Rob
Mega Poster
I think I share the feelings of no major love loss here. I'm highly surprised though that there was no mechanical solution to this? I mean, it's an air pressure system that locks the gondola into position, and a broadly counter-weighted ride but still slightly heavier on the riders end, could they not just have drained the air and shut it down?
Although saying that it does suggest it'd likely be some form of gearbox failure, which would explain the thing just camming up and staying put, but again, surely there will be some manual over-ride for the restraints? I'm not being funny, but it's a theme park ride, not a straight jacket...
UNLESS doing so would cause more problems, infact, that seems quite probable, from the best of my memory the restraints are very much an all or nothing type system; they are all locked, or all released, you can't do manual releases... (or never witnessed it anyway). Which, I'm sure you can imagine the scene as 32 people all are freed after being stranded 4 hours.
And with that, all I am wondering is, is ripsaw still open? Surely, unless they know why it happened already, ripsaw would be vulnerable to a similar type of issue, and should be suitably modified etc before being re-opened?
Finally... oh well, they really are poor flat rides when they get into the state the Merlin's ones are, get rid of the lot and give us a few more screamin' swings and top scans. Thank you.
Although saying that it does suggest it'd likely be some form of gearbox failure, which would explain the thing just camming up and staying put, but again, surely there will be some manual over-ride for the restraints? I'm not being funny, but it's a theme park ride, not a straight jacket...
UNLESS doing so would cause more problems, infact, that seems quite probable, from the best of my memory the restraints are very much an all or nothing type system; they are all locked, or all released, you can't do manual releases... (or never witnessed it anyway). Which, I'm sure you can imagine the scene as 32 people all are freed after being stranded 4 hours.
And with that, all I am wondering is, is ripsaw still open? Surely, unless they know why it happened already, ripsaw would be vulnerable to a similar type of issue, and should be suitably modified etc before being re-opened?
Finally... oh well, they really are poor flat rides when they get into the state the Merlin's ones are, get rid of the lot and give us a few more screamin' swings and top scans. Thank you.
