Little Black Things at the Top of Wicked Twister

Here is a video of what happens to the ride if it hits the bumpers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26L5M7GxleI

This was taken durring the testing of the ride.

I hate misleading posts. You had me excited to see how it works.

What? Is that not how it works?

the twist would just shake alot, then we would get major whiplashes and have bad backs for weeks...............

Steel Structures already shake.

Those buffers have a very long travel to them, I doubt any serious injuries would occur if the train overshot and hit the buffers.

I know for one thing that if any of those motors mis-fires the ride shuts down!
I was on it the first year and the one motor mis-fired and we E-stopped right there before we went up they had to hook the cable up and release us down manually!!! so.....if the train was to hit the top i would think that it would shut down automatically and i think those spike stoppers have sensors on them or before them!

Its funny because if I remember correctly a schwartzkopf designed ride actually did "ring the bell" and hit the bumper at the end. I think the part stopping the weight from falling to the bottom of the container and it caused the train to accelerate to the point where it hit the bumper and broke most of the train.

Mark me down as one that would love to see it hit the end of the track, but it would have to take someone with knowledge of adjusting the settings of the ride to get the motors to do that in the first place. I'm sure if there is an error when the motors start firing, the brakes fall into place.

^I would love to see it also. I also would like to see someone break the barrier for the emergency brakes on the ride. It would be very cool to see both of those features in action.

The latter isn't very exciting. I've seen a bird fly through the station and trip it. The train stops and the ride is down for a few minutes. Not really a big deal.