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Great Adventure Boards => Great Adventure Chit Chat => Topic started by: ChuckR on May 06, 2006, 12:06:11 AM
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Good news everyone! Chiller Blue is open for business and I got 7 rides on it tonight and it was flying!
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so glad I had to work :x
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so glad I had to work :x
Ha Ha Joe... I feel the same way... I was having one of the worst nights at work, and I kept getting text massages and phone calls saying things like "Chiller Blue is open" "The park is dead" "Batman Chiller is almost hitting the breaks at the top"
Thanks to all who called me to tell this. You made my night sooo much better! :twisted:
Rob - Just joking around. :lol:
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Speaking of Batman:The Chiller, When i headed for it, Chuck happened to be there waiting for it to open, we got on the First Train in 2 YEARS! It was awsome but it was ashame it broke down way too much last night...
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We finally get to ride Chiller blue again but we lose Kingda Ka for a while. :roll:
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I am actually reading that Chiller Blue was closed today?
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I believe it was a soft opening meaning alot of inspections to make sure its working for the long run....Robin I fear is going to suffer downtime though! I also believe I heard both sides were closed?
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Robin did open mid-afternoon. Which could indicate they were going over Batman after running it the night before and couldn't run Robin at the same time. I find it interesting as well that the trians were out back. Those that were there Friday night will remember the freaky launch problem Batman had. Perhaps they are looking at the station LIMs?
Anyway, even though the thread states its open, you still won't know if it will be open on your particular visit until you get there. At least for now.
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I was at the park from 10:30-12:30 today and Batman did not launch once. However, Robin was pretty consistent.
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Yeah, I was there from 3-6pm and it was closed as well.
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Hmmm what could possibly be wrong with Batman?
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From what I hear, its nothing to be all that concerned about ;)
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Reliable sources say: Open!
Yes, Batman: The Chiller was open today Thursday May 11th.
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Both sides were running?
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Yep. :)
Gotta love it, hopefully it stays open this time.
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Brian (twistedrails) just proclaimed both sides up and running, not launching at the same time though but still meeting during the launch and cobra roll. A rare shot indeed.
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It was indeed running tonight and I got a nice 22 rides on it tonight!
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What is with you and absurd ride totals!? :o
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They kicked me off! :o
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Nice to know someone in the station had some sense. :P
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Chuck, you call 22 times healthy? They must of had to bring the Jaws of Life in just to get you off the ride :P
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I got the fortune of having 6 BTR rides on Thursday. It was running great, and as soon as it hit the breaks, Robin was already in the Cobra Roll! It was amazing, and I kind of wish a line didn't start to form! :lol:
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What can I say B:TC is amazing!
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It is. Too bad they had not yet opened it when I was there in the morning.
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So what's the latest on the ride now?? I heard today from a few people that it was closed (Monday) Any truth behind this?
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^ True, it wasn't running yesterday. Today, who knows ? I guess it's back to "when you get to the park you'll find out" . Or when you don't get to the park, someone will tell you they rode it 22 times.
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That's awesome.
Still not sure if we will get to GADV this year ... but if we do I can't wait to ride Batman side.
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^ True, it wasn't running yesterday. Today, who knows ? I guess it's back to "when you get to the park you'll find out" . Or when you don't get to the park, someone will tell you they rode it 22 times.
Thats why I did ride it 22 times, because who knows when it will close again and for how long.
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Thats why I did ride it 22 times, because who knows when it will close again and for how long.
Well I can pretty much guarantee that it will not open next friday since I am planning to be at the park. B:TC has never run when I've been at the park, I'm getting desperate to get a ride on it.
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Oh my god this is sooo exciting!! cause now on friday i can go on my all time favorite ride! see i live like 14 min away soo i go all the time, now with this ride open i will be going more, also i am applying for a job in the summer soo this will make my life better haha i cant wait to ride it..... thanks for the update people......
do u think eltoro will be open by friday??? cause the same thing happened with kingdaka they said a date and it never happened!
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Well, sorry to bum down your day LOL but Batman side of Chiller has once again been plagued by problems. They aren't serious but I suspect they are putting all attention this week on Toro, Ka, RT, Tango and the entire Plaza del Carnaval section. So B:TC may not be running again until sometime next week.
If El Toro is going to open this weekend, this site will be one of the first to know so stay tuned :)
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Along with GAInsider which pretty much goes hand in hand with this site. :D Im going to the park on Friday so I'll get some shots of Chiller and and not. Ill try to get a pic of the train on the inside.
