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17 Injured on Wild Thing at ValleyFair!

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Postby FParker185 on May 21st, 2006, 11:20 pm
http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_s ... 90251.html

Not many details, though it looks like a busted up axle caused the rear car to seperate from the rest of the train and tip slightly on the final brakes.

I guess even the lamest coasters can muster up an accident :)
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Postby LC3 on May 21st, 2006, 11:26 pm
Thank goodness that no one was seriously injured. Can any of you imagine if something like this was to happen on a ride like Raging Bull or even Deja Vu? That would be very scary.
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Postby FRD714 on May 22nd, 2006, 6:33 am
Well a car did seperate on Big Thunder Mountain at Disneyland killing a man I believe.
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Postby Iggy ACE on May 22nd, 2006, 8:33 am
here are some more photos... http://kstp.com/article/stories/S16429.html?cat=1

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Postby zjohn1988 on May 22nd, 2006, 12:06 pm
Thats so weird that it ended up at that angle....
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Postby the_franchise on May 22nd, 2006, 1:29 pm
We will now have a few more rich people in the world lol
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Postby Galvan on May 22nd, 2006, 1:47 pm
^^^ Pretty poor images at that :?
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Postby FRD714 on May 22nd, 2006, 7:55 pm
I just saw the video of it on the news.
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Postby zjohn1988 on May 22nd, 2006, 9:36 pm
me too
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on May 22nd, 2006, 10:01 pm
Wow. This can't be good for Valleyfair..that park definatley needs some positive feedback, and this doesn't help. I really liked the Wild Thing when I went there (not as good as RB though).
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on May 22nd, 2006, 11:59 pm
I heard this from a guy at work today! It seems kind of like a surreal accident, like something from that Final Destination movie. Good thing no one was really hurt from it.
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Postby ihauntu2 on May 23rd, 2006, 12:02 am
Same manufacturer and designer as Steel Dragon 2000, and both of them had a problem with the undercarriage of each train.

Coincidence? Lets hope so. Intamin does enough damage to the reputations of hypers, we don't need another company joining the fun.
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Postby EagleFan344 on May 23rd, 2006, 12:05 am
Intamin hypers > B&M Hypers
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Postby Galvan on May 23rd, 2006, 12:41 am
^ Intamin Hyper Deaths > B&M Hyper Deaths
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Postby EagleFan344 on May 23rd, 2006, 12:42 am
Hey, more enjoyable ride.
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on May 23rd, 2006, 10:00 pm
ihauntu2 wrote:Same manufacturer and designer as Steel Dragon 2000, and both of them had a problem with the undercarriage of each train.

Coincidence? Lets hope so. Intamin does enough damage to the reputations of hypers, we don't need another company joining the fun.


Good point. I didn't think of that. Those are both Morgan coasters, and Steel Dragon is pushing 3 years of downtime because of it.
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Postby Galvan on May 23rd, 2006, 11:26 pm
EagleFan344 wrote:Hey, more enjoyable ride.


Says who?
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Postby EagleFan344 on May 24th, 2006, 12:25 am
SRoS @ SFNE > any B&M Hyper.
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Postby LC3 on May 24th, 2006, 10:11 am
I can't believe that you two (Galvan316 and EagleFan344) are arguing over something so petty and meaningless. Who cares which company has the best coaster? The main issue at hand is that people were hurt on this coaster. Let's just be thankful that no one was seriously injured.
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Postby Iggy ACE on May 24th, 2006, 4:08 pm
Isn't it amazing how people are not entitled to their own opinion on forum boards.
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Postby EagleFan344 on May 24th, 2006, 6:36 pm
LC3 wrote:I can't believe that you two (Galvan316 and EagleFan344) are arguing over something so petty and meaningless. Who cares which company has the best coaster? The main issue at hand is that people were hurt on this coaster. Let's just be thankful that no one was seriously injured.

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Its called "sharing out opinions" :)
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Postby LC3 on May 24th, 2006, 7:08 pm
I never said that no one is entitled to "share out opinions". What I am saying is that the two of you are conversing about something that has no relevance to what the original topic is about.
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on May 24th, 2006, 9:13 pm
uggh...I smell the flames of war.
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Postby LC3 on May 24th, 2006, 9:26 pm
There's no war going on here. I'm just making a general comment.
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Postby EagleFan344 on May 24th, 2006, 9:54 pm
^Are you SFGAm World Police or something?
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