Coaster Myths and Misconceptions

Forced to apologize?? What, are they in 4th grade?

Raven-Phile said:
Forced to apologize?? What, are they in 4th grade?

Well there is this little thing called "libel". Had the woman in question and the National Enquier not apologize for that "story", chances are Elitch Gardens ( and Denver's KMGH-TV channel 7 who also was mentioned in the article ) both would had sued the two parties and they would had to pay up.

"The Blue Streak (Conneaut) is falling down"

I understand "libel" and the like, I just find it funny that a forced (and most undoubtedly insincere) apology would be accepted as a means of "restitution", so to speak.

Biggest & most well know coaster myth: MAGNUM IS SINKING!!!! :)

I always liked the variation on "Magnum is sinking" that included it being sold to Geauga Lake or "Japan." The entire country would buy it!

Raven-Phile said:
I understand "libel" and the like, I just find it funny that a forced (and most undoubtedly insincere) apology would be accepted as a means of "restitution", so to speak.

They were probably sincerely sorry they weren't going to make money on the deal.

The ones I hate to hear when I go to SFMM is

The spinning on X is controlled by the ride op and there last ride they flipped over 100 times

Goliath is 300 feet tall and drops vertical

Superman has launched off the track

The shocks on Ninja is to keep the car from flipping all the way over or in other words the cars would be doing inversions without the shocks

I've heard in line RRv was acutally shockwave just repainted and relocated after someones legs got torn off.

a ladys head flew off on Revoloution but all they found was a wig

The parks old enterprise came apart and a car landed where scream would be now

Some one was crushed on spinnout when the floor dropped out they fell and then was supposedly crushed when the floor started to rise.

I heard people say orient express crashed when one train slid back down the hill into the other one

There plenty more but my biggest thought when I hear stuff like this is, if your hearing these thing and believe it why the hell are you still in line for it?

Edit had to add one of my alltime favorties

Colossus is the old woody from long beach it was relocated to SFMM because it was falling into the ocean lololol

Millennium Force goes upside down 4 times.

Well, it sort of goes up-side-down 3.

Before the SFKK incident, many people would tell the tale of how some girl's hair got caught in whatever drop ride at whatever park, and ripped her scalp off.

WildStangAlex said:
Millennium Force goes upside down 4 times.

Welllll, technically, it goes a good 32 (33 if you go by Sandor's specs) degrees past vertical, and is a lot closer to upside-down than right-side-up.

Don't you mean 32 degrees past horizontal?

4 times?

Ensign Smith said:
Don't you mean 32 degrees past horizontal?

Yes, in terms of people. I was thinking about the track, in which "horizontal" would mean right side up.

ApolloAndy said:
4 times?

That's what makes it a myth.

ApolloAndy said:
4 times?

In addition to the first overbank and the last just prior to the brakes isn't there two on the island? That would make 4....

Nope. There's just one overbank on the island. It's the second turn on the island though, and the first turn on the island is just banked, but not overbanked.

Now I feel like a coaster geek...lol

"Now"? Hate to tell ya this, hon, but you've been one for quite some time ;)

This one is intentional, but the ride ops on the Silver Bullet at KBF say that it goes upside down 6 1/2 times. Exactly what elements create 1/2 of an inversion? Although it is done on purpose, I find it somewhat amusing when I hear it.

The overbank turn does not fully invert riders, hence the "1/2" comment in their spiel.