In a sea of amusement enthusiasts who present their opinions and speculation as if fact, lines such as "please take in mind that nothing I'm saying is confirmed, so please take this with a grain of salt and not as the absolute truth" really helps you stand out as a dude with serious integrity. Rock on, Ryan.

This totally makes sense. The park takes time to get a better idea of the part issue. Then, moving forward this season, replace the part as frequently as needed, and possibly come to a permanent solution during the off-season.

The same was true for the Wheels on Millennium Force. When it opened, the Park was running one train at a time, or taking trains off about every hours. It was frustrating back then in 2000 with the que at 4 to 6 hours.

Sometimes an FEA on a part is not totally accurate. Also, the durometer of a polyurethane wheel usually needs adjustments. Some of this stuff just needs to actually run in real life, then be analysed and adjusted accordingly. Have a little faith everyone. There are a lot of people working very hard on this, all just for us!

Might as well start making your TTD2 problematic coasters video now 😂

This seems like the best strategy if true. I mean to close it (potentially) for a whole season when people have made plans to get to the park/ bought season passes would be a nightmare for the park - Kennywood and Steel Curtain are a prime example of this. Keeping it going and making replacements as needed while a permanent fix is being worked out makes the most sense.

I think the ride testing is more of a examination of the specific part and how it is wearing down so quickly rather than preparing for opening

If it is wheel bogies, I'd first think of the vibration and them maybe not being supported enough to combat the natural frequency resonance. This extra vibration could significantly move the parts up the cyclic loading fatigue to failure curve. It's easy to underestimate this, other factors like the polyurethane wheels gaining flat spots as the rides sits overnight (normal) and the first cycles of the day needing more power and force all contribute a lot and could be miscalculated or omitted. The shrouds over the large wheels look suspect to me.

They probably have replacements of the OG part. It never failed, just wore a little faster than expected. They probably want a better, longer lasting part for maintence reasons

Its really an amazing ride experience! I hope more people get to ride it soon!

Life Cycle Maintenance v Reliability Centered Maintenance often comes up with new products.

Preciate you doing these short update videos 🤝🏼

Your "predictions" videos are the only ones I actually watch and give credence to. Your insight and track record with predictions are impeccable.

Cedar Point panicking that 12 of the top coaster influencers on youtube made videos saying the ride would be closed for weeks 😅 hope it gets up soon & safe.

I was there on Saturday and there was no testing or people there at the ride. I did see an employee walking by steel vengeance with a top thrill 2 polo on.

You make some of the best coaster content, we appreciate you! ❤

glad I decided to check your channel, I had been looking at flights and hotels for a trip soon.

We are there mid June as well, got our fingers crossed! 🤞

I feel like they know they have to have it ready by Coastermania on June 7. Pretty much the whole event (2.5 hours of ERT, backstage tour, poster, Q+A) revolves around Top Thrill 2. While I don't think it will operate this weekend, I can see them using this strategy to open it next weekend, Memorial Day weekend.

Grazie da Italia ElToroRyan! I am looking forward to riding TT2 soon, and at times, felt hopeless that I wouldn't be able to ride it. While my hope is still low, as are my chances, I am holding out hope that it'll be ready in time for my visit on May 29th, 2024.

Can't wait for Problematic Roller Coasters: Top Thrill 2

Thank you!! The only source I trust for Top Thrill info.

I am there from Sunday-Tuesday and I live in Texas, so it's quite the trek. My plane+hotel tickets were nonrefundable so I didn't have the option to reschedule.... I really hope it will open up this weekend.... Fingers crossed.

Was there this weekend, one of the trains is wrapped up and looks like it’s ready to be shipped somewhere

While a disappointment, it's normal for big new rides like this to need some tweaking. I'm sure Zamperla is going to get this issue solved as quickly as possible. After all, they kept touting their new trains as requiring less maintenance. They need to make this work to prove that the company is capable of producing record-breaking rides that are reliable. The entire amusement industry is watching them.

Thanks Ryan! I always appreciate your informed perspective and the details you choose to focus on.

Love the ending ! Great video! Top thrill 2 is just awesome! It will take some time to get it running smoothly, but it will happen and bring many smiles each day!

Sick, I had been planning to visit for a couple of days next week before the holiday and was bummed to find out TT2 was closed. Hopefully what you've heard pans out.

At least they are trying to fix it BEFORE they have a serious injury

Really like the videos and updates. Good stuff!

