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Coasters that wouldn't pass the "tunnel test"

TheCoasterCruiser

TheCoasterCruiser

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What real life coasters wouldn't pass the famous NL tunnel test? Or for those of you who aren't familiar with No Limits, what coasters have a very small reach envelope?

I'll start:

Basically any Double Figure Eight by Zierer.

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Odinexpressen at Tivoli Gardens:
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I guess it has several points during the ride which are a bit too narrow. But there's one specific support that almost had me decapitated! :eek: Leaning out from this rides is not something I would recommend..

Another more surprising candidate would be Helix! I remember someone during the live reaching out their arms and got struck by a bransch from one of the rhododendron buches in the helix.. Pretty remarkable since the ride is brand new, and the buches haven't even started growing yet!
 
What about Beast's.... tunnel.

This video provides some perspective on how obviously close that wall is to the train. (Start at 1m25s)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Xrh7k4RLE[/youtube]

Millennium Force's first overbank also had a chunk of a cross beam cut out to make room for the train. You can see the notch, it is the 5th cross support in the first turn.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXPhOFRxTc[/youtube]
 
Runaway Mine Train at Alton Towers

Especially the helix before the Rapids tunnel
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^TT have got images up, showing that they've removed the headchoppers on the first hill. Not sure if it's permanent though.
 
Most portable Schwarzkopf Loopingracer or newer Speedracer like TripleLoop or Alpina-Bahn have some very tight clearances. On the Doulbe Loop as the train is going between loops I have seen poeple banging their hands badly - one guy had to be moved to the hospital by ambulance with broken wrists. But as always in Germany there are huge sings telling you NOT to lift your hands outside the train - and if you do the park/showmen have no liability.

Later loopers got the trains with shoulder-clamps so one cannot move the arms up. On the other hand as the former Laser moved to Germany becoming Teststrecke it got new trains with lapbars only. So even by modern German safety standards signs at the station seem to suffice even if there is a real danger of hurting yourself with outstretched arms.
 
GuyWithAStick said:
The lift for the Wild Mouse at PBB
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This. That's it. Topic's over. Gotta be this.

I'm short and I could easily place my palm flat on the underside of the track above the lift. Whilst you're not moving at speed here, there's nothing stopping you putting your hand up through the track and cars often pass over you at the exact moment you're beneath. How no one's seriously hurt themselves I don't know.

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Good call on the Wild Mouse. It has got to be one of the only coasters in the world where you can place your hand firmly another piece of track.

I've touched trees several times on coasters but I suppose that's pretty common. Though there was one time on Dragon's Fury at Chessington where part of a tree hit me full on in the face (or it would have done had I not spotted it just in time and covered my face with my hands). I think it was due to a strong gust of wind blowing it across the track at the exact moment the car went past.
 
Twister in Gröna Lund has a headchopper at the lifthill too. Pretty sure you could touch the track there. Towards the end there's also a headchopper underneath Jetline. There's a reason why the park suggests that you don't put your hands up. Can't find any photos sadly.
 
I've never seen actual signs in the station that you're not allowed to, but maybe that's just Europe.
 
Every single apple coaster! It's so easy to reach out and touch the frame inside the apple whilst getting a static shock at the same time <3
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