The media are the ones with the brain damage; maybe they should ride some *real* roller coasters and actually help themselves out (and look at the dang signs so they stop putting a stupid "the" in front of the stupid ride's name T_T)
I hate that stuff like roller coasters stopping on the lift hill makes the news more than any given car crash. Car crashes are so much more common and, quite obviously, more deadly by a long shot.
Dog bites man: no one cares. Man bites dog: makes headlines.The news would rather cover coasters seemingly functioning in a normal but somewhat unexpected manner than most car crashes because it's rarer and thus "more interesting" to audiences. You're also less likely to see rides that are known to have high downtime, such as Top Thrill Dragster and Lightning Rod, covered by news media when they "break down" because it happens often enough to cease being "man bites dog".
Y4123 thats an oddly specific example, but what im saying is more roller coaster “accidents” like getting stuck on lift hills get reported than the very many car crashes that happen every day. its the same with plane crashes. they crash WAY less than cars and yet theyre reported way more.
@@theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840 (I know this was a year ago but hey better late then never but) You are about 2300 times more likely to die in a car crash. It's a one in 750,000,000 chance you die on a rollercoaster.
Not really" Completely" safe, but engineering fails and mechanical fails do happen. One in a million rides can go fatally bad. Often it's an Emergency stop. Or power failure in a lift hill.
People trust their own abilities more than a computer. (despite the same thing being true for cars, if the ESP or servo steering had a malfunction, you would be dead aswell).
Most of the "breakdowns" are easily explained with research. A simple slow down and block violation is nothing. If it valleys" or actually needs intervention, then you worry.
I remember getting stuck on a lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland and I thought it was one of the coolest moments ever! Thank you so much for shouting me out, I got a big boost in views because of it. Much appreciated, and great video!!
I also got stuck on a lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain! It was on the third lift hill in the tunnel. We were there for about a half hour, with the occasional announcement to stay in our seats. I had my fingers crossed that we would be evac'd but nah the ride continued. Still was a pretty cool experience
I've only been on one roller coaster that stopped on a lift hill and that was on Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom on the bridge between the two mountains around 2011-2013
We got stopped on a ride for an a$$hat pulling out his phone. Hello people, if you drop that thing, you can seriously hurt someone. Think about other people please!
I always wonder what people think they’re going to get a picture of anyways. The things going so fast everything would be a blur, and it knocks you around so much taking a selfie is DEFINITELY out of the question.
The rollercoaster was not working fine. Mechanics are not the only aspect that makes a rollercoaster work but this tied in with the human factor resulted in serious injuries. Rollercoasters need the human factor to successfully work and procedures were not adhered too. So to recap when you say everyone freaked out that of course I’m sure didn’t apply to the amputees that unfortunately happened on this ride.
You've only been stopped twice? Me too. I was stopped on Scream because somebody had their cell phone and I had to be Evac. At the top of Journey to Atlantis(san diego) and had to be walk down from the ride. Honestly people shouldn't fear when rides stop or have to be Evac. Because sometimes there are magical experience
I’d hate to be one of the people who, when gets stuck on a lift hill, get shamed by GP news saying “Fury 325 got stuck passengers evacuated off” or something like that when I’m an enthusiast...
I remember being stuck once in a ride, but it wasn't a rollecoaster. It was a swinging ship. The entire ride went well until it was time for the brakes to kick in.I remember hearing them twice, along with that feeling of something "scrapping" the base of the ship, and then go completely silent. The operator (bless him) remained calm and actually made a joke about giving us a small freebie for extra time on the ride. We had to wait for the momentum to die and the ride to stop on its own. Must admit, quite an interesting experience, and props to the operator for keeping everyone in high spirits.
The only time I've ever been stopped wasn't on a roller coaster, but it was on one of the Harry Potter rides at universal Orlando. It was the big one, in the castle, and while it was a little disappointing to have the ride stopped, it was also really cool to get a chance to see how it worked (there were these big mechanical arm things that lifted the seats up and down, to make it feel like you were floating, and we could see them much better with the emergency lights on). We were stopped twice, and only for a couple minutes each time, but I still think it was one of the coolest experiences I've had.
i went to Alton Towers earlier this year with my father and we got stuck on The Smiler's final break run, it was probably just a mechanical failure that was quickly resolved
Been stopped on the Medusa so many times, still my fave. But the Superman at the same Cali 6flags, watching that stop scared me so bad I got an anxiety attack, a park worker had to pull me out of line and put me on a bench, nearly had to get medical aid when the panic attack induced an asthma attack. Over all I learned that amusement park staff are more understanding and ready to handle an anxiety attack than my teachers ever were. Shout out to those guys they were great
I remember getting stuck at the block break on the Manta in Seaworld. We were still on our stomachs, and we were all staring at the metal floor put there. No one was panicking at all, and it was really cool and fun. We were even laughing about it more rather than panicking. We were stuck for about 5-10 minutes, but the ride resumed like normal.
These videos always make rollercoasters seem less scary but I also found out that a big reason I experience anxiety on rollercoasters is because of my vertigo so I can't ride most rollercoasters now.
I have a weird story: I was waiting in line for Rip Ride Break Run at Universal, and i saw a couple of trains about to go onto a brake run, but then when they hit the brake runs, they totally stopped. The ride wasn’t broken down or anything, and the coaster was dispatching trains perfectly fine, so I was just like, “what’s going on?”
That's what's called stacking. You see it somewhat often on rides that run more than two trains, and it's the result of a combination of slower-than-expected dispatches and the block system working normally. B&M hypercoasters are infamous for this kind of thing.
That’s kinda weird because my experience with universal has the quickest dispatches. Maybe someone needed help getting on the ride while you were riding it.
