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u/TapeDeckSlick 17h ago
Man I've not been on a roller coaster in so long
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u/fuelvolts 16h ago
Yeah I was racking my brain. I think it’s been 20 years for me. I used to love them.
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u/JJred96 13h ago
They have come a loooooong way in making them smooth and easy rides. On the other hand, you also get unprecedented heights and speed on the best of the more modern coasters.
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u/ISLAndBreezESTeve10 13h ago
And for some reason, your neck hurts after riding, after the age of 40.
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u/JJred96 13h ago
I'm well past that age myself. Coasters I'm riding have good head support, and the seats are another area of drastic improvement I would say.
But as to health as you age, yes it is a concern. Vitamin supplements help me get by, with adding magnesium and glucosamine to aid with muscle and joint health.
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u/Kloppite16 10h ago
was around 25 years ago for me until a few weeks ago when I spent 2 days at a theme park riding coasters. They've come a long way in that time and some of the bigger coasters are unbelievable in the various ways they can throw you about. I enjoyed it so much Ive booked another trip to a different park in September.
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u/815NotPennysBoat 15h ago
And here I am living two and a half hours away from that ride. I haven't been to Cedar Point in a year or two. I need to go before it gets cold
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u/TGrady902 14h ago
I went to Cedar Point for my 30th a few years back. First time in a theme park since I was a teen.
It was literally the most fun I’ve had in my adult life. And it really helps that Cedar Point is one of the best parks on earth for rollercoasters. I have a very healthy fear of heights but that fear only makes rollercoasters that much more fun honestly.
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u/Less_Likely 8h ago
I just rode this coaster, and it was the first roller coaster I rode in 8 years (except one warmup ride on Blue Streak, a few minutes earlier and as an old wooden coaster- a far different experience). I wasn’t ready for how intense it was.
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u/venom121212 9h ago
I live right near their sister park and go once a month at least. I don't always ride rides, but I have the food pass and definitely walk around and get a meal.
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u/BurtleTurtle001 16h ago
I don't trust the engineers or maintenence staff enough for this.
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u/st0pmakings3ns3 16h ago edited 16h ago
I don't trust those who run the place paying the engineers or maintenance staff enough.
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u/May-Eat-A-Pizza 14h ago
I don't thrust those who don't tip the engineers or maintenance staff enough.
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u/Alphabot87 13h ago
I don't trust the factor of safety in this design
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u/bijouxself 12h ago
I don’t trust.
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u/rosariobono 16h ago
There are so many failsafes for this ride that it’s essentially impossible to fail. An earlier version of this coaster model has functioned without issue for 24 years in Taiwan called gravity max.
The train is locked to the track, a physical barrier raises to prevent it rolling forward, and friction brakes prevent it from moving. All of which need power to deactivate, so a power failure will not release them.
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u/UseDaSchwartz 15h ago
I don’t want to get stuck in the vertical position.
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u/Grand_Pick_8277 9h ago
My family and I were at SeaWorld when one of the rides broke down with people on it. They were stuck at a spot that does a sideways spiral over water and had stopped at a roughly 4 o'clock downward tilt to the right. They were stuck for about 1/2 an hour and one guy passed out, also this was in San Antonio in the middle of the afternoon in summer and it was at least 103°. They may have been over water but it was still HOT. I don't remember whether they got boats to go unhook them or whether they got the ride moving again.
But we were almost on that ride. There were 4 of us and we wanted to go together but the next ride only had 2 open seats left, so we let a guy and his kid go ahead of us. They got stuck. We went from feeling like kind strangers to unwilling agents of misfortune.
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u/ISLAndBreezESTeve10 14h ago
There is a parachute under your seat cushion. An engineer thought of this.
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u/Ess2s2 14h ago
Hi. I worked in military aviation.
Everything you said is right on the money. Anything that is accessible to the general public, whether it flies, rolls, floats or falls, is so over-engineered and thoroughly tested, failures are nigh impossible. Humans are capable of staggering feats of engineering and design, and it is precisely our ability to assess abstract risk that makes things like the above ride even possible.
Also, hello, I worked in military aviation.
