WildCat

Come on Mike, it's just a flesh wound. :-D

BTW, that absolutely sucks and I hope everything works out for her.

-Josh

Thanks, Josh. :) Appreciate the kind thoughts.

Message boards like this often have the scoop before the news. If it isn't reported on them, it is sometimes missed. WWJ and News 4 in Detroit both have interns who check that Detroit Board I linked to. It's doesn't surprise me that this suddenly got reported after I posted it there. This is how they do it now. Old fashioned reporting on stuff like this is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Now it's all just people combing over the Internet. Although, the big things are sometimes still covered properly (Like Iraq for example).

So don't tell me breaking a leg "really isn't that big of a deal".

It's not; your wife did a little more than just break her leg, and had this injury happened at CP it would been under the more severe "accident" category, as hospital admission would have been needed, so your example doesn't exactly jive with what I said.

That said, you missed my point; injuries aside, you and loopy claim the policy needs to be changed. Well how? You dont offer any suggestions, or ways that it is flawed, or how it could be improved.

What else are they supposed to do besides keep it on file?

Exactly what they do anyhow, report it to the board.

I'm not faulting CP for someone else's policy.

Before the WildCat broke, I couldn't fit in the front because of the seatbelts on that thing, so I had to switch to the back of the car, they fit fine there. Are the same people who put these seatbelts in on the WildCat responsible for the ones on the Gemini? (Lol)

This is more for Dave than anyone else, but here goes.

There is a common problem with these models of coasters, being that there is often times as much as an inch and a half of gap between the anti-rollback trough and the rollback "dawg" on the cars, at least that is my understanding. As far as I know, there wasn't a problem with the chain catch on the cars as there was an obvious problem with too much slack on the chain (this issue has already been discussed). I am actually very surprised that it took a week for this to happen with the constant chain slipping. But in this particular case, I don't believe the chain actually slipped off the top sprocket as much as it somehow got enough slack for the chain to come loose from the catch on the car. That of course would then allow the anti-rollback failure, which I still see as the main problem. You will have the chain slack problem almost anytime you put on a new chain on a coaster, but I would think the style of chain on Wildcat wouldn't help issues.

And yes, there was one person taken to Firelands, and that is a for real, actual fact that I could verify.

Does anyone know if they have been working on WildCat lately or anything?

When I went on my second trip on Memorial Day, nobody was working on the wildcat. Maybe they have to order a part for it from Switzerland like they had to do for MaXair.

They could still be investigating to figure out exactly why it rolled back. You can't fix it if you don't know what's wrong.

I haven't been to the park since June is wildcat running again or not?

Yes it is running. Has been for a while. The GP would never know it had an accident.

Did they change the seatbelts out again on this ride? I can't fit in the front anymore. Only the back.

The one thing I noticed that is different about Wildcat since the incident is that the NASTY jerk you get on the lift hill when the lift engages is just about GONE!

Don't know what they did to fix that, but it's fixed!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Oh that's good to know, thanks RideMan. I was always making myself take my back away from the seat at the start of the lift hill because of that jolt.

I haven't been there since they fixed WildCat, but plan on going Sept. 7th (hopefully it's not rediculously hot or rainy that day).

It'll be ridiculously crowded. You should stay home. ;)

Indeed... I thought we already covered that Sept 7th is a horrible day to go to the park... ;)

Oops your right, sorry about that, and depending on the weather I'm going bhol..

I'm just glad they fixed the WildCat. I just wish they would do something about the seatbelts, they are too tight in the front this year.

^ Does not get it.

^ When I rode the front last year, I was able to fit, I lost 30 pounds and they changed the seatbelts this year. I can't fit in the front anymore :( That's what I mean.