@@moonlight_oats Like I said previously, stacking can happen quite often on rides with more than two trains. It doesn't take a lot to cause it either, just a few slightly slow dispatches in a row can cause the ride's dispatch timing to be thrown off. And since Rip Roarin' Rocket has so many trains, I'm surprised it doesn't stack more often.
I used to love it when space mountain would loose a train and go into block mode. If it happened when you were on the lift hill you used to be able to ride with the lights on. Not much to see at the time.. but was still cool to see how compact that ride was considering its not a short ride.
Another time I've been stuck was on Journey to Atlantis in Seaworld San Diego. For anyone that doesn't know, it's a log flume and roller coaster hybrid. There's an elevator part where the ride vehicle ascends vertically, once you reach the top the vehicle rolls forward and continues the ride We rolled forward and the brakes kicked on. We were there for almost an hour, and a ride technician came to work on some kind of control box right next to me and we had a chat for some time. This must have been like... 2007 or 2008... jeez times flies
While I've never stopped a ride myself I have seen co-workers do it. And yes, usually a cellphone. We had a few other stoppages that weren't done on purpose. Those were always interesting. My ride if a train stopped you had to pull a button on the control panel to get it moving again once the next block was clear. If you forgot to move the train out of the safeties after stacking the next train would stop on the mid-course. Not a huge problem but embarrassing for sure. When it happened a loud bell would ring just so everyone in the station could know you fucked up too. (edit: spelling)
I was on space mountain at Disneyland during the final ride of the night, and as my dad and I were making our way up the lift hill, the ride stopped and the lights came on. We never learned why it stopped, but the operator escorted us all out. Space mountain is weird af with the lights on. Like there's this random meteor floating around, even though it doesn't appear in the actual ride. Pretty cool experience.
Thank you so much for these videos. I grew up in the city where the mindbender accident happened and I was always terrified hearing about the "west edmonton death coaster" as my friends called it. That fear has continued on to this day and I have never been on anything more than a kiddy coaster. I stumbled upon your videos and after watching all the ones about how coasters work and how safe they are I think I'm finally ready to try and ride a coaster when the parks open up again. Not sure if the mindbender should be my first, though.
Very informative and helpful :3 watching your video has really helped me work through my fear of getting on a roller coaster, can't wait till I can go on one
Before I was really into rollercoasters and knew about these kind of things I was stopped on Iron Dragon due to someone pulling out a camera but I was freaking out.
I've only been on one roller coaster when it stopped on the lift hill. I was eight years old and really freaked out. The older people near me kept saying stuff that freaked me out even worse. Thankfully, I grew up and eventually worked on that same ride. I learned that none of the things that they said could've happened. As a ride operator, I've only been at one ride when the train got stopped on the lift hill, which was good, because the other train was stuck in the breaks. The biggest issue we had with getting people safely through the ride (we would much rather you finish out the ride than be evacuated) was the parents of the kids stopped on the lift hill yelling at us that their kids needed to be taken off the ride right then. The ride was only acting up because of heavy rain. Since the first train wasn't leaving the brakes, the ride was doing what it was supposed to by stopping the second train on the lift. The misinformation needs to stop!
God I'm such a scaredy cat when it comes to coasters and I hated that clicking noise going up but hearing about how it actually works is so informative and helpful! It doesn't make me like it any more, but it does help me understand what happens. Thank you! :)
I randomly found your channel and I can’t lie I had a biased fear of these things but seeing you explain them, I rather enjoy these now. Still can’t ride because my body can’t handle that however I’m more understanding to the fact now.
i’ve only ever ridden one roller coaster in my life, they’re very spooky to me, but videos like this make me want to ride more ! i really just have to get past that initial “oh god oh shit”
I have been "stuck" on the lift hill and block breaks more times than I've kept count of. I've never found it to be an unusual thing because the ride would always continue after a bit and I have never been evacuated from a ride. In Legoland in Billund here in Denmark I have been on the Dragon ride so many times throughout my childhood and in the bussiest part of the season it would always go with 2 trains. 1 in each half of the ride. The first half you're going through an indoor exhibition of all sorts of things made of lego. While you would go through this exhibition part, the other train would go through the roller coaster half of the ride and return to unload and load a new group of passengers. You would never be sent on the second half of the ride before the other train had left the station. So if there were any sort of problems, delays or anything the train you were in would be halted on the tracks and once the other dragon train left the station you'd be send off to the outdoor roller coaster part of the ride. So when you set off to the second half, you could always see the tail of the other dragon leaving through the big doors to the exhibit. How long you got to hang around, if any at all, always depended on how quickly the dragon being loaded with new passengers was ready to go and how smoothly everything went. Looking up accidents in Legoland and any other associated parks with a quick serach I can find information of very few major accidents. 1 in Denmark in 2007 where an employee entered a restricted area while a roller coaster was running, she got hit and died. And another from an associated park in Britain. I don't feel like they've ever been shy of closing down anything for inspection, repairs etc. if there was anything causing the slightest bit of concern. So I've always felt safe on all of their rides. 😄 In 2013 they closed the Dragon down a couple months before the end of the season due to the need of extensive maintenance, it had been running for 16 years at that point.
I’m glad you make videos like these. Whenever I get scared to go on a roller coaster I can always just remember to myself that more people have died by falling into a bathtub than they have on a roller coaster.
I’ve been stuck on a roller coaster twice too. I got stuck on the third lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad when I was 9, and we ended up being evacuated after being stuck there for 10 minutes. The second time was at Thunderhead on the very first run of the day, but I was only stuck for a couple minutes that time.
