Worse Break Down You`re Been On

I've been on quite a few breakdowns/e-stops. The worst have been-

#1. Stealth- Opening week, the train stopped at the top of the lift, and we SAT THERE in the sun for more than 30 mins, burning and burning. After getting off I was told that i could ride Xtreme Skyflyer or have an exit pass to any other ride. So I say "Ok, Top Gun", they say "It's down", I go "Vortex"- "it's down too", so I just took the ride on Sky Flyer, which was pretty fun but definately didn't make up for sitting on Stealth forever in the sun!

#2- Cal Screamin- About halfway through the launch, the LIM's shut off and we headed up the hill at around 30-35 mph, and SLAMMED into the brakes on the 1st hill. They stopped the train, on an incline, in like 10 feet! It was very loud too, not to mention it threw me agaisnt my OTSR!

#3- Aplengeist- A storm was rolling in so I thought I'd catch a last ride before it began to pour. About halfway up the lift, the ride stops. Then it begins to POUR. About 10 minutes of drenching rain went by before the op came up and reset the lift, sending us through the course during the pouring rain. It was actually pretty enjoyable after I got used to being wet, but the 1st few minutes of sitting there, helpless to get myself out of the rain was pretty damn annoying!

Saw Blade, I was there in early Aug in 01'*, small world. :)

*typo wrote wrong year*

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Summer 03-CP, HP, Canobie, SFNE, SFWOA, and SFGAm.
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I have gotten stuck on Rolling Thunder, Phoenix, Dragon Coaster and Batman: The Ride. Batman: The Ride was the worst. We sat there for twenty minutes. After that we had to walk down the stairs. They have some kind of retractable little floor they put on each car to get riders off.

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-Sean Newman

I havent seen much. The only breakdown was a train on the American Eagle got stuck on the lift. I was only waiting in line. It got going after a few minutes.
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I haven't really got stuck on any coasters except for this past few days. I was on X in the front and our car was just about to go over the first little dip before the drop and the lift shut off....we were kind of in the verge of flipping over too....so we were past 90deg.......luckily it wasn't too hot, we were only there for 10mins. The ride op had to walk up the lift and reset the ride. Then some sirens went off and we got our ride..........amazing coaster!

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-Patrick

In 2001 I was on XF at SFWoA and my train left the station and the power failed right before the chain hooked us. Now we werent on the chain or the boosters to the lift we were stuck in the middle of nowhere pretty much. To top all this off it started to rain. Now it wasnt a downpour but a light drizzle that went on and off. It took about 30mins to regain power, and about another 20 to push the train on the chain to get us to a spot we could be taken off the ride.

Funny fact: 3 Dutch Vekoma engineers can push one x-flight train to the lift from the station. But 8 SF maintence guys cant. Oh well.

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SFWoA TL 2003!

I was on PKD's hurler and we were about halfway up the lift ...we stopped and about 2 minutes later we rolled backwards for about 20 feet and came to a very sudden and hurtful stop- i guess the chain dog slipped..(it did rain that day) we eventually got on our way 20 minutes later and had a good ride

Josh

I got stuck on Test Track for ten minutes. That is the "worst" I've been through.

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All who think Mean Streak needs a match taken to it say I.

The worst break down i have been on is in late Aug. of 02'
Right after a heavy rainpour, which lasted 2 hours, we left the Mantis station in which we were staying to keep dry ( we were the only park visitors in the station, besides a guy who reminded me of Jeff ) and we decided to head for a last ride on Raptor. No problem. We got on, everything was fine. Speeding through the wet course, we entered the mid-courses, and dead stoped. We sat there for 45 minutes due to "Station Failure" according to the one op who was with us. When he said that, it reminded me of a breakdown on RCT.

The worst breakdown I have seen off ride was on Magnum on the 11th of Aug. in 01' (TD maybe it was you?)
while in line for Magnum, we heard gasps, and we looked up at the lift and a train was stuck about 3/4 the way up the lift. I thought it was due to blocking malfunction, which happens a lot, and the trains keep going in a matter of minutes. Well, the train stayed there and they had to evacuate the train. We left the queue to go somewhere else ( I believe Mantis ) and after the ride, we came back and the train was still up there with mechanics near by. The ride reopened about an 1 1/2 after the train got stuck

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Shaun Rajewski
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Skytower at PGA I don't know what happned but it stopped and the cabin started to violently move up and down about foot at a time and we all thought it was going to drop but eventually they got us out into one of the doors and we had to go down the stairs

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It isn't so bad. . .
Once you're used to it

I spent 30 min on top of the tower at CP, going round and round and round....

