Theme Park Insight

It has surfaced that Maverick will in fact not open this Saturday to the public like the rest of the park will but instead has been delayed till mid June.

The reason?

Intamin and Stengel's love child has some strange and irregular issues. After some more testing it is clear that some of the ride's track is settling in as expected. Maverick's bitter-sweet, post-launch 360-degree heartline roll has stirred up some problem. The problems could be very varied but the most likely fault is due to the intesity of the roll located shortly after the rides 70mph launch. To much stress is being but on the track and trains by the roll. Forgetting the fact that roll will most likely decapitate willing maverick riders Intamin, IntaRide or Stengel(ride engineer/designer) would have already calculated the stress accurately. But it appears not, his engineering skills can now easily be compared to some of the late Togo's standards. Well maybe not exactly.


While I applaud Itamin for taking a radical route in building their latest and greatest thrill rides- well compared to B&m's orthodox and tired ideas; yet has Maverick been in the now (thank God)defunct Arrow class of construction?

Now there are two options available to Cedar Point. Either modify, the heartline roll or replaced it with some fascinatingly dull straight track and just hope the ride works from there on.

This type of issue is very rare, and no coaster pops to my mind that had to be re-tracked before it even opened but we will just have to wait and see if this ends up like the first 4d coaster; a proudly Arrow inovation.

Labels: Cedar Point, Heartline-roll, Intamin, LSM Launch, Maverick

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