Can a glass of water go on a coaster w/o spilling?

I remember a couple years ago at Elitch's one of the operators at the Sidewinder, the Arrow shuttle, took a cup of water on the ride.  When he made it to the other side, he dumped it on the far side operator as he went by.  The far side guy got him back as the train was going backwards.  I don't know if the water spilled much, though. 

It's not a coaster...but I have heard that sucker bets have been made involving a cup of beer sitting on the seat of an Orbiter ride and not spilling same...

How about a soccer ball sitting on the seat of a ride like Magnum XL-200? That would be fairly dramatic because there are moments when it would lift several inches up from the seat without actually going anywhere.

How about Millennium Force for the water trick? Might need to use a half-full glass for the rabbit hop...

Say...this would be a neat Science Day experiment: take a half-filled plastic test-tube with a stopper in the end and observe the behavior of the liquid during the ride...

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Double Loop at SFWOA?

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A few years back there was a TV show, "Who Dares Wins" were they dare people in the street to do stuff eg. drink a 2L bottle in one go etc. for $25 & each show has a big dare, like driving a car off a cliff into water.

For one of the small dares, they were at Wonderland Sydney & dared people to keep green cordial in a plastic glass on Bounty's Revenge. It's an Intamin Looping Starship like Z-Force & Phoenix @ BGT, not a coaster I know, but similar.

Anyway a few people had a go, they all spilled 'till a guy had a go. He flipped it around without spilling it! It's hard as you're hanging upside down at the top. I reckon I could do it.

Hey, what about on an Enterprise? No need to flip it over. ;)

As for a coaster, well, what about the smoothest Beemer out there? Kraken? Might be possible to keep water on that, one problem, the Zero-G Roll! :)

I've heard Beast has very little airtime, but I don't know about the lateral g part... especially with that helix finale.
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Mmm, try Riddler's Revenge, Scorpion at BGT, and some other coasters with high G's.

Spacecase8310, I think you've got the idea!  Dorney's Laser, BGT's Scorpion, rides with vertical loops only (Anton hated OTSR's), and positive Gs throughout...
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I just saw a special on Disney Paris. They talked about redesigning the Indiana Jones Coaster to go backwards. As part of it, they rebanked it to do away with most of the lateral G's (because people can't brace themselves for turns they can't see). I'd say this coaster would be a perfect candidate.

Speacking on which, did anyone see this special? It was on the Travel Channel...it was COOL!

On a related note, if the some of the water did spill, would the glass be half empty or half full??? ;)

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Could try Mean Streak. That thing goes so slow................

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Hey janfrederick,

As an engineer, my answer is that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be!!!

Later,
EV

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The glass can't be too full or it won't even make it up the lift hill without spill.

"On a related note, if the some of the water did spill, would the glass be half empty or half full???"

Half empty, obviously. water spilled out of the glass, thus emptying it! Now, if water spilled into the glass you'd have a different story. . .

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Wild & Crazy Kids did a game on Colossus a long time ago. Two teams got on the ride with pitchers of water. The team that had the most left won.
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let's be sensible, just use a cup with a lid...;~)...nobody said I couldn't cheat...
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janfredrick: I saw that special.  although I don't believe that they removed all of the lateral g's, just most of them.  but that would be perfect in the sense that the glass wouldn't be able to prepare for turns and such.  I say bolt the glass to something (like they do with cameras for 1P POV videos) so it a little more fair, but you can't add the human equation of preping for sudden directional changes.  but filling the glass all the way up wouldn't work 'cause the lift and the disengage from the chain would spill some of it.  if this does get on tv I want to know when so I can see it and what we contributed to it.
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I agree with rollergator, the lid is your best chance, and only chance. 

It might work on Jaguar? Probably, you just have to tilt the cup so that it is right side up when negotiating turns...

Don't know if this counts, but when I worked on Texas Giant at SFOT (which has an attendant sit at the mid-course brake), we used to send a 5 gallon Igloo jug filled with water in a train that we stopped there.  Just locked it in under the lap bar and the attendant removed it when the train stopped.  Never once lost a jug or spilled the water.  (There was a lid on it of course.)

I was thinking about Wildcat at Cedar Point. I know there is a helix or two, but maybe they want a bigger coaster.

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