Ride Safety

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this is what CP has to say on the matter
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Just can't live in that negative way... Make way for the positive Day

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Gerg said:
The same restraints as Millennium Force.

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blasting off in 112 days...........

dont bother

No, the restraints were redesigned for Intamin's giga coaster trains after the perilous plunge incident. Its a much moure massive restraint, and you can hardly move your legs around, and making the length of your body above the restraint 1" more is impossible if you're properly stapled. The design change is very visable between Perilous Plunge and Xcelerator, they're only 100 feet away so its easy to see. They need to make the lap belts a bit longer than Xcelerators, otherwise MANY of you will be disappointed when you don't get to ride because your waist is larger than 38".

If your head exceeds the head rest, you will not be allowed to ride. I'm talking like 80% of your skull being over the headrest. Not too many people are this tall, but I'm sure theres someone on GTTP who is. Unless tey make the backrow's higher.

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A 38' waist, your kidding me, right?

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Love,
The Mole

Actually, speedy said 38" waist, so I hope your kidding when you say 38'.

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MANTIS ROCKS 2002

Suddenly summer is NOT looking as fun as I thought. I'm a 45 w I hope I'm not left out of the fun. I feel good,for 62 . I really need to do this to prove I still got IT! I've ridden lots

of stuff in my life I rode MF on my 60th 3 times.I hope they at least place a seat out front like Raptor has so I or anybody else standing in line won't be disapointed

If Iwas offered a ride in a jet fighter right now Iwould gojust becauseI want toI' m that confident

BUT I may have to sit down for while afterward:)

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I'm not an old fogey, I'm just an old coaster rider..

The park really needs to invest in some seat belt extenders. That would be the optimal solution for EVERYONES safety. And I'm not kidding when I say that Xcelerator is a tight fit with a 38" waist. 40 inch waists would not fit (at least not without having 2 buff ride ops pull on it while pushing against the train) unless CP modifies what is found on Xcelerator. Same thing goes for height- even if only 100 people all season exceed the headrest (whiplash), they could always have 2 larger headrests in the back row of the trains. how much more would they cost to make than the standard headrests, $10???? Even worse than Xcelerator is Expedition G force in Europe, which they say has a 36" waist restriction. 38" isn't even Obsese. If every overweight person on GTTP e-mails CP saying they are worried they might not fit, and reccomend seat belt extensions for larger guests, they would change things. I mean, think about how concerned you would be if a woman flew out and took a giant swan dive into a pool of water from one of your rides. all her restraints were on properly BTW, she was just not supposed to sit in the back 2 rows per intamin reccomendations. BTW, the people who need seat belt extensions really should sit in the front cars, its the place safest for them if most of their weight is above the lapbar.

Remeber, just E-mail CP and say you are soooo anxious to ride but you're concerned you may not fit. Ask what having a 3 inch longer seatbelt would do. BTW, theres a big difference between airtime on Millenium force and airtime on these rocket coasters. Xcelerator is negative 2.2 Gs at the top, which mean the lap bar has about 350 LBS pushing it up.

I think that they are trying to make sure that something like what happened on Perilous Plunge will never happen again. If that means more strict conditions, then so be it.

If you think that you are too large, my only advice is Atkin's diet. If you can stick to it, you'll lose the inches.

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What is most anticipated event of 2003? the debut of Dragster, the release of Metallica's new album, the release of Terminator 3, or the release of Matrix:Reloaded...tough call.

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speedy said:
The park really needs to invest in some seat belt extenders. That would be the optimal solution for EVERYONES safety.

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No, that would defeat the purpose of the belts being short in the first place. The belts are meant to be the final test of whether or not the restraint can hold people. The thinking goes (however conservative it might be), that if the belt doesn't fit you may be too big around to be safely restrained.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
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I just hope Intamin has moved the support arm for the lap bar from the bottom of the bar to the front of the bar, maybe even put a kink in it. I know that it is very dangerous for me to put the lap bar all the way down against my legs/gut on Millennium Force, and I predict that CP will be more paranoid about this thing than they are about Millennium Force.....

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Who thinks T-shaped lap bars might not be such a good idea

It is flexed now, but it will hurt your bladder if they staple hard (like xcelerator's opening week....OUCH....you should see sandor's reaction when he gets stapled on his own ride). Its a T bar, and the support goes up higher than Perilous Plunge's do, and then flexes down to meet up with the lap bar in a place that will not smash your groin when the ride brakes (Xcelerators is like 80-5 in about 80 feet, Dragster should be a little longer, and more comfortable judging from the video). Oddly enough, the flexed part of the lap bar's support had a flat section to it on top, and there were Xs that looked exactly like the logo to X the ride etched into them. They wore down now.

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Jeff said:

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speedy said:
The park really needs to invest in some seat belt extenders. That would be the optimal solution for EVERYONES safety.

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No, that would defeat the purpose of the belts being short in the first place. The belts are meant to be the final test of whether or not the restraint can hold people. The thinking goes (however conservative it might be), that if the belt doesn't fit you may be too big around to be safely restrained.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
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Yeah, but the belts on Xcelerator are RIDICULOUSLY short. A LOT of people here are not going to fit.

How do you know that they're ridiculously short? Did you design the seat? I don't think you did, so you wouldn't know what its real limitations are.

Dave: I think your fears have been addressed if the Xcelerator trains are any indication. Can't say I've been on it, but they look to be less of a ball buster than the MF bars, which have straight columns.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP - Sillynonsense.com
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has CP ever lost a coaster rider??

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I'm not an old fogey, I'm just an old coaster rider..

Yeah, many years ago they lost an 8-Y-O kid on Mine Ride who survived with a fractured skull. As I recall, there were a lot of suspicious circumstances in that one implying that maybe the kid was pushed out.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.