I only found your Channel about 2 weeks ago and I've watched like most of your videos already. I just wanted to say I really appreciate you saying that it wasn't an accident it was the roller coaster working as intended because a lot of people want to be negative about things like this when it should be a positive event. The creators of the ride and the park did exactly what they needed to do and so it was working as intended. So anyway just wanted to thank you again for putting this out there I wish it could go further I'm going to share on my social media
It's news reports like those at the beginning that make you think.. Even if the Smiler accident of 2015 was prevented, it would've still been portrayed as a deadly accident. Leaving riders "stranded"
I got stuck on volcano: the blast coaster. It couldn’t get enough momentum to make it out of the volcano and we slid back down into the tunnel. They brought planks to help us off and gave us free ride passes to come back later and skip the line. It was honestly a lot of fun to sail back down the first hill backwards.
Thanks for the info I always wondered what that clicking sound was. I went to Hershey Park in 2005 and I have to say it was pretty fun. I don’t remember all the rides I went on but I remember doing wild mouse and wildcat. One of the rides was closed the day I went. All I remember about it is that the track was red.
Saw the "new" steel phantom in there... nice. I was a big fan of the old one myself. Rode that sucker 25 times in a row when me and a buddy bout had the park to ourselves. The operators just let us stay seated all but a few times. Kentwood was legit like that. Might explain my neck issues later in life, lol! That sucker was a rough ride but in a good way, in my opinion.
0:31 Okay but WHY can I instantly recognize that as the nearest Six Flags lmao. Pink and orange is Raging Bull, and it looks like the American Eagle (I think, haven't been there in a while) behind it.
I was one of those people that only did the "tamer" roller coasters. These videos make me want to try some of the more exciting ones, now knowing how safe they are.
As a guy who works in aviation, this, instead of an accident, would be called an incident. Malfunctions in avaiation happen daily, daily incidents get registered by the thousands every day world wide, usually a bad reading on instruments or something related, emergency procedures get followed and everything ends up just fine and maybe, if you are a passenger in one of these aircrafts, you never knew something even happened. Media just doesn't help by making people paranoid.
I remember getting my sister to go on a spinning coaster for the first time and I said something like: "good luck surviving" or something as the train left the station, I had to wait a train with my dad because of seating, but... the train my sister was on stopped on the lifthil and needed to be evac'd... so that was my sister's experience with her now favorite ride. Seriously she loves it, it used to be my favorite too but they added a B&M wing coaster in 2018, which became my favorite from the first ride I had, til the last one last year... now the park is closed due to a certain virus. .w.
I got stopped on a Disney ride (something with Finding Nemo - Crush's Coaster) which was indoors. It was strange to debark that one. They had to turn on the lights and we exited a walk way and down some stairs. It was neat to see the layout of the ride which would normally be hidden by the darkness.
1:23 As a fellow Pittsburgh Resident, Kennywood is my home park. During covid you have to hear that clicking noise so many tucking tunes and I’ve gotten horrible headaches lmao
I got stuck on the green lantern rollercoaster in Six Flags Great Adventure. The most terrifying part was walking back down. I tried not to look down but there were gaps in the steps and I was scared of falling through it. Probably wouldn't have happened but at the time I was scared.
The only coaster I got "stuck on"(longer than a few minutes that was not as precautionary measure) was that goddamn Superman ride at SF over Georgia. We were not upside down per se, but stuck in that chest towards the ground, arms, legs and face/head dangling due to gravity. Over 95 degree heat and 2 hours, many were treated by on-site medics, I hurt for days due to the strain of trying to keep my head held up and the blood flow to peoples arm's was becoming a problem because the seats were actually pressing against the brachial artery if you just let your arms dangle. We called it a day after that and just drank beers 🤣
At knobles in Pennsylvania the opening year of the impulse, the chain lift actually malfunctioned and just stopped. The people were perfectly fine and were just stuck on the hill for two hours. They didn’t roll back or have any harm come to them, just were stuck for awhile. That is the “worst” accident I’ve ever seen or heard of at knobles.
I'm not scared of rollercoasters because "OH MY GOD ITS GONNA BREAK AND I'M GONNA DIE" I'm scared of rollercoasters because it's way too much for me to handle. I got on a SeaWorld Electric Feel with my dad and it scared the hell out of me because of how fast it was. Not because I was scared it was going to break. That thought never even occurred to me.
One time me and my friend got stuck on wicked twister, it was slowing down and near the end of the ride, and it stopped right before going into the station. We weren't stopped for long, maybe like 10-15 minutes, they told us to stay calm and it eventually just rolled back into the station and it continued to run as normal.
I once got stuck on the lifthill and me and the rest of the passengers in the train started to sing songs to spend the time, that was the most fun I ever had at an amusement park. about 20 minutes later the lifthill started working again and the ride went on as normal
I only ever got stuck on Wildcat (CP) in 2007 and we had to be evacuated. And this year I got stopped on Magnum's lift due to a phone being pulled out. Gemini and Rougarou also got stopped, but those were after they had dispatched and hadn't even completely cleared the station.
I recently visited cedar point with my class for an 8th grade trip and on Gemini (so I've heard) a train would not leave the station so 4 of my friends (one mentally challenged with autism) got stopped on the block brake and remained up there for 20 minutes with about 9 bees swarming us... Its a good thing we love gemini...
I was on Sheikra several times before growing up. Busch Gardens is an amazing Park. The only time I ever got stuck there was at the very end Of the ride. We were like 40 ft away from the exit platform. We were stuck there for I believe are there 45 minutes to an hour. It would have been fine, but it was a cold day and in the front seats. But we did get to see the people at the nearby basketball game do stuff. And we could hear it pretty well as well. Eventually, they had to make a makeshift platform for us to get off. I'd say this was about 2012 or 2013 when this happened. I still ride Sheikra often. Same with all the rides at Busch Gardens. Including their historic original trains from the Civil War era converted to run on propane.