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yea! i hope eltoro and kk is opened because im bringing my sis and her roommate her roomate has never been there sooo i hope on friday it is opened
:P
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Toro is probably not going to be ready for Friday. Hopefully, and it seems that Ka will be fixed by then. Chiller on the other hand is a flip of the coin. It's been on and off since it's been fixed. Mid-summer everything should be up and running full stregnth.
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B:TC will be ignored till KK is fixed and Toro is testing IMO, again its put to the bottom of the priority list where it has been for the last few years
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While B:TC is at the bottom of the list, they are working on it. Expect at least 2 more weeks :(
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Chiller Blue lives once again.
(photo from amusementpics.com) Thanks GAcoaster!
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It was testing today. This is the most confusing ride I've ever seen.
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Nice to see but I'm still reluctant to say its opening soon. Hopefully it does but I'm still not sure. Thanks for the heads up!
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:-[ Forgot to name the source. My bad.
Yeah, as long as it's testing I feel the hope is there. When it's dormant it just feels like last season and it's never going to open.
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Yes it will be open today according to my source which is extremely reliable. Chiller Blue was cycling as the park closed yesterday and my source said that it will be open today.
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haha... well, that doesn't say much for my source LOL I'm glad to hear it is opening but there are still some bugs to work out with this ride. It is exciting to see them actually run it though to try and work them out.
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There are reports all over the web of Chiller Blue opening today. Looks like I have an excuse to go back!
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Don't get your hopes up to much. They were cycling the rides today a few times before they did open it up to everyone. Instead of taking a picture, I instead ran to the line so please forgive me on that.
About the 2nd ride full of people, the train stopped about 20 feet short of the docking station when it was coming to an end. Workers had to manually push it back and there was a lot of confusion between themselves and with them and us on if the next launch would have people or not. It took about 10 minutes to figure out, it was a fairly commical experience, since you would see people sitting down in the train, then getting up and walking to the exit area, then decide to go back on. This was happening with almost every row at some point. Here is a picture of when this was all going on:
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It ended up being down for like half of the day. I was too busy to note the time it was when it stopped running, but once it closed, it didn't reopen. It was running pretty fast while it was open. It was going maybe half a train legnth higher on the spike than Robin.
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It ended up being down for like half of the day. I was too busy to note the time it was when it stopped running, but once it closed, it didn't reopen. It was running pretty fast while it was open. It was going maybe half a train legnth higher on the spike than Robin.
The picture I took was time stamped at 4:59, and roughly 20-30 minutes later was the last ride (which I rode in the back seat).
I can't say for 100% accuracy, but I'm fairly postive they opened the ride around 4:30 since my 2 trips over to this area of the park (including my ride on Robin at 1:30) that Batman hadn't ran before that. When I was on Robin, there was no ride operators and no workers on the Batman side.
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Oh. I was working a night shift, so I didn't even get into the park until 3:00. When I walked to my area, Chiller Blue was running strong. Possibly a bit too strong.
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Alrighty then, unfortunately it seems my source was more right than I thought LOL
I'm really surprised (pleasantly) that they took this extra effort to attempt to reopen it to the public. However, I still stand by what I said - the ride still has issues to be worked out. Too much speed on the spike is probably the most important one ;)
I will say, you are in for one heck of a ride if you sneak a ride while it is open. The speed difference is AMAZING between Robin and Batman. There is no comparison.
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Well, just called my friend that was at the park today. He's inline for B:TC and says it's running fairly consistantly. Good news.
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I got on it today. It was awesome, in less than an hour I got on everything I wanted. Tango first with a walk on, the Rolling Thunder 3rd row with a two train wait, then Batman the Chiller with a two train wait. Later I even got to see El Toro test. Sadly, I didn't have a good view but it did fly over the hills.
Batman the Chiller ran pretty much all day too.
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btc was running at 5pm when I left today
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Ahhh of course it ran after we left! Thanks for the update though Tom, maybe I will swing by tomorrow to finally ride it after 2 years or waiting.
And to think, we waited unti labout 4:30 to catch a ride on it.. :(
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They must have figured out what was wrong with it.... I mean where to get more staff ;)
It did run solid most of the day yesterday which was impressive to see. It still does get very high on that spike though.
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^ I guess the lead op wasn't Lying about it after all.
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They must have figured out what was wrong with it.... I mean where to get more staff ;)
It did run solid most of the day yesterday which was impressive to see. It still does get very high on that spike though.
Wasnt that the whole problem to begin with which is why it was closed?
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It was open last night, I got another ride on it. I am leaving soon to the park now to see if its running.
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Yes it was open TOday (Wed.) Blue only.
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I went on B:TC for the first time on Monday. I have to say that the tophat is great.8)
The launch is pretty forceful, and the zero-g roll was lots of fun. Glad to see that it's finally open!
