Dean Barnett

Blue Fire was built in 2009 - Red Force was built in 2017 with exactly the same layout as TTD. 12 years of development - and the launch is still nothing compared to hydraulic TTD.

The GP is going to be able to tell the difference between a hydraulic launch and LSM. 100%

In my experience there's usually a "use caution" wind speed range then a "danger" wind speed limit that activates a interlock that disables the lift hill. Regardless the train didn't get stuck by its own doing - there were wind speed warnings for the whole day - and now they've got another weekend with a majority of major rides closed.. again

They knew it was suss - unless it broke down earlier, there's no reason to run an empty train.

Brake fins on the launch track have been removed - so I'm very confident that its going to convert to a LSM launch.

You contradicted yourself within the same post. There's no way 45km/h winds (not gusts) are within its operating limits. Empty trains have less mass. Less mass is less potential energy. The wind takes away potential energy from the trains. A loaded train (with real people or water people) may have made it around - that's the point I'm making about the empty train been sent around.

With all available evidence- I’ve come to my conclusion. Happy to be proven otherwise. They and other parks send trains around empty before opening or reopening the ride. Pretty SOP.

I'd say they would need assistance to evac the train in the spot its in.. like they did with the other coaster that got stuck that day...and they would have probably posted a statement too... and the media would have ate it up like they did schoobs. Still not sure why everyone here has so many doubts about what I post on this forum. 😕

The ride valleyed because the winds were so high that the empty train lost too much energy to complete the circuit. This is 100% Movie World at fault.

Maybe just don’t send empty trains around in high winds 🤷‍♂️

My bad.. The actual end of the launch is here, before the brakes for the catch car.

TTD's restraints were so much better.

I don't think there's room for the queue to be anywhere else.. they could put a small flat in the area that's aready vacant.

Throughput with 3 trains and a full circuit is bad enough and.. I don't think humans are made to launch that quickly backwards... although with LSM's its probably fine.

Roughness is probably the train aging, but the launch is just so slow - whereas TTD really took your breath away. I'd actually prefer to go on Superman than Red Force. Just look at where the LSM's finish on Red Force Compared to where the cable launch on TTD ended

I reckon they’re converting it to a magnetic launch of some kind. Really disappointing because Red Force was a super letdown. Also very rough. IMG_7326.MOV

The Huss ranger was so old that it was made in West Germany

I mean Dollywood give you a free ticket to come back if it's raining.. seems to work for them.

Yes I think that's reasonable - or let you go to Sea World for free on the same day to look at another SBNO coaster! Sending around a roller coaster around when the winds were too high wasn't my fault...

Every guest that’s there today should get a free ticket to come back.

No one suggested that

I would never consider going on a twin hammer.

The turnstile pretty useful at Djurs Sommerland. Loading was much quicker than the one at Tusenfryd - which didn’t even pre-count the cycle before loading.