mark9 Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Had a shutdown on Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park. Stuck next to some chavs for 20 minutes, shouting and swearing at the attendents "Im gonna f$@~~g sue your f$@##g ass" What donkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesis-storm Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Got stuck on the lift hill on the corkscrew at Alton Towers for 20 mins. Nick “For 20mins in the rain, Which was nice” Collins LOL I remember that day Nick, It was not raining when got into the train, it only started to rain just as we stopped on the lift hill. We did not get too wet - I dont think, but the ride op who came up to us, had a umbrella and keeping himself dry - cheers ! :shock: A couple of the more memorable 'breakdowns' are: Last year on the opening day at Alton Towers, and also at the end of the day. We were getting our last ride of Oblivlion for the day. We got in our seat etc.and went up the lift hill as normal. We moved onto the tyre transfer part - which moves the train to the holding brake. As we were doing this, we heard "bang - hiss - thud - bang" and the train stopped. We stayed there for about 5 - 10 mins before a ride op came up to us & we were told they had to reset the ride - 5 mins later we got moving again. Instead of a 45 second ride we had a 15 min 45 second ride We had good view of the park from up there. Back in 2003, at Thorpe Park, we had just had ride on Nemesis Inferno ( I think we were in the front row). Got back to the brakes and we could see the the other train in the station. We waited 5,10 mins - they got people out of there seats on the other train. We waited some 5,10 mins more, before we were told they had to release manually from our seats. We got our ride on Nemesis Inferno and we got tickets to re-ride again via the exit. One of our mate, even managed to get one of the ride ops to take a picture of us stuck on the ride 8) Shane,Mark,Me & Cllins Stuck on Nemesis Inferno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Six Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Lets see on Indiana Jones the jeep thing came to a quick halt just before the actual fast part of the ride started. We were stuck in the jeep for only about 2 minutes before a ride op came and made us get off the ride. I was stuck on batman the ride at SFMM for about 10 minutes on the lift hill. The worst one was when we got stuck on The Riddler's Revenge at SFMM. We came back into the station after going on the ride. They couldn't get our restraints to open! We were stuck there for close to an hour. It was about 95 degrees in the station too! So we were a train full of sweaty pigs by the time we got off. But at least it had good music! "Equador (Bruce Wayne Edit) Orignial - sash!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I got stuck on California Screamin @ DCA for an hour on the launch track. They had to walk us off. I also got stuck Winnie the Pooh. Some idiotic kid stood up and they evactuated the whole ride. You guys (and girls) should have seen the look on the kids face when their family got ejected from the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Six Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Why would they evacuate the ride? Michael "Was he the son of Osama?" Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurritoKing99 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 ohh yeah i got stuck on that stupid ride rocket rods at disneyland like twice, i got stuck on haunted mansion once, and splash mtn. once. Its weird because ive only gotten stuck on disneyland rides...weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeForce Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I got stuck going up the final lift ramp on Splash mountain. Getting evacuated down off of that was really interesting. The steps that run along the ramp are not all that big. It was an interesting experience though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coasterbabe Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Kumba. A guests rain poncho was on the track. Deja Vu Evacuation (Over GA)... whatta piece Fire Dragon (2 years BEFORE I worked there). and Gwazi... oh wait. That wasn't downtime. That was their horribly slow loading! LOL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitchtrack Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I Got Stuck On Splash Mountain During The Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Scene, The Song was Stuck In My Head For 2 Days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozenflames Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 The only ride i was ever stuck on was Escape From Pompeii in BGW. After waiting in line for over an hour, I finally managed to get on the ride, then it stopped just as my boat started up the lifthill, barely even out of the station. They made evryone get off the ride because a gear had broken and it would talk a while to fix it. My boat was lucky because we could just walk off the ride. I just felt bad for the people who couldnt be evacuated from the boat that was literally teetering over the edge of the drop for four hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millenniumguy Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I was lucky enough to get stuck on TTD. Yeah, TTD. I pulled up to the go thingy then 200 Feet later the coaster got stuck. Then we went back to the station [/b]Ssssslllllooowwwy My favorite quote from that day "We got one mile an hour backward Luckily 30 seconds later I got to ride TTD(after 5 1/2 hours). And here's another story of the ultimate Cedar Point fan's Cedar Point curses. Back in the good old days of 2002, I was in Soak City when the electricity went out! I was on a lazy river ride. Just as soon as a water fountain was about to squirt me with it's juicy essence the electricity went out. (FOR TWO HOURS!!). At least CP kept the park open till midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirmy_wormy Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I got stuck on