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A 60-year-old female worker died Friday, two days after falling from a golf cart in the backstage area at Disneyland in California. The employee, who worked as an administrator for Club 33 (the exclusive members-only dining club located above the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction), received a head injury in the fall. Source
 
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Firefighters rescue 28 people stuck upside down on Oregon ride

The AtmosFEAR ride, which opened in 2021, operates like a pendulum, with the capacity to swing riders completely upside down.
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How does it get stuck like that, I would have thought stafety systems would have been in place to get it back down at the very least? Would gravity have been impossible/unsafe?
 
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^ Wha... How does that happen??? The gondola side of the arm is still much heavier than the counterweight, like this has to be the most freaky combination of perfect amount of momentum during a power cut off combined with perfect wind conditions etc for it to reach equilibrium like that. Never mind people swinging their legs moves pendulums like this more than you'd think (source, I go on an intamin gyro swing 3-6 times a week)

If it's not the perfect coincidence/combination like I described then the only other idea I can come up with is that Zamperla also puts a physical brake in their pendulum rides that might kick in to slow the arm down during an emergency stop, like said intamin gyro I go on regularly (the emergency brake is LOUD) but I wouldn't imagine that kicking in perfectly at the moment where it'd stop it upside down.
 
I didn't realise that was possible. Are each of the sides not geared together or physically linked in some way?
 
It's hard to say what occurred here. Both arms are powered by individual motors whose program, I assume, is synced to rotate both arms adjacently. I've always assumed the central post connecting both arms is for both structural stability and a mechanical linkage ensuring both arms rotate in unison if one motor is lagging.

My guess would be one of the motors failed or malfunctioned causing the arm rotations to not sync with the uneven weight distribution causing that central post to shear and detach resulting in the mismatch rotation?
 
maybe its like in the 3 body problem when they made the particle physics experiments disagree, except instead they're making flat rides malfunction oddly
 

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Nicky Borrill said:
That's Intamin as far as I know.
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I didn’t think a manufacturer had ever been confirmed for Project Horizon?

I don’t think RMC saying they’re “working on it” is necessarily a sign that a coaster of theirs is coming to the UK. It could easily just be them pulling our leg.
 
Matt N said:
I didn’t think a manufacturer had ever been confirmed for Project Horizon?

I don’t think RMC saying they’re “working on it” is necessarily a sign that a coaster of theirs is coming to the UK. It could easily just be them pulling our leg.
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Pretty sure it was going to be an another Intamin Multi Dimension, but more akin to Uncharted, with heavy theming. I thought this was pretty much open public knowledge though, so you've got me questioning the info now. haha.

Doesn't matter either way, because as it stands, it's being scaled back and changed, so who knows what we'll end up with.

BPB are said to be in talks with several manufacturers, a few have been seen on site by trusted content creators themselves. That's why I said BPB, because the whole "we're working on it" thing is suggesting that, if they're not pulling our legs, they're only at the talking stage. And we know BPB are at the tendering stage with a new coaster.
 
All RMC are saying is that they're working on getting one of their coasters built in the UK, not that it's going to be any of the current projects or the like.
They've been offering UK parks discounts just to get one built there.
 
ECG said:
All RMC are saying is that they're working on getting one of their coasters built in the UK, not that it's going to be any of the current projects or the like.
They've been offering UK parks discounts just to get one built there.
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Yeah, I also read that statement as "We're sending the parks our brochures", not "A park has bought one of our coasters already".

The problem is probably that the parks keep replying back "What can we get for two pounds and sixpence?" UK parks haven't exactly been flush with cash for investments for quite a lot of years now. Most coasters built at smaller parks have been sixth-hand family coasters for a while now, and the bigger parks hardly ever build coasters at all. If I recall correctly, there have been more Pinfari coasters built in the UK the past decade than Intamin, B&M, Mack, Vekoma, S&S, RMC, and GCI put together. And Pinfari went out of business 20 years ago.
 
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