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You ditched them to go on rides?...lol

CHECK! Yet another reason I need to visit this park!

Yeah I figured it would have at least 6 but wasn't sure. Extremely unlikely that all of them would fail at once as most elevators have at least 6 hoist cables so if all of them failing was 'common' elevators would be falling all over the place and that never happens, but if they did, what would happen? Thanks.

I have a technical question about this awesome ride. The rotating carousel is raised by cables, don't know how many, but is there a redundant safety system in place such as magnetic brakes at the base of the tower, in the extremely unlikely event that those cables failed....what would happen? I would imagine there are magnetic brakes in place similar to Intamin drop towers but I don't recall reading anything about it.....that would be a fun freefall though! Can sombody provide information on this?

B&M does it for some of their rides. One was done on Tatsu... Ok thanks.....I didn't remember that.

Is Intamin the only manufacturer that requires a pull through?

Thanks.

Can someone post a link? I can't find any of this stuff that's being talked about on Screamscape.

Well it does kind of make you wonder why it SEEMS to have happened mostly on Intamin rides, but that won't stop me from riding any of them. If something is going to happen, it will and it's out of my control so I might as well just try to enjoy the rides.

Intamin doesn't manufacture steel cables. That's the other reason it's silly to say "I hope it's not an Intamin because of the cables".

I was just thinking because of the whole Tatsu problem, but they still have the other side of the mountain. I was just trying to make a generalization, so nothing happens in the future if they do decide to build on top of the mountain. Sorry if I made it seem like the whole mountain is unstable. Wasn't the problem you are talking about the hill sort of having mini slides due to the fact that the rain runoff was causing excess erosion because of all of the vegetation that had been removed to build Tatsu? A minor problem at best, just some erosion, that's all, no coaster moving or anything like that....nothing a little retaining wall didn't fix so basically a non-issue. And I don't think you need to worry about anything being built anywhere on the mountain, as pointed out, there are several structures and rides that have been on there for DECADES and have not had any problems, so it's a pretty good bet to say that they know what they are doing and know where they are building on so there is no need to worry about any of that. What do you think connects the pneumatic launch/lift system to the ride vehicle? S&S towers use cables too, a cable could break just as easily on an S&S tower, it just hasn't happened YET.

I think the Thrillshot footprint is too small for it.

If these trains replaced the current ones on Revolution, it would be a much more pleasant ride...... As for the drop tower idea, how about this one.... Or the tilting version....

Now that they claim to have the "most coasters" I could easily see something like the world's tallest (gyro maybe) drop tower.....say as tall or maybe taller than Superman? Btw, does MM have any height restrictions when it comes to building rides?

You should see the movie "Rollercoaster". There are some great shots of it especially at the end when the credits are rolling, you see the entire layout from the parking lot!

Yes, and it used to be lap bars only, they ran it with no trim brakes, and it was common to see two trains running the circuit at the same time-OMG can you believe that? Two train operation, two trains on the circuit at the same time..... The The first one is a post card I bought at MM about 5 years ago and I think the second one is a postcard of a picture of it from its first year or two in operation, and if you look real close it looks like all three trains are on the circuit, which they used to do in the early years thanks to the blocking. Also early on, I believe they timed the dispatches so that as one train was going through the loop, another one was threading it simultaneously.

^That's the train! Soooo pretty...thank you for posting that!

What do you mean? I know they repainted them One is the red white and blue color with stars. The other two are navy blue and gray The red, white, and blue train with the 70's Magic Mountain logo on the front is the 'retro' train. Maybe its being rehabbed. There's a photo of it in here somewhere.

Is there anything else going on at MM that someone would like to talk about? Here's a couple of things...... Are they still running the retro train on Revolution? When wiill they start testing Green Lantern and are the cars on the track yet?

So it went from a guest with a severe hand injury to a mechanic with cuts on his arm, stupid news media! Do they even bother to check facts and sou rces first anymore? Now, this makes the use of the helicopter even more asinine! News stations around here do stuff like that sometimes, but they are usually right. Not as bad as they are down there.

I could see this story making the morning news show or a small article in the morning paper, but certainly NOT breaking news or needing to fly a helicopter over there. Still early I know but it doesn't seem too serious in the sense that it warranted all of this. Sometimes the news media makes me want to puke!

"Tai-ot-soo"! Was it really necessary to send "Sky9" over there to cover this....for what? Okay, so there's the coaster, in the dark, not operating, nothing going on.......yeah makes a lot of sense! Its so ridiculous how they jump all over something like this. Sure its newsworthy, but sending a helicopter over there, really? Now stay tuned for a week long series of reports on so called "amusement" parks as they uncover the shocking truth, these virtual death traps have nothing amusing about them! Of course during all that nonsense they will typically neglect to mention the fact that amusement park rides are generally 1 MILLION TIMES SAFER than the car you rode in to get there and that you are more likely to have an accident in your own home or even walking down the street than you are on any rollercoaster.

That layout doesn't look very inversiony, hard to tell.

^Yeah, its WAY better at night!

^That picture proves that even if a park appears to not have room to build more, if they wanted to, they would find a way to do it, as clearly show there. And that applies to ANY park. Btw, what park is that a photo of? Looks like I'm going to be downloading some more POV videos.