New Safety Rule on Magnum?

Rode Magnum with my skinny-as-a-rail seven year old son yesterday morning and all was well. When we rode it again later in the day one of the ops noticed that the lap bar did not come down far enough to touch his legs. They made him sit on a sweatshirt to allow the bar to touch his legs. They said that they are implementing this because several people complained that the ride was hurting their kids legs. This is the first I have seen this. Anyone else run into this?

I haven't seen this, but the solution to the lap bar possibly hurting your leg is to pull the seat belt as tight as you can. Let it do the work holding you down instead of the lap bar and all leg pain from the lap bar will disappear.

What happens if you do not have a sweatshirt to sit on?

Hopefully this is short lived. I say bring on the pain.

Any opinions on if Magnum should either "re-pad" the lap bars or install new lap bars. I feel like this would completely make the ride experience for the general guest a lot more pleasant.

They grabbed a sweatshirt out of the control booth.

I am with you Pete - I always tell people the same thing with the seatbelt and I always make sure my son's belt is tight.

I do like the repad idea.

I like the repad idea, it makes sense, but personally I love the feeling of slamming up into it on those hills, it is fun to me :)

I agree with the repad.

I still remember from last year Coasting for Kids when we had a full train and no trims on the pretzel. Never that much pain from a coaster in my entire life.

Oddly enough, the *best* solution would be to hold the bar up a notch and snug down the seat belt. But that won't satisfy the "tighter = safer" crowd.

I've never heard of such a thing. And if they wanted to implement such a rule, you'd think they would come up with a seat cushion insert or something, not some random sweatshirt.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I thought the same thing about the seat cushion. That makes more sense than sitting on a piece of clothing. If it would have been a nice CP sweatshirt I might have been tempted to conveniently forget to hand it back over to them after the ride but my guess is that it was something that someone left behind.

GoBucks89 said:
What happens if you do not have a sweatshirt to sit on?

They make you go to the gift shops and buy a sweatshirt. It's another way they try to steal money from us :)

I usually try to put my hands between the bar and my legs just before the camel humps and that usually keeps the pain to a minimum.

I think they should just get new seatbelts.

...or get rid of the triangles.

GoBucks89 said:
What happens if you do not have a sweatshirt to sit on?

especially in summer when it's 90+ degrees out :)

Buzz Bars..

'nuff said.

So none of you guys purposely sit forward to make the lap bars not reach? Gives you best air time, especially sitting in the ejector seats.

Also, what happens if the sweatshirt "flies" off during the pretzel?

Ensign Smith said:
...or get rid of the triangles.

The triangles are the best part! :)

Who cares? Magnum is sinking.