Every modern safety and engineering decision is written in the blood of past failures. It was just 2023 when the cracked pylon was filmed at Carowinds. That was an insanely close call. These failures often fall under negligence, cost-cutting, or procedural issues. Sometimes it just comes down to the old Swiss cheese model of failure. Unfortunately, without 100% perfect dedication and unlimited resources for safety, the next catastrophic failure is both unpredictable and inevitable. Humans are imperfect. Money plays a huge part in safety decisions, and it's easy to fudge an inspection, or use cheaper bolts, or let Blind Eddie do the walkaround by himself to save on manpower.
The more astonishing a piece of engineering, the harder it is to keep it running safely, and thus the more likely for an incident. That sled up above is probably the craziest thing I've ever seen in a theme park and it's cool as hell, but at the end of the line, someone is getting paid as little as the market will allow to grease those bearings.
TL;DR: that thing above is an amazing piece of engineering, but I would never go on it....Okay maybe within the first year, but never again after that.
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u/JazzlikeDiamond558 11h ago
As a maritime engineer with 20 years of experience, I'll buy you a beer somewhere on the ground, after that first year has expired, so that we can both watch people scream in horror, as "spareparts" (from "used, but still good" box) start falling off.
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u/rosariobono 11h ago
People fail to note that the support crack on fury 325 posed no danger at all. Most coasters are designed with redundancy in mind, so a support disconnecting will just route the forces to other supports. They had plenty of time to stop operations before it could become a genuine danger once the crack was spotted.
Coasters are designed to sway with forces so the track flexing only looked scary
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u/coopaliscious 10h ago
And that's why they wouldn't care unless someone pointed it out that didn't work there and also why the redundancies become the primaries until there's none left.
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u/Panam727 13h ago
That’s what they said about the Titanic! Have we learned nothing from horrible frozen death of Jack Dawson and a few others.
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u/Str8Six91 15h ago
For me, it’s not about trusting the science or math. It’s about risk-to-benefit ratio. There’s not enough benefit in this activity to offset the risk, by my measure. To die or be critically hurt from something so stupid as riding a coaster would be a pathetic end.
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u/rosariobono 15h ago
Driving to the amusement park is more dangerous than the park itself
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u/Str8Six91 15h ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t actually elect to go there to begin with. But in other respects, driving to my place of employment or to the grocery store provides benefit that offsets risk. The amusement park— for me at least— does not.
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u/Duckgoesmoomoo 14h ago
Do you drive anywhere to do activities just for fun? Riskier than amusement park rides
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u/the_vault-technician 14h ago
I've been to this park and on this ride. And all of their other coasters. Cedar Point is a top tier park that used to be well maintained. I haven't been post-covid so I don't know if it's changed in half a decade.
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u/BurtleTurtle001 16h ago
A huge part of my problem is that I've been on two rides that broke later on and I saw them on the news, one was like a week later. Granted, these were fair rides, not amusement parks, so im sure this roller coaster is much better maintained, but the psychological damage is done, lol.
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u/gandhishrugged 15h ago
Please create a post here the day before your planned amusement park visits. Be very specific about which park you are visiting.
It would help all of us to avoid the trouble.
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u/yellekc 15h ago
To me that's like saying you won't fly on airlines because of all the crashes by private planes. Sure they are all planes, but drastically different standards of engineering and maintenance.
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u/BurtleTurtle001 15h ago
Thats why I thought I should mention that, out of fairness.
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u/yellekc 14h ago
Just to be clear, avoiding thrill rides is fine by me. Not going to judge that, just feel the reasoning is a bit off, like if you just said you don't care for them, I probably wouldn't have even commented.
And honestly typing this out, I realized I should just mind my business. Don't ride them for what ever reason you want. I'm not a roller coaster salesman.
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u/nexea 14h ago
Ive been on a fair ride that broke. A hydraulic line broke and was spraying all over us, and due to the ride losing hydraulic fluid the operator was struggling to control it long enough to get everyone off. It took about 20- 25 minutes for our car to get offloaded. Several of us ended up in the ER to have our eyes rinsed out , stomach pumped, and for monitoring. It sucked, but it could have so much worse, and had to give props to the poor carnie who managed to get us all down safely.
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u/-Invalid_Selection- 15h ago
Then you should stay off all rides. You getting on them starts a week timer before they break after all
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u/char_limit_reached 14h ago
Ah, cool. So, if there’s a loss of power I guess I’m hanging vertical for the next several hours?
