Phyciodes Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloebell Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Oh, well I take it no one was it in then , as it was during testing. That's good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiteknuckle Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smith Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloebell Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Some one was in it OMGI'm never going to be able to go on Zodiac again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenVig Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam P Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 That has put me of wave swingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeis Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 ahh yes...adips...I always read the adips stickers they put on x:/no way outs station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDLewry Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordcutter6 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Well I feel safest in Colossus surprisingly, despite hating being knokced about. But I feel that the most comfortable is Saw and Rush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeparkmad Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry.D.C Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordcutter6 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 People!, can anyone spell Colossus correctly?It is getting so annoying! Lol sorry I do know how to spell just miss-type Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeparkmad Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Same I do that sometimes, the "u" is right next to the "I" on the keyboard.Look what you are typing then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesyboy Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 Does anyone else get cuts in their skin after they have ridden Slammer or Colossus??Or is it just me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subculturehero Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordcutter6 Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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