Pantherian
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Yep. My second ride was the most vibration I've felt in the sixteen years I've ridden it. I was in the front row of the last car, the people behind me and my buddies in the car in front all noticed it.
So is pantherian likely to be on 2 train ops for spring break? I’m probably going to a park for a SB day trip and I’m honestly torn between caro and KD. Though, if pantherian is still on one train during spring break as well as FoF being closed I may just go to caro.
You really start to wonder if this ride will exist in 5 years.
When it's still shooting through wheels like it's nobody's business, even on opening morning so you have to wonder. I'm sure Bywater had to fight tooth and nail to fix/maintain Drop Tower and Delirium, and those fights might even be hopeless now post-merger. FoF may have the biggest question mark of the park, but it does make you wonder how long Pantherian lasts, especially right next door.
With current corporate decisions, it's hard to see it last more than a couple more years, unless the smaller investments in KD start making bigger attendance and profit returns (events, entertainment, refurbishments, food, smaller rides). Then they can spare the extra maintenance costs into keeping an icon around a bit longer.
One thing that remains to be seen is if the Zimmerman-era ride removals will continue under John Reilly as CEO. While I think Richard Zimmerman has taken too much hate for having to make some difficult decisions to keep the company afloat, it's clear that John Reilly's philosophy is in investing to deliver a good guest experience and regain local communities' trust. I don't think any of us know whether the bias toward removing problematic rides is as strong under Reilly's leadership.
If they axed pantherian it would only make sense to replace it with something enormous. Can only imagine what
My understanding is that KD caused it's current issues with the repaint using a product that they didn’t consult with Intamin on and that the new surface creates more friction and heat.
Very unlikely, but things do change. Though, one train won't be the main talking point of this ride during spring break.
Don't you love when a chain repeats the same mistakes over and over again and expects a different outcome? Not like doing exactly this has doomed a major attraction before or anything...
And for the record, repaint problems, cable lift problems, wheel problems, etc—Intamin can fix all of these things for the park if they'd pay for it. Hopefully the new regime is more likely to try to save super important attractions than the old one was.
Imagine a Mack spinning shuttle
Seems to me the current paint would have to be removed. Looks thick and gooey, the original red did not.
Crazy that this park still hasn’t learned its lesson about using unapproved materials on its rides. The good news, at least, is that bad paint isn’t an unsolvable problem. A new paint job isn’t cheap, but it’s a lot less expensive than demolishing a massive coaster and having to replace it. Sometimes you just have to pony up the money and invest in correcting a sunk-cost mistake.
Plus, since the paint issue is limited to the running rails, that would limit the scope and the cost compared to the full repaint they just did.
Plus, since the paint issue is limited to the running rails, that would limit the scope and the cost compared to the full repaint they just did.
I believe volcano was the coaster cedar fair is alleged to have used off spec non-intamin parts on, supposedly leading to intamin giving a higher quote for repairs to keep volcano in working order, which may have led to its demolition
Volcano, "allegedly," and Top Thrill Dragster, as a matter of public record.