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I'm no engineer, but can't they just get Superman to push it around the rest of the track? He does it all the time with the other coaster.

Safe to assume when a major attraction has a significant issue that is both rare and unexpected that the manufacturer would be across the situation and providing advice to the park. You don’t get to the level of acclaim Mack has in the industry by wiping your hands of a $30m ride once the handover is done.

We don’t, but it would be highly likely that they did. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the parks are constantly in talks with manufacturers

Yeah. Rip it off. Don't contact the manufacturer and use their advice and expertise in developing a plan or anything. Just wing it.

Everything that's being done is in full consultation and with guidance from the manufacturer. The risk aversion of both Village and Mack is almost unrivalled in this industry, so it's crazy to think that anyone is making this up as they go along or that no one thought of seemingly simple ideas such as disassembling the train. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous it's taking this long, but everything so far suggests that this is a really tricky problem to solve. What's worked for other rides and manufacturers obviously won't work here. They wouldn't have left it fixed halfway up the non-inverting loop after the weekend's efforts. Whether it was always intended as a dry run, or they encountered issues along the way, they're not going to walk away from cranes loaded with several tonnes of roller coaster train for any significant amount of time. However unlikely this situation is, this might well have been a problem waiting to happen. The non-inverting loop is the slowest moment of the entire ride (45km/hr at its highest point), and the hill preceding it is shorter in height (38.2m vs 39.3m), which effectively means that if it loses too much speed between the top of the lift hill and the top of the loop, then it's going to valley in this spot. If the preceding hill were taller and/or the loop shorter, then each high point would effectively reset its potential energy and ability to complete the course. (Stats from here)

Building and queue painting has begun There are new garden beds and lawn area New sign to come for entrance No more progress on the tower itself. I believe the few weeks of bad weather in winter caused delays and the workers scheduled to the work had to go to other jobs and will be back to complete it

We have to remember that each train is worth millions of dollars. So you don’t just start pulling apart such a thing without procedure and planning.

At least have them as retractable .. for windy days and empty trains!

Maybe its time to remove the trim brake fins from the first hill... Just saying!

@Dean BarnettI've read his post multiple times, at no point was he suggesting kicker wheels, nor did he come close to doing so. Hope that helps!

Hopefully an air con upgrade is part of the project

That shed is going to be a sweltering hot box in summer... Bring your antiperspirant boys

Do we know that they asked Mack for their opinion?

I feel like this carries more logic than the current method they're attemping. I know our parks aren't anything like the bohemiths of Europe and America - but when Gatekeeper valleyed at Cedar Point in 2019 (whilst loaded) they had the stuck train off the track the next day and it reopened the day after that. If the other DCR train is operational - I'm really perplexed why they're going with a pull through attempt .. even if you can't get 2 trains running - one train is a hella lot better than one of your people eaters being closed for a school holiday period. You'd only need one crane and its heaps faster than attempting a pull through.

So whats with the TOW still there and no painting? Is this the workers that need to come back referred to above?

I had a look today. Whatever water slides had been previously built have actually been taken down and new fibreglass is wrapped up in the car park.