MarketingExpress Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 184 without moving from my seat I believe it. Believe me when you work at a ride long enough, you want to be remembered for something. I'm mainly remembered for... other things... Captin Nemo once rode Tomb Raider 34 times in a row. I once checked bars at Tomb Raider for 13 hours straight (open to close). That was mainly just so I could say I did. That way when ever a crew member would complain about being on bars for 2 hours I would just say: Look, if I can do it for 13 hours, you can do it for 2! I always thought that checking bars was more fun then anything else at TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Yea but as with anything there are always those that complain. Personally I enjoyed it, it was my favorite position to work at TR, especially when we didn't have antechamber. I'll admit working a double on bars made me very tired but other than that it still wasn't terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketingExpress Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 ^I like your thinking though. Not many people can complain about working a second hour at the position when you have worked 13 hours at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dvo Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 184 laps in one day? That's immense! That means that there are about 31 trains per hour (assuming this happened on a 10 am - 10 pm weekday. (184/12 = 15.3) Is that even possible? That means a train is departing faster than once every 2 minutes. And the ride itself is more than 2 minutes long. Did you get some extra rides in when the park wasn't in operation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketingExpress Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 184 laps in one day? That's immense! That means that there are about 31 trains per hour (assuming this happened on a 10 am - 10 pm weekday. (184/12 = 15.3) Is that even possible? That means a train is departing faster than once every 2 minutes. And the ride itself is more than 2 minutes long. Did you get some extra rides in when the park wasn't in operation? When I worked there we ran 3 trains and we easily got 40+ trains sometimes even 45+ trains out an hour(that's not even the record, which I also set with my first class crews I had working for me there). So yes it is possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 One of my best friends is the head sup at AE now and he said the same thing. He did all the math and in order to keep the train from settin up on lift 2 while running three trains, that there is less than a minute from the time that the train up-bars, to the time when the dispatch button is pressed. All in all he said that dispatch to dispatch [including bringing in the train, up bar, guests leaving, guests entering, down baring, checking bars, and the train leaving the station] all has to happen in right around 1 min 30 sec. With a class A crew [and all of the sups know who there class A crew is] great things can happen. Especially when things like power hours are involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Nemo Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Yeah, I hold the record for Tomb Raider. Thats why its says "honorary Record Holder" in my sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerow@bright.net Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 3 times. once forward twice backwards. my friend rode it one foward and once backward. he was chicken to go on it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Yeah, I hold the record for Tomb Raider. Thats why its says "honorary Record Holder" in my sig. That was all in seat 2 wasnt it? Either way it was in one of the 7 closed in the front right. I was there that day. I remember when you got off and how you felt, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketingExpress Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 One of my best friends is the head sup at AE now and he said the same thing. He did all the math and in order to keep the train from settin up on lift 2 while running three trains, that there is less than a minute from the time that the train up-bars, to the time when the dispatch button is pressed. All in all he said that dispatch to dispatch [including bringing in the train, up bar, guests leaving, guests entering, down baring, checking bars, and the train leaving the station] all has to happen in right around 1 min 30 sec. With a class A crew [and all of the sups know who there class A crew is] great things can happen. Especially when things like power hours are involved. It's actually 1 minute 23 seconds between a train leaving the station and clearing lift 1. Ah yes power hours were a blast, especially striving to get 60+ cycles on IJST. Remember those Nick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Oh yea, remember, "70" cycles on IJ, I never saw it, most I saw was 66. Course that was before the block system was changed and when the kicker wheels moved at full speed. Now with slowdown and transfer as one and the kicker wheels moving at only half speed they're lucky to get 50. You know they finally got an automatic capacity counter. Now you go to the count screen and just type how many emptys you had. Bout time. Those clickers were a pain and seemed to lie sometimes. You know last year we got an unheard of 12 cycles in one hour on Tomb Raider. Keep in mind that ride averages 6-7 per hour now without antechamber. We had to pull out all the stops for that one. We even had maintainence sync up the capacity clock with the control panel clock so we would know exactly when it dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2oo64ever Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 My name is Tyler Stebelton and me and my friend Kyle Risner Rode The Racer 113 times in a day beating Don Helbigs 112. We are still waiting on KI to contact us to make it officiall. We ran out of time after ride 113, but if there wasnt an hour rain delay we could have gotten 125 easily. that is just...wow...i dont think i would be able to handle that...and i dont like The Racer THAT much to ride it 113 times. thats crazyy though i rode the white water canyon 17 times without getting off it was pretty amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I bet after you got off Tomb Raider you were about to either lose your head to pain or puke your guts out. I ride it once and i get off feeling like the blood is still being rushed to my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I once rode Son of Beast 18 times in about 2 hours. I don't know if thats an accomplishment or not. This was back in 2004 before it was redone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trint2004 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 13 times in a row on Vortex and five of them we didnt have to get out of the train when it returned to the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Rider Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 My name is Tyler Stebelton and me and my friend Kyle Risner Rode The Racer 113 times in a day beating Don Helbigs 112. We are still waiting on KI to contact us to make it officiall. We ran out of time after ride 113, but if there wasnt an hour rain delay we could have gotten 125 easily. So has Kings Island contacted you about making it official that you broke the head of marketing's record for The Racer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dvo Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I once rode Son of Beast 18 times in about 2 hours. I don't know if thats an accomplishment or not. This was back in 2004 before it was redone. So you're a vegetable now, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKlockster Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 No way - Son of Beast was awesome. I haven't been on it since the alteration though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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