MOA Ride Traps Riders Upside Down

Somewhere along the lines I read:

"A rider stuck was able to take a picture with his cell phone and send it to us."

Sheesh. Technology.

Josh (who doesn't really think that ability is totally necessary on a cell phone)

^I agree with your take on cell phone cams,along with my personall opinions against SUV's....I hate them both.

Cell phones should be designed for communications when a standard phone is not available....not for taking photgraphs or downloading & playing MP3's,sorry to go off topic but I just had to vent on that subject.

I like how "more than 24" and "almost 30" are the same thing. You'd think if they were sitting there for an hour, someone could have counted and gotten the exact number.

25, 26, 27, 28,29... "How many did you count?""

I don't know, I stopped at 24 but I think there were still a few more up there..."

How many passengers can Mighty Axe hold?Iron Eagle has a max capacity of 42 passengers per cycle but of course IE is a full sized park model.

What makes you think we have a "little" version? As far as I know, they only made one size. The ride at CS is rarely big enough to run full, infact, the only time I can recall the ride having a line over 1 cycle long was opening day of the ride.

From all the pics I've seen of MOA's ride it appears to be a smaller version....the park model(@ SFA & formerly @ KBF)has a maximum height of 82 ft at the top of the arc.

How high does Mighty Axe's gondola go when it's at the top of the arc?correct me if I'm wrong but I read somewherethat it's under 82 ft.

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The Mighty Axe

This ten-story attraction literally spins riders head over heels. The 42-passenger platform soars more than 82 feet in the air and spins in gigantic 360-degree arcs. The Mighty Axe is the first ride in Camp Snoopy to take riders upside down.

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This is directly from the old Camp Snoopy website, as viewed through archive.org. (The current site is impossible to navigate through or load...)

I recall reading somewhere that the main arm had to be shortened by 3 feet in order to operate inside the mall.

Some pictures of the Axe and Timberland Twister

http://www.jerryd.net/moa

Jerry

I hope no one will ever question KBF´s removal of Hammerhead. Such garbage.

I seriously must question why any of these rides are still operating. Just a disaster waiting to happen, if only from a PR perspective.

What park would want to make the news because their ride stranded riders upside down?

Well I guess I was wrong on that one & it seems that Zamperla only made one version of the ride from a size perspective.