This may be the craziest malfunction of an amusement ride I’ve ever heard of. The E-stop literally didn’t work and maintenance had to disconnect the power from the ride.
This is my worst nightmare on any spinning flat ride. I would be projectile vomiting everywhere.
Haha… Honestly the one thing that I always thought would be horrible is an early rollback on one of the Schwarzkopf shuttle loops. I’ve been told that Laser Loop at Kennywood would take around a half hour of rolling back and forth between the loop and the spike before it came to a stop so the riders could be evac’d. I could handle it for a while but a half hour would not be fun.
Pfft, went to article to see the video. It loads for a bit and goes to an ad for Disney World lol
Weird… it played fine for me. But the video doesn’t really show anything other than a music express running. The text covers everything they say in the video.
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That’s literally what both the article and my post said they did. You don’t just unplug a ride like you can unplug a toaster.
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You are over simplifying the complexity of this situation. Most rides aren’t even just a single breaker and many can be powered from different sources. This isn’t just going to the amusement park’s breaker panel and flip a single breaker per ride. Also keep in mind that on some rides once you were to cut power it could also render the brakes useless as well meaning the ride would have to coast to a stop. In addition to this the ride ops aren’t going to have the ability to do this so maintenance staff need to respond in order to perform such an operation. Ten minuets is incredibly fast in this situation.
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Fail safe brakes aren’t necessary when the implications are not dangerous. Coasting to a stop is more than acceptable and safe on many rides.
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Just to be clear on the record, you are claiming to be an amusement park ride inspector in another state?
Also, please cite a source for the claim that carousels make up the majority of amusement park injuries.
