Small News From The Theme Park Industry

[ECG]

The iconic Coney Island Cyclone was e-stopped on the lift hill Thursday due to a mechanical issue. Riders were evac'd without incident, but the coaster remains closed until repairs and inspections are completed. The park’s technical team told the city Department of Buildings, which gave Luna Park two violations for failing to maintain the ride and for failing to notify the agency about the incident, that operators found a crack on the chain sprocket in the ride's motor room.

Exclusive video of rescue raises questions after Cyclone roller coaster at Luna Park halts mid-ride

The Department of Buildings says an inspector will visit the park today to investigate the incident.

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The Cyclone reopened this weekend after undergoing repairs and maintenance that took a couple of weeks to complete.

 

[DelPiero]

^ could be worse, you could be stuck at the top of a Sky Screamer in a rainstorm;

(SFMexico, only stuck for 10 mins tho')

THIS IS WHY @Howie!!!!!

 

[Ollie]

Blue Fire has stalled in a bit of an awkward spot...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=8158335770888860

 

[Hixee]

Do they not just... push it off backwards?

Assuming it's not broken a wheel or something before the "umm actually" replies come in.

 

[RcTmix]

Maybe the maintenance guys can try throwing a shoe at it

 

[Mushroom]

They need to do a Parque Warner and use a stick

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[FogZog]

What if everyone just starts simultaneously shuffling back till it falls backwards )

 

[TilenB]

What if everyone just starts simultaneously shuffling back till it falls backwards )

Like this?

 

[JoshC.]

Not the first time a Blue Fire has stalled in that position is it? Can't remember if it was Europa's or a clone, but this has definitely happened before in that exact location.

Presumably just an unfortunate mix of what wheels are used at the in the weather conditions, train weighting and power of the LSMs.

 

[VonRolland]

Not the first time a Blue Fire has stalled in that position is it? Can't remember if it was Europa's or a clone, but this has definitely happened before in that exact location.

Presumably just an unfortunate mix of what wheels are used at the in the weather conditions, train weighting and power of the LSMs.

It was a clone, In China I wanna say?

 

[Treyluvzejector]

It was a clone, In China I wanna say?

Yep it was steam racer at Wuxi sunac land. Someone was actually filming a POV when it happened.

 

[cookie]

Go home, Maurer, you’re drunk

 

[JamesB]

Go home, Maurer, you’re drunk

Emerald Park has already added this to basket!

 

[RollerCoastersFrolicking]

Go home, Maurer, you’re drunk

dude, they have been on a massive bender sense iaapa Florida last year.

 

[JoshC.]

Whichever park buys the first of these modern-day Spikes is going to need their heads checked in tbf

 

[cocoa]

these manufacturers truly have no regard for us noble thoosies who have to determine whether something is a credit or not

 

[Boodangy]

Maurer invested every little cent they could get from pfand bottles they could find around their estate into the spike concept and they won't take no for an answer

 

[VonRolland]

Holy Moly these new car designs look nice, think Hyperia but these actually have lights

https://twitter.com/x/status/1834898361113104452

 

[Rob Coasters]

Go home, Maurer, you’re drunk

Something that kills me about the Spike is that it's a really cool angle on coaster design. It allows for all 3 axes of freedom at all times, you can accelerate and decelerate whenever you want, it completely ignores all physics limitations which means you can literally make the track do WHATEVER you want, it breaks conventions by being a powered thrill coaster (and being powered could allow for insane block zone programming too). The capacity of the coaster could realistically be "as fast as you can load a car/train".
But the thing is.
It's f**king Maurer. Which means they'll never get it right, it'll be plagued with problems and parks will be forever extremely skeptical on it because of how much of a disaster the two (park) prototypes have been.

They could be such an insanely cool coaster model if Maurer could just... get them to WORK. The insane flexibility of the track could be fantastic for parks with limited space as well. I kind of want to see this model built at least a little bit more, I am a bit of a "there's usually a reason why some coaster models aren't built as much as others no matter how interesting they may seem" but the Spike is something I'd like to see given another chance.

 

[owenstreet7]

Go home, Maurer, you’re drunk

This definitely is a really unique coaster layout. I'd love to see it in action (rather fitting for Emerald Park)