Stapling Out of Hand?

I certainly agree with the stapling, and it hurts too. It doesn't hurt to ask, though, to lessen the tightness of the bar.

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What is "TORR"?

The only person that's fallen out of an Intamin ride to my knowledge is on Perilous Plunge. I highly doubt those restraints are the same as TTD's. So I believe it's "person". But I do disagree with Pete.

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OMG! The Space Spiral is leaning!!" Must be the weight of that new air conditioning system everyone keeps hypothesizing about...

CpRider, actually there were 2 ejections. Perilous Plunge and RoS at SFDL. I have yet to ride TTD (plan on a sept and oct trip), and hope they dont put there full weight into stapling me (happened once on MF). Firm and tight is fine.

Tom

Sure, Pete, they have fallen out, but not only were they bigger but they didn't have seat belts. I believe that the bend in the lapbar on Dragster, which causes the bar to touch your legs before your gut, was not present on Plunge and I know wasn't on Superman. That single change makes the bar far more secure.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - Luau II Cam 7/19
DELETED! What time does the water show start?

Ride Host: "This is going to be tight."

Girl Behind Me: "Good."

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TTD Launches: 5
MF Laps (2003): 11
Rapter Laps (2003): 7

Whoa, there was one on SRoS? When did that one happen? I heard about one of the clones crashing (I believe it was the DL park...not sure), but I never heard about this.

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OMG! The Space Spiral is leaning!!" Must be the weight of that new air conditioning system everyone keeps hypothesizing about...

The SFDL ride tossed a guy. The SFNE ride (which is not a clone of anything) had the crash.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - Luau II Cam 7/19
DELETED! What time does the water show start?

I also agree that there is entirely too much stapling. When a ride-op has to put one foot on the ledge of the train to get extra "oomph" onto the lapbar, and extra "grrr" on the seat belt, that indicates to me entirely too much energy being used to keep someone very uncomfortable. If I notice one side being more liberal with their stapling habbits, then I automatically choose the other side...and hopefully I have the choice. I too have seen men and women almost in agony when being stapled on this ride. Sure, its only for a few seconds, but anymore, it really takes away from the enjoyability of the ride.

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Michael McCormack
Magnum Count: 869
"Is it raining nickels?"

I have ridden TTD 3 times now, and the first two times the bar was snug, but not pinchingly tight. The last time I rode it, before the long brakedown, I got stapled in so hard that it hurt. There is a difference between having the restraints safely in position, and trying to amputate someones legs with a lap bar.

I didn't think of this at the time, but every employee has on an ID badge. Next time I get stapled to the point of pain, I'm going to remember the name of the op and write a complaint stating which op it was that caused me to be in pain, and suggest the rest of you do the same if you feel like you have been stapled to hard.

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Arms down.....Arms down.....Arms down.......Arms down.....Arms down....Arms down...(you think they would get it the first time?!)

where is the location of the "complaint building"? I've heard a lot and I want to be prepared to complain and tattle. Has anyone gone there yet. If so do they not care and just say it's about safety?

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It's like a new pair of underwear; at first it's constrictive... but after a while it becomes a part of you. -Garth Algar

Your choice...
Go to the main gate, the office on the left-hand side as you approach from the park is the customer service office. That's where you're supposed to go.

Or, the Operations Office is located in the Coliseum (that's the building with all the domes on top) on the Kiddy Kingdom side of the building, just off the midway.

Or, I imagine if you want to fill out a form, you could also do it at Town Hall in Frontiertown, but I don't know that for certain.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Whose wanted poster is probably hanging in the Ops office...

I dont think CP is going to be chaninging their policy on this one guys, if all the employees are doing it its becasue they have been told by the higher ups to do it! anyone here work on TTD that can shine some light on to this? I for one do not think its that bad.

I was on it 7/17 and I got stapled so hard i couldnt feel any airtime.
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Cedar Point Count 2003

TTD-1 (In line 3 times but it broke twice)
MF-2
Magnum-2
WT-3
Raptor-2
Mantis-1

the guy that fell out of sros at sfdl was a big passenger, and he fell out when they were just starting the lift so he didnt get hurt that bad.

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Cedar Point, The Roller Coast!!

The stapling did not cause me any pain, although it was slightly uncomfortable. I can completely understand the policy of stapling on ths ride. Even when I'm stapled I still feel a little "loose" on the twist down and the brake run. You would really get thrown around even if you had a tiny bit of space. You can't blame them for being extra careful about the world's biggest media attraction...

BTW, what's all this about people's "family jewels" being stapled on MF? This has never even come close to happening with me...is it just people with a slightly larger torso are a little farther forward in the seat?

The last time I rode TTD, I sat in the last seat. I brought the lapbar down to almost 1/2 inch above my legs, and when the Ride op checked me, she didn't push it down any further. In fact, she just pulled up to make sure it was locked.

That ride was amazing, but also a little scary. On the spiral down I was nearly standing up, and my butt didn't touch my seat from the time we reached the top hat, to the time we passed the Finish line sign. That was a really good ride, and I hope that I could do that again. It was definitely better than being stapled down!

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"When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear."
-Jack Handey

Craig:
On Millennium Force, there is a cutout in the front of the seat. When the lap bar comes down, the support pillar for the lap bar touches the front of that notch.

Some of us are a little bit fat-assed, as it were, such that when seated on Millennium Force, our bodies extend forward of the front edge of the seat. Unfortunately, some of us have also been working hard at gut reduction. And in my case, while my thighs are pretty big, there is still clearance between my thigh and the underside of the lap bar.

All of this comes togehter and results in a somewhat nasty problem: When I pull the lap bar down until it touches, it *doesn't* touch my lap or my stomach. I demonstrated that for An Important Park Official once by sitting down in the test seat, pulling the lap bar back, and letting go. It was pretty obvious that the bar wasn't touching my lap or my gut...which means *something* was touching *somewhere*.

I noticed on my next ride that season that the *hazardous* stapling had stopped. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr

I got major Airtime while stapled, so again I'm not complaining. The ride-op did warn me as well...

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OMG! The Space Spiral is leaning!!" Must be the weight of that new air conditioning system everyone keeps hypothesizing about...

When you're in the middle of a sentence and the stapling forces the air out of your lungs I do believe that it is out of hand. If they want you to be restrained that snugly maybe they should go back to the drawing board and have the ride mechanically staple you like on some of the Huss rides.

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Millennium Force Laps-115
**Vertigo Launches-21**
Dragster Launches-7

*** This post was edited by macho nachos 7/20/2003 11:22:20 AM ***

lpth5, the passenger on RoS at SFDL was large, and did not get hurt too bad (thankfully), but as I recall he got ejected on one of the final bunny hills.