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Yes it was open TOday (Wed.) Blue only.
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Wow. Six Flags learns that B:TC is better!
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Actually today (wednesday) both tracks were open Robin and Batman!
I saw the two actually going at the same time not launching at the same time but Robin was on the way back when Batman was launching, both in their loops. Too bad my camera is slow and cant take pictures fast, it missed it :[ although i did get some cool pictures of eltoro testing today!!!! it was great
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Alright now lets just hope they can stay running together!
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When did this happen? When I was there on Tuesday and Wednesday, it looked to be going really slow and only making it half way up the spike... hate to say I told you so. :)
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Anybody got any pictures of the valley? Haha isnt it suppose to be Batman that valleys? :P
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All I gotta say is that they better keep the Batman side going and they don't take any of its LIM's for Robin...
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Well it seems Chiller just cannot run smoothly for more then a month, lets just hope this is nothing too serious and that it can be fixed easily! Like chuck said, they better not take LIMS from Batman, cause then its De Ja Vu all over again! :'(
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/\ Apparantly not. Both sides are closed until further notice.
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Lovely. Just lovely.
I finally get close to getting back to my beloved park...and...! :)
Next you will tell me Rolling Thunder has termites, and they discovered them while building El Toro!
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Oh man i got one ride on batman on wednesday and now both are closed what happened!! i cant even believe that this happened they both worked fine like two days ago!!!
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Every single Premier launch coaster is shut down for various reasons right now. This isn't "Just" because Robin vallied.
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Every single Premier launch coaster is shut down for various reasons right now. This isn't "Just" because Robin vallied.
Other parks, too?
What about the Flights of Fear? Ooops, THE Flight of Fear?
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^Yep. Closed. Something happened with Freeze in Stl. with hitting a wire and all LIM launches are down til further notice for inspections.
Nothing really anyone could've done to prevent this valley honestly.
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Here is some additional information I located: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_&_Robin:_The_Chiller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_&_Robin:_The_Chiller)
"On June 2, 2006, there was an accident on the ride in which one of the tires on the last car of the roller coaster fell off while it was being pulled up. The worst injury occurred in the last car, in which someone broke their arm."
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That cannot be good...
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Wow, thats interesting. I wonder where they got that info? Not good at all if its true.
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I could edit Wikipedia right now. I don't trust that at all.
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I hear that Flight of Fear at Kings Island did close this morning but is now open again.
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This is a direct statement from the park regarding yesterdays incident on Chiller and has been posted here with permission. We will share more info as we get it. PLEASE do not blow this out of proportion!
At approximately 12:15 p.m., a train on one of our coasters stopped
during its cycle. The train was 8-10 feet above the ground with 20
passengers on board. Maintenance and safety personnel immediately
responded. Within 15 min. all guests were unloaded from the ride.
Our maintenance and engineering teams will conduct a thorough
investigation to determine exactly what caused the coaster to stop. All
safety systems functioned properly.
Has this ever happened before - No
The train sustained some damage, but our engineers are out there as we
speak conducting an investigation to determine exactly what caused the
coaster to stop.
The ride will remain shut down, we've notified the state and will keep
the ride closed until they have inspected the ride and cleared it to
open.
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I am CERTAIN Great Adventure will, as it always does, do whatever is necessary to operate the rides safely.
Great Adventure is a fine park. I agree. This incident should not be blown out of proportion.
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Wade, thanks for the official news. Being my favourite coaster at the park, it makes me sad but I hope they get it back up and running soon. Hopefully in time for Coaster Celebration.
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I guess one of the "tires" in the back row didn't fall off. ::)
Told ya Wikipedia was a load of ballocks.
So Batman will be closed too? :'(
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If you mean Batman as in Batman and Robin, yes...
Batman the Ride should be unaffected...
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Well, I guess on a positive note, at least they got Batman working again so it can reopen once Robin is out of the way :)
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It was sad to walk by Chiller tonight and see it all wrapped up. It is wierd not to hear the loud noise from the train near it.
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I do have a photo of the train covered in a big white tarp sitting in the valley but i do not know how to post it . I wasn't at the park until later in the day well after the incident happened and didn't even know about it till we went over to that side of the park after 8 pm.
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Upload the photo to a free photo hosting site such as www.imageshack.us or www.tinypic.com, then in your post put the URL between 'img' tags.
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i give it one or 2 more seasons.
its becoming a huge liability anymore
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We don't know what happened yet. I'm not going to jump to conclusions with this ride.
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I honestly think that the only people that know are chiller ops and park mgt. But if its something this serious nothing can ever get out cause of legal issues. Guess we are just gonna have to wait. Hopefully we find out something soon.