April 20, 200916 yr comment_53482 What happened on the old enterprise? I've never heard of this... A pod fell off the car and fell into the lake during testing
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53484 Oh, well I take it no one was it in then , as it was during testing. That's good
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53485 I feel safe in a lot of the park's restraints, but I dont like Quantum's for some reason. Comfort wise, I had to go for Inferno and Saw.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53486 Oh, well I take it no one was it in then , as it was during testing. That's good Actually, two people were in the pod. It didn't fall off, it only partially detached.Link HEREBut it would scare the absolute hell out of everyone involved!
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53487 Some one was in it OMGI'm never going to be able to go on Zodiac again!
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53490 Because they are.Yeah making a statement and not being able to justify it. Cleaver.They're not safe, as they don't get the same TLC that established theme park rides do. The testing is all different too, I've witnessed it and I know exactly how a Fun Fair works. The testing is just a few circuits and if nothing falls to pieces, it's deemed as safe to ride. With a theme park ride, ever single aspect of the ride is evaluated before public operation. They are also not dismantled and moved around every 3 days. The rides used at funfairs are just there temporarily.How do you know the operators are properly trained to know how to conduct safety checks for the rides? Do you actually think they know what theyre going to be checking for? Trust me, they dont. They merely know how to peice the ride together and how to operate it. If thats what you call safe, then I'd hate to think what you'd class a disaster.Need I say no more.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53502 They're not safe, as they don't get the same TLC that established theme park rides do. The testing is all different too, I've witnessed it and I know exactly how a Fun Fair works. The testing is just a few circuits and if nothing falls to pieces, it's deemed as safe to ride. With a theme park ride, ever single aspect of the ride is evaluated before public operation. They are also not dismantled and moved around every 3 days. The rides used at funfairs are just there temporarily.How do you know the operators are properly trained to know how to conduct safety checks for the rides? Do you actually think they know what theyre going to be checking for? Trust me, they dont. They merely know how to peice the ride together and how to operate itWrong wrong wrong.The fact that they're are dismantled so often means that showmen actually get a chance to go over the ride so often and they don't need thorough checks because they do it as they're built and taken down.Testing a ride is not just made up of 'if it can do a circuit without collapsing its fine', they go over it to check every bolt is in place etc. Half of the rides at Thorpe are funfair rides that should be on the funfair market anyway! The operators have to have the same license to operate rides that you do if you work at Thorpe or any other theme park, its also the law that they know how to handle it properly, the law doesn't change just because these rides aren't in a theme park. Funfair rides have the same H&S checks that theme park rides do and must have the same ADIPS license that theme park rides do. If anything they get 10 times more safety checks than theme park rides do.Funfair accidents are just as rare as theme park accidents. You must clearly be forgetting that fatal accidents happen just as easily at a theme park as they do in a fair. And they very very rarely do.That has put me of wave swingers.That could have happened just as easily on Billys Whizzer.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53503 That to me shows that you know absolutely nothing about funfairs or their rides or even what a decent showman goes through to get there ride looking in tip top condition.I'm not denying that accidents haven't happened in funfairs but then they have happened at many of our theme parks to. We've had the Runaway Mine Train at Alton Towers split in half, Thorpe's Zodiac, Slammer, Rush and Colossus throwing bits of themselves off, a girl dying on Hydro because of negligence. That's only covering what I can remember from this country. The testing is just a few circuits and if nothing falls to pieces, it's deemed as safe to ride. With a theme park ride, ever single aspect of the ride is evaluated before public operation. They are also not dismantled and moved around every 3 days.See, that is where your logic goes wrong. A funfair showman knows everything about their rides. If they are taking them apart and putting them back together every few days they are able to replace parts much more faster and are able to apply the proper TLC to their rides. The point of funfairs is to attract people with glitz and glamour. Don't even start kidding yourself that funfairs are unsafe because at the end of the day they go through the same adips testing that any theme park rides goes through.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53513 It doesn't matter where the ride is, whether it's a theme park or a travelling funfair, the ride needs to be fully checked and to a incredibly high safety standard. Rides can have accidents at funfairs or theme parks, it just so happens that this accident unfortunately occured at a funfair.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53514 You're more likely to die in a car crash on the way to a funfair / theme park than on a ride. Fact.End of.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53533 ahh yes...adips...I always read the adips stickers they put on x:/no way outs station.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53537 ahh yes...adips...I always read the adips stickers they put on x:/no way outs station.Same!They say X is a junior coaster, that suprised me when I first saw it.
April 20, 200916 yr comment_53550 I feel most safest in samurai & vortexs restratints. theres no seat belt and they are all locked with buttons wich don't fail (although they may) I just like the feeling of being safely locked in.
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53674 Well I feel safest in Colossus surprisingly, despite hating being knokced about. But I feel that the most comfortable is Saw and Rush.
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53675 Well I feel safest in Colossis surprisingly, despite hating being knokced about. But I feel that the most comfortable is Saw and Rush.People!, can anyone spell Colossus correctly?It is getting so annoying!
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53676 You're more likely to die in a car crash on the way to a funfair / theme park than on a ride. Fact.End of. Cheery though eh James
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53691 People!, can anyone spell Colossus correctly?It is getting so annoying! Lol sorry I do know how to spell just miss-type
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53692 Lol sorry I do know how to spell just miss-typeSame I do that sometimes, the "u" is right next to the "I" on the keyboard.
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53696 Same I do that sometimes, the "u" is right next to the "I" on the keyboard.Look what you are typing then!
April 22, 200916 yr comment_53697 Look what you are typing then! I touch type Anyway back on topic...Nemesis Inferno's restraints are really comfortable but mabye too sercure if you get what I mean.
April 23, 200916 yr comment_53727 Does anyone else get cuts in their skin after they have ridden Slammer or Colossus??Or is it just me
April 23, 200916 yr comment_53735 Does anyone else get cuts in their skin after they have ridden Slammer or Colossus??Or is it just me Nope I don't, don't know about anyone else.
May 14, 200916 yr comment_55723 Has anyone else noticed how Saw's restraints get progressively tighter over the course of the ride? I really don't remember Jigsaw wanting to neuter anyone in any of his traps, but that's what those restraints feel like by the end of the ride!
May 14, 200916 yr comment_55728 Has anyone else noticed how Saw's restraints get progressively tighter over the course of the ride? I really don't remember Jigsaw wanting to neuter anyone in any of his traps, but that's what those restraints feel like by the end of the ride!I don't know if just me but I find them reasonably smooth coming down, for there no belt. I don't feel they get tighter but that probably because I having good time on ride
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