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People are f**king retarded. LOL!!!! Are you allowed to use that term now? I thought if you were talking about people like that you had to say something like they are "slow" or mentally challenged. But f-ing retarded is damn funny.

How exactly would a backward launch put more strain on the car? The LSMs brake pretty hard but the car seems fine, turning it backwards would not make much difference. Since the car travels forward and back I'm pretty sure it can handle a launch going forward or turned around backward.

"WACKY-WAIVING-INFLATABLE-ARM-FLAILING-TUBEMAN!!!"

Well Intamin seems to have no problems with that on the other ride of this type.

Ok so this is possible, but I still haven't seen anything that says "confirmed" yet.

I love this type of Intamin train.

It could work.

I think those are used to hoist up a new cable for that ride when the time comes, it makes sense anyway.

That is a great idea. Once the net is high enough, it passes a proximity sensor that allows a solenoid to engage to unlock the doors on the platform, the default or failsafe is the solenoid is de energized until the sensor is tripped. That way they cant let a guest jump unless the net is high enough, even if they are complete morons. Doesnt seem too difficult to me, actually its very simple.

I agree with you, its not that much different at all compared to hitting a brake run. In fact wouldn't hitting the brake run on TTD be harder on the body than launching backwards on Superman?

Wow, I've never seen the cars go that high before on Superman.

This is exactly why there needs to be a failsafe, whether it's another employee as pointed out or some kind of sensor system to shut the ride down when operator error occurs.

Cell phone anyone? This is totally, utterly, and completely unacceptable, the employees being total idiots and the design flaw of this ride that allows the possibility for this to even happen. There should have been some kind of failsafe designed into this so even if you have complete morons operating it, they could not cause an accident like this to happen. My heart goes out to the girl and her family. I love drop rides and I considered this the ultimate free fall drop ride, no restraints just falling free. I thought how much fun it would be to experience this. Now, that will NEVER EVER happen.....NEVER!

... SUPER MORON!!!

Ride Demon in the front, you will notice something going around the turns.

As Robb has pointed out, on pretty much all Arrow loopers, such as Demon, the "magic Arrow seats", the smoothest ones on the train, are the first two rows of the last two cars. He says for some reason those two rows are the smoothest.

Thank you very much.

This is random but the last time I was at the park was two years ago and Valencia Falls was shut off. Did they ever turn the falls back on?

That's strange... the ride stopped and THEN the cable snapped.

Wow, this guy really does sound like a big giant ultra douche! Maybe CGA should pay for him to ride Grizzly...lol. Who does this idiot think he is entering a restricted area while a ride is in operation causing an e stop and a huge inconvenience for everyone involved, oh yeah, a douche would do that! I'm almost sorry I started this thread. But I did learn one thing from it, this guy IS a douche! Douche douche douche!

Partly suspended stretchy restraints like Tatsu might work. That would be prefect. I agree about Superman, you can't just flip one car around and be done with it. There would be a lot of work involved to get it to run properly.

Oh really, how do you know it will never run that fast? In fact, how do you know any of that is true? Is there a way to confirm any of that? For all we know this friend is really you making this up. Yeah I have posted stuff on here but have said either I don't know, or maybe its this, etc. I'm sorry I just don't buy it. How could you know this already...has anybody else seen it supposedly testing backwards? I apologize if this sounds harsh, I don't really mean it to be I would just like you to be able to confirm what you have said. I could do the same thing and say a friend that knows says that Intamin will be putting in three very large coasters in the next few years, which means nothing because a friend that knows could be anybody and with no confirmation what I just said cant be taken seriously... that's all I am really saying.

That sounds promising. Softer, more comfortable and closer fitting restraints would make a huge difference....maybe one of these days. Maybe this is what "working with Intamin" means, nah can't be.

So why did they modify the restraints on Revolution in the first place...did something happen to cause this, like an accident? Or did the park just go along with it because at the time they felt it was safer? And just out of curiosity, why did Knotts choose not to touch the restraints on MR?

I think so. It seems like the older ones (Demon at CGA circa 1976 or so, formerly Turn of the Century), seem to be more difficult to press down. I believe they are in roughly the same location as on this Boomerang train, and it is kind of strange that the kids took off after this happened, like maybe they had something to hide and didn't want to get caught, but I still can't figure, unless they were seven feet tall, how they would be able to do that. I'm still thinking something could have happened on the second lift when the train caught the lift chain.