RNR Coaster... Slower?

[graphite1326]

Just got back from the world. I have ridden RNR Coaster several times and it seemed like has slowed down. Has anyone else noticed this?

I notice they don't advertise the 0-60 in 2.8 seconds anymore.

 

[coolmark18]

I cant imagine they would have slowed the ride down - I guess its just a matter of perspective. Maybe it just seemed faster than you remember.

Having said that, it did close for a few days a few months ago...maybe it was changed then.

My guess is a no though.

Mark

 

[ChrisFL]

Being a launched rollercoaster, if it is any slower, it really couldn't slow down by much I don't think, or else it might not get all the way around the track (anyone who's played Rollercoaster Tycoon knows what I mean )

 

[WDW Monorail]

Being a launched rollercoaster, if it is any slower, it really couldn't slow down by much I don't think, or else it might not get all the way around the track (anyone who's played Rollercoaster Tycoon knows what I mean )

This is absolutely the case if the train's sole acceleration is being pulled out of the launch tunnel by LI motors.
And I do not play Rollercoaster Tycoon.

 

[graphite1326]

Being a launched rollercoaster, if it is any slower, it really couldn't slow down by much I don't think, or else it might not get all the way around the track (anyone who's played Rollercoaster Tycoon knows what I mean )

I have, and I know what you mean. However, we were slowing down to a crawl when we went up the hill then goes thru the "O" in Hollywood. I sometimes wondered if we were going to make it. Also, I noticed for the first time how long it is to the first hill. It was always so quick before that you just didn't notice. I've ridden this ride probably 20 times and this is the first time I noticed alll this.

 

[tampabrad]

I thought the same thing last time i rode it.

 

[Mickey92]

Being a launched rollercoaster, if it is any slower, it really couldn't slow down by much I don't think, or else it might not get all the way around the track (anyone who's played Rollercoaster Tycoon knows what I mean )

With you also! Would just go up and then straight back down again if you have built it too high/not enough launch speed etc...

You may be getting used to the speed, have you ridden faster rollercoasters than RnR since you got back perhaps :/ I know you have just got back... Have you ridden in a fast car? Sometimes going into something fast and coming back to something that is slightly slower, it will seem alot slower. For example, starting to drive at 30mph is fine not too slow not too fast. Get onto the motorway (Highway) and you drive at 60-70mph... When you come back down to 30mph it seems much more slower than what you first drove at, even though it is at the same speed...

Perhaps I don't know

 

[Bravo 229]

I've ridden it several times lately and I haven't noticed any difference. Maybe what has happened is they are slowing it down a bit more in the brake zones? :shrug:

 

[PlaneJane]

lim's wearing out?. did they ever report why the coaster closed off and on again last year? Rollbacks?

 

[graphite1326]

With you also! Would just go up and then straight back down again if you have built it too high/not enough launch speed etc...

You may be getting used to the speed, have you ridden faster rollercoasters than RnR since you got back perhaps :/ I know you have just got back... Have you ridden in a fast car? Sometimes going into something fast and coming back to something that is slightly slower, it will seem alot slower. For example, starting to drive at 30mph is fine not too slow not too fast. Get onto the motorway (Highway) and you drive at 60-70mph... When you come back down to 30mph it seems much more slower than what you first drove at, even though it is at the same speed...

Perhaps I don't know

I rode it in August of last year and then again last week. I noticed a big difference.

 

[graphite1326]

I thought the same thing last time i rode it.

Thank you.

 

[thelookingglass]

It has not been slowed down. It was never a very fast coaster to begin with other than the initial launch.

 

[DisneyWall-E]

were there a lot of big people on the train?

 

[MUTZIE77]

Any chance you were sitting towards the front of the train? It always seems a little slower when you have to wait for the rest of the train to come out of a loop or corkscrew

 

[EvanAnderson]

I'm pretty sure the ride's control system monitors the speed in which the train is launched at. If it's too slow or too fast, the ride system will know and will stop the ride right after it launches (a launch abort).

My friend works for technical services over at Hulk at Universal, and even though Hulk uses a different launch system (rubber tires mounted on motors, as opposed to magnets at RnRC), it uses the same system. Lasers are bounced off the train and onto sensors which monitor how fast the train is going and if it's within a certain range, it continues and lets it go. Too fast, the train stops. Too slow, the train stops. RnRC most likely has the same system.

 

[Thorpyness]

Any chance you were sitting towards the front of the train? It always seems a little slower when you have to wait for the rest of the train to come out of a loop or corkscrew

This does make a massive difference in ride experience. As does mood, company, wait times etc. The problem with feeling that it's slower, is that it's just that, feelings. technically as people have said it's probably quite difficult to reduce the launch speed as the whole thing will be programmed to run in a certain way, with track sections and expecting trains to be at point a after a set number of seconds to allow train b to launch etc. Slowing it down would knock all these timings out and therefore I'd put it down to personal experience changing.

 

[graphite1326]

were there a lot of big people on the train?

The crowds were very low. There may have been 8 people on it the first ride. We were allowd to stay on and ride again, about 15 people that time. I rode it 2 more times during our stay, and it seemed to be the same every time.

 

[graphite1326]

Ok this is what I am thinking based on what everone is saying here. I have worked in manufacturing for over 30 years. When making something there an allowance for error that the part that you are making (several at a time) may change from part to part but it is still a good part. In other words "tolerance". I am thinking that the RNRC may have a "tolerance" in it's speed that it will still work. In other words say it will still work at a starting speed of 55 MPH which would account for it being slow at the one hill. The opposite could be true in that it would still work at 63 MPH and still work. These speeds are just a guess to explain my theory. The ride could be slowed down to save money when the crowds are low. Also, the ride could be sped up when crowds are high to keep waiting times at a minimum.

Make sense?

Some may say that I have rode RNRC enough that I am just getting used to it. I have thought of that, however, I rode ToT also several times a notced no difference.

 

[C&D]

Depending on where you get a seat (the experience varys); first row was one of the smoothest rides I've ever had, towards the back is a little rougher (which could be construed as faster). I'm thinking the speed doeesn't vary much.

And the first time I rode, the launch took my breath away; subsequently I knew what to expect, (and thought the ride not as radical).

 

[the-reason14]

I think it could probably just be perspective as well. I remember thinking space mt. had slowed down a lot since I first rode it back in 1998 in the spring. But after reading on here that it's been the same speed since it's opened in 75, I think it just had to do with me riding taller and faster roller coaster since my first trip on SM. So maybe that's the same with you. Just speculation on my part though. I can't really say I noticed much of a change on it, but then again I can't remember when was the last time I was on it. It's not one of my favs anyways.