Another incident involoving Dragster!

[Hmrapp]

 

Recently an incident on Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. It appears that the catch car collided with the magnetic brakes, destroying a part of the ride. As many know, the coaster has developed a bad wrap due to its EXTREME amounts of downtime.  This can't help Intamin's already fractured relationship Cedar Fair. 

 

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[VekomaRulz]

I think something similar happened to Kingda Ka a few weeks after opening and it was closed for around 3 months after that. 

[silver2005]

CF may not go to Intamin for new rides, but they still need them for parts and upkeep of rides.  

[Ian Tags]

I am sure that they'll try to get it open asap if they have the parts available. It sucks when a major ride like TTD has the possibility to be down for the rest of the season. Is this similar to what happened at Knott's with Xcelerator or was that something majorly different..?

[Mr. Coastermania]

If I'm correct it was a cable that broke. 

 

[flightoffear1996]

Hopefully this was durning testing and no one was hurt 

[McSalsa]

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I hate to bear bad-ish news, but apparently this was while the ride was open with people on it. Thankfully in good news, no injuries. Though due to the damage done the ride may well be closed until next season from what I am hearing.

Edit: Missed that post #1 also confirms the ride being closed. Sorry, brain fart!

[Cmhornblessed]

Glad that this does not seem to happen at KI to much. Perhaps a product of only having one intamin ride (correct me if I am wrong).

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[McSalsa]

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Kings Island has more than one Intamin. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure they made all of these:

Eiffel Tower

White Water Canyon

Viking Fury

Congo Falls

Drop Tower: Scream Zone

...and there may be more smaller rides I just am forgetting/not thinking about.

[SonofBaconator]

I think its scary how a ride manufacturing company can be the source of so many accidents and even scarier that the company acknowledges this and treats it as normal. I'm sorry but I'll stick to Mack, B&M, RMC, GCI or literally any other company for my thrills. 

[KIBeast]

Oddly enough, I am finding no news of a TTD accident on any site other than this one. No link to any articles. No news report either, which is strange as the media usually jumps on this kind of thing. Nothing on Screamscape or Coasterbuzz or any mention of it on Cedar Point's web site. No disrespect, but just curious as to why this is unreported as of now. When I click on the pic in the quote, it takes me to a web page. When I click on the thread about TTD, it comes up as unavailable. 

Edit** The only place I can find any information is on Pointbuzz, and folks there are a bit skeptical about the validity of the claim. However, some have said they saw maintenance men working on the track.

[Creed Bratton]

I've seen a couple of "news" websites created by some fanboys who claim the ride to be down for the rest of the season based on what they've seen and what they interpret. 

It's not uncommon for maintenance men to be working on a ride, especially if the ride is down, they are working on something, and/or observing something. 

People want to be the first to break the "news" that really isn't news.

[KIBeast]

To me, the pictures in the first post do not indicate anything out of the ordinary. That could be some inspecting going on by the maintenance crew there. 

[Magenta Lizard]

I saw pics of some sort of metal plates that looked half-melted on some fanboy site at some point, but have no idea of what they were from for certain. 

If the posters at Pointbuzz are skeptical, frankly so am I. People always want to break news first, which often makes it illegitimate because of the lack of vetting. 

[TheRickster]

Yeah, there are some pics that got leaked. The brake fins were damaged in some capacity on the launch run. But I'm not going to speculate as to what happened or what caused it. The ride broke, the safety systems in place worked just as they should and the worst thing is some people were inconvenienced.

Something to mention is that even when the ride malfunctioned people were still safe. There are tons of redundancies designed into these things to make sure even in un-thought of circumstances people are safe.

[FoF96"]

Kings Islands Intamins are mostly flat rides and with the exception of the Rapids Ride, most Intamin flats have a workhorse reputation with very little downtime.  

[Kenban]

The brake fins which were damaged have nothing to do with the train.  The catch car has its own set of brake fins because just like the train it is going 120+ MPH.  The issue appears to be a misalignment caused the catch car to slam into the fins.

Downtime is going to likely be based on part availability.  Which is why Kingda Ka had the long downtime, they did not have enough brake fins and had to order more.

[rhyano]

People are saying it'll be closed until the end of the season, I very much doubt that, as TTD employees are all still scheduled to be at TTD Friday, I don't think it'll be up that soon, but they have not moved them so there's a chance. 

[KIBeast]

https://twitter.com/RideThisOne/status/912308093068886016/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fscreamscape.com%2Fhtml%2Fcedar_point.htm

Here's a link to those pictures in question. Never heard of this twitter account or group.