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I'm glad nobody was hurt, but I'm curious as to why that ride was allowed to operate to begin with. Bungee cords are not designed for that sort of thing, and it could have been far worse if the cables had snapped further up or they had snapped while the ride was in the air. I've also never seen a park hire a third-party company to operate a ride like that.

Thanks so much for your hard work! It's great to have it working properly again. I especially missed it after hearing the band organ on Kentucky Kingdom's carousel.

Such cheesy advertising... and in glorious 4K resolution for those who have a device supporting it.

I can fully understand not allowing the ride to move in "normal" operation mode when there's a sensor fault like this. However, there is absolutely no reason why it should take a backup generator and having people climb out escape hatches in the roof to get people off the ride. I wonder if we'll hear any more about why they couldn't get it going again.

Going back a page, another interesting note about that T3 article. The guy who wrote it is an intern for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Given how big of a deal Kentucky Kingdom is to Louisville residents (good or bad), and the fact that Louisville's paper is the biggest one in the state (much like how Indy's paper is the biggest in Indiana), that makes me think they did it simply because someone in management told them they had to (possibly higher-ups at Gannett?). Why else would the big local paper throw something like that to an intern?

They were on opposite sides when I originally posted this. See the photos linked in the first post. Sent from my LG G3 using Tapatalk

You missed the last part of the link... http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/riders-struck-after-orlando-eye-stops/nmrRJ/

Print off the voucher (or bring it up on your phone) and show it to the cashier.

The best part of the Intimidator ride page (at least on desktop): "Hand-held infants and service dogs are not allowed to ride".

AAA Ohio shows tickets for $34.75 for members.

It was working initially that day, as it had a big line when most of the coasters went down for weather around 11:30 or so. Not sure when it went down.

This is apparently a test run at the company's headquarters in Switzerland. I've never even heard of abc rides before, but that certainly is an interesting concept. (Also, note: "abc rides" is how the company capitalizes their name...)

Unfortunately I'm going to have to miss out this year. I decided not to take off the 3rd this year because it's on a weekend and I already took two days off in the past two weeks (the 21st for the Weird Al concert in Kettering and yesterday for my birthday).

It's just used to add fun to the race - guests are covered with colored powder or liquid at various stations along the race. According to Wikipedia, the official Color Run events use colored powder made from food-grade corn starch (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Runfor more info).

Rode Boo Blasters again yesterday and it was actually working pretty well. I had 1200 points by the time I got to the organ scene and ended up with a score of 1698 if I remember correctly. In addition, the tourist guy was actually working again - first time in a couple years I've seen him moving. There were still some non-working targets though.

I'm wondering what exactly was in the powder that caused it to burn/explode like that.

I need to get back down there sometime this year and ride the stuff I didn't get to ride when I was there last month - particularly the Giant Wheel.

The main reason it's so packed today is it's "bring a friend for $14.99" day. I'm sure the lovely weather is a factor in that as well, but not the main factor.

It says "Designed by Dane Thomas" on the cafepress page so I'd assume he's the one to ask

Hopefully we can also resolve whatever technical problems were keeping Terpy from posting with the new system as well. It's been really weird not seeing him around here lately.

I might depending on how tired I am. I'll have to work that weekend and don't know if I want to drive up to KI to stand in line at a food truck. Sent from my LG G3 using Tapatalk

As I was getting off Viking Fury earlier, a lady was complaining to the ride ops because she thought the ride cycle was shorter than usual (even saying something like "we went two cycles fewer than usual"). I didn't pay much attention to the conversation and didn't stick around to see what happened, but I felt sorry for the employees who had to deal with her.

Note that following the controversy, the park has since removed the part about "islamically appropriate clothing" from the event info on its website...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/alton-towers-crash-failsafes-that-should-have-kept-the-smiler-carriages-apart-did-not-work-10293639.html

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/584338/WaterWorld-Stoke-on-Trent-Muslim-Islam-waterpark-women-only-bikini-ban-clothing-veil-burqa I'm really scratching my head on this one. Note that the park has since removed the "islamically appropriate clothing" restriction from the event description on its website, but I still don't understand exactly what they were trying to accomplish. A "ladies only" night is fine, but you can't claim it's "not specific to any ethnic or religious group" while asking everyone to dress in accordance with a specific religion.