If it were to reopen sooner based on part replacement (and finally redesign) we need more transparency from cp and zp as to what the changes are. Public deserves that.

You are absolutely the best coaster enthusiast channel out there.

so it may be a bit like the big one where it stops on the lift so they can do a wheel check on the other train in the brakes

I'm praying this ends up being the case I'm coming out from utah in mid June for my first ever trip to CP and was really hoping to get on my first strata

Ok I'm going Monday, I'm praying for an opening this weekend 😂😂

I could see Cedar Point running 2 trains and give one train the new wheels, and then do that to each train, and just keep two open.

Cedar Point is my home park; I always anticipate an El Toro Ryan video, but these ones? These ones having me waiting with bated breath

All I need is one ride this Memorial weekend. Pls let this happen 🙏

Great content as always!

i will be there in a few days so man i hope it’s open

When in June are you planning to be at Cedar Point? Since it's my home park, I easily can head there and say hi to you

Didn’t see any testing when I was there today. Actually no activity at all on the rides site.

Alreay been on it, JUST AMAZING 👏 I'm sure Tony wants zero safety issues, better safe than sorry...

I rescheduled my cedar point trip this weekend and got tickets for Hersheypark instead (already been to cp haven't been to Hershey btw) and then I find out the ride may open this weekend. Great

From the roof top shout it out!

Wow they fixed those blockzones mighty quick!

May you talk about how this ride shakes so much because when I rode it on Thursday for the preview event i realised that it shakes a lot and it was honestly scary and i thought that is why they closed it. Thanks 😊 And btw i love your vids and i am a coaster enthusiast too.

Nothing like watching the new El Toro Ryan video in the kings Island parking lot

I expected some days of downtime a few times within the first couple months but to have to reengineer parts of the train is pretty disappointing but that’s what I’d expect from Zamperla tbh. And they didn’t find this in testing before it opened shows it’s rushed

Seen tt2 testing yesterday around 6pm and this morning while waiting in line at the magnum gate. Didnt test anymore that i seen after that...

I'm visiting CP next week and I really hope that they can get TT2 reopen soon. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sure! Thank you for the update Ryan!

The problem is it's all speculation. Nobody knows what is wrong with the ride. It could be complex, it could be simple. Literally nobody other than Cedar Point/Zamperla know.

Awesome take as usual and makes a ton of sense.

I might go here in a week or so and I really want it to be open.

I ride it twice last Friday, it was great. I'm not worried, it will reopen hopefully soon and I will be riding it again as soon as I can. Hell, there was even an employee(I'm not sure if he worked for CP or the locker manufacturer) helping people make sure they could use the lockers properly(they should be free dammit), as you mention they are watching this ride like a hawk and being very cautious with it.

I bet it has to do with how fast it flys over the top hat. They will most likely slow the coaster down

Thanks for the update. Will you try to work it, or is that part of your youth over with?

Wonder if they will reopen with existing parts temporarily while modified ones are developed then switch to the modified ones when they are ready

It’s funny you talked about it I have been thinking wonder how a warranty on a project works

I could see a situation where during the 1000's of test runs, the wear on this item might have been identified and development on a new part could had begun then. They may have been acting with an excess of caution in the quick closing of the ride based on part wear estimates, and concluded after actual measurements that the current part does still have more life than anticipated remaining. It might be them rolling the dice, thinking the number of rides before the train(s) become unsafe is still high enough to keep running while the development of a better part wraps up. At least, one can hope.

I’m going to ride kingda ka on Tuesday!

I'm just glad they're taking this seriously

I'm going on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fingers crossed

can you do a video on the six flags surcharge on food a week ago it was 99 cents added to each order now it's 1.30 (1.99 refill bottles) are now 3.28 technically at the bottom of all the food menu screens shows the surcharge, this happened after the park failed at charging people additional 20 and splitting the premium peking lot (no one used it ) it's bad!

Id be pretty surprised if it reopens this weekend

YAAAAAAS! can't wait

I honestly didn't expect TT2 to be closed long if it is the (***allegedly***) wheels that were the problem. Premature wear doesn't mean non-operational, so it makes sense that they'd open it back up and monitor as needed sooner rather than later. Hoping they open up before memorial day weekend!

So I’ve read posts about this last night and the anonymous poster shared a link to a YT channel that posted a video from late winter or March. Until that park confirms then all of this is hearsay.

