Mr. Freeze latest Premier coaster to get lap bar treatment

That Top Hat had to be awesome WITH horse collars, I really hope I can try it this summer.

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I went to Sandusky, but there was no Callahan factory

Top Hat was real jerky with over the shoulders, with laps it should be perfection...

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.:| Brandon Rodriguez |:.
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Den, look at what happens in a backward 90-degree free-fall: EVERYTHING falls straight down. Everything is subject to the same net force (gravity puling down) so it isn't going to pull you out of your seat. Were it launched backwards down the spike, that would be different, but so long as gravity is doing the work, you're not going to get pulled forward in the seat...you'll just be weightless in that dimension.

Another important point is the design of the lap bars themselves. You aren't going to smash your teeth on anything because the end of the lap bar is about 8" tall and is designed specifically to eliminate exactly the potential problem you describe (actually to keep it from happening during a loop...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

If you have not yet ridden the Premier launches with lap bars, you really need to give them another try...they really were unpleasant in terms of headbanging, and rated 3 Advils in my ratings system. I've only ridden the retro'd FoF (B&R Chiller was down when we were there), but the new rating was vastly improved....

bill, noting that the Top Hat is my fav inversion of all time...

I understand now.... thanks, Dave.

Dennis (who thought FoF was great *before* the lap bars, and who now rates it among his top 5)

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He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking; can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

Well, after riding both Batman:chiller and Mizzou-Freeze with OTSRs I had no complaints. In fact, I consider MF (Mister Freeze) to be top ten steel material, the only shuttle coaster I've ridden to get such a title. I really dont think that lapbars will change that assesment much for me.

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Besides, if we were really shutting down people we disagreed with, would Jeremy (2Hostyl) still be around? :) I think not. - Jeff 1/24/02

Well Rideman, some argue that the spike does give you a little push down the spike, but I doubt it. I've never felt like it was pushing me down.

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.:| Brandon Rodriguez |:.
http://www.coasters2k.com

I for one think it would be a huge improvement. I rode flight of fear when it had the othr and the headbanging factor nearly ruined the whole ride. I assume Mr. Freeze would be a similer experence.

Will they allow me to wear my glasses on this ride now that they got rid of the OTS Restraints? At SFStL. They spent most of the time loading up the trains looking at our ears and seeing if we had EarRings on also they made us take off our glasses. I thought that was the dumbest thing they done which is why Mr Freeze only got down to the bottom of my fav coasters list.

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That's not roughness that intensity *** This post was edited by Sawblade5 on 4/17/2002. ***

Heres my input on B&R the Chiller, the lap bars are great! At first I was real nervous cuz #1 i had no clue and #2 having lap bars on a multi element ride goes against every rule of coaster restrainsts! I always thought that if you had anything other then a vertical loop it was required that you need OTSRs. Well! that just makes it all better! Anyway the only problem i found with the lap bars is that when you go through that barrel roll before the hill you get whipped around alittle, other then that it's fine. I feel safer with the OTSRs though (me and many others i bet) but the lap bars really boost the excitement on it. Hopefully more loopers will adopt the "Anton Schwarzkopf" way and use the lap bars!

-The Cygnus

PS: GET READY FOR SUPERMAN IN SFGAdv!!!!!!!!!