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Well, it kinda fits the thread. Aftershock was around half a million for the ride and about $800,000 to disassemble, ship, and reassemble.

Pretty much any part of a GIB, but particularly stopping on tower 1 on the return trip. Lots of cell phones. SpinCycle's "pause" upside down where you're no longer sitting on your back pockets is good. And Chance Sky Divers.

He was with another rider. How would this lead to no single riders?

This whole event is very sad all around. It's sad that the boy now has to inevitably suffer and go through potentially months of medical "stuff" (For lack of a better word since I'm not a doctor) and sad that the family has to watch him go through all of that. Sad that the operator(s) had to watch what happened and probably felt pretty helpless. I feel bad for the park because they'll inevitably get dragged through the mud because of this. Call it Darwinism if you must, but everyone does dumb stuff at one point or another, this was just a particularly dumb moment.

If we can't jog the gondola down on our Larson Super Shot, there's multiple ways to bring the guests down, before we resort to using the man lift. Which, btw, our lift does reach the top of the tower. One option is to winch it back down manually. Not easy or fast, but possible. The other option if for whatever reason the failure prevented the drum from spinning, we'd cut the main cable from the bottom of the tower. The brakes are entirely magnetic and will always stop the car before it reaches the ground.

^ that's part of it. Although if the train is anywhere near a point where it has the potential to move when the weight shifts, it'll be secured to the track where it's at.

I'm still not sure if I should blame the absolutely atrocious SFMM operations for that ride rarely ever dueling or RMC for designing a terrible sensor system for the lift hills. Controls were done in house by Six Flags.

All three cameras are on Power Tower.

That's just an older version of the trains. All of the RMC trains currently will have shin bars. It's part of what makes these trains safe.

Park-wide wifi of any quality is hard and expensive to do right. CP was probably waiting until they had the infrastructure to do it well.

The standing coasters would like to have a word with you.

We do have full "SCAREveillance" which we highly publicize at all of our attractions, including many signs about surveillance and "DO NOT TOUCH THE ACTORS". Some attractions also verbally tell guests to not touch the actors at the entrance. It generally doesn't help prevent anything. Although it's very useful later on. People are still jerks who try to push their luck or look tough for their girlfriends. They also seem to forget that there are actually people in the houses. Some of whom aren't necessarily 18. I can guarantee that that assault on a minor charge will make them rethink their attitude. If I were to guess, alcohol does play a part in it, but not selling it in the park won't help. People come into the park intoxicated or sneak it in. Which (IMO) would be a big deal, but I really doubt being sober would stop most of these people.

There's a big reason they emphasize that the note NOT include the nature of the disability, only say that it exists.

This Saturday was the biggest Scarywood night we've ever had. We're less than a 1/3rd of the park we normally are and had enough people that it would be crowded with the entire park and waterpark open. It'd be awesome if you could share what things you thought the park could do better. Either here or in private. I'm always interested in hearing ideas on improving the park, even if there's only so much I can do.

Maybe I'm just anal or something, but like you said, that's a huge safety issue. Something that management should know about. Especially because that means that there are multiple people who aren't doing their jobs correctly. And if they're not doing something simple like looking at their ride area before dispatch, what else isn't being done?

It's a team of RMC guys leading (and working with) a local crew. They have the experience and expertise, just not the shear manpower that some of the jobs require.

What would the key be doing differently more reliably than the button? I'm not disagreeing with you that it is fail safe. Just think about it. If somehow an E-Stop failed, there is still another way to cut power to the ride. If there was not a key in the panel and in some instance where the E-Stop fails and doesn't prevent something from happening, there is potential for a lawsuit. Because they could make the argument that if there had been a key in the panel that it wouldn't have happened. Its the same logic behind the Texas Giant lawsuit. They claimed that if Six Flags had installed seat belts then it wouldn't have happened, and to them there is no reason why there shouldn't be seat belts. I guess so. I misread the OP to mean there was a key that in the event of some sort of malfunction where an estop couldn't be pressed someone could insert and turn a key to cut power to the ride. Seemed a little silly.

What would the key be doing differently more reliably than the button?

Wait what? Why would the E-stop not work? What kind of situation would mean it didn't work? Those are generally fail safe. And a "true" estop cuts power to the entire attraction (save for maybe the PLC itself) anyway.

It's AMAZING what you can find if you look... or search through this thread. Ryan can likely get us a much better picture.

Massive massive track, but with pretty large spans between supports. AFAIK, steel style supports, not a wooden structure. With the goal being the track like a massive "ribbon" in the air instead of a traditional coaster look.

It's pretty much anything that uses tires that can throw bits of rubber. Our SBF Visa spinning coaster, Zamperla kids coaster, Trabant, Super Round Up and even SkyDiver all end up leaving debris by the drive wheels.

That actually looks very frustrating to move around all day, albeit much more professional than ours.

Less lifts compared to their own track. Much larger distance between supports. And considering the demand for their products, anything that takes less time in the shop is a good thing.

Whats strange is from my experience working at a small park, even though there are attractions that pull hour long lines all day, it'll end up being a walk on right before the water park closes. The coasters are often between a 5-15 minute wait at closing. Shorter on a late close. Almost all of our ops get clocked out by about 20-30 mins after closing, even on some of our busiest days. He exceptions being the balance rides that take forever to unload.