Natatomic Fahrenheit Update

[BigThunderMtn]

Hey Howdy Hey!

 

This is my first post, so you've not heard from me before but you've likely seen me; I was the guest star in Natatomic's SFA/Kings Dominion Photo TR last week, (I was the roller coaster dork in the MindEraser T-shirt)

 

As many of you probably know, Natatomic has been awarded the chance to ride the first train to carry passengers through Hersheypark's new sextuply-inverting Intamin scream machine; Fahrenheit. She is up there right now for the celebration and has dispatched me to be her little birdie for you all. But to be blunt, the much heralded first ride didn't happen. Before park open, on an unmanned test flight, Fahrenheit valleyed out in the middle of the cobra roll. As of the time of this post, the train is still sitting there, in the middle of the figure, while maintenance tries to pull it through the second inversion. Hopefully, the ride will open later today, unless more drastic (hydraulic boom-powered) measures need to be taken to retrieve the train.

 

So Natatomic will not likely get to be the first rider after all, but I hear compensations have been made by the park. Hmmm, compensations from Hershey... I wonder if that will include chocolate of some form... Vast quantities of chocolate... Yummm.

 

I will keep ya'll updated as I hear from her!

[ScubaSteve442]

An Intamuck ride with opening issues?

 

No way!

 

 

Jeez louise, they suck.

 

Maybe they ought to 'turn up' the lift speed?

[TheRapidsNerd]

On the bright side, it's a memorable day no matter how you look at it.

 

Anywho, hope she still has a fun time despite Fahrenheit's cold feet.

[BigThunderMtn]

Howdy all,

 

As far as I know, Fahrenheit did open up later that day, and if I know Nat, she was lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce when it did. So I'll bet she ultimately got to ride, yes. And I know that she spent all Friday and part of Saturday running madly about the park (not riding anything, just running madly, arms flailing), which is always fun. Especially when you get in for free. So I think it's safe to say that she had a good trip.

 

That being said, I haven't been able to reach her yet today, which probably means she's on the long drive home. Or, it could mean she's sitting on a motionless train in some little valley between the inversions of a cobra roll...