When Will the Desperado Roller Coaster Reopen?

Can you tell me what's going on with the Desperado roller coaster? The website said all rides are closed until further notice.

And the link to the new poll on Cirque du Soleil is at the bottom.

According to a public relations representative for Affinity Gaming, owner of Buffalo Bill's Resort-Casino where the Desperado is, the roller coaster is closed for maintenance, with no reopening date set. As for the other rides at Buffalo Bill's -- Log Flume, Frog Hopper, and Max Flight -- all are operational, seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

The Desperado debuted in August 1994 and was for a time the tallest roller coaster in the world, surpassing the Steel Phantom in Pennsylvania’s Kennywood. When it's running, it reaches a top speed of 80 miles per hour and features a stomach-churning, 225-foot, vertical drop. With cars of happily screaming tourists whipping around the Desperado innumerable times a day, it’s inevitable that the screws would have to be periodically tightened, as it were.

Here’s hoping that the Desperado is back in action for your next visit -- and ours.

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Boogieman888 May-29-2019

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Wasn't the original roller coater at that sight wooden? If so when was it switched to steel?

Kevin Rough May-29-2019

Does it ever work

We've been out to Primm about a half dozen times over the years.  I have never seen any of the rides or the monorail ever work.

And if it is taking so long to maintain this roller coaster, I wonder how roller coasters at the Florida amusement parks that run hundreds of times every day run without being closed regularly for months at a time.  My guess is they do better every day maintenance than what they do in Primm.

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