Deja VU @ SFMM on the news

i saw news on it today on ABC and NBC.....it got stuck in the first tower for 2 minutes apparently. Kinda ironic, dont ya think ;)
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What!?!?

Yeah what!!
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yeah it was on ktla early this mourning and kabc this mourning too, they should footage of it getting stuck
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Lets not allow a little 2 minute setback overshadow the positive which is that it has been running all day long. It would be so cool to be stuck on one of those 196 foot towers with youre feet dangling in the air.

it went great all day, but it got stuck for a couple minutes at the peak of the first tower on one run..

Was anyone on it?

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I went to media day today, and was very impressed with the ride. It got stuck in the morning before the announcement, but after that it ran great through the rest of the day. The drops are amazing, and the loop and cobra roll are very disorienting. My only complain was that it is slightly too bumpy for a new steel coaster. I give Deja Vu an 8/10.

I have added several photos to Americacoasters.com, so be sure to check it out.

-Jeff

http://americacoasters.com

I knew it would happen eventually
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Did the trains start somking?(Think back to S:RoS...;)) Well, that stinks- but as long as there were no problems with it the rest of the day, good. I'm glad Deja is finally going to prove all of you doubters wrong tommorow! Looks like a fun ride- hopefully no Vekoma headbangin' though.
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Here is a minor story on ride.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/2000/20010824/lo/892686_1.html

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*** This post was edited by supermandl on 8/25/2001. ***

NitroExplodes said:
Was anyone on it?
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No offense, but what do you think? Why do you think they call it M-E-D-I-A day? You think they're going to play a loop of ride footage with no one on it?

UpsideBlue said:
i saw news on it today on ABC and NBC.....it got stuck in the first tower for 2 minutes apparently. Kinda ironic, dont ya think
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Why would that be ironic? I think you misused the word. The ride has been having problems ever since the time they finished vertical construction. So that wouldn't really be ironic, technically. But for a ride that is 100% reliable and something like that happens, THAT would be more of an ironic situation.

Felt like alot longer than 2 minutes that we were hanging there. It definitely was interesting.
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Riders, strapped into ski-lift style chairs suspended from the track above, are dangled face-down out of the station and up the first blue tower

The cars then drop into a vertical, 20-story free-fall reaching speeds of 65 mph before maneuvering a 102-foot-tall vertical loop, followed by a 110-foot-tall butterfly turn and up a 200-foot-tall tower. The entire ride is then repeated -- but backward, with riders looking up at the sky.

Did this reporter see the ride? A promo of the ride? A picture of the ride with a view of where the station is? Oviously not.

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