Originally Posted By Darkbeer Well, all the testing went well over the weekend (well, there is one thing I will mention later), and the ride was opened for guests this morning. As far as I understand it, it will remain operational for guests the entire week, of course, subject to the normal closures due to mechinical/safety issues. So you have a pretty good chance of getting to ride it all this week (It was scheduled to open on Friday). Now, there was a problem with the Matterhorn Sunday night, let me post something I got from a "friend"... >>There was suppposed to be a Cast-Member opening last night (Sunday) after park closing for the Matterhorn, yet the rain ruined that and caused some problem they just found with the new sensor system. I guess the rain was triggering the sensors and the sensitivity was too high or something like that... So you might be prepared to find the Mattherhorn closed if it starts to rain...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Thank you Darkbeer, duckling. I don't suppose a witch would be inclined to ride the Matterhorn in the rain, anyway. Usually my sisters and I avoid outdoor attractions like that whenever we see signs of a drip. ORGOCH: Well Good Lord, sister, yer the biggest drip of 'em all! If'n I stayed off a ride ev'ry time I saw yerself loomin' 'round the bend, I wouldn't ride a thing! So speak fer yerself! ORWEN: Sometimes it's really kind of fun to ride rollercoasters in the rain. I enjoy dodging rain drops. ORGOCH: Like as if that was ever possible, blubber buns! As spread out as ya is, how's even ONE rain drop gonna miss a raw hyde like yers?! (Sounds of slaps, moans and groans...)
Originally Posted By TinksBestFriend Any information on the monorail - scheduled to reopen on Friday?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Monorail looks to reopen on the 22nd, maybe the 21st if we are lucky....
Originally Posted By drawbridge Darkbeer - do you know if monorail will stay open or then re-close in January as previously reported?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^As I understand it, the Monorail will remain open, though running in "Shuttle" mode for the first half of 2007.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Old trains for the first half of 2007, one of the reasons they will run it in shuttle mode, they only need one train on the tracks.... The other two are still in Canada.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Aren't there 4 trains? (Blue, red, purple, and orange) What happened to the fourth, or will they have two at the park, in case there are problems with one of them?
Originally Posted By oc_dean 1 of them was completely dismantled and examined to the smallest detail, in order to build brand new parts from scratch.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Can they not put it back together or at least make a new one? It seems like a bad plan to completely destroy one every time they want to make new designs for the cars. I really don't seem them using that as a feasable solution for the problem that they have.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer There are 2 trains currently at the park, Red and Purple. They will use one of the two, and have the other as backup.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Am I correct in assuming that there will eventually be 4 trains again at some point (it may be in a year or two)?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The plan as I know it is to build Three new Monorails, and have two in service at any one time.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, I hope they don't ever want to update them again, because the way they are doing it, they would only get 2 monorails back. It seems like a horribly inefficient system to me, but what do I know, I'm only an engineer.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I would assume that after completely dismantling one for measurements (assuming that this is true), that they will now have the designs on file and would be able to create any additional parts or entire trains based on them.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros But will they ever be willing to spend the money to create a monorail train with so many custom parts? I think that is probably the reason that they didn't just make new ones, as that seems like it would be much easier than trying to recycle a 40 year old chasis.
Originally Posted By onlyme hmmmmmm......well, back to the Matterhorn... So, did it make it thru an entire day without breaking down? If so, that's a good start. I don't think I've been to DL in the past year when it hasn't broken down, at least, once.
