Downtime on 6.5

Anyone know exactly what went wrong? I walked by and all they said was that it would be up soon. There were people on the track sitting in the seats....

Rides go down every day for a thousand different reasons. Does it matter?

Read around, and you'll learn that yesterday they were having trouble with the gates. They were also having some trouble with the restraints to my knowledge.

On restraint things...on Power Tower they kept releasing them and had to re-check them all the time..dunno what was with that. But when I was on WT in the morning, early after noon and late evening I saw no problems...I didn't look like it always lined up right when i parked..thats about it...

On Wicked Twister yesterday they had to keep opening and closing the restraints

The opening and closing of the restraints comes when someone has to get off the ride, either because they're scared... or much more likely because they are unable to fasten the seatbelt. Since WT's restraints are among the most restrictive in the entire park, this happens quite a lot.

Now if someone good is at entrance, that won't happen as much. They'll get everyone questionable to try the test seat. But it's really hard to pull off a nice way of saying "you look fat to me" to someone.

*edit*spelling is fun! *** Edited 6/7/2004 3:07:20 PM UTC by CoasterMonkey***

I absolutely hate doing that. I always feel like an idiot asking people to try the test seat. It's basically like saying "You're too fat to ride". "TTT" (or something like that), right Ben?

It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it, right Jordan?

Yes, somebody has to do it.

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Jordan Isenberg said:
I absolutely hate doing that. I always feel like an idiot asking people to try the test seat. It's basically like saying "You're too fat to ride". "TTT" (or something like that), right Ben?

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Yeah... unfortunately by the time some have gotten to our ride they've already tried MF, Raptor, and the other very restrictive seats and are all that much more uncooperative in testing out the test seat...

A nice way to put it, a smile, and a sense of urgency will get you a long way... well that and hoping the other ride hosts at those other rides weren't rude as all heck so they are more willing to cooperate.

I have to agree that the Twister Crew is good!

I made my annual trip to CP on May 10 - 12 this year...

Monday I rode MF and Dragster with no problems, other than slight difficulty finding the buckle while seated.

Tuesday morning, did the hotel guest ERT walkback to MF and heard the we now require 1" of tail on the seatbelt. Yikes.. Pull hard and get it. 2nd time, tail will not move much.. but got it. Way too much chance of getting turned away on future rides. Crew was nice about it at this point.

Go over to TTD, ended up in a seat with a slightly shorter seatbelt and got told its not safe to ride.

Spent alot of time on Magnum and Raptor..

Well at some point in the afternoon I walked over to Twister to look at it, the person at the entrance suggested that I try it! I was like no I have not made it on WT in the spring yet.. I managed last year in the fall with some effort. So I decided ok, I'll try the test seat. And barely made it.

Takes slight effort, but at least I made it.

So thanks to the entrance person, I got on.

Bottom line some of the rides I can ride:
Chaos, Raptor, twister

Might be, did not play the guessing game.

TTD, MF, Mantis (I need to sit down to get the seatbelt, and then once done I find I have slack!)

Jerry

How is the Twister Crew good for potentially endangering you?

How do you fiquire endangering me..

Sitting down on seat, making sure that I'm all the way back and then stapling myself to the seat hard. Alot of the GP do this anyway.

Yes I was able to do my own seltbelt too.

If it was not for the entrance person, I would not have attempted.

Do not assume that being able to ride some rides and not others is a overall safety risk. Skinny people may also be at risk!

V2 at SFGam is another story, there force was used on the OTSR in attempt to get me on.

Jerry

Oh ok, I thought that you meant that he was being leniant and let you ride even though you didn't meet the seatbelt requirments. My bad. I misread.