What I imagine is that engineers at the park are trying to figure out a short term fix for the trains before the more robust parts are manufactured and shipped out. Cedar Point obviously doesn't wanna lose out on the potential revenue from people visiting the park to ride TT2, but they also wanna get away from the image of OG dragster being an infamously unreliable ride. But this is just me spitballing, though.

Maybe they had some extra parts or maybe the guys in The Amazement Shop did a little hocus pocus

What a shame! I can't ride it, but I parked myself at the exit and literally everyone LOVED their ride!! Hoping for the best for Cedar Point and Zamperla!!!

They can redesign their locker solution

Have you heard about Ryan the ride mechanic video?? That sounds about right

You’d assume that they had spare parts on site so could be they’ve swapped the affected part for spares and approved it under extra supervision

I’m praying PRAYING it’s open Saturday! 😭😭😭

Wonder if the rollback is what made the park worry? I don't think it can self recover

I am not sure about this testing process. The usual industry standards is that you make a few slow test first. There you can see if everything is working fine, the train gets well through the track. Later comes the hardcore test, constantly testing in the best case 3x24h in a row, afterwards you dissemble the trains and check everything! All materials, if any hair cracks or anything else happend. That takes two weeks and when everything is working correctly, the next testing round begins: One week, Park like operations. After 3 days of that test it’s ok to ride a coaster but unofficially. Usually at the end of the week you don’t get any surprising results, when you worked good before. Afterwards you are checking every detail again and after a few new tests rounds, people are officially allowed to ride.

I’m going next Wednesday. I’ve gone from accepting that I won’t get to ride it to now I might actually have a chance. 🤞

At the very least we can assume an Engineer (Eltoro) has an educated guess, more than most that have commented, on realistic reasons. It makes sense to me. Heck they wouldn’t run it without knowing they can. No one including CP wants a déjà vu to happen.

The issue is that ALL the trains have developed cracks in the wheel carriages in the short time since opening day. That is a fundamental design flaw and not something that can be fixed by "frequently replacing parts" when needed. They would be replacing wheel carriages and parts every week or so. No way this ride re-opens earlier than mid-July at best. The trains have to be redesigned.

I can see them using 3 trains and taking 1 one off every couple of hours for inspection

I’m still more concerned about the water dummy flying off. We need way more transparency on that.

Im going to cp on June 7th i reallly hope its open

Im almost willing to bet it has to do with the wheels being cast with aluminum. Which is known as a string metal when it comes to compression forces, BUT it is also a soft metal when it starts to heat up.

And here I thought it was a Block Zone problem.

I am at cedar point today (5/18/24). There is no activity or testing on TOP THRILL 2. I hope I’m wrong but this seems like a 30 day+ problem.

They should just ask Bobby Fingers to make the required parts

Just got back from wild adventures (rip cheetah) and was pretty cool. My gf really loved when I started talking about block zones. Whats the deal with credits? and how do I know what I need and dont need? Keep it up Ryan! much love

Step 1: TT2 mentioned. Step 2: Queue all the anti Zamperla comments that everyone must be dying to read 🙄

If they have shown no signs of updating que lockers, it means they probably don't expect this to go for a month+

It's been my thoughts they may scale down the wheel diameter...IF that's it we COULD see it open sooner.BUT this is just my engineer observation view point

With the forces being as extreme as they are, and with a troubled history already, if I were in charge I wouldn’t reopen until the problem was fixed, tested, and then tested some more. I wouldn’t cut corners because of cost and loss of revenue on something as important as the future to TT2.

I think if they don’t open this Memorial Day weekend, I’m thinking the following weekend June 1st it will be back open. Cedar Point will probably want it running before Coastermania. Just my opinion.

But but I was just there last weekend 😢

Why don’t they just make replacement parts for now while engineering another part that’s able to withstand greater amounts of Gs than it needs to be?

Sounds like Mille and her original wheels

Guaranteed that it will open Soon™

"Between nights it will be examined thoroughly" yes I am sure by the same maintenance men who failed to realize a blatant rusted flag plate back in 2021. CP's maintenance team has always been awful and the constant ride breakdowns show they do not know what they are doing.

I don't think they'd be testing the ride if they suspected that the wheels were at risk of delaminating.

If I were them I’d just cut the number of hours it runs per day. 12 to 8 maybe . Nothing wrong with a later ride opening time. Cut those daily cycles down a little.