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ANOTHER ride fail, at Alton Towers..
- Thread starter desprateseagull
- Start date
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,350
Needs rebranding as Faulty Towers shirley?
Not massively unusual, just 'news' now because of the Smiler incident.
carteater
Well-known member
Do you reckon that if this happens a few more times Alton Towers will be shut down
Do you reckon that if this happens a few more times Alton Towers will be shut down
No I don't.
Exactly, rides often BREAK DOWN, rides very very rarely CRASH. A nothing story.
Stop stop stop. None of this is unusual - happens all the time in theme parks all over the world. And it's very often due to some doofus ignoring safety warnings and unbuckling safety belts or leaving loose items in their clothes or getting their phones out as the ride starts. None of this is even remotely news.
bWize
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- Nov 6, 2007
- 1,693
Do you reckon that if this happens a few more times Alton Towers will be shut down
Won't be shut down but would lose a lot of revenue!
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,638
Makes the ride more exciting Shirley?
Exactly....I am a bit of a coaster junkie and whilst I haven't been stuck for this length of time, have been stuck several times and also very regularly seen coasters stuck (including Oblivion for about half an hour on the edge of the drop in the rain). I would have a fairly large bet that the Smiler incident was caused by human error - cars being set off when a warning light was on, that kind of thing. I'm guessing it's mostly minimum-wage students running the things from what I've seen. No data, but I also sense from my experience that the breakdowns are far more common in UK theme parks than in the US.