the WORST roller coaster trend!

I live in Arizona and flew out to Cedar Point for TT2 just to see the signs that say it is closed. I then had a trip planned to visit for Hyperia just to land in London Heathrow and check YouTube and see a video about Hyperia being closed, and I thought I was actually going to cry. 😭

Booking a trip to ride a coaster on opening year is like buying a console at launch date. It's always been risky, even though this year's closures are more notable and frustrating. I usually wait a year.

To be fair, as Universal goes, they tend to learn from their mistakes. Grand opening of Universal Studios Florida was an absolute mess, but Island of Adventure went incredibly smooth. Hagrid's grand opening was a mess and everything they did wrong with that they fixed when opening Velocicoaster. I'm sure the grand opening for Epic Universe will be flawless.

The more complex these coasters become the more room for error. I have no problem for coasters opening day to be pushed back for safety concerns, but to have these extremely complex rides be rushed to the public, open for a week, and then close is just ridiculous. I also love when a problem is found on the ride so they shut it down for a day or two, and after a week of it reopening it proceeds to have the same issue or a brand new one in an endless cycle all season long. Either deadlines are crazy, or the engineers are struggling to keep up with the evolving complexity.

I honestly think people need to calm down when discussing these ride closures. This is especially true with Top Thrill 2 because of all of its new technology, something was bound to go wrong. Also, Cedar Point has many other great coasters including Steel Vengeance, Maverick, Millennium Force, and more. So considering all of that, there's no reason to get super mad about one ride closing and rescheduling a trip around one ride.

Turns out hyperia isn’t open on June 8th and they haven’t even announced an opening date 😭

0:35 I love how Disney Universal SeaWorld and Cedar Fair get in trouble.

Not being 100% ready on opening day has been extremely common in the theme park industry as far back as Disneyland's opening day. It's not even exclusive to theme parks either. Anything that's conceptually new usually isn't perfect on its first day. Every industry does this, it's just not usually visible because it's not a giant machine meant to move people around standing in the open. It's retraining, rewriting, redesigning, fixing, breaking and erasing, all behind usually closed doors. I'm just saying, as the rides get more and more complex (like TT2 and Hagrid's (They're some of the most complex rollercoasters in the world)) the more likely they are to completely break at any moment.

Roller coasters really getting the the Paradoxum Games treatment 💀

A top-notch German park releases one or two commercials with the phrase "opening in ..." and remains completely silent until the actual opening. Without any fanfare, it opens! It works perfectly fine.

Very entertaining and fun to watch. I remember this happening with Twisted Timbers in its first 2 months of operation. I was able to ride but only about 50% of the time due to it being closed because of various problems. Thanks for posting this.

Should theme parks work out ALL the kinks of a new ride before opening to the public?

This is a really well done video! Very good stuff for a new channel :)

I like how you draw comparisons between the video game and amusement industry, I never thought of it that way!

Anybody else remember when they would actually be done and have 1/2 the kinks worked out b4 the season even began, like a whole 20million dollar hyper coaster or something of that scale basically good/ready2go? Now they get down sometime in summer with 1/4 the amount of track generally easier to assemble and usually it's August-September.

0:06 Santa Cruz beach boardwalk ride closed sign

Whoa this video blew up! Congrats on 100 subs!

I know very well new rides can be temperamental and I will not go to a park for the new ride until I see it has been running without any major periods of downtime for a month or two

Your videos are really good, you should post some shorts so you can get a wider fan base.

New rides are ALWAYS a risk and always have been unless they are off the shelf clones.