[Ethan]

Obviously Intimidator will be the center of attention at the park for the foreseeable future, so it should hopefully cut down on lines for other rides.

[Jay]

I think it would be great if they could reconfigure the station to allow unloading on the waiting platform while the other is loaded in the station.

This would be a good idea if there was no mid-course brake run, but if Diamondback is any indication the crews will be so fast another train won't have time to stop at an 'unload' station.

[chargercrazy]

I think the poster was referring to Borghawk in the part you quoted.

[lazor 22]

^^without those "free moving" restraints, coming off the lift would be no where near as fun.

[carowinds4ever]

I think it would be great if they could reconfigure the station to allow unloading on the waiting platform while the other is loaded in the station.

This would be a good idea if there was no mid-course brake run, but if Diamondback is any indication the crews will be so fast another train won't have time to stop at an 'unload' station.

Please correct me if i am wrong, but isn't there a few coasters out there that have unload stations as well as loading stations, similar to rip roarin rapids. I think if i remember right hulk @ ioa was like that. I maybe wrong been awhile since been to ioa.

[Diamondback FOF]

If this will be anything like Diamondback's opening day, I'll say a 2.5 hour wait at 10:30am (get in line at 10:30, be done by 1). But, by about noon, I say the line is down to about 1.5 hours max. By 1, the line should be down to 45min or an hour.

*All of this are the longest waits I see, and what times I think the line will finally be down to these wait times. Also, this is if there are no glitches (haha like anything would go wrong) and the crews work as efficiently as they should.

Do you guys get ERT in the morning or anything, or does the park just open at 10am?

[cwgator]

I think it would be great if they could reconfigure the station to allow unloading on the waiting platform while the other is loaded in the station.

This would be a good idea if there was no mid-course brake run, but if Diamondback is any indication the crews will be so fast another train won't have time to stop at an 'unload' station.

Please correct me if i am wrong, but isn't there a few coasters out there that have unload stations as well as loading stations, similar to rip roarin rapids. I think if i remember right hulk @ ioa was like that. I maybe wrong been awhile since been to ioa.

Dueling Dragons (soon to be called Dragon Challenge, although I will still always to refer to the original name...lol) has an unload station @ IOA. Revenge of the Mummy has one as well next door.

[Diamondback FOF]

I've never been to CP, but doesn't MF have a load and separate unload station?

[jordN1414]

I've never been to CP, but doesn't MF have a load and separate unload station?

Better?


Yes

[lazor 22]

I'm not sure that was lmgtfy material.

[coasterbruh]

i dont think it was either...

[jordN1414]

better?

[PhantomCat]

Obviously Intimidator will be the center of attention at the park for the foreseeable future, so it should hopefully cut down on lines for other rides.

Well said.
Everyone, who can ride, will be trying to get Intimidated this year. My educated guess is close to 2 hour waits and longer when the park opens everyday because everybody and their brother will be there. This always happens to a new coaster, especially, when it's strategically placed near a highway and can be seen from miles away.

The longest ride line I've ever stood in (3 hours) was Six Flags' "MindBender" during its opening year.

When I worked "Flight of Terror" at Paramount's Kings Dominion during the ride's second year, employees told me they had 3 hour lines for that attraction when it first opened - and that's with an unloading station.

[Blue Moon]

2-3 hour waits sounds pretty accurate.

Longest I've ever waited for a ride, if I recall correctly, would be about 4 and a half hours for Kingda Ka (SF Great Adventure) on opening day in the front row. Second would probably be about 3 hours for Millennium Force (Cedar Point.) The long waits on both were due to several periods of downtime.

[Jonathan]

I honestly don't think the waits are going to be that bad with Intimidator, simply due to the high capacity and reliability it has, combined with the fact that the best ops in the park will be working it. Maybe at its peak it gets close to 2 hours opening day, but I'm thinking more like an hour.