Green Lantern work

[pushbutton]

Yep. Another hoarding! 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

There was also a crane on the site just before

[themagician]

What work are they doing on it?

[MickeyD]

Are they at least painting the track?

[pin142]

Anyone else find it funny there are two Green Lantern coasters currently closed with no real explanation?

[Brad2912]

[themagician]

Update from this morning

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@themagician Thank you for the photos.  It's a bit hard to work out what they are doing.  Is it a repaint?

[themagician]

@Skeeta from what I saw, it didn’t seem like it. While I was there they were mainly just looking and checking joinery of the track 

[themeparkaddict]

I was there today too.

they certainly are not painting it. They have been moving up and down and inspecting a certain portion of the track. They seem to be focussing on the track which wraps around the lift hill.

[Brad2912]

Oh, the “we almost had a DW moment” spot, except that was before the whole TRR thing so it would have been the other way around. Then the industry really would of been f....

Edited August 3, 2018 by Brad2912

[Brendo88]

Speaking of "that spot".... Ive done a bit of searching and haven't been able to find much info on exactly what went wrong when they had that malfunction.

 

Does anyone have any info on it or can point me in the right direction?

 

When I rode GL on sati noticed that first corner after the lift hill was making  bit of a grinding noise that ive not noticed before and that kind of prompted me to think of it.

 

[Wil_i_am_not]

Yeah I noticed that too, only seemed to happen with one car though, as I rode it countless times and only heard the grinding once. Assumed it was just the wheel bogeys struggling due to the high lateral force exerted on them.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, Brendo88 said:

Speaking of "that spot".... Ive done a bit of searching and haven't been able to find much info on exactly what went wrong when they had that malfunction.

Does anyone have any info on it or can point me in the right direction?

Try here to start with

[Jdude95]

Or if you wanna get really specific, try here

[Brendo88]

34 minutes ago, Jdude95 said:

Or if you wanna get really specific, try here

Thanks for the info  

 

4 hours ago, Wil_i_am_not said:

Yeah I noticed that too, only seemed to happen with one car though, as I rode it countless times and only heard the grinding once. Assumed it was just the wheel bogeys struggling due to the high lateral force exerted on them.

Glad I wasn't the only one  to notice. My first ride was smooth as and no noise...second one later in the day had noise

 

I wasn't paying enough attention to notice if it was a different train though. 

 

[AllegroCrab]

I've heard the noise, it was more of a scrubbing noise than grinding.

[Luke Costello]

I remember witnessing the accident that day 

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3 minutes ago, Luke Costello said:

I remember witnessing the accident that day 

Accident! It was a controlled stoppage.😳

[Luke Costello]

1 minute ago, Skeeta said:

Accident! It was a controlled stoppage.😳

 

it didn't seem very controlled to me 😂

[Aw hype]

It's just MW acknowledging all of what's happened recently and acting before the slightest chance of a repeat.

[red dragin]

2 hours ago, AllegroCrab said:

I've heard the noise, it was more of a scrubbing noise than grinding.

Is it similar to the noises Arkham makes returning to the station? Which I suspect is the wheels squeaking on the track. 

[Brendo88]

21 hours ago, red dragin said:

Is it similar to the noises Arkham makes returning to the station? Which I suspect is the wheels squeaking on the track. 

Nah sounds different to me.  Its purely on that corner that wraps around just before the first drop. Cant be heard any other time. I guess that spot is probably the ne that would have the highest forces on it, none the less the noise definitely prompted me to think of it.

 

I'm sure its all good and it wouldn't stop me from riding it, I was more curious if anyone knew what the cause may be.

[Levithian]

On 18/12/2018 at 5:34 PM, red dragin said:

Is it similar to the noises Arkham makes returning to the station? Which I suspect is the wheels squeaking on the track. 

Theres motors that drive the train from the brake area into position at the end of the station.

The squeals are the rubber wheels making contact with metal as it drives the train through the booster, more so than the wheels on the track. 

Next time youre at the park, go stand near the station and out in the observation area at road runner coaster and watch it climb the lift. Get similar rubber squeals for a similar reason. 

Edited December 19, 2018 by Levithian