Recent content by SaiyanHajime

I just. I just don't know how I feel. I think a lot of us feel the same, right? Seems it from skim reading. Part of me is just so impressed to see something SO DIFFERENT when it comes to track paintjobs that I can't be angry. And part of me is like, yeah it's tacky, but that's kinda the 90s...

I mean, we've seen "layout changes" to other coasters which have caused damage to themselves. Lots of times. So it wouldn't surprise me, at all. They'll do something to it. Whether that's just more or different supports or finding a way to cause less force on that turn, idk. A lot of it probably...

It's the latter. It's known as the baader meinhof phenomenon - it's that cognitive bias to notice something again and again after it being brought to your attention, after paying it no notice until then. There is (almost certainly) no crack on Gatekeeper. It's a shadow, a dirty mark, etc. And...

There's a lot of misinformation going around that the crack was clearly visible at least a week prior. Here's the original post from the photographer https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid023ouELZuczBDexBnuNLRxjZZDCsXSqfBVB8oiYqUJmugsQegBtdGPHeJ8wWakSBeVl&id=1214063528&sfnsn=mo They...

Y'all would be so mad if they closed a ride every time a guest reported something. Nothing would ever be open. Working at a park, I'd always quizz guests a bit to give me more details even if I thought they were reporting something completely benign, then forward it to management or technical...

Is the problem not maybe that the support in question isn't flexing as it should? I don't know anything, but I remember when Silver Bullet had (still has??) those weird braces for a crack on the box section, I read a structural engineer suggest the cause is likley "too many" supports not...

Which is a maintenance failure. I mean, there's no other possible explanation here. Even if all maintenance personnel did what they were technically meant to do, you could argue that continuing to run these trains at all, given their age, is a maintenance failure. The parts should be fully...

I misspoke - it is entirely their fault, but where has this info about the park not doing restraint checks come from and why? It's a weird and unnecessary leap - guests don't leave their bars raised... They just don't. The main argument for checking lapbars is to make sure guests are in them...

Sure, but the likleyhood of them not being closed is slim. Most guests pull restraints down. Possible, unlikley. This just feels like blaming for Gröna for everything. Almost as if he didn't fall... My skepticism gets me far.

I have quite a lot of evidence in that post.

The train didn't come to an immediate stop... Firstly because that's highly unlikley given the majority of the train is in tact - just think about how missing a single wheel assembly would play out in real time? I bet as it came loose the train slowed, it probably only fell off entirely when the...

Guy sitting on the support pulled himself out of a slow moving train, rather than do the obviously highly unlikley super-human feat of catching himself after being thrown.

Yeah someone responded to me on twitter who witnessed it - it sounds like after it originally happened, it was moving slowly and he was hanging and grabbed the beam, heaving himself out. It makes me wonder if the fatality was a copy cat who fell.

Ok I really have no idea wtf happened watching this. I'm literally theoryless and back to wondering if that guy climbed out rather than fell and witnesses are mistaken.

Given this keeps happening to Schwarzkopf trains, I think it's safe to say there is a major issue with the design of how the wheel assembly is attached. This is what happened on Mindbender... And more recently Magnum Force whilst it was in Mexico, before being moved to Indiana - right? I always...