dandaman Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Awesome shots, Tomi. Is ERT usually about an hour before the GP entrance? Seems like a HUGE advantage to any park visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 ^Hour before it opens,or hour after it closes... each park is different, if they even give it. I think for CP it was like 2 hours before but it was shared by all CP resort guests. And it IS a huge advantage. If it weren't for ERT we never would've gotten a whole bunch of credits we got on the trip. ERT is absolutely awesome and a magor perk of TPR trips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godwyn Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hey Tomi, how could you forget the name of the drop tower? It's called "Giant Drop". Real creative, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandaman Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 ^Compared to "Drop Tower", "Giant Drop" is like a creativity brain blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBru Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Nice pictures, and I'm glad you have a lot of them Can't wait for part 2!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 D'oh! Silly me! the topic's sub-title was still "Dells"! Updated now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RagingBullFan Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 After a rediculously long wait we were close enough to the station to understnad why the ride was taking even longer than usual. They were running an average of 2 people per car. Basically you rode in the groups you came in, which was just plain rediculous. In fact, I'm not sure why, but I had actually to ride seperately from Luke and Shirley. I don't remember who the 4th guy rode with. The reason for this is the weight limit on each car itself. The exact limit is stamped in the Ride Control area, I forget the exact amount off the top of my head, but basically the car cannot handle 4 average sized adults. Therefore the maximum capacity was made 3 adults and 1 child. Basically its because of poor design from Zamperla and Reverchon. Loading anything more than that opens the park up to lawsuits for knowingly overloading a ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 Well Luke was considered a child on Little Titans, which had a pretty cutthroat screening process so you could say we were 3 adults and 1 child. But envertheless, other parks we've been to ran fuller cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RagingBullFan Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 That is also why you don't see Six Flags buying more of this exact type of ride.... Its just a mashup of technology from Zamperla, Reverchon, and ride control by Six Flags. And that experiment didn't turn out so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Coaster Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Great reports. Looking forward to Part 2. I also enjoyed V2. Not my absolute favourite type of coaster but still a lot of fun... and I absolutely loved those Q-bots to death. Between that and the ERT, we were in a good position that day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Oh yeah, I forgot to mention how amazing the Q bots were! Those things were FANTASTIC!!! You'd reserve a spot on a ride when youg ot off of the one before it, and by the time you'd get to it, it would already be your turn to ride! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucket Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Great TR! Such a shame that so many people seem to find Raging Bull boring or unexciting! I've been on only one B&M Hyper coaster (Silver Star) and even though it wasn't an airtime machine (mind you, it did have a bit!) I thought it was loads of fun. The layout for RB seems more inspiring too... such a shame, really! Anyways, can't wait for part II! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Coaster Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 It was fun to a degree but didn't live up to its name (as Tomi indicated) or what I had expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 ^I've never been on it but I am fairly certain Silver Star and raging bull are uncomparable. Even if it were trimmed to the poitn wwhere all the airtime on it was floater, at least silver star would have airtime. Raging bull was mostly fan turns and low to the ground manouvers, not a whole lot of airtime bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoasterkid Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Another nice report Tomi! Be sure to include a shot of your "mystery 4th person" (if you've got one) from your group and I'm sure one of us will be able to I.D. him for you. Raging Bull was a real let down compared to what it could've been. That trim absolutely KILLS the ride! It would've been filled with alot of airtime and some nice laterals if it weren't slowed down so excessively. Unfortunately my group ran into some real problems with our Q-Bot which stopped us from getting all the credits. We hit Deja-Vu and Demon first which set us off on a great start, but after our Q-Bot died after Superman everything just went downhill. If I'm anywhere close to the area though I'll give SFGAm another try. It atleast earned that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Thriller Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Awesome pictures Tomi, some of the best I've seen. Can't wait to see more from you. --James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Thank you very much, everybdoy! I'm glad you're enjoying the TR! Probably has something to do with the fact I combined alot of photos with the usual narrative. ^^I'm really sorry to hear you had Q bot problems. Did you go over to the Q bot booth to sort them out? sadly I don't have a picture of the mysterious 4th person but he was blonde and wore sunglasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoasterkid Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Sounds like your 4th person may be Trent, but that's about all I could guess from that vague description. We had to go back to the Q-Bot building twice to get it sorted out, which is what slowed us down the most. Atleast the first time it died we weren't too far away from the booth. The guy there did something to the unit we already had and had it up and running again, by the time we walked to the other side of the park though it quit on us again. We were given a new unit the 2nd time and had no problems for the rest of the day. It was just luck of the draw I guess. We only missed out on Ragin Cajun (which we rode multiple clones of anyways on the trip) and American Eagle. Nothing heartbreaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Coaster Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 ^ Yeah I missed out on Ragin Cajun too but being a clone I didn't mind that much. American Eagle was pretty fun but suffered from being one of many such above average woodies. Consequently, it didn't really stand out on my list & I'd actually forgotten about riding it until reading your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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