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traffic count will be fine... We get school out for summer, weather breaks.. 3 hour wait lines for TT.. Get ready!! Its coming.......
what does a cool rainy day on Branson on a sunday mean...??
1800 people at SDC>!!>
A few things I'd like to slightly (maybe more) disagree with.
The photo op on the way in is not a forced photo op. It is in the line, but they aren't forcing people to take photos and I haven't had any issues with them letting us skip it. They've been very very polite and friendly about it. A notable change from the way they were in the past. (oh, and with the new $60 unlimited photo downloads in a year they are now offering, I won't be skipping it anymore either)
Second, the ride is not a lemon. it is not the ride's fault when you are choosing to be there on a day that it never gets out of the low 40's temperature wise, and unfortunately that's been true more weekends than not. And most of opening week as well.
There have been some issues. All new coasters have them, and especially new models. Have we forgotten how much downtime Outlaw Run had when it opened, and problems? A lot. But no one is calling it a lemon. And weather has played a major role in them not having an opportunity to sort out some of the small glitches that new rides have. hard to do when you can't run it because it's to cold to operate.
Out of 4 visits to the park already this year, today was the first day I didn't see it running. And I didn't expect it to run when the high today was only supposed to be a degree above it's shut down operating temperature. the other days it ran consistently the whole time I was there. (well, except for media day, but that's because it was being delayed by cameras and filming, not operations or bugs)
It's normal to take 2-4 months to work all of those little things out of a coaster. For years now I've strongly recommended people to not plan a trip around one new coaster within the first month or two of it's operating life. Far to great a chance it won't be going for various tuning up issues, and TT is no exception to that rule. (And for the record I've seen an experienced that with ShieKra at BGT, Manta at Sea World, Outlaw Run here, even Scream at SFMM had a rough first month, and multiple other coasters over the years as well.)
The line is to the sign because of the forced photo op at the bottom of the steps