Dollywood closing down Lightning Rod for season
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Dollywood announced that Lightning Rod will be closing down the Lighting Rod roller coaster in October.

It’s been the joke for years… Dollywood is just gonna give up and make the launched wooden coaster (that isn’t even a wooden coaster anymore) a chain lift coaster…

Well… it’s happening. The launch will be removed in favor of a “high speed chain lift”

In addition to the article, Dollywood posted a video on Twitter regarding this change: https://twitter.com/Dollywood/status/1701611625071919200?s=19

  • Bob K Mertz@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I never even thought about that aspect of things. I had always assumed it was just a safety system trip where the worry was the structure was compromised but yea the fin segments not being perfectly in line would be horribly bad in many ways.