Cedar Point (CP) Discussion Thread

[kraken613]

It was jealous Maverick was getting all the attention!

[asr]

Is it down again?

 

I don't think so. I saw a train waiting at the bottom of the lift hill.

 

EDIT: Definatly still running

[californiascreamer1]

I hope sooner or later someone releases a pov.

 

Looking around i cant find on but maybe that's because the park opened maverick today and it's the morning.

 

The ride looks awesome and i hear the second launch is the best.

 

I cant wait to ride it!

[kraken613]

Has anyone seen what those water jets they were talking about?

[californiascreamer1]

It probably hit another train at a low speed.. Typical arrow.

 

I agree, If it was big then it would have a lot more coverage than 4 sentences. I hope the people weren't hurt.

[CoasterEricHP]

Just riding Magnum causes me non life threatening injuries. I wonder what happened tho.. the weather looks pretty crappy on the webcams.

 

Eric

[FeelTheFORCE]

^ Yeah that and what happens in the tunnel.

[FeelTheFORCE]

It might be closed for a while, good thing I rode it when I went May 17th and 18th.

[asr]

Theres just smoke and lights in the tunnel apparantly. And the arch of water is the water effect they talked about.

[BrownStreak]

When I was working there in 1999 (not on that ride however) the E-Stop was hit and so the train at the start of the lift stopped however the train coming into the station blew right through the station and headed up the lift missing rearending the train on the lift by less than a foot.

[IceDragon]

it 'rolled' into the station. Doesn't sound like it was going fast, 15mph tops is my guess

[spaminacan11]

I caught that coolest shot of Maverick that I have seen yet earlier. I got very lucky with it.

[FeelTheFORCE]

Even though this incident was pretty small, I bet it will stay closed for at least a week, maybe more. They have to investigate and find out why it did this, and when they do, who knows what all they'll have to do to fix it, unless it was just human error.

[rollercoasterdan]

Some more no maverick in photo shots...

Hmm, something is wrong here...

And a cool one with the train...

[thomas2]

Thank god it's not in Japan or it would be closed for 3 years

 

But seriously thank god noone got badly injured

[snuggles]

Magnum is such an attention whore

[thefreak]

On site reports are saying the train blew past the last brake run and hit the next train in the transfer brake. I have ridden this ride 1,000 times. Coming into the transfer brake isn't that fast, but it would sting a bit to stop that quickly.

[GMAN962]

This is pretty much what happened with California Screamin'....thank God it wasn't anything serious.

 

-Mike

[FeelTheFORCE]

Anyone know how long the line is/was?

[sio]

I heard on pointbuzz that it was almost 4 or 5 hours !

[willski]

Am I the only one here who thinks that its a waste of power/space/money to have a launch up to 70 mph and immediately brake the train?

 

Just make the launch 50 mph, which would give you space for an extra block in the launch, preventing lift hill rollbacks.

 

Also, less power would be used on the launch, the brakes would not need to be installed (saves money), and there would be airtime on the hill following the launch.

[Ccron10]

This is fun! I've been sitting here watching the trains go past and guessing where they'll be next!

 

Maverick in the horseshoe roll!

[Darien Laker]

Oh no! Thank God no one was severely injured, but that certainly is not good.

 

The same thing happened on The Big One the year it opened. A much bigger media deal was made because there were more injuries, as well as it being a brand new ride.

 

I wonder if this will hinder Magnum's near-perfect three train operation.

 

Again, i'm very glad no one was seriously hurt. Hopefully they get to the bottom of this soon.

[FeelTheFORCE]

I wonder what that headchopper coming out of the tunnel is like.

[bulldogmom]

Oh no, my favorite coaster! At least nobody was seriously injured. Didn't something like this happen on the Thunderbolt at Kennywood a few years ago? I remember that one train was parked at the station and another crashed into it. I think there were a lot more injuries on that, though.