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Top Thrill Dragster Possibly Down for the Rest of the Year!

Skyscraper

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The catch car collided with the brake fins, ripping them out! :eek::oops:

Source: www.coastercrazy.com/forums/top-thrill-dragster-possibly-down-for-rest-of-season-t37124.html

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The relationship between Cedar Fair and Intamin is like that between a Guy and his Mother in Law.
 
I know it might be a stupid question but what is the catch car? Is it the train itself or the mechanism in the track that launches said train?
 
The catch car is something attached to the launch cable which catches with something underneath one of the cars on the train and helps to launch it.
 
I'd love to know how it happened, as (we all know) the brake fins are supposed to retract before the catch car launches.
 
Hold on tight, YOU MUST ESCAPE...
...GO GO GO!

Tasteless jokes aside, I kinda hope they do close Rita, will give thirteen a better queueline atmosphere!

Stealth on the other hand...:(
 
It hardly runs anyway! These rides are a liability and have demonstrated as such time after time.

skyscraper said:
I'd love to know how it happened, as (we all know) the brake fins are supposed to retract before the catch car launches.
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That's fairly inconsequential. The catch car is free to move irrespective of the position of the brakes (it returns to the launch area when the brakes are in the 'up' position, after all). This only happens when the catch car or the cable is somewhere where it shouldn't be.

Plus, those brakes might be catch car brakes rather than rolling stock brakes?

I've never seen a park with a more dedicated maintenance team. If they can find a way to get it open for Halloweekends, I imagine they probably will. That thing is a 'maintenance challenge' though, to use the corporate phrase.
 
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What they are saying on coastercrazy is its the brakes that slow the catch car down, not the brakes that retract to allow the train to be launched, I’ve got no idea if that’s correct
 
That site needs a max age restriction.. My dad read it and now has decided that ALL launched coasters are death traps AND...that a catch car...is an empty ride car...that goes around the track!
IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!!!!!!!!!
and that top thrill dragster, crashed into this catch ride car.

In my dads mind, they put riders on the catch car (by what he assumes is pure sadism)...and everyone died!

Yay for old people logic!
 
Rick said:
I've never seen a park with a more dedicated maintenance team. If they can find a way to get it open for Halloweekends, I imagine they probably will. That thing is a 'maintenance challenge' though, to use the corporate phrase.
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You weren't wrong!



Looks like they are trying to get it up and running again ASAP. Impressive as I am sure most parks would have just written it off for the season.

:)
 
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