JuniorBGWfan28 said:
Yea, and I'm not sure about this but I've heard that Cheetah Hunt breaks down a little more then your average roller coaster, and it's 2 years old. Shouldn't they have fixed most of the problems by now? And I don't live there but every time I go there, it broke down while I was in line. But I'm not sure about this.
Cheetah Hunt isn't anywhere near as bad as the ones I've mentioned. Most of the breakdowns for that from what I've heard are just resets that take only a few hours to fix. Most modern coasters have those issues, B&M is plagued by it along with a few other manufacturers. If a sensor just doesn't feel like cooperating or is just a little off, it could prevent the ride from dispatching cause the computer thinks something's wrong. The tail end of the Verbolten construction thread highlighted what I'm talking about very well, the ride had issues because of a technical 'glitch' I guess where the computer thought there was a ghost train (for the majority of 2012 only 4 trains were running, and it registered as five). Not to mention the ride also didn't like the drop section or either of the launches and had to have a reset due to those, too.
The issues I'm talking about with Intamin are on a much more severe scale, where the rides either had to be extensively modified and/or shut down for long durations of time due to them.
-Maverick had a barrel roll removed before it opened because the forces were way too much for riders, the train, and even the track itself.
-i305 had excessive force issues which caused KD to trim the ride in 2010, causing people to black out and the trains to literally destroy themselves. Intamin had to redesign the entire first turn over the off season just to get the forces down to acceptable levels, and they also replace the wheels on the trains much more often due to the heat they generate throughout the day.
-The Supersplashes have had fitting issues with the boats (Shoot the Rapids) along with lift hill issues (Hersheypark, Knott's, Great Adventure) and excessively large splashes (Pompeii).
-Skyrush had a rap sheet of complaints about the harnesses before the summer season picked up. The ride then was forced to close months before the end of Hershey's 2012 season due to stress on the trains. For 2013 they had to slow down the lift speed and move the air gates back due to lack of clearance for people to get on and off the train.
I could see Giles possibly biting the bullet and using Intamin for flat rides and such since they do make
Ferris Wheels and a large assortment of other flat rides, but as far as a roller coaster goes I highly doubt Intamin will get the job. Giles isn't the only person with apprehension in going to them, since Cedar Fair has worked with other companies on
their latest coaster additions and Six Flags has only added
one Intamin coaster since 2006.
