Why thank you so much! I hope you do get a chance to visit at some point!

A large number of technical issues with the launch. Obviously we’ll never know exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but. They had already spent a lot of time, effort, and money trying to make it work in past years to only marginal success. Basically at this point they could either spend a lot of money on a fix for one issue that may not solve all the other issues, or just spend a lot switching to a different system (a chain lift) that they knew for certain would work. I know most recently the launch stators often overheated because they were underbuilt for handling the load of those heavy trains uphill, which is part of the reason it always ran with one train (so the stators would have more time to cool off between cycles). Also as long as it’s been open one of the most well known issues was misalignments, as the wooden structure would often shift (as wood structures are made to do), causing the magnets on the launch system to misalign and trigger an e-stop