BBH

When a company (any company) has proven that they can do a better job based on the past, patrons have a right to complain. I'm not saying you don't have a right to complain, but threatening to boycott a company that's proven to provide some of the best coasters in the industry is just a tad out there.

SFGAm 2015 - Make all of the measuring rules different heights at every ride, and let people b**** about one bad ride op team. 2016 - Great American Sky Screamer 2017-2019 - bollocks bollocks bollocks bollocks 2020-ish or maybe never because this is the least likely one that's been posted here - People learn to suck it up and realize that the park isn't half bad and they've been overly sensitized to customer service in theme parks, when people deal with it all the time and don't complain

I'm sorry to hear about your negative experience. This is nothing "typical" from what I have seen at the park (as my home park, I make frequent visits) and Viper's crew is usually (emphasis on usually because I know things can change from one crew to the next immensely) one of the best, with very efficient dispatches and very engaged ride ops. Sorry to hear you caught it at a bad time. I've heard nothing about any crew in the park pushing down on someone's head to alter their height before this, usually they slip a straightedge and apply force only towards the measuring rule. Glad to hear it all got resolved but at the same time it's an unfortunate incident that ultimately shouldn't have to happen.

"Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond." -Ferris Bueller

Flywheels are mechanisms for storing energy. The Incredible Hulk Coaster uses a flywheel to store energy for its launch, and this will work in the exact same way, but with the flywheel holding power for LSMs instead of drive tires. The flywheel does NOT launch the train by itself like on a Schwarzkopf shuttle loop coaster.

Kawasemi British Rail Roller Coaster

To be fair, there is a hyper coaster with orange box section track named Goliath at SFOG as well as SFMM.

I'd bet money on Holiday World unless we've seen something different.

The forces against the restraints on a ZacSpin are much more than even a standard lap bar with extremely low g-forces, because at least in that situation the force is up, not against the locking mechanism like on a ZacSpin. My thoughts are with the victim's family.

This'll be interesting to watch; I'd imagine they'd have to take extreme caution in moving the derailed car.

And to answer my own question, it looks like they've evacuated someone from car 2, row 2.

The news should reassure people that coasters are safe. The accident itself is shocking enough. I feel like the media always blow things like this out of proportion when instead they should be ensuring the public that occurrences like this are extremely rare and that all amusement rides certified to operate are completely and totally safe. Unfortunately that doesn't happen. Seems like they're taking a while to investigate the front car. I've only been watching for a couple of minutes, have they successfully evacuated everyone?

Ron Swanson

Somewhere deep inside a thrid world country...judging by the look of it... One of the highest ranked towns in the US for quality of life, as it were.

They did run it like that at least once...