I didn't get that vibe what so ever off of the guy today. I am not sure if he was just overly cautious and felt that yanking up as hard as possible was the only way to check the restraint or if he was just taught wrong but I dected no callousness in his actions.
They have a Youtube channel.... not sure if they pay attention to comments though.
They have one setup across from the teacups before you cross the bridge but given the current sensor inconsistencies it's not necessarily going to reflect the situation with the actual seats. If I had to guess my guess would br that you won't fit based on me fitting fairly easily on Invadr and getting walk about 20% of the time on Pantheon but you might fit. My experience is that the front of the trains seem to be easier to get green on then the back for some reason.
This is fine if BGW wants to market this ride to locals only who won’t be off put if it’s only available for part of any given day. However if they want to have wide market appeal and get people to travel there for Pantheon, it needs to have solid uptime. If it gets a reputation as a lemon, no one who sees that will bother with a trip.
This community's relationship with Intamin is incredibly perplexing to me but I don't feel like getting into that too deeply right now. What I will say is that I know of no other Intamin coaster that has had the level of issues that Pantheon has seemingly had and after my trip last month I am even more convinced that a lot of this is on BGW. Intamin coasters have opening teething issues -- there is no denying that -- but in this case I think the issues and downtime are drastically being magnified by people who are using an issue as an excuse not to work and then having no ambition to actually open the ride when the problem is actually fixed. This is compounded by a park that is CLEARLY short staffed and, on many occasions, has multiple rides down in which a small group of mechanics are trying to repair everything at the same time and, more than likely, aren't even being thorough when they are working on an issue.
In all fairness when Top Thrill Dragster opened it took awhile (years) to get it working somewhat reliably. Same with Maverick and the Harry Potter coaster (only took a few months for these). Intamin is known for pushing the envelope and as a result it takes some time to get the bugs out. I expect some issues when a new coaster opens up in the first season with the exception of B&M coasters. Probably what you're saying has some truth to it as well. I don't think the testing before it opened was sufficient either. It's not until you start running a full schedule with riders will you start to discover issues with the ride. I'll also say it's been noted in this forum that they slow the coaster down during operation and I wonder if that's the cause of the wind issue they're concerned about.
The RMC note was a joke, though it shows the difference between levels of unreliable where Twisted Timbers level reliability would be a significant improvement.
Those coasters absolutely had issues but, at the same time, the coasters operated more than what it seems Pantheon operates right now -- at least from what I've seen. TTD may be closer to the level of downtime as Pantheon but I still feel like Pantheon is still extreme even considering the Intamin teething issues. I really agree with you about the testing -- this ride should have been able to be tested far more than any other ride because of the amount of time it sat unopened -- but I still also feel that that time where the ride just sat didn't help the current situation. My point here really is that I think this is Intamin teething combined with some really terrible BGW maintenance/operations/management that are creating this situation. People putting the blame squarely on Intamin is more likely unfair.
Ohhh man you didn’t even mention Lightning Rod lol. The issues that thing had when it opened make Pantheon look like a B&M.
