there from open til around 2 ish.
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It's OK, no one else will be able to ride it until October too.
Skyrider said:
It's OK, no one else will be able to ride it until October too.
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I was there today as well and the whole time I was there (6 to close) they were doing full tower testing with rotation. So I won't be repeating what Skyrider just said, I'll just add additional thoughts to his points.
1) This is true. I was also very surprised to see that it doesn't stop at the top and spin as we originally heard it would.
2) I noticed this as well.
3) Again, Skyrider is spot-on. I should have a new testing video up tomorrow.
4) Nothing to add.
5) This. Right when it started climbing the tower, people instantly stopped and watched it cycle.
One more thing:
6) The air that comes off that thing is incredible- much more than KD's tower. It's so powerful that it repeatedly flung open the construction doors and it has actually damaged the construction fence. You'll want to stand near this thing in the summer. Forget those family dryers.
Skyrider said:
I was there today as well and the whole time I was there (6 to close) they were doing full tower testing with rotation. So I won't be repeating what Skyrider just said, I'll just add additional thoughts to his points.
1) This is true. I was also very surprised to see that it doesn't stop at the top and spin as we originally heard it would.
2) I noticed this as well.
3) Again, Skyrider is spot-on. I should have a new testing video up tomorrow.
4) Nothing to add.
5) This. Right when it started climbing the tower, people instantly stopped and watched it cycle.
One more thing:
6) The air that comes off that thing is incredible- much more than KD's tower. It's so powerful that it repeatedly flung open the construction doors and it has actually damaged the construction fence. You'll want to stand near this thing in the summer. Forget those family dryers.
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That reminds me of Kingda Ka, when the ride first opened everyone would literally stop what they were doing to see the trains crest the top. Then everyone freaked when the launch screwed up before the park opened a month and a half later and thought it would be torn down because the launch track was missing lol.
That reminds me of Kingda Ka, when the ride first opened everyone would literally stop what they were doing to see the trains crest the top. Then everyone freaked when the launch screwed up before the park opened a month and a half later and thought it would be torn down because the launch track was missing lol.
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I just got into my hotel and people are buzzing that MT is open... Should I break the news, or let them be stupid?
I just got into my hotel and people are buzzing that MT is open... Should I break the news, or let them be stupid?
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