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the new custom vekoma SLC at fantasy island, england stalled yesterday and it hasnt even had time to take its first passenger! conditions were almost as perfect as they get in england with relatively high temperatures, a little moisture on the rails and low winds!!

can vekoma do nothing right?!

That's really not all that uncommon for the first run of a coaster, more so for woodies, granted, but not uncommon.

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this is weird. whered it stall?

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after the cobra roll going into an overbanked turn

Yea, as Jeff said, it's not a big deal that a coaster stalls on one of its first runs. The train still has to break in. Once they do a couple of runs on it, I bet it will be running very well. It happened to Son of Beast, and that thing is one crazy @$$ speed machine.

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actually, i have just seen pictures and the stall is a little different to what i thought it was. i thought the train had rolled back, but i was wrong, it is actually stationary ON the overbanked turn!

pictures can be seen here: http://www.towerstimes.co.uk

scroll down to updates and follow links to odyssey, the pictures are then on the bottom of the page. its a very strange stall if you ask me, something i've never really seen before!

In a situation like that something has got to be keeping a wheel from turning or something is stuck in the track. How else do you explain the defiance of gravity?!

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The position doesn't appear to be the same in all of the pictures. Could this have been part of a pull through?

no, it really is a stall

pic 21, the last one, something sure APPEARS to be tied off from the front of the train to the track....I could be mistaken, though...

1) no crane in the vincinity

2) By that angle, the workers would have tied the cord to the back to control speed better. It looks like this did in fact stall. Interesting

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Hmmm...something had to catch...isn't that impossible? Unless it was balanced so well and the element was exact and both sides, but that has to be such a slim chance, and a strong wind would prob. take care of that anyway.

Interesting...

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Were are the pics on the site?

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impossible... http://www.towerstimes.co.uk/odyssey/odyssey17.jpg that train is horribly off balanced.

there must be something holding it there...to the naked eye, the laws of gravity show that it would fall to the left

There is no way in @%$# that it is stalled like that. If all else fails gravity would have pulled it down.

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*** This post was edited by CP Junkie on 5/20/2002. ***

You can also see something from the train to the rails from pic 17. It looks like the might be holding it there.

You mean that thing in front of the train? Looks like it's been tied off. You guys are correct, it is far from being evenly balanced like that.

Any possibly they left it like that to continue with the pull-through the next day?

Making a pull-through with the whole train after you have done some test runs 4 days before the opening??

Anyway i just wonder what the reason is for this,,, it's a mystery, for now...

I'm pretty sure the front part of the train had water dummies in the seats, and the back was empty. This probably is the reason why it appears off balance, when in fact, there is more weight in the front.

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