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coasterdude28
Joined: Oct 2004
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That sucks. It seemed to have a good summer season but now it is running into some problems. Hopefully they can work out the problems and not have to worry about situations like this.
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| 10/31/2005 7:55 PM |
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Homer
Joined: Feb 2004
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I have pics of the breakdown;
http://img418.imageshack.us/my.php?i...005117lo.jpg />Lucky stiffs... they get to be rescued by the emergency trolley...
http://img305.imageshack.us/my.php?i...pict00533em.jpg
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| 10/31/2005 8:45 PM |
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WildeFyre
Joined: Apr 2004
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What's stupid? The fact that the ride did what it was supposed to do and shut itself down instead of possibly causing an accident?
Why dont you explain yourself in any of your posts? Even in the AstroWorld story, all you can seem to see is "isnt that sweet?"
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| 10/31/2005 10:59 PM |
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Sir Willow
Joined: May 2001
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So are we going to start reporting every time a ride breaks down and makes a safety stop? This is starting to get silly.
The Tampa Tribune has another article about it today in their Moneysense section, but at least they sort of have it right in their headlines: A Stuck SheiKra is a Sign of Safety- Ride shuts itself down when it sees problems.
This is NOT an unusual or unsafe thing. Just seems silly to me as much "news" as it's getting. People must really have nothing of import to report if this is making the coverage.
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| 11/1/2005 8:13 AM |
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Steven
Joined: Jun 2001
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You're right Sir Willow.
When I worked on Magnum, I seen that thing "shut down" (only we call it set up) several times. But, it's only ever been for a few minutes if you're stuck on a lift hill.
The longest I have ever seen a train on the safetys (just after Tunnel 3) with people in it is when we've had to clean up a train rather thoroughly after a guest illness.
In all of those cases, our blocking system worked, and it won't let a train go to the next block as designed.
Of course, in our sensationalist media of today, they have to make news out of this kind of stuff. Pumps and compressors break on rides more often than people thing, and when they do... it won't harm people on the ride... just make a rather interesting day if they're stuck at a block brake or on the lift.
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| 11/1/2005 9:08 AM |
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Tanks4me05
Joined: Apr 2005
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If only that happened to me. I may have wasted an hour of my time at BGT, but at least I would have gotten a great view.
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| 11/1/2005 3:39 PM |
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bgwfreak
Joined: Sep 2001
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At least they weren't stuck on an invert. Trust me after being stuck on Alpengeist for 15 minutes, it's no fun.
The blood rushes to your feet and your but starts to hurt.
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| 11/2/2005 12:57 PM |
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VekomahangNbang
Joined: Sep 2005
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^I was stuck on Alpengist for 20 minutes this summer 3/4 up the lift hill because someone didn't have their harness on right and the ride ops werereally slow. It really sucked but at least we got to ride down.
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| 11/2/2005 4:28 PM |
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Alpengurl
Joined: Apr 2004
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Having done evacs from Alpie and Apollo.. what you may consider slow we consider fast. you try walking up those stairs while the wind's blowing and the only thing you have to hold onto is a rail. i know the first time i went up i came back with my legs feeling like jelly
also you have to take into consideration that a lot of people need to be notified of any evac situations, so it's going to take awhile whenever people need to get off
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| 11/4/2005 10:39 AM |
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Marc
Joined: Jul 2001
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This is minor compared to what happened on MF when the train disengauged from the catch car. This happened this past May. Left the blue train near the top for days and also required evacuation from the train on the lift. This process took well over an hour.
Not a word on this site about it...
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| 11/9/2005 2:32 AM |
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More about News
Oct. 31st, 2005 -- A normally three-minute ride on Busch Gardens Tampa's SheiKra roller coaster turned into an hour-long wait yesterday after the coaster shut down in the middle of operation.