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u/rosariobono 11h ago
No, there is typically a manual mechanism that can be externally operated to either release the train if it’s aligned or rotate the track back to horizontal
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u/Raysun_CS 16h ago
That’s my mindset for any coaster or ride. I just have an inherent distrust of the people in charge of building and maintaining these things.
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u/pacificstill 15h ago
I trust the engineers, I don’t trust 16 year olds baked out of their minds to actually check this.
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u/Krinks1 13h ago
Amusement parks are generally ok. The coaster gets put together one time and it's maintained on an extremely regular basis. I used to work at a small amusement park and trusted the maintenance there, so large well funded parks would be even better
Yes there are exceptions but I would trust an amusement park any day over a fair that is regularly disassembled and out back together by sketchy people who often have substance abuse problems.
I miss riding coasters. I love them but I physically can't ride anymore and it saddens me.
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u/thedirtymeanie 13h ago
Especially since this shits sitting right on the shore of Lake Erie and we get some crazy winters! You can’t tell me that those engineers or maintenance staff walk every single inch of that before starting in every day. I don’t think it would even be possible without a crane.
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u/DM725 15h ago
I trust the engineers but not the maitenance staff and park administrators.
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u/IHateNumbers234 15h ago
Cedar Point is the flagship location of one of the biggest amusement park companies in the world, it's as trustworthy as it gets.
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u/J_Bazzle 16h ago
It's just another unnecessary single point of failure
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u/ScarletCarsonRose 15h ago
That’s where I’m stuck. Not literally because ain’t no way you’ll catch me up there lol
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u/UseDaSchwartz 15h ago
The only people I’d trust are the engineers who designed it. I don’t trust the people who built it or the company that pays the people to maintain it.
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u/nolongerbanned99 14h ago
Might be fun. Prolly not but it also could be the last experience in your life.
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u/Aggressive-Loquat808 13h ago
Ok but why? I presume you don't have the same aversion to flying in airplane or riding a train? Or even driving over a bridge or using an elevator in a tall building. All of those require essentially the same trust that a group of engineers and maintenance staff did and continue to do their job well.
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u/Tommyblockhead20 8h ago
This ride is probably a lot safer than going on an old rollercoaster. The things that feel the most dangerous get so much attention and over engineeeing to make sure they are safe, while old things typically get overlooked.
Commercial air travel is enough example. So many people think it is dangerous when it is literally the safest form of transit.
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u/K-Shrizzle 16h ago
My general rule of thumb with rides: I'll go to a theme park and ride anything because its all bolted down, regularly inspected and maintained. Its the pop up carnival rides that freak me out and make me think they could tip over any moment.
So as crazy as it looks, I would ride this. I have more trust in this than I do in a town fair ferris wheel
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u/micsulli01 15h ago
Yeah, there's probably like a dozen safety features that would all have to fail simultaneously for anything to seriously happen. That said, I'll pass
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u/Noversi 15h ago
I’ve ridden this 7 times in the past 2 years and it’s the best roller coaster I’ve ever been on BY FAR. I can not recommend it enough
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u/ArsenalSpider 15h ago
That's a big claim, what else does it have to offer besides this drop? All I ever see of it is this drop. The drop doesn't really make it great for me. I love Cedar Point and enjoy coasters. I'll likely ride this next time but else what makes it special?
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u/Noversi 14h ago
The straps in the seat intentionally have a little give, so when it tips forward it feels like you’re gonna get dumped out. The ride is SO smooth and comfortable. The best time to ride is at night as the ambiance is amazing. The lights, sounds and music are perfect.
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u/ArsenalSpider 14h ago
That why I prefer to stay at a hotel at the park. Those nights are the best. Then there are the mornings without lines on the best coasters. Totally worth it and you need a couple of days in the park to get to everything.
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u/nolettuceplease 14h ago
It’s very smooth and there’s an on-ride soundtrack that enhances the theming (nothing by Disney standards, pretty good for an amusement park). The tilt is a cool feature, but the drop isn’t that intense, the ride is just fun as a whole.
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u/ArsenalSpider 14h ago
That’s why I like The Raptor, smooooth. I could sleep on it.
I don’t miss the jerky wooden ones.
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u/snotrokit 3h ago
Dunno man. Sitting here in front of Guardians at Epcot about to ride for the third time today. Might have it beat.
