April 11, 20169 yr comment_232215 I'M A BACK SEAT ANARCHIST! WHO CARES! THIS TOPIC IS GETTING MORE UNCOMFORTABLE THAN Colossus'S RESTRAINTS!
April 11, 20169 yr comment_232217 I'M A BACK SEAT ANARCHIST! WHO CARES! THIS TOPIC IS GETTING MORE UNCOMFORTABLE THAN Colossus'S RESTRAINTS! Impossible. Simply impossible.
April 11, 20169 yr comment_232219 C'mon guys can't we all just talk about when Colossus is never going to get repainted as per usual?
April 16, 20169 yr comment_232504 Unless I'm doing it wrong but once the restraints are down I definitely don't have a choice but do what the guy in the left diagram is doing... Guy on the right must have detachable shins to pull that move... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
April 17, 20169 yr comment_232523 These are old signs that have been reprinted. The original restraint you could stick your legs out ect which was dangerous. They have come back in various forms since
April 17, 20169 yr comment_232527 I can hardly fit my legs in it, nevermind sticking them back out again! Partaking in geekery since 1985
April 17, 20169 yr comment_232528 I have size 10 shoes and if I get bigger ones they won't fit in the foot wells
April 17, 20169 yr comment_232537 I have size 10 shoes and if I get bigger ones they won't fit in the foot wells Mine are 11 1/2 and I can barely keep them straight! I have to ride front seat or front of each car or my knees get murdered.
May 2, 20169 yr comment_233880 Just been on Colossus for the first time recently. Have to say I think it is the best ride in Thorpe Park so far (excluding Saw I've not been on which was closed). Only thing that bothered me was the announcements in the station. It sounds so serious, like something you would hear at a train station not a theme park. Might as well be: "Please embark on the 15:08 ride to Colossus. Mind the gap" Also the ride was brought to a halt for quite a while because someone had dropped their belongings on the ride. The attendants slightly passive aggressively telling us "The ride has been stopped because a guest has dropped an item on the ride. Please remove ALL loose items!". Could tell they were annoyed, don't blame them!
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235902 Colossus has currently been down all day, not even a test train. Engineers have been sat at the bottom of the lift looking at the lower part of the chain, cog and motor. It seems as if it has become jammed and stuck in place by maybe some dirt or something, or the motor has gone... Hope it is not the latter of the two...
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235918 Noticed when I went a few weeks ago at the end of the day engineers were in the same area, and when I went last Sunday I was on the last train and there was an engineer waiting for it to finish and he kept a close eye on the bottom of the lift
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235928 Last time we went it stank of burning oil (or was it rubber?) at the bottom of the lift hill.
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235930 I have thought about this extensively over the last few hours and believe I have came up with two likely issues. At the beginning of the season when Colossus opened the lift had developed some new noises towards the bottom of the lift which I described as a grinding, sounding as I the metal was wearing itself down. This means one of two things, either the mounting for the lift chain has become damaged and is causing problems, caused by the friction between the chain and the side mounting to the left, which I seems to be rubbing into. This would also create the burning oil smell as the oil on the chain would be being heated to extremely high, abnormal temperatures if this was occurring. The other less likely option Is that, as we know major work, likely a chain replacement happened over the winter, was completed incorrectly to some minor extent, such as possibly the actual chain being a slightly different size, potentially causing it to jam. I personally feel as if the first option is much more likely to be the issue itself, but the latter is still a possibility. At the end of the day this is just speculation, so I wouldn't be surprised I it was another problem. Just thought I would add this on the end, noticed on train 2 at the back and not on 1 as the anti rollback mechanism beneath the floor was being significantly louder then usually and seemed to be heavily scraping either the undercarriage or something up the lift, to a far larger extent then normal.
June 11, 20169 yr comment_236432 Same thing happened about 30mins before closing on Wednesday. Reoccurring problem?
June 13, 20169 yr comment_236595 17 minutes ago, OliIzzy said: Staff now wear harnesses on Colossus And on Vampire and Fury
June 13, 20169 yr comment_236597 I swear they used to back when I was a regular at the park a few years back. They always had at least one staff member in a harness,
June 13, 20169 yr comment_236598 They used to wear harnesses before, then they stopped, not sure why. Might have something to do with the reliability issues its had recently
June 14, 20169 yr comment_236663 The reason thorpe used to have the onloader harnessed was to have a quick response to the stranded train, so when a manager arrived the team member could be checked and go up
June 18, 20169 yr comment_236874 It is because if this reoccurring issue surrounding the lift chain, as it is haven to be evacced so often. Its the same reason as to why oblivion operators wear them, because there is often a switch which needs to be reset at the top of the lift, so a normal staff member can go and reset it instead of having to call out engineering...
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