Doppel Looping

Can we change this thread to: fun with flags?

Supply chain issues? seatbelts in time for 2025 though.

I was hoping for a tire drive

Does your car have upstop wheels or just skid pads?

Jagged little lift hill?

Yeah, one doesn’t really eat food at wonderland. There is a wing place and some other restaurants across the parking lot.

Wasn’t there a similar incident where the saint clair river caught fire a while back? hopefully a different situation.

Seat belts are in next years budget.

Will they design this next generation of standups in a way that will make the eventual conversion to floorless easier?

I would love to see the worlds tallest weight drop launch from the old schwarzkopf shuttle loops.

The maintenance staff will. It was cool to have a complicated launch system with the fins that come down for the train to pass and then rapidly come back up to stop a rolling back train from hitting the one on deck behind. But when you think about all of those sensors and actuators that all had to work outside through the hot summer sun and sit through the cold snowy winter, it is amazing that it lasted as long as it did. That is not even taking into account the actual hydraulic launch motors, cables and other stuff that all need to work together precisely to get it to just go over the top. kudos to the mechanics that kept it going this long.

Do they make aquatrax that tall?

It will free up some space to install some of the rides from california’s great america.

Dont be so quick to rule out the aquatrax.

Hope the track lines up when they put it together this time!

While they are at it, why not raise it up 36 feet to at least match kingda in height

I guess if that is the extent of the damage then we got off pretty lucky. From the poorly shot cellphone video it looked pretty severe. Thoughts and prayers go out to the fibreglass that burned. Maybe a go fund me is on it's way? If that is all that is damaged, Splashworks should be back up to half capacity in no time.

There was a fire at the waterpark last night after the fireworks. Local news channel, CP24 says they evacuated people from the park at 11:30pm. There are a few badly shot videos on the internet that look like they were taken from cars on the road out that goes past behemoth. Traffic on the road out seemed to be moving surprisingly well, usually it is a parking lot after a long day lets out. We were there during the day and they closed splashworks and some of the other rides in the area at 6pm because of the fireworks, so there were likely no people around. I only have some sketchy internet video to go by but it looks like the Funnel slide Typhoon was on fire. Not sure if they will be able to find another hand me down slide from another park to replace it. The only good news, if there is any is that it should free up some lifeguards to staff the other attractions. Today was the most packed i have ever seen the waterpark but Mountain bay cliffs only opened for a few hours in the afternoon because of staffing shortages and Lazy river did not open at all. Update: Looking at another video just now, part of Minebuster looked liked it was on fire too. We can only hope.

It’s like it’s their official language or something.

RMC have been known for refurbishing older coasters that no longer ran well. Who will RMC the RMC’s?

Maybe it’s on backorder because supply chain.

Overlooking the obvious. carrousel to sf stlouis to hold them over until they finish their refurb.

So basically no change?

Lagoon is great. Spend a whole day there. say hi to colossus the double looping dragon for me!

It looks like they are building something to the left of vortex. Tore down the latte hut for it. probably not a coaster or parking garage. funny there is no signage, just a tarp covered fence. “Find out what’s coming when we are done.” I got a meal plan burger and walked around a bit to see lines everywhere and then left. Pretty much what i expected. Glad to be back but will pick a slower day to try to ride anything.