Top Thrill Dragster wheel accident

by **Drkstarboard** on February 4th, 2006, 12:57 pm

I downloaded a Top Thrill Dragster video from a site (It's a good video too). There was a discription of the video before you chose to download it. The description went something like this:

This video has all the themeing on still (the back wheels, and the engine, etc). This was the same day of the wheel accident, however we left before it happens.

Does anyone know what the wheel accident was? How it happened? Anything?

by **FRD714** on February 4th, 2006, 1:01 pm

Havnt heard anything. Did it say when teh video was taken. This could be very old.

by **Drkstarboard** on February 4th, 2006, 1:13 pm

Can't be too old since it was built in 2003. It was before they added the lights on the tower. There was only one set of lights on the tower.

Copyright: 2003

by **FRD714** on February 4th, 2006, 1:14 pm

Drkstarboard wrote:Can't be too old since it was built in 2003. It was before they added the lights on the tower. There was only one set of lights on the tower.

Copyright: 2003

Can I get a link to the video?

by **zjohn1988** on February 4th, 2006, 2:21 pm

Drkstarboard wrote:I downloaded a Top Thrill Dragster video from a site (It's a good video too). There was a discription of the video before you chose to download it. The description went something like this:

This video has all the themeing on still (the back wheels, and the engine, etc). This was the same day of the wheel accident, however we left before it happens.

Does anyone know what the wheel accident was? How it happened? Anything?

I believe yellow train lost a wheel going up/down after the launch. It was one of the wheels on the back with the scenery. No one got hurt since it landed in that patch of grass but i think they removed all the scenery from the trains after that happened.

by **FRD714** on February 4th, 2006, 2:52 pm

^Oh, those wheels. I was wondering why they took those off.

by **msoeagle** on February 4th, 2006, 4:00 pm

The scenery made the train look like a hot wheel car. :roll:

by **[jonrev]** on February 4th, 2006, 4:47 pm

I liked it better with the scenery.

by **SFGAm Shock Wave** on February 4th, 2006, 6:01 pm

^ I agree, without theming the trains just look ugly.

by **Drkstarboard** on February 4th, 2006, 8:20 pm

FRD714 wrote:
Drkstarboard wrote:Can't be too old since it was built in 2003. It was before they added the lights on the tower. There was only one set of lights on the tower.

Copyright: 2003

Can I get a link to the video?

Just go to: http://www.Coasterimage.com, then go to videos on the top and then find Top Thrill Dragster on the bottom. It doesn't show the wheel coming off though. Tell me what you think of it if you download it.

by **FRD714** on February 4th, 2006, 8:33 pm

^Oh, I already saw that video.

by **CoasterDude12-2** on February 4th, 2006, 8:49 pm

Yeah, that was some video :roll:

Seriously, do ANY links work around here?

by **FRD714** on February 4th, 2006, 8:53 pm

This link should work........

http://coasterimage.com

by **CoasterDude12-2** on February 4th, 2006, 8:56 pm

Oh, I didn't notice the comma after com. Sorry about that.

by **Drkstarboard** on February 5th, 2006, 2:41 am

I had a feeling that would happen

by **Ilovthevu'** on February 5th, 2006, 11:02 am

It seems to go faster with the scenery on the ride, compared to without it, at least during the Top Hat, or is it just that the video is sped up? It seems that adding more passengers to the train slowed it down on the top, and has a better chance to rollback. I don't know. Is the video just sped up, or in real time?? With the scenery on it, did it have a lot of rollbacks?

by **msoeagle** on February 5th, 2006, 11:11 am

Well, if 2 180 pound riders were added to the trains it would slow it down. Im sure the scenery didnt wiegh that much so there was more weight causing it go go slower up the tophat.

by **Timmy179** on February 5th, 2006, 12:59 pm

Actually the "scenery" or theming,weighed a lot more than you could imagine.

http://rcdb.com/ig1896.htm?picture=50

That picture should help you understand the weight of the back row theming

by **msoeagle** on February 5th, 2006, 7:14 pm

At least there are slighty shorter lines now.

by **alfredo** on February 24th, 2006, 2:02 am

did you also here a year or two the top of the twister ride fell to ground before the season open luckly no one was hurt at least v2 did not have the same proble

by **twixmix0303** on February 24th, 2006, 4:48 pm

I didn't hear that. A lot of what you do hear is false.

by **zjohn1988** on March 3rd, 2006, 11:26 am

alfredo wrote:did you also here a year or two the top of the twister ride fell to ground before the season open luckly no one was hurt at least v2 did not have the same proble

Can u find a source to that?

by **alfredo** on March 5th, 2006, 12:46 am

zjohn1988 wrote:
alfredo wrote:did you also here a year or two the top of the twister ride fell to ground before the season open luckly no one was hurt at least v2 did not have the same proble

Can u find a source to that?

i rember reading it in a local new paper in 05

by **twixmix0303** on March 5th, 2006, 1:26 am

Why would a local paper from Illinois (where you live, by the way) publish an article about "the twister ride"?

by **RagingBullFan** on March 5th, 2006, 1:44 am

I can tell you that is completely false.

This is the deal with Wicked Twister...

Shortly after its construction it was found that the supports for the twists at the front and back of the ride were inadequate. This lead to stress fractures beginning to occur at the joins of the pieces of track. To help try to solve this problem, almost nightly a welding crew would climb up and repair the broken welds and add in more stiffening bars. This also led to signifigant downtime for the ride. To solve the problem new support beams that extend higher up the spiral were later added. At no point did the ride ever break off.

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