August 23, 201312 yr I don't see why so many people have to be a wussies about wooden coasters, i rode the voyage backseat and i thought it was a awesome ride, its in my top 5 coasters.. It would take holiday world 1 offseason, some capital , and a phonecall to have this fixed.. Call intamin for prefab track or get Rocky Mountain construction for toppled track or iron horse replacement.. There just beating around the bush.
August 23, 201312 yr Author It would be cheaper for management to save a buck by putting it SBNO and put the park up for sale.
August 23, 201312 yr If that were to happen i bet that Cedar Fair will end up buying the park and add a flag over i in holiday, with the addition of a b&m coaster being built that same year.
August 23, 201312 yr I don't see what's wrong with the Voyage. Yes, the Timberliners would have been nice, but with all of the retracking work over the past few years, it's running as well as, if not better than, The Beast is now. Even wheel seats give me a comfortable ride.
August 23, 201312 yr Author It sounds like the track is getting destroyed thats why they run one train. Would not surprise me if eckerrt had his maintenance team trim the first drop.
August 23, 201312 yr I thought the Voyage was running fine this year at Holiwood Nights. Better than it has in several years...I don't understand all the negativity about it. Beast is running great this year too. Its been a great year for woodies in our part of the country. As far HW selling the new train ride, I really don't understand that unless they decided to fix the old one but they put new track down and everything for the new one. It makes little to no sense. It has been such a strange year for HW. I am sure the family strife has caused a lot of it but I really don't get some of these recent decisions even in light of that.
August 23, 201312 yr I don't really understand the need for Timberliners. The Voyage is far from the roughest roller coaster I have ever rode and I thought the cars they were using were pretty nice. Almost every time I ride The Beast it seems like someone is out there looking at it or inspecting it somewhere along the route. Perhaps The Voyage needs the same level of attention.
August 23, 201312 yr It would be cheaper for management to save a buck by putting it SBNO and put the park up for sale. Are you kidding me? That's not happening.
August 23, 201312 yr Author the voyage is tearing itself to death, that is the need for the timberliners in the first place. If it was just a rough ride they would run multiple trains.
August 23, 201312 yr Are you sure that is why they are running one train? One train operation irks me too (are you listening Kennywood on a busy weekend day?) but there are several other reasons that they would choose to do that make more sense than the train is tearing up the track. It probably has more to do with the current management.
August 23, 201312 yr Running one train reminds me how Cedar Point cut the third train for millennium force and Gatekeeper the other day, is like they want the lines to be an hour wait... My thought was because they are trying to keep in the park longer which is smart business thinking but screwed up if your the one standing in line.
August 23, 201312 yr Youngstud, you should know how much this site does not like rumors from screamscape, but yet you started a whole thread based on one. Really? And here is why: http://www.screamscape.com/html/holiday_world.htm He has already changed his rumor; adding a park reply letting us all know that the train is not for sale.
August 23, 201312 yr Author ^ Since the track is tearing itself to death, if you run one train instead of 2 or 3 that means there are 1/2, 2/3's less cycles per day. I apologize RC Wizard. They are for sure not using timberliners though.
August 23, 201312 yr Author Running one train reminds me how Cedar Point cut the third train for millennium force and Gatekeeper the other day, is like they want the lines to be an hour wait... My thought was because they are trying to keep in the park longer which is smart business thinking but screwed up if your the one standing in line. That is surpising, KI was running diamonback with 3 trains yesterday sending out trains 2/3's full.
August 23, 201312 yr millenium force, TTD, Gatekeeper, Mantis, iron dragon, and raptor from what i seen later in the day ( about 6pm, 3 hours before close )had train cuts... I was in line for millenium force, and It was painful to watch red train, transfer onto the storage track... From all the times I've been to Kings Island and Cedar Point this year you can tell there is a difference in how things are done.
August 23, 201312 yr Cedar Fair Park? Want to not wait so long? Just buy Fast Lane Plus. Conveniently available now.
August 23, 201312 yr Not running all available trains could result from other circumstances that are not within the park's immediate control. In particular, that train you see on the transfer track may be having mechanical or technical problems that need more than one night to be fixed, or weather may be forcing them to run a reduced number of trains.
August 23, 201312 yr Which for some reason has happened far more frequently this year than ever before at Holiday World? Really?
August 23, 201312 yr That was aimed more at Tr0y's comments about Cedar Point operations. The situation at HW is more than a bit puzzling.
August 23, 201312 yr Troy said it was more than just MF. Not a one off. Several coasters running reduced trains at once could very well be a weather issue.
August 23, 201312 yr Nope here is a picture from when i was there yesterday, it was sunny millennium force was a 15 minute wait.
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