Battlestar Galactica roller coaster reopens at Universal Singapore

I love this sentence: " Routine tests had detected a fault in one of the seat support structure of the ride, leaving one seat detached from its frame.".

What they don't say is that the routine test was the person walking under the tracks in the morning cleaning up lost plastic cups, who found the inverted coaster seat along the fence line. *

* (that's actually snark, as I'm not sure anyone honestly knows how/when the seat fell off, and or how it was discovered. However, the sentence in the article makes the reader believe the issue was discovered before there was a catastrophic failure, which simply isn't the case).

Hmmm, does anyone else think that Universal may go back to B&M for future projects after Hollywood Rip Ride Rocket and Battlestar Galactica had so many problems.

The Singapore project was not really roped in to the state-side Universal Creative folks at the time, so if I understand it correctly, it wasn't really about "Universal" deciding what vendor to go with. But I do suspect that the Rockit nonsense (boring!) will definitely have them thinking carefully about who builds their next roller coaster.

"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again."

So say we all!

LOL to the last two posts!

SONiC Senshi said:
"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again."

*snicker*

U think that when the guy found the seat, he was all: "what the frak??" ehehehehe...

Seriously now, maybe I missed it, but who designed this coaster?

SONiC Senshi said:
"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again."

I know that as an Information Society song. I'm guessing that they sampled Battlestar Galactica. I have been duped by Kurt for 19 years on that one.

Wow, I haven't thought of that in a very long time. I mean, maybe that's where StrongBad got the idea that techno songs all had sci-fi quotes in them.

The system is down.

LOL, the system is down, do do do do to.

Actually it comes from Hindu culture and it is also the first line in Peter Pan and one of the Jim Henson's Muppet movies. I don't know much about the original BSG, but I don't think it featured that theme and doesn't have as much of a spiritual overtone as the 2005 series did.

Previously on Battlestar Galactica: the ride;

The Vekomas were created by man.
They rebelled. (There was much head banging and roughness)
They evolved. (they ride a lot smoother and are heartlined)
They look and feel like Intamin and B&M.
Some are programmed to think they are Intamin and & B&M.
There are MANY copies.
And they have a Plan.

Oh yeah, and Starbuck's a chick.