Floor clearance

When I rode Wicked Twister I thought my feet were going to hit the floor because it looked close like I could touch it. I'm about 6'2 or 6'3, and I'll be really mad if I can't ride anymore because I love this ride and think its amazing. Juts worried one day they'll be like, "sorry your feet look a little too close to the ground." Does anyone know how much space is between the ground and an avergae persons feet. I thought they should have had the ramp that goes down when everyone is loaded.......

Although unlikely that they would ever change the floor style now, I don't expect to see too many of the dropping/raising floors on Impulse coasters. I have been on Raptor before and seen the floor raise when there was no train in the station...On the flip side, I have also seen the floor drop as the harnesses pop.

An electrical problem with the floor, could prove to be very disastrous on Wicked Twister. Imagine hitting the floor with your feet at 72 mph.

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MANTIS ROCKS 2002 & 2003

As Brian just stated, for safety reasons, you won't see a dropping floor on an impulse. The crew however, is watching out for feet that are too close to the floor. It's hardly ever a problem, however... all summer I only had one guest who could not ride because of his legs being too long.

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

How tall do you think that guest was? I don't think I'll have a problem but I'm just curious. On the ride I kind of was lifting my legs up though just making sure.....but that initial launch threw my legs back once and it hurt my calves on something. Best ride though, so much fun in the back twisiting face first and you get an awesome view like ur in first row because the seats in front of you are twisted out more.

My friend who went to Cedar Point with me three times this past season is 6'4" and had no problem at all riding Wicked Twister. :)

Well... if I remember the person Jeff's talking about, the person towered like a foot or a foot and a half over the tallest person in the station. I'm 6'2", 6'3", so it's most likely he was well over 7' ...

In other words if you are that tall, you most likely shouldn't have to worry about it b/c I worked there all summer and I was fine. If you are not touching the floor while in the seat, you will not touch the floor while in flight unless you purposfully (and I don't even think it's possible once it's going b/c it locks harder if your harness isn't locked all the way in the first place.) place yourself further down in the seat to TRY to touch the floor.

Yeah... that guy was obscenely tall... he had to be at least 7'...

When you get to that point, not only are your legs gonna be hitting the floor, but your torso just won't fit into the harness, so you're out on two counts.

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

Oh, and as far as your calves getting whacked, it happens on the underside of the seat. Generally, if you're keeping your legs straight down prior to the launch (read: NOT flailing them about in circles and potentially kicking your friendly WT ride hosts in the knees) then you should be fine. It's when you're doing the "I'm in a seat with no floor so I MUST kick my legs" when you get whacked.

It's just WT's revenge on unruly guests, I s'pose. She sticks up for us. ;)

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

Haha, ok thanks everyone for the information can't wait till next year!

A dropping floor would certainly be welcome for guests with shorter legs who currently have to hop up into the seats, but as Brian said, that introduces a horrible failure mode -- if the floor should fail to drop, or come up mid-ride, then guests with longer legs are in bad shape. The relatively low fixed floor prevents that issue, at the cost of ruling out extremely tall people. (And very short people, as well, but minimum height requirements are already the norm anyway)

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