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- John
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Well no one has flown out of Hydro at Oakwood over in the UK and that is the same basic ride. Heck tehy didn't put 4 point restraints on S:ROS after that similar incident.
The 4 point restraint is the most half a$$ed ridiculous stop gap fix ever.
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Knott's didn't have a choice. Either they modified the restraint system or the California government thingamajig wouldn't approve for its reopening.
As for removing it, I don't think you would pull the plug on a $9 million dollar water flume with record braggin rights after only 2 some years since debut. Plus, it's a great ride and the general riding public absolutely love it.
The restraints are ridiculous. they wanted to make sure no one in a billion rides would fall out, and it just hurts sometimes. Dispatches are usually around 4 minutes though, never 10 when it matters (when theres a line). Its such a waste of labor now, there are over a dozen ops, and they're horrible and immature, they're the ones who are bringing the dispatch times down. If they worked rater than popping baloons, answering cell phone calls, and having pow wows in the ride ops booth they could get the dispatches down to 2.5 minutes. The restraints are so hard to put on though, seriously.
Still a great ride though, best drop ever!
*** This post was edited by Speedy on 12/11/2002. ***
They don't load the back row? Why the hell not?
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They do, just not with fat people. They usually block those two rows off during days when there is no wait, though, but that is rare.
You can't tell me they had to come up with THIS fix.
This was a stop gap, easy fix. The cheapest way to comply with what they were told to do.
Whats next? Horsecollars for Monte?
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Don't get so excited up there...
If Monte were to sport horse collar restraints, it would have been done at the start of the acquisition back in '97, or earlier than now.
The Monte thing was pure sarcasm. As for PP I am serious.
Is this all the better fix they could come up with? I can't belive that.
PP Would be better off with Horsecollars then what basically amounts to a racing restraint without the crotch strap..
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10 minute dispatches? Well, that's an improvement from when I visited the park during Con. They were sending a boat through every 15 minutes, I waited about an hour to ride with hardly anyone in the station.
And the restraints are total overkill and were way too tight. I loosened 'em a little on my way up so I still enjoyed the drop. Felt bad having to do that, but I'm also not a manatee so just the lapbar would have kept me in.
Because my first try at responding didn't work, here is the short version:
They were giving the speach on the restraints at least 4 times per dispach and didn't bother talking about it when the one boat was slowly approaching the station. And when I was there, they said "No riding in the backrow... that is prohibited by the park." No joke.
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*** This post was edited by GoliathKills on 12/11/2002. ***
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The perilous Plunge ride attendents are just lazy and Immature. Don't take anything they say seriously. They begun placing high up ops there (Mandy Murray from Extreme rides 2002, heather, all the spies that report to the management), but they're afraid of them and do bridge and entrance control much of the time. They do usually use the back row, have you ridden more than once? That fat ride attendent is the worse theme park employee i have ever seen at any theme park. I bet it was him who made up that rule.
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They are pretty awful, but the only other alternative is horsecollars. I would certainly prefer this option.
If you haven't been on Perilous Plunge lately, this is how it goes. You put on all of the restraints, which I generally can't even figure out quickly. Then the op comes around, leans over you and pulls on them-hard. Once they cannot go any further, the op pushes the lapbar down (because riders aren't allowed to). You can imagine where this is going: they lean over you and with all of their weight, shove down the lapbar.
And here is the best part: it is policy to ask the rider to lean forward (to see if they can pull their back off of the seat). You can't. And if you can, they will pull your restraints tighter.
Don't get me wrong, the ride is incredibly good. In fact, it has the best drop in the park in my book, better than Xcelerator or Ghostrider even. But with those damn restraints...ugh. What a waste of space. Just give it Michigans Adventure, take off those silly restraints and forget about it!
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- John
I got a B&M T-shirt!
Well I think I'd prefer horsecollars, they would be quicker and allow more freedom of movement. Those seatbelts are the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, and they tore my poncho which cost $10!
Great ride though!
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