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In my experience, smaller independant parks tend to add 10cm onto the ride manufacturers minimum restriction whereas larger parks dont. It can be really confusing for people who visit many different parks, it even leaves us shrubs scratching our heads at the logic behind it sometimes. Even the...

Engines you say? One of my other hobbies includes ship like this I'm into all kinds of heavy engineering, engines, cranes, ships, aircraft.... you name it.

I've lost count how many times over the years friends and family have asked me "when you getting a proper job?" Which is kind of ironic considering my "childish job" pays not only my own bills, but also some of the bills of those "friends" who like to criticise. Try not to let it get to you...

There are a couple of ways you can get hold of a seat and harness. But it really depends on wether the seat and harness is purely aesthetic or you are actually expecting the rider to be properly restrained by it. If it's option one then ask a few parks if they have any scrap seats and harnesses...

It has nothing to do with wheel suspension, the drop is the angle it is because that is the path the car would take if there was no track there. If you look at the running surface of the rails, the road wheels barely touch the track on the way down. According to the engineering drawings...

I think the pain in my pride was worse than the pain in my ankle.

Does tripping and falling down the stairs from Stealths station platform to the launch track in front of about 1000 people count? Or feeling embarrassed on behalf of someone else in the form of a rider who puked on Vortex, they managed to nail the row directly opposite and drown a decent...

Sounded like it broke something..... I felt the pain of the chain dog and anti-rollbacks.

Don't say that to some of the operators I know..... Wacky worms and big apples can make quite effective torture devices given that the operator can adjust certain settings on a lot of them...... I was greeted by a group of obnoxious mid to late teenagers on a quiet day once, they all wanted to...

When I heard about this a few years ago it really pissed me off. The major rides at Thorpe get some of their daily inspections done after the park closes ready for the next day as the park is obviously closed to the public and guarded by security. Had this penis caused some damage to the ride...

Man knows his shtuff. Although if I was in charge, with 2 trains I would wait till train 1 is clearing the trim station before dispatching train 2. This gives the operators the most time possible to process the train in the station before it has to go without causing the returning train to stop...

Whoever set this ride up is on to a winner when it comes to station entry speed..... The throughput will be through the roof.

Cycle time is only one factor of many that determines throughput. The design of the blocking system gives the starting point to calculate throughput as it provides the absolute maximum possible performance for a given ride. Once the ride is built, the positions of the sensors that control and...

The problem with trying to enforce the rules on water rides like these is that there is pretty much nothing you can do beyond yelling at people. I suggested a cricket bat on a pneumatic arm just above head height to deal with anyone who refused to sit down, so the last thing they would see for a...

Given the way a lot of people scream on rides.................... it would certainly explain a few things.

That's pretty much how we do it on coasters... attach the new chain to the old one, run the drive as slow as it can go, the old chain pulls the new chain through, simples. If that pile of scrap at the bottom of Gatekeepers lift ended up there deliberately then someone needs shooting as there is...

They both have a 900mm track gauge so the new trains would physically fit on the old track, but that's literally it......

We haven't given up, trust me. We are working our collective balls off to get as many outdoor rides ready as possible. Our problem aside from money is that we have lost almost the entire winter shutdown period. Whereas last year, pretty much everything was already finished by the time the first...

We did make some progress on it after summer, just not much. The park has literally run out of money, to the point where a few rides are potentially going to be sold off. The new ride is at the bottom of a very long list of priorities at the moment. I'll be able to carry on working on it when...

I can't see it being ready by summer given that there is still a lot of work to do and there have only been zoo staff at the park since before christmas. The priority will be getting all the other rides ready as quickly as possible if the park does manage to reopen at the start of the season.