Deja Vu Capacity

Hey, those belts on the Premier lapbars got me the first time, too! "WTF is this thing?" was my initial response to it.

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"The perfect machine, you seemed to be, when I built you up in my mind..." - Reverend Jon Autry

I'm extremely impressed with your statement, 2Hostyl. It's the truth. You can put up signs, TVs, and make announcements every cycle and people still won't get it. I guess it's just one of those acceptable losses.

The seatbelts were installed because SF was not confident in the safety of the harness and its adjoining belt alone. I have to agree, the belt that attaches to the harness just feels flimsy and in the even of harness failure, it seems as if it would pop right off.

The thing about Deja Vu is, it's the only ride where you're inverted and facing the ground vertically. If someone unfastened their OTSR seatbelt, or it failed completely, there's a significant chance you could come out. That was the reason for the added orange seat belt. So even though it's the bane of your existance (as an enthusiast) it is there for your safety!

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the member formerly known as MisterX

Exactly, I believe that the public is somewhat dumb and some little 14 year old would undo his belt to show off than fall out that would be the end right there.

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(Former Signature replaced due to bad joke with accident) The Beast at night-Two peas in a pod? http://www.geocities.com/moviecoaster/safetyeditorial- Next article against Markey!

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General Public said:

The thing about Deja Vu is, it's the only ride where you're inverted and facing the ground vertically.

V2? That has the same amount of force, or even more against the restraint (from the stop and falling into the restraint, rather than being slowly pushed into it). No redundant seatbealts there. I think the real problem is simply that people don't feel safe for the extended period of time that they're hanging there, whereas on V2, it's only a brief period that you're held. I dunno. Maybe Vekoma altered the spec. for some reason...?

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It has to do with there being a LOT more room in the deja vu restraints than say batman or v2...have you noticed how almost NO overweight people are turned away?...that added room for the 300#+ man to fit leaves extra room for the barely 54", 10 year old twig to fall out if the harnesses came unlocked and it was just the [original] seatbelt holding the harness at the extended position. Solution? Add another seatbelt to make sure you're held in...damn, what a killer on capacity though.

*** This post was edited by CoastaFreak on 8/28/2002. ***

Part of me wonders what would happen if they un-staggered the seats. It seems like a solid row of 4 (Or 3 if the width of the train is an issue) would be much easier, and thus, faster.

JoNoJ27...I agree completely...the staggered seats make loading/unloading a real nightmare, not to mention confusing the poor people trying to figure out where to sit based on their position in the station.....it baffled ACErs during ERT at SFMM, the GP is certainly no better at figuring them out....