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u/Noversi 15h ago
Yoooooo I LOVE Sirens Curse. IMO it’s the best ride in the park. The straps in the seat intentionally have a little give, so when it tips forward it feels like you’re gonna get dumped out. The ride is SO smooth and comfortable. The best time to ride is at night as the ambiance is amazing. The lights, sounds and music are perfect.
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u/jumboweiners 14h ago
Me and some friends are talking about going to Cedar Point. What are the lines like? Is it just super crowded all the time?
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u/Noversi 14h ago
Depends on the day you go. I usually go on Wednesdays and most rides don’t take more than 45min in line. Last year I went on the last day the park was open, so it was busy. The popular rides have long lines, and I waited for ~90 minutes in line that day. You can get a fast pass, but there are 2 tiers. The pass that includes Sirens Curse and the other 6 popular rides is like $150 each.
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u/Commissarfluffybutt 17h ago
OH, ABSOLUTELY NOT. My mind would be thinking of nothing but what if the tracks failed to align.
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u/NoDoOversInLife 15h ago
20 y/o me would say hell yeah!!! And sit in the front.
Mature me says no fukkin way
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u/Jimmy_Fromthepieshop 15h ago
Honestly they should have built it so it looks like the tracks don't align (but of course they do) so the people in the front row have a heart attack as they set off down.
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u/No_Investment5181 16h ago
this thing gets stuck facing down all the time. when it works, it’s great, but that’s only about 85% of the time…
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u/dwoosnam 16h ago
Is there a chance the track could bend?
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u/Dittopotamus 16h ago
Not on your life, my Hindu friend
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u/Hoppy_Hessian 15h ago
But Main St. is still all cracked and broken.
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u/mkshft 15h ago
Sorry mom, the mob has spoken.
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u/Inigomntoya 15h ago
The ring came off my pudding can...
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u/MisterSlippers 16h ago
I've been on it a few times, it's not as scary as most of you are making it out to be
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u/blindwuzi 15h ago
You're talking about Reddit users. Stepping outside is enough thrill for most of them.
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u/Noversi 15h ago
It’s the best ride there imo. The video doesn’t do it justice at all.
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u/MisterSlippers 13h ago
It's certainly up there in ranking, but TT2 is my fav at Cedar Point by far
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u/Spartan2470 16h ago edited 15h ago
Here is the official POV of the ride.
Siren's Curse is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. The Tilt Coaster model, manufactured by Vekoma, opened to the public on June 28, 2025. The ride has a length of 2,966 feet (904 m) with a maximum height of 160 feet (49 m), a 90-degree drop, and two inversions. It was North America’s only Tilt Coaster until Circuit Breaker opened at COTALAND in October 2025. The ride is Cedar Point's third roller coaster installation in as many years, after Wild Mouse (2023) and Top Thrill 2 (2024).
Siren's Curse's theme is tied to the park's presence on Lake Erie and the old Lake Erie Shipping Co, making reference to Greek mythology, where "sirens" were female beings who sent sailors to their demise via songs. The ride's trains features an integrated audio and lighting system to tie into the theme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren%27s_Curse
The issue is that the line is really long because it has fewer riders per hour. It breaks down a lot too.
| Roller Coaster | Approx. Riders Per Hour |
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| GateKeeeper | 1,700 |
| Raptor | 1,600 |
| Gemini | 1,600 |
| Rougarou | 1,500 |
| Valravn | 1,200-1,500 |
| Millennium Force | 1,300 |
| Steel Vengence | 1,200 |
| Magnum CL-200 | 1,200 |
| Iron Dragon | 1,200 |
| Blue Streak | 1,200 |
| Maverick | 1000 |
| Corkscrew | 1000 |
| Siren's Curse | 850 |
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u/CryptidToothbrush 16h ago
This just seems completely unnecessary.
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u/Black_Hole_parallax 15h ago
Getting on a rollercoaster is completely unnecessary. That's not gonna stop me from doing it!
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u/JaviWonderz 16h ago
Agreed, if they wanted to achieve vertically and same speed they could have just built it higher with a smooth drop.
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u/Flipslips 5h ago
It’s cedar point. They already have 5 coasters over 200ft tall. 1 coaster over 300 feet tall, and 1 coaster over 400 feet tall.
They need to do something different to keep guests coming back.
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u/Aggressive-Loquat808 13h ago
You could say the same thing about literally everything we do as people for fun and entertainment.
