brightonpiermad

Nice trip report and good photos. I'm looking forward to visiting in September and I think that it looks fanastic. I am pleased that you had a brilliant time and found spongebob in the end. How busy was the park and what were queues like? It's going to be VERY busy in the school hoildays so you must have been glad to go when you did. I also wondered about the Airbender ride and how good a ride you got on it. Looked like Kobra at Chessington but without the hump so I'm sure that if U can handle Kobra then I can handle this one at Blackpool.

I have just read through the whole discussion board regarding this accident and I was shocked when it happened. My thoughts do very much go out to the families of the dead and injured. I want to get to the bottom of what excatly happened regarding the Super Booster on Brighton Pier. It opened in April 2006 but didn't stay open for very long as I gather there werte problems with it and it was closed for nearly a year. The amount of downtime that it had was incredible and even when it did reopen in February 2007 it continued to have many problems and was closed numerous times. I thought that Brighton Puier would be getting rid of it because it wasn't worth keeping it open. I live in West Sussex in the UK and am quite close to Brighton Pier. So I travel down to Brighton to watch the ride in action because although it is too scary to go on it is good fun to watch. As I feel there are a few people on this forum who would know something about the Super Booster I would like to ask the following things about it: The tiopping of the seats onnce the platform has moved out. Sometimes they can tip quite a lot and cause a screaming reaction from the riders. The platform as the ride which crashed in Spain had a platform which moved in and out automatically being operated by a button in the operators cab. The Super Booster on Brighton Pier has a lever on the platform which a staff member had to push after each ride to move the platform back in. That meant that there needed to be two staff with the ride at all times with one of them staying on the platform during a ride cycle. For the one in Spain I think they would have been able to get away with only one staff member because of the platform set up. Staff to stay on the platform or not during a ride cycle. You can put my post in a seperate topic if you like because I don't really want to go off topic but I wanted to try and find out some answers to questions that have been bugging me now. Finally I would like to say that I was on Brighton Pier today and I am NOT happy with the decision of closing the Super Booster because of ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS - in other words the WIND was too strong! Crazy Mouse, the Booster and Turbo Coaster were all open and operating fine so why NOT the Super Booster?