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Postby tribar on July 15th, 2011, 4:12 pm
I know Demon did back in "98 in the second loop but what else has
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Postby Ilovthevu' on July 15th, 2011, 9:18 pm
I never heard of another one except Demon unless you count the Ring of Fire as a roller coaster. lol
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Postby Necropolis on July 16th, 2011, 1:30 am
How does a coaster get stuck upside down? Doesnt gravity take care of the rest of the ride after the first hill drop??
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Postby monsterfan99 on July 16th, 2011, 1:39 am
There was an invert (forget if it was B&M or Vekoma) that got stuck upside down a couple of years ago.
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Postby Luxornv on July 16th, 2011, 1:51 am
The X Coaster at Magic Springs got stuck upside down a few years ago.

Necropolis wrote:How does a coaster get stuck upside down? Doesnt gravity take care of the rest of the ride after the first hill drop??


In the case of Demon, a wheel assembly broke and cause an excessive amount of friction. In this case, the frictional force was greater than the weight of the train.

In the case of X-Coaster, the lift ends up-side down and there was a power outage at a very unfortunate moment for the people on the ride.
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Postby rct2wizard360 on July 16th, 2011, 2:45 pm
Jubilee Odyssey stalled upside down a few years back while testing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDLJbbAk6c

I don't know if it's ever happened with riders though?
I remember hearing this ride had a buttload of problems.
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Postby BP317 on July 16th, 2011, 11:34 pm
The sad part is that was filmed even after that part of the ride was rebuilt to make the elements smaller to prevent it from stalling. Jubilee Odyssey was horribly designed, it used to stall all the time. I remember when it was built the stalling problem was hilarious because it was the same time that the DejaVu's were built, for some reason at that time Vekoma had an issue making suspended coasters that could actually make it through the circut.
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Postby w00dland on July 20th, 2011, 8:45 pm
If I'm not mistaken wasn't Deja Vu stalled with passengers in the Cobra Roll a few years back?

Also the old Batman+Robin premier LIM coaster at SFGAdv (since removed) had a coaster get stalled in the zero g roll for a bit.
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Postby tribar on July 20th, 2011, 9:12 pm
w00dland wrote:If I'm not mistaken wasn't Deja Vu stalled with passengers in the Cobra Roll a few years back?



Did it actually get stuck upsidedown or valley between the two inversions

w00dland wrote:Also the old Batman+Robin premier LIM coaster at SFGAdv (since removed) had a coaster get stalled in the zero g roll for a bit.


That's right ive heard of that I think the story was that Robin got stuck because of a power outage andthe back car was upside down. I don't know
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Postby Cole on July 26th, 2011, 4:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-z73_W ... re=related
This is Hades stalling a few years ago. Not upside but worth sharing. Anti-roll backs work people! Imagine what would've happened if they would've gone back down the hill and into the dark tunnel... not fun.
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