Hey so I have a question. My parents were on one of the tallest roller coasters in the park when it stopped in the lift hill about 1/4 of the way up. Instead of anyone getting off the ride or anyone coming up to get a phone, they were just stopped for about 20 minutes before the ride resumed. So why was it stopped? I hope this is accurate enough, I was eating fries somewhere and didn’t see this happening and my parents have a habit of exaggerating things. Anyways thanks in advance and I love your videos
I do remember getting stuck on a lift hill as a like a 9 year old kid and freaking out that we'd fall back and my dad pretty much explained to me the hill we just climbed is like a zip tie and we couldn't fall back, it really calmed me.
I got stuck on a rollercoaster once, although it was actually a malfunction. Power to that whole ride was lost, while the rest of the park remained intact. Our car stopped just before the station, we had stopped naturally as we were supposed to, and were supposed to be carried into the station but power went out. Another car was on the track, and smoothly stopped behind us without any issues. About 20 minutes later power was back, and we were taken into the station and let off.
I got stuck on a ride and had to get off at the top. I was stuck for 30 mins in 90 degree weather with no wind. They had to go up to use and unlock it with a hook/key. It was a very interesting experience and I went on that ride again this year and nothing happened.
I was listening to this video while in another tab and clicked back because the Phantom's Revenge lift chain sound is so iconic I recognized it immediately. That's my home park!
I’ve been on 2 coaster stoppages in my life. Millineum Force because someone lost their hat and Thunderhead at the breaks at the end and I don’t know why that happened probably someone taking out a phone on the lift hill and since they couln’t push out the newly loaded trains so we were sitting for 15 minutes.
Rollercoaster: Works as intended
Media: tHe fuHeRY mAlFunCtIoNeD
Autumn you mean the fuury three hundred and twenty five?
Did you say fury or furry?
Maple Syrup r/wooosh
Maple Syrup wooooooooosh
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rollercoaster: stops to prevent accident
the media: rollercoaster malfunctions and leaves people with brain damage.
American media*
The media are the ones with the brain damage; maybe they should ride some *real* roller coasters and actually help themselves out (and look at the dang signs so they stop putting a stupid "the" in front of the stupid ride's name T_T)
There's a higher chance of you getting brain damage from the media saying stuff obviously fake over the actual coaster ;)
People with brain damage make accidents
Roller coasters: NOBODY UNDERSTANDS US
I hate that stuff like roller coasters stopping on the lift hill makes the news more than any given car crash. Car crashes are so much more common and, quite obviously, more deadly by a long shot.
Dog bites man: no one cares. Man bites dog: makes headlines.The news would rather cover coasters seemingly functioning in a normal but somewhat unexpected manner than most car crashes because it's rarer and thus "more interesting" to audiences. You're also less likely to see rides that are known to have high downtime, such as Top Thrill Dragster and Lightning Rod, covered by news media when they "break down" because it happens often enough to cease being "man bites dog".
@@VestedUTuber so I am more likely to be in a car crash ? So if I get on one I wont die
I don't think Twisted Colossus getting stuck on the lift hill on December 23, 2017 made the news
Y4123 thats an oddly specific example, but what im saying is more roller coaster “accidents” like getting stuck on lift hills get reported than the very many car crashes that happen every day. its the same with plane crashes. they crash WAY less than cars and yet theyre reported way more.
@@theroadtocosplayandcomicco5840 (I know this was a year ago but hey better late then never but) You are about 2300 times more likely to die in a car crash. It's a one in 750,000,000 chance you die on a rollercoaster.
So glad you’re debunking misleading media. You’re doing great things.
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Rollercoaster: *stalls or vallies for the first time
News: *explains it like this is a daily occurrence.
I love hearing people say they won’t go on a ride because it broke down yesterday but yet they will drive their car even after it “breaks down”.
One isn't a necessity to get to work and the grocery store. Depending upon where you live, you may need a car every day. Not so with coasters.
Themeparkfanatic people will drive with no breaks but be like “rollercoasters are too dangerous, why risk ur life?”
Not really" Completely" safe, but engineering fails and mechanical fails do happen. One in a million rides can go fatally bad. Often it's an Emergency stop. Or power failure in a lift hill.
People trust their own abilities more than a computer. (despite the same thing being true for cars, if the ESP or servo steering had a malfunction, you would be dead aswell).
Most of the "breakdowns" are easily explained with research. A simple slow down and block violation is nothing. If it valleys" or actually needs intervention, then you worry.
I remember getting stuck on a lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland and I thought it was one of the coolest moments ever!
Thank you so much for shouting me out, I got a big boost in views because of it. Much appreciated, and great video!!
No problem, your video deserves it!
I also got stuck on a lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain! It was on the third lift hill in the tunnel. We were there for about a half hour, with the occasional announcement to stay in our seats. I had my fingers crossed that we would be evac'd but nah the ride continued. Still was a pretty cool experience
I got stuck at the top of the mountain at splash mountain
I got stuck in the station for 45 minutes on Twisted Colossus because the train ahead of me was stuck on the lift hill, it was very boring
I've only been on one roller coaster that stopped on a lift hill and that was on Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom on the bridge between the two mountains around 2011-2013
We got stopped on a ride for an
a$$hat pulling out his phone. Hello people, if you drop that thing, you can seriously hurt someone. Think about other people please!
Hello people who take out phones on rides, please drop that thing in a tree
I always wonder what people think they’re going to get a picture of anyways. The things going so fast everything would be a blur, and it knocks you around so much taking a selfie is DEFINITELY out of the question.
