Volcano: The Blast Coaster

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It came back online almost right after I posted that and I finally got my first ride on it. I liked. As a side note KD was having a bad day all around there was also a period down for Dominator and Flight of Fear today and by period I mean down for over half an hour.
 
Well, here's a picture I've never seen before. KDGY posted this image of Volcano during construction.
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According to KDGY, three manufacturers submitted plans for the mountain: TOGO, Premier, and Intamin. What Premier submitted is unknown, but TOGO submitted a coaster with a 200' traditional lift that crested out the top of the mountain! Obviously, Intamin submitted a launched inverted coaster through the top of the mountain, and that's what the park decided on. Think about that, though. Our Intamin coaster may have its own issues, but can you imagine if TOGO had built the ride? *shudder*
 
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I was there Saturday and they flipped sides for where the line forms from 2 years prior, and why were the back seats on all trains not in operation?
 
The ride received a lot of station work this season. This involved combining the load and unload station into one.

On cold, windy, rainy nights the ride can not launch on a full train of riders. So they block off the back seats so the ride does not go down as much.
 
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Evan said:
The ride received a lot of station work this season. This involved combining the load and unload station into one.

On cold, windy, rainy nights the ride can not launch on a full train of riders. So they block off the back seats so the ride does not go down as much.
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El Toro has the opposite thing in the springtime when the ride isn't fully warmed up. To prevent saddling they have to wait for every seat on a train to be filled in order to dispatch it. Intamin be weird, yo.
 
ive heard volcano is under a multi year renovation. last year it was the queue improvements during the off season. wonder what this year and years to come will bring.....
 
There was a lot of concrete work going on in the later portion of this season (old Smurf Mountain station covered up with concrete, waterfall area redone). They'll probably keep going with this over the off-season while they have some momentum. I would also expect the mountain to start getting painted.
 
I look at coaster stats when I'm bored. This super short, lackluster coaster held the world record for 'tallest inversion' for 15 years! The record was taken away just last year by Full Throttle (SFMM) and then Gatekeeper at Cedar Point. It is amazing that Intamin was launching trains 155 feet into the air 16 years ago and B&M is just getting around to it. POS or not, Volcano set the bar for a long long time.
 
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Sadly Mazakaman I've never gotten Volcano. I love the launches and the sense of "Wow! This is just like flying!" Every seat I've ridden in has produced a rough ride. I don't want to wait in a 90 minute wait just for a short ride that bangs my head around like no tommorow. Great concept but poor execution.
 
I'm confused... After you exit the top of the mountain you are not really going that fast. It has a lot of vibration but I would not consider that rough.

The only part that bangs your head around is right after the 1st launch as the train banks sharply into the first turn leading into the second launch.

In my opinion, Volcano is just a ride with a lot of potential and has lots of gimmicks (fast launch, and coming out of a volcano upside down)... Other than that the ride is mediocre and arguably not worth the long wait.
 
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I dunno what Volcano you guys were riding but the one I rode a few weeks ago was smooth as glass. The first slow roll around the mountain is kinda weird, but not bad if you keep your head back.

Just be sure to hit it first thing in the morning and you won't wait more than 5 minutes for it. We managed two rides before the crowds rolled in around 5 including a ride in the front row.

The ride could be longer or utilize a dual load station like Storm Runner to cut down on waits. Too bad the park didn't utilize the concept when the ride opened or after the last winter rehab.
 
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I find it interesting that they store their coaster trains in the picnic pavilions. I thought they had a storage facility or a warehouse.
 
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The "storage facility" is not that large, and the warehouse has a lot of space taken up from off-season maintenance. The Pavilions keep the pieces in relatively dry areas to stay away from the snow. Great Adventure does this to a similar degree, but stores the trains in different areas pending on what they're gonna do to them.
 
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They do, but unless the building is HUGE, you would never be able to fit every train, car, gondola, ect. into it. Especially after everything is taken apart. Now you have everything and the parts laying EVERYWHERE.

They just simply rotate everything in and out of the warehouse as things are completed. Once they're done, they put them back and wait to be installed onto the coaster for the season.
 
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