Stuck!

Wow this is getting way out of hand. But I agree with Jeff on this one.

Some one is smelling up this post area with a bunch of BS....FIrst of all, if you don't know coasters don't talk the coasters. Obviously someone who thinks assumes, or talks about a coaster rolling back/slipping on a lift hill may just need a little help with understanding the workings of a coaster. First off the train does have "DOGS" (look it up moron) and with MF there are a set of dogs on the lift and also the train is locked into the lift cable shuttle. When a chain breaks on a coaster (Magnum last summer) the train will remain in the same position until it is moved forward. Other then an act of god the train will never slip backwards. I just wish that the chain dogs would fail with you on a coaster to really see what slipping is all about. People like you give coasters the bad name of being people killers.....Oh and by the way great props for setting up a news story.

i had a nightmare about that now man!

And this my friends is a good argument for healthy skepticism in today's society. :)

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Joe McNally
MF Count - 14

Nickname not from the PKI coaster.

www.fallentree.org

Wow, I never got stuck, but maybe those who did can at least say, TRUTHFULLY that they had a once-in-a lifetime experience!!!
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I can smell BS like a fart in a car my friend, and you reek of it like a Taco Bell crapper.

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CoasterJamin said:
Some one is smelling up this post area with a bunch of BS....FIrst of all, if you don't know coasters don't talk the coasters. Obviously someone who thinks assumes, or talks about a coaster rolling back/slipping on a lift hill may just need a little help with understanding the workings of a coaster. First off the train does have "DOGS" (look it up moron) and with MF there are a set of dogs on the lift and also the train is locked into the lift cable shuttle. When a chain breaks on a coaster (Magnum last summer) the train will remain in the same position until it is moved forward. Other then an act of god the train will never slip backwards. I just wish that the chain dogs would fail with you on a coaster to really see what slipping is all about. People like you give coasters the bad name of being people killers.

Beautiful post CoasterJamin! To really put the exclamation point on things... What happened on MF at the end of last season? Oh yeah, the elevator lift cable broke with a train near the top of the lift. What happened to the train? Nothing. It sat there stuck on the lift like a fly on sh*t. Never did it move once until it had to be forcibly pushed forward over the top of the lift hill so they could repair the cable.

I rest my case...
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cyberdman
*** This post was edited by cyberdman 6/21/2002 11:29:30 AM ***

I was stuck in traffic for an hour the other day – very frightening experience. I think I’ll give my local paper a call, see if they want to write an article.

Oh wait, it happens all the time and nobody cares!
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Bob M.

*** This post was edited by RPMGuitar 6/21/2002 12:20:38 PM ***

You realize this thread is a year old?

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Grüvïs Mält

During Millenium(or was it "Monsoon"?) Mania last season, our train did "hesitate" a few times going up the lift hill. I absolutely believe what the previous posts say about the ride not being able to "slip" but in my mind we were "slipping. I was on the red train at the time, and of course this was just a week or so after the cable snap. I did have that second or two of thinking maybe we were gonna be stranded up there in the cold hard rain, and was thrilled to think of possibly getting a ride in the "escape pod. I rode it a total of 22 times that day! That day is definitely the best day I've ever had at "The Point". Mantis and The Force, in the rain and no line. It doesn't get much better than that.

MF was stopped on the lift hill with people in it for quite a while today. The Sky Ride was also stopped with people for a while.

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I was there yesterday, with my eight year old son. We were just approaching MF when they announced it was shut down due to mechanical problems. He was bummed--he's still never gotten to ride. He was too short last year.

Anyway, as we rode WWL, and then the (ugh!) Swan Ride, we could see them unloading people. Apparrently there was a brief power failure. There was an article in yesterday's Toledo Blade: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020623&Category=NEWS17&ArtNo=106230070&Ref=AR

Maybe next week he'll get to ride. I was wishing I was on it when it was stuck. I'd have been tempted to pull my camera out. Must have been an awesome view!
*** This post was edited by Towanda 6/24/2002 1:21:58 AM ***

Just their luck, when the power goes out there is always a train on the lift. The actual odds of that happening is about 15%. At least last time it wasn't that far up the hill.

I wonder what took it so long to get restarted. Also it probably would have taken them a long time to get everyone down if they could not get it back up.

The train can't roll back that far, the anti-rollbacks make that impossible. That's just how it is, regardless of what was printed in a paper, or what someone's perception of a situation was.

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It's very hard to drink all day...
Unless you start first thing in the morning.

I hate it when they print stuff like that. It just seems like such a non-event to me.

It took so long to restart because, as the article implied, the other two trains were not in a position that the computer was happy with (though it does seem odd that you couldn't manually move trains around down there in an instant).

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I think intamin should make a Better system for coasters or fix up these operation computers...Or Get the kind of computers B&M uses....they have the least down time and less problems...and no reported crashes or accidents...They pretty much have a flawless record.

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- Dennis

Welcome to New York City

From a newspaper article about this "incident"

Surrounded by wind and sky, Gould said he and his aunt felt nervous about the train slipping back.

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It doesn't say anything about the train "slipping" back, but they were nervous of the train "slipping" back. A roller coaster is not going to roll back on a lift to easily, coaster trains have Dogs on the boogie, the chain could break and fall off, and the train would just sit there.

And why did someone have to bring back a one year old thread.

*** This post was edited by FoF 6/25/2002 12:41:31 AM ***

Dennis: They're probably the same computers, probably programmed by the same people.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I thought Intamin did their own PLC work, but I could be wrong. I know that Consign does most, if not all, of B&M's PLC work. As for the hardware, I know they all use PLCs of similar design. Now which brand is the question.

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http://www.midwestcoastercentral.com

I still stand firm in saying that I want to be one of those people who get stoped on the hill for a long time. I'd actually pay them to let me ride down in the service car from the top of the hill.

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-Chris Woodard
Just because you can't justify charging $3 for a Pepsi doesn't mean you can't charge $3 for a Pepsi.