Project 2022: Pantheon

[Logang]

Honestly Twisted Timbers isn't that bad usually. If it's a crowded day it'll be a long wait, but even during the summer the longest I waited was 30 min.

 

[Coasting with Bri Guy]

More trains will just stack.

 

[basseyfish]

Guess its cool were getting another hyper

 

[GrandpaD]

As a habitual nicknamer of rides with large names. I personally enjoy HagMag or RunHMC.

And unless this ride gets a short 2-syllable name I will probably call it Madrid for the forseeable future.

I'm already thinking it to be the beer coaster ? mm..Dos Equis...

 

[b.mac]

The plans essentially confirm two trains.

Also, just because a section can be used as a block doesn't mean Intamin wants it to act as one.

If my experience at Cedar Fair has been any indication that's more of a park's call than the manufacturer. Cedar Fair's corporate definitions of a block and a control point are hella wack anyways.

 

[Zachary]

That’s a huge problem because the capacity may be trash, like Twisted Timbers bad

Especially if this ride doesn't have seatbelts, these Intamin trains should load way faster than Timbers' trains.

 

[madmax]

That

Especially if this ride doesn't have seatbelts, these Intamin trains should load way faster than Timbers' trains.

That’s true but still the ride cycle is 1:20-1:25 still, so you could really make wait times less with 3 trains. The simple restraint system would help with avoiding stacking.

 

[GrandpaD]

As we all discussed before regarding rollbacks - You're about past halfway (50 or so seconds) before you crest the top hat. So, I'd think for safety's (i.e. lawyers) sake, they won't dispatch a second train until the crest. From crest to final brake is only 30 seconds or so. With the new type restraints and station design, they'll do ok with 2 trains.

 

[madmax]

As we all discussed before regarding rollbacks - You're about past halfway (50 or so seconds) before you crest the top hat. So, I'd think for safety's (i.e. lawyers) sake, they won't dispatch a second train until the crest. From crest to final brake is only 30 seconds or so. With the new type restraints and station design, they'll do ok with 2 trains.

What’s different about the station vs others?

 

[GrandpaD]

What’s different about the station vs others?

Read.

 

[madmax]

Oh the handicapped/child swap section
Gotcha

 

[b.mac]

As we all discussed before regarding rollbacks - You're about past halfway (50 or so seconds) before you crest the top hat. So, I'd think for safety's (i.e. lawyers) sake, they won't dispatch a second train until the crest. From crest to final brake is only 30 seconds or so. With the new type restraints and station design, they'll do ok with 2 trains.

For standard of ops most parks wouldn't let the next train dispatch until the previous one hits the brakes. It has a minimal effect on throughput regardless.

I have yet to see anything telling me that this coaster has a theoretical capacity under 800 riders per hour, which is better than Twisted Timbers

 

[GrandpaD]

Yep. And even with all that "new-fangled" mumbo-jumbo, Copperhead Strike valleyed today (but LSMs rocked it back and forth to complete the run).

 

[b.mac]

Which was something I elaborated in this thread earlier but people said "that's too much effort in programming just use more power."

 

[GrandpaD]

Hence the semi-off-topic post. ?

 

[Zimmy]

I really want an Ariel Atom

 

[Thomas]

Try and find one of the V8 ones.

 

[madmax]

I do wish they made the pre launch section a jo jo roll. That would have been a sick beginning.

 

[cdchen83]

Any train rides around festa field yesterday? Anything to see?

 

[snowman6996]

Yes, they had utility flags marking the area