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Chris L
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Just in case you are not familiar with X-Scream and what 90-minutes of being stranded meant to those passengers, here's picture of it in action - http://www.dan-and-amanda.com/honeym...es/P1010277.jpg
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| 11/16/2005 4:11 AM |
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VekomahangNbang
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Holy crap...would I be scared or what if that happened to me.
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| 11/16/2005 7:43 AM |
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FLCC Josh
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I would pay them to let me sit there for that long, how freakin sweet would that be!!
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| 11/16/2005 9:13 AM |
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5150
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Didn't this happen with their other contraption earlier this year?? They should get a better fuse box.
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| 11/16/2005 9:41 AM |
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bgwfreak
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Another ride stuck at the top of that thing! Why dont' they have a generator for peet's sake!
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| 11/16/2005 10:18 AM |
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Sir Willow
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It's not the fuse box- and getting a new one won't do squat if there isn't any power flowing to it. The generator would seem to make sense, though they would have to find a place up there to put it.
Seems like a manual system to get it back into place would be obvious- especially after the incident with the other ride earlier.
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| 11/16/2005 11:21 AM |
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Zingoman
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I thought that all rides had some kind of manual or secondary power source for just such occasions. Looks like Stratosphere cheaped out on these rides. That is abolutely ridiculous. While I would have loved to have been on it, it is just obsurd that this actually happened, and TWICE in the same place!
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| 11/16/2005 11:48 AM |
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bgwfreak
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Here's a link to the other story where one of their rides got stuck off the side of the building.
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/stories_view.php/994
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| 11/16/2005 12:49 PM |
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The Gent
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That drooling sound you hear is the attorneys.......
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| 11/16/2005 1:32 PM |
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Drewbie
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I went on the other one that had become stuck. That stopped because of high winds, not loss of power. Either way, they scared the hell out of me and I can't imagine that torture for 90 minutes.
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| 11/16/2005 1:35 PM |
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Warlord694
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Http://www.vegas.com/attractions/on_the_strip/projectxsky.html?f=m0at&t=stripat
Read the lie in the 2nd to last paragraph.
30mph to 0 on this? Don't sound like anything fun.
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| 11/16/2005 2:04 PM |
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Montu Man
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That would be a bit scary at first, but then I would be fine with it. And before anyone flames me and says OMGz! yo liar!!! Just know, when we lived in Vegas my grandpa worked at the Stratosphere and I've been up on top many more times then many of you ever will. (I've even launched Big Shot).
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| 11/16/2005 2:49 PM |
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ItsDavidU
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X Scream is a new generation of extreme thrill rides, playing on the passenger's primal fear of falling. However, passengers can find comfort in the ride's four independent locking mechanisms on each chair and titanium restraining bars. X Scream also has a manual return mechanism in case of power failure.
Riiiight, why didn't they use it then?
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| 11/17/2005 3:43 PM |
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More about News
Nov. 16th, 2005 -- Six Japanese tourists were left stranded for approximately 90 minutes Tuesday night aboard the X-Scream thrill-ride when the power went out. The riders were perched more than 900-feet above ground level off the side of the top of the Stratosphere Tower at a slope.