I can only imagine! I really felt that there was a good ride in Stampida somewhere, but it just shook us to death.
Why did they feel they needed to make the change? Was it too difficult to get parts from the US-based PTC? Did they not operate well on the ride?
It seems that most of the CCI's that do not use PTCs end up falling to peices even MORE than the ones that use them.
--Robb
It is indeed a pitty that they bought the Kumbak trains. Port Aventura must be unhappy with their purchase aswell, I can imagine.
While Stampida was a great ride with the old trains, it is now much slower and quite painful. Ok, the old trains were in the end ragging through the course and it felt like there was no rubber on the wheels anymore. But I guess a new set of wheels could have solved that.
The main problem with the old trains and probably the reason why Port Aventura decided to buy the new trains from another company, was the capacity problems due to the safety bars not opening after each ride on 30 to 40 % of the seats. The ops had to manually open all those seats after each ride and a lot of time was lost due to this.
Great video by the way !