Medusa at SFMW when it was pulling into the station. I nearly fell asleep waiting for it to restart so we could be let out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Randomness Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 And here's another story of the ultimate Cedar Point fan's Cedar Point curses. Back in the good old days of 2002, I was in Soak City when the electricity went out! I was on a lazy river ride. Just as soon as a water fountain was about to squirt me with it's juicy essence the electricity went out. (FOR TWO HOURS!!). At least CP kept the park open till midnight. Heh reminds me of when I was at Raging Waters on a field trip. I was about to get on Vortex, which is a helixing water slide, when the op told me to go. Of course then, the water in the entire park was stopped. They would later keep the park open later, but of course I was with my school, and I had to leave early. Oh and another time. I was on Its A Small World Holiday with my family when our boat stopped at the Chinese part. Everyone knows how annoying that song could be stuck in there for an hour and fifteen minutes. To top it off I was right under strobe lights, which went off every 2 minutes. Turns out a boat of fat people bottomed out and they had to pump in much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKDFreak Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 I got stuck on Alpiengiest for an hour right on the top at the lift hill. It was crazy, even though we werent moving i still enjoyed just sitting there!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekRx Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 I've been stuck on many coasters, though the most memorabe experience was being stuck on Hulk's final brake run in the back seat with another train going through the course. We weren't sure if it was gonna stop in the 3/4 course brake or not! (Thankfully it did.) Once I was "stuck" riding a coaster with 2 friends for a tv shoot where there was a giant evil bird of doom building a nest at the top of Alpengeist's lift. Birdy left a nice giant stick in between the boxbeam and the rail and our train snapped it like a twig, with shards of splintered wood flying everywhere. We were told coming into the station to "act natural and ignore the stick next time around." The only time I've been walked off a ride though was on Villain. Most traumatic shutdown though was being stuck on WDWs Small World back when I was 8. I think we were on there for like 30 minutes or so, with the music on the whole time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterboy76 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 in 78' my friend and myself were at Six Flags here, as we were going up the lift hill on the Eagle, it stopped at the top, we sat there for about 45 min, then 3 employees walked up the hill to us and informed us we had to climb back down to the station! it was great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterCanada Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 About 2 Years ago I got stuck on "THE BAT" at (PCW) Paramont Canada's Wonderland. It was not fun at all. The train got stuck just under one of the loops and some people where stuck upsidedown for 2 to 3 hours in on a hot summer day. Luck for me and my friends we where near the base of the track so we where ok. 8) "The Bat" at PCW is just like the Boomerange ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Randomness Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 That must suck for them! BTW what happens if a Tower ride (Supreme Scream, Maliboomer, etc) gets stuck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpengeistdude321 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 ^OMG, that would be so scary if Supreme Scream got stuck on the top. Anyways, California Screamin' broke down while I was on it, but I wasn't stuck anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked_coaster_op Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 i remember at PGA we got stuck on demon's lift but only for like five minutes. it was about to go over when it stopped (i was on the front car and it stopped when it was going down the little hill at the top. it didnt go down because the rest of the train was on the lift) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked_coaster_op Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 i also remember on Drop Zone at PGA that the cabin that i was on fell halfway up the tower it was sorta freaky and scary :shock: but at least we got to ride it again without waiting in line!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 I got stuck on Haunted Mansion once. It was at DLR and we got stuck in the graveyard. The song that they play is really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Randomness Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 I got stuck on Haunted Mansion once. But, it was just up the stairs from the loading area. I wanted to get stuck in the big area (graveyard scene) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xxcrazzy_goodxX Posted March 6, 2005 Author Share Posted March 6, 2005 About 2 Years ago I got stuck on "THE BAT" at (PCW) Paramont Canada's Wonderland. It was not fun at all. The train got stuck just under one of the loops and some people where stuck upsidedown for 2 to 3 hours in on a hot summer day. Luck for me and my friends we where near the base of the track so we where ok. 8) "The Bat" at PCW is just like the Boomerange ride. I remember that!! I wasn't at the park (I've never been there), but my cousins were there, and when they got back they told me about it. According to them, they saw it from the top of a waterslide or something lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesis20 Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 We got stuck on Peter Pan in DLP for 30 minutes over neverland. They turned all the lights on and cast members came out with megaphones. I kind of enjoyed sitting there though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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