Odd Issue With Vortex

[flightoffear1996]

So I was at the haunt on Friday night and went to ride The Vortex at about 11:00. I was in line and heard a loud clang and saw the train jerk and the ride then closed after it cycled. Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen this issue. I have also seen the issue last year but it didn't close down after.

[Magenta Lizard]

Where was the train when it jerked?

I don't have an answer regardless, just curious.

[PKIVortex]

If it was on the lift it may have skipped a link in the chain.

[Hoeter]

I rode Vortex a little bit after 11pm on Friday. No issues from what I saw at that time.

Empty station for the most part which meant my girlfriend's first ride was in the Ron Toomer seat!

[Oldschool75]

Was running fine on Sunday.

Sent from a signal coming out of the Vega system.

[homestar92]

I rode Vortex a little bit after 11pm on Friday. No issues from what I saw at that time.

Empty station for the most part which meant my girlfriend's first ride was in the Ron Toomer seat!

As I discovered last season, there's actually a seat even better than the Toomer seat.

- homestar92, recent 7-1 convert (seriously, on the first drop, you get a pop of airtime that may just be the best in Ohio!)

[Hoeter]

I rode Vortex a little bit after 11pm on Friday. No issues from what I saw at that time.

Empty station for the most part which meant my girlfriend's first ride was in the Ron Toomer seat!

As I discovered last season, there's actually a seat even better than the Toomer seat.

- homestar92, recent 7-1 convert (seriously, on the first drop, you get a pop of airtime that may just be the best in Ohio!)

7-1 is actually my favorite seat on both Vortex and The Bat, and I agree with you about that first drop. Wow, what a rush.

Didn't want to scare the pants off of my girlfriend as it was her first ride. Hell, that first drop in 7-1 takes me by surprise most of the time.

Most of my rides this year actually have been in 7-1 but I wanted to take it easy on my girlfriend. She actually complained about head banging in 5-1.

Row 7 on Diamondback, Row 11 on The Beast, 5-1 on Vortex, Row 5 on Flight of Fear and yes, she sat in 8-4 on Banshee and absolutely LOVED IT!

[coasterfanatic83]

That is what I tell people when we go on Vortex. "Row 9 is the smoothest, but row 13 is the most fun." Whatever they choose from there is what I roll with.

[Magenta Lizard]

I hated Vortex from the very beginning. Back then, it was the "cool" one to ride (over Beast), because it was taller, newer, and steel. All it did for me was make me feel like I'd been in a prize fight, bouncing my head back and forth between the restraints. I only ever rode it if I was at the park with someone who really wanted to.

Until this year. I read about 5-1 here on the forums and gave it a try. I've ridden it a few times this summer, having surprisingly fun rides. I'm taller now, so the restraints don't obscure my view and bash my head like when I was younger.

Then, when I was at the park Sunday, it finally happened. As I was in the station waiting for The Bat to take off I had an actual craving to ride Vortex.

So I did. And had fun.

[PKIVortex]

I have been riding in 7-1 on Vortex for years.

[The Interpreter]

Shockwave at Six Flags Great America.

Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags New Jersey.

Drachen Fire at Busch Gardens: The Old Country.

Treasure Vortex.

[PKIVortex]

Hopefully Vortex won't suffer that fate anytime soon.

[BruceWayneWins]

I stopped riding The Vortex in June and I likely won't ride it ever again unless it's refurbished. It's the roughest ride in the park and makes The Beast feel like you're floating down a lazy river on a mattress. I wasn't able to ride it a single time this season without feeling pain or discomfort of some sort. The same goes for my friends. I couldn't even justify my nostalgia or my desire to ride it to my ex anymore.

[KIBeast]

I still love the first drop on Vortex. It always gets me right in the gut. Not too many coasters do that to me any more.

[homestar92]

No way Vortex is the roughest ride in the park. That honor goes to the parking lot. Seriously, there are potholes that could swallow my car!

But that's a different conversation for a different place and time.

[Hank]

So I was at the haunt on Friday night and went to ride The Vortex at about 11:00. I was in line and heard a loud clang and saw the train jerk and the ride then closed after it cycled. Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen this issue. I have also seen the issue last year but it didn't close down after.

Maybe it was that noise a coaster makes when it's sinking?

[CoasterOhio]

About the hole 5-1 thing, I've actually been riding Vortex there as well, and can actually walk away without a problem.

[flightoffear1996]

It was climbing the lift. When the train returned the operators said it was that one and closed the ride.

[AZ Kinda Guy]

Lazy ride ops.

[BavarianBeatle]

Shockwave at Six Flags Great America.

Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags New Jersey.

Drachen Fire at Busch Gardens: The Old Country.

Treasure Vortex.

I rode it the day it opened to the public in 1987. When its inevitable last day arrives, I hope to ride it on that day as well.

[homestar92]

Unless it meets a similar sort of demise as Geauga Lake.

I hope and pray that Kings Island wouldn't do that to us... But you never know. The Crypt went out in a similar fashion, so it's hard to say...

[The Interpreter]

See Wildcat. Cedar Point....

[marth555]

If they were to close Vortex im sure they would give it one last hurrah like Cedar Point is doing for Mantis

[The Interpreter]

Not if they don't know they are beforehand.

See Wildcat at Cedar Point.

Ride crews had even been hired for it....

[tuxedoman52]

If they were to close Vortex im sure they would give it one last hurrah like Cedar Point is doing for Mantis

Yes but instead of converting to floorless, convert it to a stand up! Oh boy wouldn't that be fun.

[Italian Job 2005]

From a Suspended Coaster to an Arrow Looper to a Stand-Up? And then if they used the same station that'd be three different coasters that have all used the same station at some point in time.

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[The Interpreter]

And they could call it ArgArgArg!

[tuxedoman52]

From a Suspended Coaster to an Arrow Looper to a Stand-Up? And then if they used the same station that'd be three different coasters that have all used the same station at some point in time.

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Suspended? I wasn't talking about suspended.

[The Interpreter]

The Bat, original, at the now Vortex station, was a suspended coaster.

[WindingSon]

I hated Vortex from the very beginning. Back then, it was the "cool" one to ride (over Beast), because it was taller, newer, and steel. All it did for me was make me feel like I'd been in a prize fight, bouncing my head back and forth between the restraints. I only ever rode it if I was at the park with someone who really wanted to.

Until this year. I read about 5-1 here on the forums and gave it a try. I've ridden it a few times this summer, having surprisingly fun rides. I'm taller now, so the restraints don't obscure my view and bash my head like when I was younger.

Then, when I was at the park Sunday, it finally happened. As I was in the station waiting for The Bat to take off I had an actual craving to ride Vortex.

So I did. And had fun.

I had the same this past Sunday. I was waiting for WindSeeker to get going, and listening to Vortex's lift made me excited to ride it. I had never ridden it before this year, and now I will likely never go to the park without trying to ride it. Normally I ride The Beast or Diamondback a few times per visit, but this time Vortex was the only ride to be ridden twice.

Before my second ride on Sunday, I had just gotten off an awful ride on The Racer (I was in an uncomfortable position and jammed the lap bar down too far), and I looked down the mall and Vortex just looked really fun to me. I had never experienced that before. The last few times I had been to the park, I felt like I rode Vortex because I should. Something clicked this last Sunday. I love riding Vortex now.