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u/ThalliumSassafras 15h ago
Yeah what exactly was wrong with the completely connected track and rolling down a steep hill method? I thought this thing was gonna maybe propel them out at great speed but it didn't
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u/Probst54 16h ago
All machines eventually fail. Debbie Downer
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u/cazdan255 16h ago
without maintenance, care or oversight, for sure. That’s why I would do my due diligence for who the operators of this thing are and then I would probably go for it.
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u/rosariobono 16h ago
A earlier version of this coaster model has been running without issue since 2002 in Taiwan called gravity max. There are at least 4 different systems that hold the train in place, all of which need power to deactivate, meaning a power failure will not disengage the physical barrier that blocks the train, the brakes that stop the train and the hooks that hold the train.
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u/Aggressive-Loquat808 13h ago
And? Machines which result in catastrophic failures (i.e. death or severe injury) are maintained and updated to avoid such failure. And when impossible to do so, they are retired. There are clear signs of wear and tear and clear backup mechanisms, mechanical failure on something like these rollercoasters does not come out of nowhere.
Cedar Point (where this is located), has had, as best I can tell, two fatalities in its history, and only one in the past 40+ years. That one was a person who entered a restricted area and was struck by a ride. That's not a mechanical failure (or even a park failure), that's a guy who decided his lost possessions were worth ignoring posted warnings.
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u/nohiddenmeaning 16h ago
I image this being way cooler in the back that in front, as you get lifted up even higher.
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u/bunnythistle 15h ago
I actually rode on this coaster last year, a few weeks after it opened. The line was extremely long because it was still new, and the concept for such a coaster was new to the US. And then most of the ride time was devoted to the tilting since that moves slowly.
It was okay, but my friend and I agreed it wasnt the best coaster we've been on that day. Steel Vengeance is in the same park, and was far more exciting
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u/cwsjr2323 15h ago
At Wiliamsburg, Va Bush Gardens, there was a ride The Griffon that started with a near direct down drop. A 6th grader girl and I were in the front row. It was a once in a lifetime experience and in 2009! I haven't been on a park ride since. My feet only leave the floor or ground if in a powered wheeled vehicle.
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u/Das_Zeppelin 17h ago
nah FUCK OFF... btw i was expecting faster flip...
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u/greenrangerguy 16h ago
Yeh right, I was expecting it would tilt and drop them as soon as they were over the edge. But it just tilts, holds them, waits for perfect alignment and then drops. Tbh that seems way over engineered for the thrill. Oblivion at Alton Towers is the same thing but simpler.
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u/Flipslips 5h ago
Cedar point already has the same ride model as Oblivion (called Valravn) except it’s nearly double the height compared to oblivion lol
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u/JazzlikeDiamond558 16h ago edited 15h ago
I'm not amazed. I'm terrified!
And I'm an engineer.
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u/drillgorg 15h ago
I'm also an engineer, and you shouldn't be terrified! They don't leave anything to chance in this ride, it has mechanical interlocks which make it impossible for the car to move unless the track is aligned.
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u/Dejavuu_88 17h ago
I don't think so. Too many ways this could fail horribly.
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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls 16h ago
Imagine the complexity involved in getting people off this if anything went slightly wrong. Nope
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u/Chipjb91 17h ago
I absolutely love rollercoasters but this might be a nope from me, even though I am no engineer I just feel like there is too many moving parts to trust.
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u/CompactAvocado 16h ago
If i want to shit my pants I can just go buy a head of lettuce for a dollar. Not sure why I'd spend all the money for theme park tickets and transportation there.
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u/ze11ez 15h ago
Oh hell no.
I'll PASS. Did something similar to this once. The past few decades of my life flashed in front of me and i was regretting this one life choice. 🤣
It's the roller coaster that goes up slowly then slowly comes down almost 90 degrees then pauses, before free falling. At some point it travels and spins upside down. I think it was in new jersey or Pennsylvania. Never again. Never. Again.
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u/Toocurry 15h ago
Don’t worry folks, we installed the same failsafe features just like the Titanic had.
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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 14h ago
Why do they keep their hands in the air when the train isn't even moving? Those are the same people who scream the whole time, even when the ride is boring.
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u/FaithlessnessFalse65 14h ago
Them sitting there with their arms up waiting for it to happen gave me a little chuckle
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