August 10Aug 10 comment_326661 Do we know what’s actually been causing Stealth and Rita’s repeated downtime? It seems odd that they’d both be having such sporadic reliability at the same time. Might the issues be connected in some way?
August 11Aug 11 comment_326673 On 8/10/2025 at 11:56 AM, Matt N said: Do we know what’s actually been causing Stealth and Rita’s repeated downtime? It seems odd that they’d both be having such sporadic reliability at the same time. Might the issues be connected in some way? Upon Kingda Ka's passing, it cursed all the accelerator models.
August 11Aug 11 comment_326676 The curse is that for every ride that six flags closes, a member of the accelerator family will suffer downtime.
August 12Aug 12 comment_326678 7 hours ago, Project LC said: The curse is that for every ride that six flags closes, a member of the accelerator family will suffer downtime. They're all screwed in november then when Six Flags America closes.
August 12Aug 12 comment_326679 41 minutes ago, Mark9 said: They're all screwed in november then when Six Flags America closes. The way SFA is running I don't think half the rides will make it till then even... On 8/10/2025 at 11:56 AM, Matt N said: Do we know what’s actually been causing Stealth and Rita’s repeated downtime? It seems odd that they’d both be having such sporadic reliability at the same time. Might the issues be connected in some way? Stealth's repeated downtime is very different. It had its issue at the start of the season, which was a big unexpected hiccup from winter maintenance. Since then, it's had two, pre-planned, periods of downtime. One of them was for a launch cable replacement, which happens yearly. The other I do not know, but since it was short, pre-planned and stayed on schedule, I don't think is a major concern. Rita has suffered longer, not-planned closures, with no known opening date advertised during those closures. That indicates that those issues are actual problems with the ride which needed fixing / parts replacing. I don't think the two are linked, and it's more coincidence that there's two rides of the same time that have experienced downtime in the same year.
Friday at 08:49 PM2 days comment_328195 At TP today, as the weatherforecast was so good. Luckily got to ride Stealth and thought it was a little slow going over the top, so (as I am familiar with the them) I mentioned it to the team. I observed the next twelve launches, thought that the transitions over the top were getting even slower, and again expressed my concern. The team offered me a ride and I informed them that I would not, as I believed the next launch would rollback. They launched, and it rolled back, I went for lunch.
Friday at 09:00 PM2 days comment_328196 The problems it had at the start of the year seemed to start with rollbacks.. hopefully it’s not a sign of that issue returning!
Saturday at 10:48 AM2 days comment_328207 For those interested in such matters, I have to say that Stealth is operating phenomenally this morning; my throughput average across 10 readings was 975pph, or a train every 1m 13s, which is as fast as I’ve ever seen on here! I’ve been witnessing dispatches as fast as 70s or lower, and quite frequently, the staff have been outpacing the 40s dispatch timer on the platform (something which I’d have said was largely redundant in past years gone by). 80s is a slow interval today!It’s way faster than I’ve ever seen Rita operate, and it made an advertised 40 minute queue fly by in 15 minutes!In the current absence of Hyperia (it’s on a “delayed opening”), it’s also definitely my favourite coaster at Thorpe, so as I liked it so much and the queue is moving so quickly, I’ve decided to hop straight back in the queue for another go!
Saturday at 01:22 PM2 days comment_328209 2 hours ago, Matt N said:For those interested in such matters, I have to say that Stealth is operating phenomenally this morning; my throughput average across 10 readings was 975pph, or a train every 1m 13s, which is as fast as I’ve ever seen on here! I’ve been witnessing dispatches as fast as 70s or lower, and quite frequently, the staff have been outpacing the 40s dispatch timer on the platform (something which I’d have said was largely redundant in past years gone by). 80s is a slow interval today!It’s way faster than I’ve ever seen Rita operate, and it made an advertised 40 minute queue fly by in 15 minutes!In the current absence of Hyperia (it’s on a “delayed opening”), it’s also definitely my favourite coaster at Thorpe, so as I liked it so much and the queue is moving so quickly, I’ve decided to hop straight back in the queue for another go!That's good news Matt. It always amazes me when someone who's been queuing for ages gets to the platform, then delays getting on, annoying.
Saturday at 02:30 PM2 days comment_328210 17 hours ago, planenut said:At TP today, as the weatherforecast was so good. Luckily got to ride Stealth and thought it was a little slow going over the top, so (as I am familiar with the them) I mentioned it to the team. I observed the next twelve launches, thought that the transitions over the top were getting even slower, and again expressed my concern. The team offered me a ride and I informed them that I would not, as I believed the next launch would rollback. They launched, and it rolled back, I went for lunch.You turned down a rollback 😱3 hours ago, Matt N said:For those interested in such matters, I have to say that Stealth is operating phenomenally this morning; my throughput average across 10 readings was 975pph, or a train every 1m 13s, which is as fast as I’ve ever seen on here! I’ve been witnessing dispatches as fast as 70s or lower, and quite frequently, the staff have been outpacing the 40s dispatch timer on the platform (something which I’d have said was largely redundant in past years gone by). 80s is a slow interval today!It’s way faster than I’ve ever seen Rita operate, and it made an advertised 40 minute queue fly by in 15 minutes!In the current absence of Hyperia (it’s on a “delayed opening”), it’s also definitely my favourite coaster at Thorpe, so as I liked it so much and the queue is moving so quickly, I’ve decided to hop straight back in the queue for another go!Stealth and Hyperia are both operated exceptionally well most of the time, they have great teams.For comparison, I’ve just got back from a few days at PortAventura. They were averaging about 1 min 30 secs a dispatch on Red Force, 480 people an hour. They have no seatbelts to check and less seats. One thing I did notice though, they don’t advance the train from offload into load until the train has cleared the top hat. On Stealth they advance it as soon as it’s ready.
Saturday at 03:58 PM1 day comment_328211 Stealth has been run very well the last two seasons! 1:13 is not the best they have done as I have seen plenty of launches around the minute mark and on occasion even 40 seconds!You can see near 40 seconds on this video I took on my Tik Tok page (would be great to get a few follows guys) https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdpHUhut/
Saturday at 07:28 PM1 day comment_328214 4 hours ago, Cal said:You turned down a rollback 😱Stealth and Hyperia are both operated exceptionally well most of the time, they have great teams.One thing I did notice though, they don’t advance the train from offload into load until the train has cleared the top hat. On Stealth they advance it as soon as it’s ready.Rollbacks mean loss of ride time; done one in the past, don't need another.The team on Stealth have to observe the train until it's cleared the top hat, but the number of rollbacks are so few, they can achieve faster launches by their present routine.
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