Got stuck on MiB this December, sat for 20 min. with all the service lights on, I got to really see all the themeing that went into the street vendor areas, when the ride restarted all the cars began to spin more wildly than they do when you get "shot", they were resetting there positioning system.

I too got stuck on test track on the skid pad, and ramp.

also got stuck years ago on Spaceship Earth, right at the spot where the car turns around to head down hill, I was half turned so it was a stange angle to be sitting at for 10 min.

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Dave

Beware of Kiddie Coasters

I've had mostly minor stops, on the lift of Roar West and Hauted Mansion in Disneyland Paris. The worst I was in: my first 'real' coaster ride, Python at BGT. We were strapped in ready to go, and evidently some bird tripped a blocking sensor. I was nervous enough, but waiting the 10 minutes strapped in the train during the trackwalk just made the anticipation even better.

The worst I've heard about was a family friend that got stuck in WDW's Small World for 30 minutes. With the soundtrack on. That's enough to drive anyone postal.

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Well, there not the worst, but they happened:

1.) My friends and I were just at the top of the Whizzer at SFGAm and the train stopped moving. We were there for 20 minutes before the park management tried to push the train over the top of the lift to get the car going. After they tried that and realized that didn't work, they had us all get out and walk down and gave us some discount cupon for food or something like that.

2.) Ironically, this incident happened the same day. We were just about to get on RB and there was some type of power failure that shut the whole park down. It was kind of neat becuase every ride that was operating just stopped completely. So the park matinence had to go to each ride and try to manualy start them again. This was like this for about 30-45 minutes. Once they got everything started again, they thanked all the park guests for being patient and that was it. I couldn't imagine SF giving out cupons to over 1000 different people on each ride as it broke down.

Talk about a bad day for Great America.

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Fly with the man of steel in '03 at SFGAM :)

Got stuck on Tidal Wave at SFGAM. Coming back on the return trip, they e-stopped us. The train slammed to a halt and we were in the back row sticking about two car lengths out of the station. Waited 20 minutes for the maintanence guy to come and use some little tool to open the restraints. The station smelled of burning rubber which I think was from the brakes.

It was my 1st time on Deja'vu and we wear heading up the back spike (which is pretty scary as is). Then we stoped! For about 15 min I hugh there it was so scary! Not to mention the running wheels come off the track when you are vertical, I just sat there and watched them spin freely. Don't belive me? Look at them next time!

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Frank Schramm said:
Well, there not the worst, but they happened:

1.) My friends and I were just at the top of the Whizzer at SFGAm and the train stopped moving. We were there for 20 minutes before the park management tried to push the train over the top of the lift to get the car going. After they tried that and realized that didn't work, they had us all get out and walk down and gave us some discount cupon for food or something like that.

2.) Ironically, this incident happened the same day. We were just about to get on RB and there was some type of power failure that shut the whole park down. It was kind of neat becuase every ride that was operating just stopped completely. So the park matinence had to go to each ride and try to manualy start them again. This was like this for about 30-45 minutes. Once they got everything started again, they thanked all the park guests for being patient and that was it. I couldn't imagine SF giving out cupons to over 1000 different people on each ride as it broke down.

Talk about a bad day for Great America.

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Fly with the man of steel in '03 at SFGAM :)

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I think I was there that day. Nothing seemed to be working because of the power problem.

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All who think Mean Streak needs a match taken to it say I.

The only breakdown I have ever been in was at my first visit to SFOG this year on S:UF. Everything was normal until we arrived back at the station. The hydraulic things that move the train from loading to flying position was stuck and could not move. We were stuck in the flying position for about 20 min. After they got it fixed, they didn't give us an exit pass or anything, just the traditional "Enjoy the rest of your day here at Six Flags Over Georgia."

I was on Camden Park's log flume and at the bottom of one of the hills my log crashed into a log with two little kids in it. We were all fine though.

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Visit Camden's 100th!

Just recently (April 5th) my wife and I got stuck on Top Gun's lift at Carowinds. It was no big deal as we just sat there for about 30 minutes but I just thought that it was interesting to see upclose how they evacuate you off the train. I finally got to see what those metal plates running along the middle of the lift were for. The Top Gun crew and supervisors were very nice to us during the whole thing and even gave us some exit passes for our troubles.

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G's! They're what's for dinner!

S:UF, for about 45 minutes.

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SRM 2003-Look for the guy with my name on his chest
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