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Postby FRD714 on October 21st, 2006, 10:45 am
I dont know if anyone has ever seen this video before....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDLJbbAk6c
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Postby Suf03sfgam on October 21st, 2006, 1:20 pm
It's a Vekoma, what more needs to be said???
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Postby SFaddiction84 on October 21st, 2006, 4:34 pm
How does a rollercoaster like that just randomly NOT make it through the Course of the track? but does ever other time
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Postby Sedir on October 21st, 2006, 7:07 pm
^Wind, weight (or lack of). And it's happened before on other rides, remember when dragster stalled at the top? Good stuff.
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Postby Suf03sfgam on October 21st, 2006, 11:11 pm
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Another Vekoma that you might have seen a little more. It has valleyed a few times in this spot!
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Postby FParker185 on October 22nd, 2006, 2:11 am
Jubliee Oddsey is usually closed as unless it can run a full train with no wind at all it generally wont make it around the course, that's been a problem with that ride since day one (along with newspaper documented Nipple Burn) :)
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on October 22nd, 2006, 3:11 am
^That must be horrible for the park having spent money on a ride that needs to be run at that sort of degree!
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Postby SFaddiction84 on October 22nd, 2006, 7:45 am
I suppose there would be no way to alter the rollercoaster and move the station and make the lift hill higher to make it be able to finish its course every time?
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Postby FRD714 on October 22nd, 2006, 9:05 am
Hey great photo of Dejavu. I've never seen that before.
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Postby SFaddiction84 on October 22nd, 2006, 2:37 pm
Why is the train on deja vue so short? its like half gone. Were they like testing different train lengths or something?
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on October 22nd, 2006, 4:34 pm
It was probably halfway being dismantled..or it broke itself.
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Postby rct2wizard360 on October 22nd, 2006, 4:54 pm
The train is inbetween the Loop and the Cobra Roll.
Since they can't pull the train through in this situation, they dismantle it and re-assemble the train in the station.

As for Jubilee Odyssey.
They tried re-doing the course a little bit. I think the shortened the loop, but as you can see, it hasn't done much.
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Postby BP317 on October 23rd, 2006, 1:12 am
SFaddiction84 wrote:Why is the train on deja vue so short? its like half gone. Were they like testing different train lengths or something?

If look closely youll see the other half of the train in brake 2 on the other side of the loop, I remember the day this happened (sometime in May of 02). You can tell from this pic that they seperated to the hitch bars and used a crane to pull it through the loop so instead of taking it off the track they can just winch it. Also I remember after this exact valley hapenned they built the loop unload platform :lol:.
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Postby Suf03sfgam on October 23rd, 2006, 9:34 am
^ Correct!
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