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It wasn'nt just people blacking out. If i remember right there were a lot of people with whiplash injuries and problems with their neck and back. Some people also had to be treated in hospitals. But as stated above it was the yellow press. And if they make a story on the front page out of it you never know how much truth is in it and how much money they paid the "victims" to whine in front of the camera while telling about their pain and "trip to hell". In the history of travelling rollercoasters in germany i remember no other case you could compare this to. In other words, no rollercoaster was treated by the yellow press like "Thriller". So this coaster in itself became a victim.

Before "Thriller" went to the USA as Zonga it was known all over Germany for being dangerous. I say "all over germany" because some of the injuries have gone through the yellow press for weeks. From that time on even modifications on the train or the closing of the last car for the passengers did'nt help the ride to find back to it's former glory. While people where still fascinated by the beauty of this ride they stopped riding it as often as they did before.

In theory it is a good idea with the seatbelts. But there are several problems that occur in practice. One is that there will always be someone who has a problem with closing his seatbelt. This will cost alot of time and instead of up to 5 trains you would'nt be able to bring more than 2 trains on the track. The other problem is that there is not enough room between the seats in Schwarzkopf-trains.

Hi, here is a small video of those shoulder restrains on Olympia Looping from October 2005. You can see the restraints going up automatically after the ride. After entering the train you first pull down the lapbar. Then an operator comes and helps you pressing down the on-the-shoulder restraint. It's all going really fast and if the operators want to they are able to unload and load und unpatch the train in under 30 seconds to bring 4 trains on the track. have a nice day restraints_olympia.zip little video of the restrains of olympia looping popping up

no. But a lot of people have asked for it. It would help alot building coaster faster and better. Maybe it will be included in NoLimits 2.