I definitely think it will be fun but I agree that the hype isn’t quite there for me compared to the original ride (and how is Top Thrill 2 the best they could come up with after all of this time?). I’ll reserve judgment until I can ride, but I really hope the LSM launches are sufficiently forceful. While the rear spike sounds awesome, it’s lacking the big draw of gaining all of the speed in a single, powerful launch.
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There are so many times we want parks to keep the nostalgia factor..... And the one time we want it to distance it's self from its former they make it wreak in a horrible horrible stench of poorly done nostalgia.
There's really no reason TTD couldn't live on as it was other then CF wanting to stick it to Intamin. It's like the child that gets mad and punishes himself thinking he's proving a point.
When it was all but confirmed to be a swing launch, I was kind of hoping they’d sneak an airtime hill in the launch track like on Pantheon. Maybe it would be a bit too much at >100 mph, but that hill on Pantheon hits HARD going backwards.
That is exactly what I was hoping and, in my mind, that was going to be it's saving grace..... And it's not there 😞
The only positive thing I can say about the name is this makes RMC look like naming creative geniuses and I previously would have said their names were worst in the business. As for the new ride experience, this just looks meh. There will still be no air time, calling the part after the first launch a "rollback" is a complete joke, capacity will be terrible, and it won't be fun to watch anymore. I also think it's funny CP thinks going with Zamperla, a company who has never done anything remotely close to this ambitious, is going to fix reliability issues.
So I recently just got on Ka and Stormrunner recently, after missing TTD by a week, and xcelerator at knots the previous 2 years. And I don't know, the top hat seems to play second fiddle to the absolute batshit insane launch. Like, you could launch me to 120mph and then hit the brake run and I still think it'd be like, 60-70% as good. The top speed is sick though, and I do love the reverse spike on like say Mr freeze. I'm sure it'll be a blast, but Im mostly curious about throughput with 3 trains.
Also, does anyone think they had this being planned out as far back as removing wicked twister? They seem like kinda similar layout wise, and would look similar in the skyline. Still cool though.
After KD killed Volcano I was pretty certain TTD was next. Tons of people keep asserting that the accident sparked all of this but I honestly believe that the only thing it did was accelerate the timetable. Much like Disney used the pandemic as cover to destroy their pass system in a way they wanted to but couldn't find an excuse to do so I think CP used the accident as a cover for what they were already planning. I don't know if this is specifically what they were planning but something was in the works..... It may well have been just a plain old removal but Zamperla stepped in with an idea. I also don't think the removal of Wicked Twisted was figured into this equation but was just a victim of the same de-intaminizing that cedar fair is venturing into.
I still maintain that TT2 would be a great ride if it were built somewhere else from scratch but building it on the corpse of an absolutely bat shit crazy incredible ride even by today's standards is going to make this fall short and the fact that they are leaning into this being the same ride by not really changing the name is only amplifying that problem. I personally don't think I can ever traverse that same launch track at 74mph and not remember the stupid force that the ride once had..... Maybe the top hat aspect will become more noticeable but the shadow of that hydraulic launch is going to be there for enthusiasts and, honestly, I think a lot of the general public as well..... It's going to have it's fans but it'll never be what CP is hoping it will be and the potential for the same headaches they had the first 5 years of TTD's operation will come back on a system that they don't know as well -- and, frankly, I doubt Zamperla will know as well.