Which is why I leave any sort of loose objects including my glasses in a bin at the station
Why censor the word ass with $$? Like I'm genuinely curious what the point of doing that is beyond making your comment look childish
Yep my friends were on raging bull and hit the block brake and almost got hit in the head by someones phone DON’T BRING PHONES ON ROLLOR COASTERS
Rollercoaster: *Functions properly by stopping to prevent an accident*
Media: "Rollercoaster malfunctions"
My dad got stuck on Superman ultimate flight. Nothing bad happend because they are completely safe
Im guessing great america, that shit is always breaking
I got stuck at the station on Twisted Colossus at Magic Mountain for 45 minutes because of electrical issues and the train ahead got stuck on the hill
Of course it's safe. Its a B&M
I got stuck on Expedition Everest
@@Twongz_does_anything im american
If the ride stops between elements, just close and reopen it as the train is teleported back to the station
But you need to close it twice before opening again!
Lol
🤣 only great minds will understand
When you coasted the planet and are ready to defeat the final boss - Coaster Enthusiast Karens.
Bahahaha!!
OMG I ALMOST Died ON ROLLERCOASTER (gone sexual)
(NOT CLICKBAIT)
(Almost died)
(IN THE HOOD)
(I was on the news)
(Cops called)
You don't even have to worry usually about the block brakes stopping you since dispatches at six flags are so infrequent.
Wicket Engineering: Model Roller Coasters true at some parks but not at others. Good joke tho
*America
It's even bad in the UK when the smiler got stuck everyone in the press freaked out saying it broke even though it was working fine
The rollercoaster was not working fine. Mechanics are not the only aspect that makes a rollercoaster work but this tied in with the human factor resulted in serious injuries. Rollercoasters need the human factor to successfully work and procedures were not adhered too.
So to recap when you say everyone freaked out that of course I’m sure didn’t apply to the amputees that unfortunately happened on this ride.
Yeah that accident was bad but the ride is safe now
ross beattie no the ride was working fine. the humans that operated it definitely weren’t.
Lucas was talking about the time recently it got stopped at the top of the lift hill
ross beattie He wasn’t talking about the 2015 accident, he was talking about the recent incident where it stopped on the vertical lift hill
Nobody:
My Planet Coaster coaster after it heads down the drop and about to go into the first inversion: 2:06
Lol
“This is in most cases a ratchet-like system”
Rollercoaster: “Say that to my face”
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You're helping paranoid rollercoaster enthusiasts everywhere! Great content too!
You've only been stopped twice? Me too. I was stopped on Scream because somebody had their cell phone and I had to be Evac. At the top of Journey to Atlantis(san diego) and had to be walk down from the ride. Honestly people shouldn't fear when rides stop or have to be Evac. Because sometimes there are magical experience
I’d hate to be one of the people who, when gets stuck on a lift hill, get shamed by GP news saying “Fury 325 got stuck passengers evacuated off” or something like that when I’m an enthusiast...
Good you aren't like those people
I know they still got stuck but I just think it's funny how they're showing PHOTOS on the news saying "as you can see it's stuck."
I remember being stuck once in a ride, but it wasn't a rollecoaster. It was a swinging ship. The entire ride went well until it was time for the brakes to kick in.I remember hearing them twice, along with that feeling of something "scrapping" the base of the ship, and then go completely silent. The operator (bless him) remained calm and actually made a joke about giving us a small freebie for extra time on the ride.
We had to wait for the momentum to die and the ride to stop on its own. Must admit, quite an interesting experience, and props to the operator for keeping everyone in high spirits.
The only time I've ever been stopped wasn't on a roller coaster, but it was on one of the Harry Potter rides at universal Orlando. It was the big one, in the castle, and while it was a little disappointing to have the ride stopped, it was also really cool to get a chance to see how it worked (there were these big mechanical arm things that lifted the seats up and down, to make it feel like you were floating, and we could see them much better with the emergency lights on). We were stopped twice, and only for a couple minutes each time, but I still think it was one of the coolest experiences I've had.
“when she got off the fury 325” 🤦♂️
The fact the GP pronounces it Three hundred twenty-five is triggering
*fUrHErY tHrEe HuNdRed aND TwEntY fiVE*
Roderick the park markets it pronounced “three-two-five”
It's a fucking number can y'all chill
Mein furhery 325 I would like to ask you a question
i went to Alton Towers earlier this year with my father and we got stuck on The Smiler's final break run, it was probably just a mechanical failure that was quickly resolved
"Without taking it apart."
So, they'll literally disassemble the car and carry the pieces back to the station/storage track?
That's literally the only way to move it at that point unless there's some kind of motorized cart that would push it back
@@rrai1999 Doesn't Silver Dollar City have a maintenance vehicle for Wildfire that is designed to do that?
They take it apart anyways every now and then for maintenance
yes
Been stopped on the Medusa so many times, still my fave. But the Superman at the same Cali 6flags, watching that stop scared me so bad I got an anxiety attack, a park worker had to pull me out of line and put me on a bench, nearly had to get medical aid when the panic attack induced an asthma attack. Over all I learned that amusement park staff are more understanding and ready to handle an anxiety attack than my teachers ever were. Shout out to those guys they were great
I remember getting stuck at the block break on the Manta in Seaworld. We were still on our stomachs, and we were all staring at the metal floor put there. No one was panicking at all, and it was really cool and fun. We were even laughing about it more rather than panicking. We were stuck for about 5-10 minutes, but the ride resumed like normal.
This is great, if only GP would actually watch it 🤣🤣🤣
What does GP stand for?
@@rublie1426 General Public. People who casually go to parks for fun.
These videos always make rollercoasters seem less scary but I also found out that a big reason I experience anxiety on rollercoasters is because of my vertigo so I can't ride most rollercoasters now.
