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Postby shockwave guy mark on November 21st, 2005, 8:57 pm
I have 2, getting stuck on SUPERMAN for 10-25 Minutes, and Getting Stuck on king chaos for 25 minutes. I wouldn't care about superman, but my sell phone was smashing my hip really hard!
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Postby FRD714 on November 21st, 2005, 9:24 pm
Getting stuck on SUF would be very uncomftorable for me.
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Postby Danhockey04 on November 21st, 2005, 9:41 pm
No, I had a rollback and got stuck AFTER the ride, in the brakes, the hydrolics locked.
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Postby mschulz5 on November 21st, 2005, 10:11 pm
I got stuck on SFSTL's log flume for about 20 minutes, at the very top of the hill, with our boat angling down. All the water was drained from the troughs and we had to walk down the stairs. We got an exit pass, though.
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Postby FRD714 on November 21st, 2005, 10:14 pm
^ That happened to me on splash mountain at wdw, but we didnt have to get off. It was in the dark too so all you heard was water rushing down the hill.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on November 21st, 2005, 10:16 pm
Besides the Batman incident, I too was stuck on the brake run of Superman for 20min. Being in that flying position with my head down really gave me a headache and my head just sorta gave out and just hung there :shock: :? :lol:

Alright Ive got one more (theyre comin' back slowly)....

Now Im sure theres people here who do this too. On Raging Bull's banks, I stick my arms and body as far to the side as I can :lol: Well my sister took my favorite seat in the car which happens to be the far left side, so I chose the far right. Well before the first set of brakes, I stuck my arms to the right as we were rising right and my right hand struck a branch of the pine tree and I received nice little pines upon my finger tips :cry: :x
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Postby Sedir on November 21st, 2005, 10:33 pm
Basically the only time I've ever been stuck on a ride was on 1001 nachts (the carny ride that's like trailblazer but goes higher and faster). Well it's not really that we got stuck it's just that the thing swang back and forth for the longest time.(7-10 min.) The car was attempting to get all the way around but could never make it. So we sat swinging back and forth until it eventually got all the way around and then completed the second half of the ride. Although repetitive it was actually quite fun.

And I guess you might not consider this stuck but onetime when I went on "it's a small world" there were so many boats being used that day that we were stuck in it for the longest time with the song going on and on and ugh.
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Postby Shockwavegirl on November 22nd, 2005, 1:10 am
I just thought of another one too...

When I worked at the park I worked the afternoon shift, so my friends and I went into the park that morning because one of the people who drove w/ me had to work open to close. Since we all had to be to work by 3:30 at 3:00 we got on Shockwave....which ended up getting stuck on the lift. This was the year I worked Shockwave too, so when the lead came up the lift to chat with the passengers I had to tell him......just to let you know, I am probably going to be late for work, and you might want to call Giant Drop and tell them those 2 are going to be late too. They got the train going again relatively shortly and I only ended up being 15 mins late.
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Postby Rusty888 on November 22nd, 2005, 11:08 am
[quote="coasterkid94"][quote="Rusty888"]lol, i got stuck on the Whizzer but it was fun.[/quote] When were you stuck on Whizzer???[/quote]

It was earlier this year, like late May I think. It was right before the first drop and we were up there for like 10 minutes, but my friends brothers and mom were in home town quare waving at me the whole time, and it was pretty comfortable so i talked to the little kid behind me.
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Postby ragingbullchick on November 22nd, 2005, 12:03 pm
Okay, this is really lame, but I was 5 years old. I was on the log ride at Kiddieland, which isn't very tall. We split up into 2 logs, the kids all went in one, and then our parents were behind us. Anyway, we got stuck just as we were about to drop. I was really scared because I was so young and my Mom wasn't even with me. If I were ever on that today, I'd laugh.
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Postby coastercrazy111 on November 22nd, 2005, 5:20 pm
My sister had a thing happen on Batman. We were riding, and just as we were going through the first loop her harness snapped up. If it werent for the seat belt, she woulda flown outta the ride, but the belt kept the harness down.
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Postby t-w-i-t-c-h-e-s on November 22nd, 2005, 5:31 pm
I got stuck on demon right before the lift hill. I was stuck for about 15 min.
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Postby msoeagle on November 22nd, 2005, 5:32 pm
Are you serious? That makes me wish every ride had seatbelts!
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Postby FRD714 on November 22nd, 2005, 5:42 pm
I would have been nervous the whole ride if that happened to me.
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Postby LAFFfan4lyfe on November 22nd, 2005, 5:44 pm
yeah, nothing has happened to me on a ride, except for a few extended waits in the station or getting back from the ride. that sucks..... :(
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Postby [jonrev] on November 23rd, 2005, 12:50 pm
Got stuck on Rock n Rollercoaster's brake run and had a bunch of girls screaming and yelling for 20 minutes.
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Postby msoeagle on November 23rd, 2005, 12:51 pm
Lol
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Postby ragingbullchick on November 23rd, 2005, 1:10 pm
Oh, I have another one. We were on Montu at BGT, which is a suspended ride like Batman. We'd been on it once before, but this time, the harnesses didn't lock! There was a seatbelt on them, thank god. But after we made it halfway up the lift hill, they locked down. Still, they let a train leave the station without locked harnesses.
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Postby msoeagle on November 23rd, 2005, 1:12 pm
Thats not safe at all!
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Postby ragingbullchick on November 23rd, 2005, 1:13 pm
I guess the ops weren't paying attention, cause the first time they were locked, and when we went on it once after, they were locked again too.
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Postby coasterkid94 on November 23rd, 2005, 1:26 pm
^ I would be so scared! Good thing it had seatbelts.
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Postby zjohn1988 on November 23rd, 2005, 5:51 pm
ragingbullchick wrote:Oh, I have another one. We were on Montu at BGT, which is a suspended ride like Batman. We'd been on it once before, but this time, the harnesses didn't lock! There was a seatbelt on them, thank god. But after we made it halfway up the lift hill, they locked down. Still, they let a train leave the station without locked harnesses.


You were probably between a click where there wasnt enough room for the restraint to lock tighter. I believe Montu has sensors which forbid the train to leave with an unlocked restraint in Auto mode.
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Postby coasterkid94 on November 23rd, 2005, 6:41 pm
^ Your answer sounds more realistic. :lol:
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Postby zjohn1988 on November 23rd, 2005, 6:43 pm
coasterkid94 wrote:^ Your answer sounds more realistic. :lol:


Well I know what i'm talking about. . .
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on November 23rd, 2005, 7:03 pm
Yeah, I really do not think that they would possibly send out a train with any unlocked harnesses. That's like what happens to people on one of Viper's trains, there's clicks at certain points, and sometimes it won't go all the way down, so there could be like 5 inches or whatever between your lap and the lapbar. I always love that though, it allows for totally awesome airtime.
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