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It’s the normal summer is coming theme parks will kill you and your family post

Theme Park Outsider Posted on March 29, 2018 by labmanMarch 29, 2018

CNN has posted the first ‘theme parks will kill you all’ for the summer stories that seem to come up this time every year despite the fact that you are far more likely to get injured driving to the park than you are on a ride at the park.

That being said, no one should go to Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas.  The details that have come out after the child was decapitated on the Verruckt ride is proof to me that they shouldn’t be in business.  Certainly I’ll never go there.  I can’t believe that designing this ride consisted of them just winging it and essentially using their customers as guinea pigs on it.

The rest of the  theme park world uses real engineers in designing these types of attractions, and that should be rewarded by the general public.

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Drunks at EPCOT

Theme Park Outsider Posted on November 10, 2015 by labmanNovember 10, 2015

Gee… wonder if this guy got kicked out of the park.

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Pirates of the Caribbean reopens

Theme Park Outsider Posted on September 27, 2015 by labmanSeptember 27, 2015

The Magic Kingdom has reopened Pirates of the Caribbean after it had been closed for refurbishment.  Visitors can now look forward to newly replaced animatronics for more realistic looking scenes, plus new visual effects and scents in different scenes within the ride.

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Man killed at Cedar Point

Theme Park Outsider Posted on August 14, 2015 by labmanAugust 14, 2015

A teacher was killed at Cedar Point yesterday when he climbed a fence to get into the restricted area beneath Raptor to retrieve his cell phone that he had lost on the ride.

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Slingshot ride cable snaps during ride

Theme Park Outsider Posted on August 11, 2015 by labmanAugust 11, 2015

I’ve never ridden one of these, but have always wanted to.  I’m surprised at this news because this is the second ride in the last month that I’ve seen in the news having a snapped cable.  The last one snapped while it was on the ground so no one was injured, but this one snapped while it was in motion causing it to bounce over into a tower and breaking one passengers leg.  They’re lucky it broke at the bottom of its’ bounce because that used up most of it’s momentum.  If it had snapped at the top, gravity would have made it swing much faster.  Below is the video of the accident.

 

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Smiler coaster crashes at Alton Towers

Theme Park Outsider Posted on June 2, 2015 by labmanJune 2, 2015

The smiler roller coaster had some kind of a problem that involved a car train loaded with passengers to collide with a stationary empty car.  Four were seriously injured and were picked up by helicopters to take them to the hospital.

From the sound of it, the computer stopped the second train, then was overridden.  (I say this because witnesses reported that the train stopped where passengers could have been offloaded.  This sounds like what normally happens when the computer senses something is wrong and stops the train.)  For it to have started moving again, the operator would have to tell it to go and then it collided with the other car that was in the way.  It’ll be a while before they say what happened officially, but that’s my guess.

More information is available from the BBC at http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32980354

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Busch Gardens Tampa announces closure of Gwazi

Theme Park Outsider Posted on January 9, 2015 by labmanJanuary 9, 2015

Busch Gardens Tampa has announced the upcoming closure of their dueling wooden roller Gwazi.  February 1st, 2015 is the last day to ride Gwazi.  They haven’t announced yet any details as to what they are going to do in that … Continue reading →

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Deer decapitated by coaster

Theme Park Outsider Posted on September 29, 2014 by labmanSeptember 29, 2014

Now this is something your don’t see every day (fortunately.)  A deer was decapitated after it wandered in the way of a roller coaster.  

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Hard Rock Park rides for sale

Theme Park Outsider Posted on November 14, 2013 by labmanNovember 14, 2013

The defunct Hard Rock Park / Freestyle music park that closed in 2009 in Myrtle beach is selling off all of its’ roller coasters and other rides.  It tried to find a buy and hopefully reopen, but I guess after … Continue reading →

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Universal Orlando officially announces Transformers

Theme Park Outsider Posted on November 7, 2012 by labmanFebruary 27, 2013

Universal officially announced that Transformers: The Ride was coming to Orlando in the summer of 2013.  This wasn’t a huge surprise based on the construction photos that were remarkably similar to the ride in California.  Personally, I’m looking forward to … Continue reading →

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Entering the world of Belle

Theme Park Outsider Posted on September 3, 2012 by labmanSeptember 3, 2012

Disney has released a new video of the entering the storybook world of belle.  It will open as a preview November 19th, with the official opening of December 6th… Looks like they are extending the Mr Potato Head technology into … Continue reading →

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Cedar Point announces Gatekeeper

Theme Park Outsider Posted on August 13, 2012 by labmanSeptember 3, 2012

Cedar Point has announced their new project for 2013. It’s a wing rider from B & M called Gatekeeper. It will pass right over the entrance to the park, so it will serve as a beacon for all those coaster … Continue reading →

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Silver Dollar City to add wooden coaster with a twist

Theme Park Outsider Posted on August 12, 2012 by labmanAugust 12, 2012

They are building a wooden coaster with a barrel roll, which is something that has never been done before.  The closest thing to this was the now defunct Son of Beast at Kings Island in Ohio.  Hopefully this will be … Continue reading →

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Last day for Disaster Transport

Theme Park Outsider Posted on July 29, 2012 by labmanSeptember 3, 2012

Cedar Point is removing Disaster Transport after today to make room for something new. While I hate to see it go, I can understand why since it’s been here since 1985, but it’s relatively unique in that it’s a bobsled … Continue reading →

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Shamu video from 2006

Theme Park Outsider Posted on July 28, 2012 by labmanJuly 28, 2012

This video was released under a FOIA request in a case involving OSHA against Seaworld for the death of Dawn Brancheau in 2010. It’s a video of Ken Peters, who was grabbed and held by the killer whale Kasatka at … Continue reading →

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