I have a weird story:
I was waiting in line for Rip Ride Break Run at Universal, and i saw a couple of trains about to go onto a brake run, but then when they hit the brake runs, they totally stopped. The ride wasn’t broken down or anything, and the coaster was dispatching trains perfectly fine, so I was just like, “what’s going on?”
That's what's called stacking. You see it somewhat often on rides that run more than two trains, and it's the result of a combination of slower-than-expected dispatches and the block system working normally. B&M hypercoasters are infamous for this kind of thing.
VestedUTuber ah. Thanks! Ive heard of stacking, just never really understood it. Thanks for clearing it up!
That’s kinda weird because my experience with universal has the quickest dispatches. Maybe someone needed help getting on the ride while you were riding it.
@@moonlight_oats
Like I said previously, stacking can happen quite often on rides with more than two trains. It doesn't take a lot to cause it either, just a few slightly slow dispatches in a row can cause the ride's dispatch timing to be thrown off. And since Rip Roarin' Rocket has so many trains, I'm surprised it doesn't stack more often.
Coaster Fusion hehe that was probably me on the coaster because it happened to me
I used to love it when space mountain would loose a train and go into block mode. If it happened when you were on the lift hill you used to be able to ride with the lights on. Not much to see at the time.. but was still cool to see how compact that ride was considering its not a short ride.
Rollercoaster: I’m not moving
Staff: we will see about that
Another time I've been stuck was on Journey to Atlantis in Seaworld San Diego. For anyone that doesn't know, it's a log flume and roller coaster hybrid. There's an elevator part where the ride vehicle ascends vertically, once you reach the top the vehicle rolls forward and continues the ride We rolled forward and the brakes kicked on. We were there for almost an hour, and a ride technician came to work on some kind of control box right next to me and we had a chat for some time. This must have been like... 2007 or 2008... jeez times flies
While I've never stopped a ride myself I have seen co-workers do it. And yes, usually a cellphone. We had a few other stoppages that weren't done on purpose. Those were always interesting. My ride if a train stopped you had to pull a button on the control panel to get it moving again once the next block was clear. If you forgot to move the train out of the safeties after stacking the next train would stop on the mid-course. Not a huge problem but embarrassing for sure. When it happened a loud bell would ring just so everyone in the station could know you fucked up too.
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I was on space mountain at Disneyland during the final ride of the night, and as my dad and I were making our way up the lift hill, the ride stopped and the lights came on. We never learned why it stopped, but the operator escorted us all out. Space mountain is weird af with the lights on. Like there's this random meteor floating around, even though it doesn't appear in the actual ride. Pretty cool experience.
I LOVE this straight-forward, well-researched series! Thank you!
Thank you so much for these videos. I grew up in the city where the mindbender accident happened and I was always terrified hearing about the "west edmonton death coaster" as my friends called it. That fear has continued on to this day and I have never been on anything more than a kiddy coaster. I stumbled upon your videos and after watching all the ones about how coasters work and how safe they are I think I'm finally ready to try and ride a coaster when the parks open up again. Not sure if the mindbender should be my first, though.
Your channel is growing fast. Nice job man!
Very informative and helpful :3 watching your video has really helped me work through my fear of getting on a roller coaster, can't wait till I can go on one
Before I was really into rollercoasters and knew about these kind of things I was stopped on Iron Dragon due to someone pulling out a camera but I was freaking out.
I got stuck on the final brake run of Vortex at CW once. 25 minutes of 9 year olds screaming.
Lol
I gpt stuck on yukon
I've only been on one roller coaster when it stopped on the lift hill. I was eight years old and really freaked out. The older people near me kept saying stuff that freaked me out even worse. Thankfully, I grew up and eventually worked on that same ride. I learned that none of the things that they said could've happened.
As a ride operator, I've only been at one ride when the train got stopped on the lift hill, which was good, because the other train was stuck in the breaks. The biggest issue we had with getting people safely through the ride (we would much rather you finish out the ride than be evacuated) was the parents of the kids stopped on the lift hill yelling at us that their kids needed to be taken off the ride right then.
The ride was only acting up because of heavy rain. Since the first train wasn't leaving the brakes, the ride was doing what it was supposed to by stopping the second train on the lift.
The misinformation needs to stop!
God I'm such a scaredy cat when it comes to coasters and I hated that clicking noise going up but hearing about how it actually works is so informative and helpful! It doesn't make me like it any more, but it does help me understand what happens. Thank you! :)
I randomly found your channel and I can’t lie I had a biased fear of these things but seeing you explain them, I rather enjoy these now. Still can’t ride because my body can’t handle that however I’m more understanding to the fact now.
GP: "please use what you learned in this video today"
*ride stops*
Me: "BOOOOOOOOO, who took out a cell phone?"
i’ve only ever ridden one roller coaster in my life, they’re very spooky to me, but videos like this make me want to ride more ! i really just have to get past that initial “oh god oh shit”
i love the phantom’s clicking at kennywood☺️ terrifying at first but once you ride it, so exciting
Thanks so much! Your RUclips channel is very factual and reassuring, and I’m trying to build up the courage to go on some big roller coasters. Thanks!
I love the rollar coaster clicking sound!!! Makes me so happy
Busch Gardens is like not even a mile from my house. I've rode that ride before.
I was literally one train away from getting an evac on Toro!! The train was stopped on the lift hill and evacced
I have been "stuck" on the lift hill and block breaks more times than I've kept count of.
I've never found it to be an unusual thing because the ride would always continue after a bit and I have never been evacuated from a ride.
