Six Flags Great Adventure (SFGAdv) Discussion Thread

[AmyUD06]

2 hours ago, missbaltimorecrabs_ said:

From what I heard it was during testing and nobody was on it, that's the only reason I can think that more info wasn't released:
 

If "nobody was on it" why would anyone need to be evacuated from the ride with apparatus?

2 hours ago, missbaltimorecrabs_ said:

"It got shut down after a computer/board failed allowing two log flumes to be dispatched at one time, allowing one to hook on the back of another.
 

It is literally impossible to "dispatch two logs at a time" with the turntable design of the station.

2 hours ago, missbaltimorecrabs_ said:

Park had to close it down for the season & let the state know within 24 hours"

Rides that have actually injured, if not killed, people have re-opened in the same season.  There is no situation where a ride would have to be closed for the remainder of a season on a technicality.

You had quotation marks in your statement.  What is the source of that quote?

[KBrylczyk]

The adventure isn't so great anymore.

[Zand]

Whatever it is that happened, happened in the afternoon on the day in question (it was either the Friday or Saturday of Juneteenth weekend). When it happened they shut down Bugs Bunny National Park and then for a few days after they shut down that part of Frontier Adventures so you had to go under El Toro to get to Medusa and Mine Train. While none of this is proven fact, multiple sources from multiple sites said the same thing about the day in question and the days following.

Whatever happened has been kept hush hush because of where it is in the park. Besides the part that goes by the kiddie area (which was evacuated right after the incident happened) the rest of the ride is mostly out of view from inside the park until the final hill.

The rumor (and I want to be clear this is just a rumor as obviously nothing official has ever come out) is that a log got stuck just after the top of the first lift (where it cuts over the corner of the kiddie area) and then another log came up from behind and knocked it out of place and nearly over the edge of the trough. If this is indeed what happened, it would literally be the 2nd time in 4 years that this flume has had a log get stuck and then another log come up and knock it out of place.

Rides that "open the same year as an accident or death" are often opened quickly because the cause of the vast majority of ride accidents is human error, but otherwise the ride did not malfunction. In this case, when a ride gets stuck in areas where it shouldn't twice in a very short period of time (a period made even shorter by the fact it was barely open in the past 4 years) it's not just going to test for a week and then they reopen it. Obviously there is something major wrong with it. Whether or not the park has actually given up on opening it ever again remains to be seen. 

Again, I know my post is based on total rumors but a fairly sizeable amount of people thought the Kingda Ka rumors were total bullshit and we saw how that worked out. With the condition the park is in (and has been for quite a while), I think the Flume rumors have some truth to them.