IndyGuy4KI

It would be cool to know the cost comparison for today on the same exact construction work.

The sun blocker chap stick seems to work well. I have not had the issue since? I forget to put any on most of the time. Although, it was like the 4th day of spending 4 to 5 hours in the water when it happened.

I know!!! when I saw them just walking around my stomach did flips..I was thinking to myself...HA! FORGET THAT...I know I wouldnt be able to do something like that...Im afraid of heights too much to do something that brave.. I hope they got hazard pay for that!! I wonder if their life insurance got automatically canceled or tripled in price?

I think I have seen people fold them up and place them in the bigger sections near the front and back of a car. I have never done it though.

Yeah, looks like 2 trains. The sun is making it hard to see inside the storage area, but I definitely see 2 on the track.

Thanks for sharing. The last time I was there I spent so much time in the water and did not sun screen my bottom lip, and it swelled up about 3 times the size the next morning. Hurt a lot and spend most of the day holding ice on it... Make sure you don't forget to sun screen your lips as well. I know you would not think they would get burned, but I learned the hard way.

This will be my first B&M as well. I hope it holds up to all the hype people have given them!! Cya There!

Welcome to KIC as a member!! Be careful, it will suck you in as you have seen in the above posts!

It seems the ride scared everyone, just not the way they were hoping.

Well seeing as that the park opens in just a bit more than a month, I can bet on it that they're testing ALL of their rides. Not all the attention goes to the new coaster lol. DB Blog confirms all of these posts... It's that time of year! March 14, 2009 While test runs on Diamondback continue, other rides in the park are awakening from a long winter's nap. The trains have been placed on the tracks of several of the park's coasters and initial testing has begun on rides such as Drop Tower. We hope you're as excited as we are to get the 2009 season started! - Don Helbig

It is going to be cool to ride DB at night don't you think? They have the station and splashdown lit up nicely. I was thinking the same thing goofy on the queue area, but I have been wrong before..

Interesting, never would have thought that?

I don't believe they park any train on the lifts. When they had the campground I used to camp there a lot and was right next to Flight Desk sometimes camping and never saw them park a train on the lift at night. Secondly, Vortex has storage for 2 and I am guessing the 3rd train stays in the station. Flight Deck has storage track for both trains if I am not mistaken. Yes they do, but when I worked in '07 they always parked one of Flight Deck's trains on the lift. Vortex they left one in the station and one on each of the breakruns. They would put them in the sheds if it was pouring rain or something, but why would they go through the trouble of putting trains in shed if they could just leave them out and save the work. I never saw that, but the campground has been gone for some time. I agree with you. They are going to be used again in 12 hours why move them. For FD though, I still don't understand why they would not run a train around the track and leave it on the brake run and leave the other in the station? There has to be a reason for that?

I don't believe they park any train on the lifts. When they had the campground I used to camp there a lot and was right next to Flight Desk sometimes camping and never saw them park a train on the lift at night. Secondly, Vortex has storage for 2 and I am guessing the 3rd train stays in the station. Flight Deck has storage track for both trains if I am not mistaken.

The station is really taking shape, get that queue line and inspection done and they will be ready open the doors!!

Mine as well..

I see a snake coming out of storage for testing...

http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/....xml&coll=2 I noticed that the article did not give the parks website. I wonder why that is?

Yes, let it break now, not later. I am wondering if they have to test a car being on the lift for a certain amount of time? Seems like a reasonable test to me in case a car has to be stopped on the lift for any reason during the season.

Just pulled train # 3 out of the stoage shead. Must be going to test it for a while.

To me the first hill on SOB is great, then it just beats the daylights out of you. I only ride it about every other visit.

I take it you not a fan of SOB?

Not a splash for sure!

I didn't say I thought it was there for breaking, just curoious about the effect on the speed of the train that is all. Let us hope that it is not there just to break, or even used for breaking that would be bad. Let's just hope that it is in fact there to brake the train's speed! OH, I guess my brain was taking a break from the word braking.... Thanks!

I didn't say I thought it was there for braking, just curoious about the effect on the speed of the train that is all.