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Shoud be a requirement on every amusment/thempark ride that use lapbars. May accidents (both mortals and non mortals) happen because of the lapbar not locking the person properly. Either the person is to fat or to small (kids). Impossible, even if one failed the remaining one is strong enough to hold a 500 pound human locked in the seat throughout the ride. And for a hydralic system to fail, you need a chain of events to occur, manufacturing error, installation error, maintenace error (both the yearly revision and routine inspections) and then maybe you will have an accident.

I would go as far as saying it has nothing to do with weight or volume. In the extremely rare cases of mechanical failure, whether the person weight X punds or kilos the failure will happen regardless, 50 or 500 will not matter. In any system that can fail where humans are involved, redundancy is massive. Case example is an elevator, if it has a maximum weight of X then it will break at maximum weight times 8 or more. The same thing applies to a roller coaster, it simply will not break even if you found a way to stuff a 1000 pound human into the seat.

When I was about 8 years old I rode an old poorly maintained wooden coaster that derailed on a small airhump and detached from the rails, this was not a large or fast coaster but the whole carrige sailed through the air for a good 15 feet and only divine intervention saved my life that day. I took me 10 years before I rode another coaster again. It pretty much ruined my whole childhood when it comes to amusement/theme parks.

My first post, yay! Ok so this roller coaster was redesigned between the first press release and the current one. Basically as I understand they added an inversion at the beginning and swiched the twisted airtime hump-corkscrew combo into an inverted tophat-airtime hump combo. In the last interview the park CEO mentions that the Coaster now is 54 (177 feet) metres tall as opposed to the 41 (134 feet) that was given before the redesign. I guess these 13 extra metres are part of the swich from airtime hump to inverted top hat? Anyway, it is interesting as the original reason for going with a Mack ride as opposed to a B&M or an intamin ride was that they didn't want to build a huge imposing coaster with tons of support beams, but now with the redesign they kind of did that anyway. Still 54 metres is shorter than the 65 ish that the original design had.