In Legoland in Billund here in Denmark I have been on the Dragon ride so many times throughout my childhood and in the bussiest part of the season it would always go with 2 trains. 1 in each half of the ride. The first half you're going through an indoor exhibition of all sorts of things made of lego. While you would go through this exhibition part, the other train would go through the roller coaster half of the ride and return to unload and load a new group of passengers. You would never be sent on the second half of the ride before the other train had left the station. So if there were any sort of problems, delays or anything the train you were in would be halted on the tracks and once the other dragon train left the station you'd be send off to the outdoor roller coaster part of the ride. So when you set off to the second half, you could always see the tail of the other dragon leaving through the big doors to the exhibit. How long you got to hang around, if any at all, always depended on how quickly the dragon being loaded with new passengers was ready to go and how smoothly everything went.
Looking up accidents in Legoland and any other associated parks with a quick serach I can find information of very few major accidents. 1 in Denmark in 2007 where an employee entered a restricted area while a roller coaster was running, she got hit and died. And another from an associated park in Britain. I don't feel like they've ever been shy of closing down anything for inspection, repairs etc. if there was anything causing the slightest bit of concern. So I've always felt safe on all of their rides. 😄
In 2013 they closed the Dragon down a couple months before the end of the season due to the need of extensive maintenance, it had been running for 16 years at that point.
I’m glad you make videos like these. Whenever I get scared to go on a roller coaster I can always just remember to myself that more people have died by falling into a bathtub than they have on a roller coaster.
Love these vids keep doing them. 😌
I’ve been stuck on a roller coaster twice too. I got stuck on the third lift hill on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad when I was 9, and we ended up being evacuated after being stuck there for 10 minutes. The second time was at Thunderhead on the very first run of the day, but I was only stuck for a couple minutes that time.
the news is such a hooligan when talking about rollercoaster E-stops
I only found your Channel about 2 weeks ago and I've watched like most of your videos already. I just wanted to say I really appreciate you saying that it wasn't an accident it was the roller coaster working as intended because a lot of people want to be negative about things like this when it should be a positive event. The creators of the ride and the park did exactly what they needed to do and so it was working as intended. So anyway just wanted to thank you again for putting this out there I wish it could go further I'm going to share on my social media
It's news reports like those at the beginning that make you think.. Even if the Smiler accident of 2015 was prevented, it would've still been portrayed as a deadly accident. Leaving riders "stranded"
I love how you use the Phantom when talking about the clicking noise of the anti-rollback...it has such a great sound :)
Was stacked on X2 today and all i heard was: are we stuck? Why aren’t we going? Hello?!
I got stuck on volcano: the blast coaster. It couldn’t get enough momentum to make it out of the volcano and we slid back down into the tunnel. They brought planks to help us off and gave us free ride passes to come back later and skip the line. It was honestly a lot of fun to sail back down the first hill backwards.
I love your vids. I first learned about block brakes playing Rollercoaster Tycoon and its purpose as far as safety. Glad to see you debunking media bs
Thanks for the info I always wondered what that clicking sound was. I went to Hershey Park in 2005 and I have to say it was pretty fun. I don’t remember all the rides I went on but I remember doing wild mouse and wildcat. One of the rides was closed the day I went. All I remember about it is that the track was red.
Saw the "new" steel phantom in there... nice. I was a big fan of the old one myself. Rode that sucker 25 times in a row when me and a buddy bout had the park to ourselves. The operators just let us stay seated all but a few times. Kentwood was legit like that. Might explain my neck issues later in life, lol! That sucker was a rough ride but in a good way, in my opinion.
0:31 Okay but WHY can I instantly recognize that as the nearest Six Flags lmao.
Pink and orange is Raging Bull, and it looks like the American Eagle (I think, haven't been there in a while) behind it.
This...has made me less scared of rollercoasters, thank you very much
Let's be real, 99% of enthusiasts would be celebrating if a ride stopped, or even had to be evactuated.
1:40 aww 😢
I was guessing you were sad because vortex got removed RIP
MrSavageGamer - brilliant deduction there, you must have had to use all your resources to figure it out o.o
I was one of those people that only did the "tamer" roller coasters. These videos make me want to try some of the more exciting ones, now knowing how safe they are.
As a guy who works in aviation, this, instead of an accident, would be called an incident.
Malfunctions in avaiation happen daily, daily incidents get registered by the thousands every day world wide, usually a bad reading on instruments or something related, emergency procedures get followed and everything ends up just fine and maybe, if you are a passenger in one of these aircrafts, you never knew something even happened.
Media just doesn't help by making people paranoid.
Man. I don’t even care that much about roller coasters, but I love your videos!
I remember getting my sister to go on a spinning coaster for the first time and I said something like: "good luck surviving" or something as the train left the station, I had to wait a train with my dad because of seating, but... the train my sister was on stopped on the lifthil and needed to be evac'd... so that was my sister's experience with her now favorite ride.
Seriously she loves it, it used to be my favorite too but they added a B&M wing coaster in 2018, which became my favorite from the first ride I had, til the last one last year... now the park is closed due to a certain virus.
.w.
I got stopped on a Disney ride (something with Finding Nemo - Crush's Coaster) which was indoors. It was strange to debark that one. They had to turn on the lights and we exited a walk way and down some stairs. It was neat to see the layout of the ride which would normally be hidden by the darkness.
1:23 As a fellow Pittsburgh Resident, Kennywood is my home park. During covid you have to hear that clicking noise so many tucking tunes and I’ve gotten horrible headaches lmao
the Phantom has the best lift clicking noise lol
I think the New Revolution has a better sound.
I got stuck on the green lantern rollercoaster in Six Flags Great Adventure. The most terrifying part was walking back down. I tried not to look down but there were gaps in the steps and I was scared of falling through it. Probably wouldn't have happened but at the time I was scared.
