How Will Lightning Rod At Dollywood Run With A Lift Hill? | Animation 

Idk Millennium Force’s cable lift currently operates at 9mph and opened at 13.4mph so it’s pretty comparable.

SkyRush cable lift can top 20mph

@@lastone032085 yes, but it also has a lot of issues on the computer side

This video is wrong the chairlift Dollywood stared would operated at 30 mph so it would be somewhat like the launch

@@lastone032085flying aces:😂

Exactly this

“Simple fix” 😂 I love how roller coaster enthusiasts think the whole world is roller coaster tycoon.

@@BlackJack973I feel like a tire drive would probably be easier then a chain lift.

@@BlackJack973 Lol, what else do we do when not at a park?

The issue with this would be rain. Tire drives cannot function reliably in the rain, so you would need an and enclosed lift. They could just add an anti rollback device and not run it in the rain (with a tire drive lift/launch).

I get this.

I still don’t know why they didn’t do this

Converstion to a chain is FAR more reasonable than replacing a 200ft wooden structure with a steel one.

@@BlackJack973it’s not a 200 foot structure. It’s 200 feet tall.

honestly the reliability may have been better if they just outsourced to a more renowned company to make the launch. b&m, premier, vekoma, mack, even intamin nowadays make reliable lsm launches. idk how true this is but i heard the launch was designed and manufactured by a company thats primarily known for making brakes which just seems like an odd move. as long as the lift does go as fast as they say it's honestly probably going to be a good move though. they have big bear to have a large scale launch coaster in their lineup, everything after the drop will be more or less the same, and reliability will hopefully be notably improved.

I think it’s because tornados train weighs way less than an rmc train, but a double chain lift could work

@@NY.Coasters The double lift chain is basically the ARB system on that ride.

It’s actually happening

@@xtremeentertainmenttv9664 I know I meant like it was a cool idea to make it in nl2

You said you prefer thunderhead over lightning rod twice?? I still think lrod is better because the airtime is just insane and I love woodies

@@NY.Coasters If they replaced all of it with Ibox I think they'd be tied. LR was a tad rough which kinda feels worse with the kind of restraints it has while TH wasn't as rough and felt longer. Also kinda wonder if how long I waited for LR might have somehow tainted it.

@Sokobansolver maybe, I got very lucky and went on lightning rod during a rain day and was able to get over twenty rides, in the morning I thought thunderhead was better but at night I thought lrod was better

Sad that this is actually happening😭

I get it.

@@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214 yeh, they would just make the lift longer and taller to make up for the speed

With the current launch, the train slows down a fair bit once it gets near the top.

Well they are using current launch speeds. It used to fly over the hill during its first and 2nd year of operation. I'm pretty sure it was around 35ish or faster cresting the hill in the first year. And now it kinda crawls over it.

​@@stevek1672yes. The launch used to cover almost the entire hill. I knew it hit 45mph. But I think during its 1st and 2nd year it was around 35mph going over the crest. I think it now hits around 20mph or so going over the crest with the current launch (well I mean 2023)

@@CarolinaCycloneJames Interesting.

As opposed to the Airbus system that it uses now.

@@alaeriia01 have they considered a bombarider approach

Yeah.

i think it was 45mph

@@jacobemry1018 I meant when it crests the top of the dolly. It slows down a lot from the launch to the very top.

@@SeaWorldOrlandoandmore oh yeah that's true

⁠@@SeaWorldOrlandoandmoreit depends on the cycle, I’m pretty sure that the launch has a “fast” setting that clears the top at 13 mph and a slower setting that just barely makes it over the top. The difference between those two is the quad down pulls -1g on the slow setting and -1.3g on the fast one

Unless its a catch car, it would be impossible to simulate a launch, the fastest I see it going is like skyrush speed, but that will still be very hard because they're using a "chain lift" not a catch car.

Because they haven’t made an official animation of what the ride will look like with a lift hill.

@@NY.Coasters But this isn't an animation, this is NL2

@@HayFatwithSurf I guess iron gwazis,storm chaser, and bobcat all werent animations just because they were nl2

@@NY.Coasters NL2 isn't an animation tho !

Why? Dollywood said "high speed chain lift". To me that means the speed of the lift hill will be the same speed as the current Lightning Rod when it crests the lift hill. So it will be the same speed it is now, when it crests the second hill into the main drop.