disco2000

Excellent 1st post here! Reading what you said in layman's terms - steel generally works best in tension and that design, while it may look awkward to the armchair engineer, is probably (and properly) designed with that in mind. That diagonal member would be the tension component. Based on your experience and what can be seen so far, would the weld at that location be a likely candidate to be looking at to see if it were poor or the material wasn't up to strength, or could running the coaster for extended periods near the minimum operating temperature had contributed to brittleness in the weld resulting in failure?

^they are earning their pay with that job. Can you imagine the difficulty of that having to constantly hook and unhook and the angles. I am guessing they felt like it was unsafe to use the inspection crawl car. I suspect this incident will probably increase the frequency use of said car.

Diamondback got that treatment in recent years as well.

#PlanetSnoopygone2024 lol

Yes it is, as are other B&Ms in the chain (except Fury).

I still think it is going to come down to an outside influence like I mentioned above rather than a design issue. I think this would have shown before on one of their many coasters if it were a design defect. You all don't think a manufacturing defect is the reason? A properly designed support can still have a defect during the manufacturing phase that could show up later. That cracked and broke where two support columns come together. We can't tell from the picture whether the angled one was welded onto the vertical one or if it was cast as one piece, but regardless it could be a defect from the factory. B&M tends to be conservative in their designs. All the Intamin fan-boys say B&M are forceless coasters - guess what - that same forceless opinion is due to their conservative designs. And look at it from an overall standpoint - yeah this looks bad (and it is) but the coaster did not fail to complete its circuit and nobody got hurt and heck probably nobody even could tell that rode it, so the overall design did its part to keep everyone safe. Who knows how many cycles it ran completely broke - do we think this person lucked out and got video of the first break? Maybe it ran 4 days before this was noticed. This further shows the conservative design. Heck B&M may come out and say the ride could still go without that support LOL. There are lots of supports in that area and one by itself failing did not cause catastrophic failure. They may say this wasn't a support designed to hold up the track, but rather to help minimize the movement of a passing a train and as such is redundant as part of their conservative design. They could very well plate it at that location as a temporary fix and re-open while a new part is being made - but they would have to weigh the PR side on would that fix and get it open be better than keeping it closed until a new part is made. Contrast that to SOB when a support member broke.... The other B&Ms in our park and others are operating today, so they probably do not think it is a design flaw impacting other similar supports.

What is scary, and not confirmed or substantiated, is that other outlets are saying that a news channel has been scouring pictures people have taken of Fury and it shows this crack starting over a week ago. Here is a picture someone claims was taken 6/24. Is that the crack starting or bad lighting?

Agreed. I think if it were a design issue, it would have popped up somewhere else. Unless they cut into their factor of safety for this ride to get the coaster in under a certain budget number, but again I don't see B&M doing that. I think an outside influence as I mentioned will be the contributing factor. It certainly sucks for many parks this year to have their "signature" ride go down or not operate. Question will be do we wake up in the morning to B&Ms across the country being shut down as a precaution or have they already concluded it wasn't a design error or was something specific to that ride?

It could be lots of things other than a design failure as many coasters from different manufacturers have similar type designs, so it may not be a design flaw. Especially since B&M tends to be one of the more conservative designs. It could be a bad batch of steel (AKA King Cobra) or water somehow penetrated internally and was rusting from within or running it in lower temps during Winterfest and Jan-March contributed to brittleness in the steel (and thus minimum operating temps need to be raised as maybe that operating requirement was developed with a temp in mind that it would be much warmer during the day or had been warmer and gets cooler in the evening compared to a temperature just getting to and settling around that temp all day) or a manufacturing defect like a bad weld or bad casting where those two support pieces come together. I am sure a thorough investigation will be done to determine the cause.

But not fruit infused lol

Actually the fees are a little more LOL...and apparently your exclusive enhanced pass perk has been rolled out to the regular passes now LOL

Yep, someone just had to be the first on social media and post the park was doing something with the lasers at 2:30am, so instead of keeping that secret to themselves and enjoying the show, they reminded the park that "hey we should take that down" LOL.

Just don't get the Enchilada Basket as that is not on the meal plan....

I heard it was something like $3 off the nosebleed seats? Like those that bought prestige would sit in nosebleed LOL.

Even zooming in, the amount of cheese on the Skyline coney's looks skimpy LOL

Stricker's is open to the public July 4th!

And you don't even need to fork over your debit card to pay a meal plan upcharge for this

I have watched cycles where a ride op literally walks with the person to the seat and tells them not to pull down the restraint and yet they still try despite the sign and being told as they are sitting down. Similar to how pushing too hard on the queue gates at coasters can trip a fault, I suspect as these restraints get worked in, there may be more give on the restraints to not trip a sensor or maybe they can adjust the sensitivity. And I am sure there are other reasons why the ride goes down, but in many instances maintenance is looking at the restraint of a seat.

That is a maintenance road and is traveled frequently by maint going to/from Bat, Skyflyer, Drop Tower, Invertigo, Congo, Timberwolf, the maint access road outside the park, etc. I wouldn't read too much into vehicle traffic on that road...

People gotta eat They already have your money Any sayings I'm missing lol

Further, if I am looking to buy some to take home and there is now a line of free loaders, guess what, I keep on going and they lost a sale... It is so easy to tell the ones that have no intention on buying lol, but I'm not going to waste my time either.

Here is my debit card, please take what you think is fair

Meanwhile over at Tom+Chee, instead of made to order grilled cheese like past years, they are now premade and line them up on the warmers. Walked by and nobody was there waiting for an order, and there were the sandwiches lined up waiting for people to order. Now instead of the cheese being hot and melted that you can scrape the excess with the potato chip, the cheese is now solidified again. On the positive side, it has sped up the process LOL.

It appears to test but that is it.

What would gforce say about the activity?