The only coaster I got "stuck on"(longer than a few minutes that was not as precautionary measure) was that goddamn Superman ride at SF over Georgia. We were not upside down per se, but stuck in that chest towards the ground, arms, legs and face/head dangling due to gravity. Over 95 degree heat and 2 hours, many were treated by on-site medics, I hurt for days due to the strain of trying to keep my head held up and the blood flow to peoples arm's was becoming a problem because the seats were actually pressing against the brachial artery if you just let your arms dangle.
We called it a day after that and just drank beers 🤣
At knobles in Pennsylvania the opening year of the impulse, the chain lift actually malfunctioned and just stopped. The people were perfectly fine and were just stuck on the hill for two hours. They didn’t roll back or have any harm come to them, just were stuck for awhile. That is the “worst” accident I’ve ever seen or heard of at knobles.
*coaster valleys*
Girls: OMG THIS IS INSANE WE'RE GONNA DIE
Boys: Ok, this is epic.
I'm not scared of rollercoasters because "OH MY GOD ITS GONNA BREAK AND I'M GONNA DIE" I'm scared of rollercoasters because it's way too much for me to handle. I got on a SeaWorld Electric Feel with my dad and it scared the hell out of me because of how fast it was. Not because I was scared it was going to break. That thought never even occurred to me.
One time me and my friend got stuck on wicked twister, it was slowing down and near the end of the ride, and it stopped right before going into the station. We weren't stopped for long, maybe like 10-15 minutes, they told us to stay calm and it eventually just rolled back into the station and it continued to run as normal.
I once got stuck on the lifthill and me and the rest of the passengers in the train started to sing songs to spend the time, that was the most fun I ever had at an amusement park. about 20 minutes later the lifthill started working again and the ride went on as normal
I was stuck on Melenium force for 1 hour and 30 minutes. I got an evac then a bunch of free stuff. 😁
That's sick.
NICE DUDE, but it's kind of unfortunate cause with that time you could've been waiting for Steel Vengance
Oooff Lol The thing is, we got 10 exit passes for everything then 5 exit passes just for Sv!!
Lucky you
Thank you so much for your rollercoaster videos they are just fantastic ❤
I only ever got stuck on Wildcat (CP) in 2007 and we had to be evacuated. And this year I got stopped on Magnum's lift due to a phone being pulled out. Gemini and Rougarou also got stopped, but those were after they had dispatched and hadn't even completely cleared the station.
@Dusk Raccoon it's last year was 2011. It was quite a fun small coaster.
(A SIDE HOLD) That was probably me who stopped the Gemini Train!
Thank you for saying what that clicking noise going up the hill is. That part always freaks me out because I had no idea what it was.
I recently visited cedar point with my class for an 8th grade trip and on Gemini (so I've heard) a train would not leave the station so 4 of my friends (one mentally challenged with autism) got stopped on the block brake and remained up there for 20 minutes with about 9 bees swarming us... Its a good thing we love gemini...
Thank you for making content like this!!
For some reason the anti rollbacks make the lift more intense and it sounds satisfying at the same time
I was on Sheikra several times before growing up. Busch Gardens is an amazing Park. The only time I ever got stuck there was at the very end Of the ride. We were like 40 ft away from the exit platform. We were stuck there for I believe are there 45 minutes to an hour. It would have been fine, but it was a cold day and in the front seats. But we did get to see the people at the nearby basketball game do stuff. And we could hear it pretty well as well. Eventually, they had to make a makeshift platform for us to get off. I'd say this was about 2012 or 2013 when this happened.
I still ride Sheikra often. Same with all the rides at Busch Gardens. Including their historic original trains from the Civil War era converted to run on propane.
Hey so I have a question. My parents were on one of the tallest roller coasters in the park when it stopped in the lift hill about 1/4 of the way up. Instead of anyone getting off the ride or anyone coming up to get a phone, they were just stopped for about 20 minutes before the ride resumed. So why was it stopped?
I hope this is accurate enough, I was eating fries somewhere and didn’t see this happening and my parents have a habit of exaggerating things. Anyways thanks in advance and I love your videos
I do remember getting stuck on a lift hill as a like a 9 year old kid and freaking out that we'd fall back and my dad pretty much explained to me the hill we just climbed is like a zip tie and we couldn't fall back, it really calmed me.
Here’s me thinking it was just a little bonus feature cause the attendant was being nice and wanted us to look around at the top
It’s not fear of dying from being stuck, it’s the idea of being stuck in the harness for up to 3 hours
I got stuck on a rollercoaster once, although it was actually a malfunction. Power to that whole ride was lost, while the rest of the park remained intact. Our car stopped just before the station, we had stopped naturally as we were supposed to, and were supposed to be carried into the station but power went out. Another car was on the track, and smoothly stopped behind us without any issues. About 20 minutes later power was back, and we were taken into the station and let off.
I got stuck on a ride and had to get off at the top. I was stuck for 30 mins in 90 degree weather with no wind. They had to go up to use and unlock it with a hook/key. It was a very interesting experience and I went on that ride again this year and nothing happened.
I was listening to this video while in another tab and clicked back because the Phantom's Revenge lift chain sound is so iconic I recognized it immediately. That's my home park!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the lift hill clicking sound! I even get excited hearing it in these types of videos!! ❤️
The worst is when you get stuck on a vertical chainlift, especially if the sun is right in your eyes.
I’ve been on 2 coaster stoppages in my life. Millineum Force because someone lost their hat and Thunderhead at the breaks at the end and I don’t know why that happened probably someone taking out a phone on the lift hill and since they couln’t push out the newly loaded trains so we were sitting for 15 minutes.