Silverwood: Riders Stranded When Roller Coaster Stalls

[The Interpreter]

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/s...J.23341016.html

[Shaggy]

Ironic.

Deja Vu of Deja Vu

[RailRider]

Questioned that purchase from day one. You might want to be a little hesitant about purchasing a ride when it was the receipient of an emergency unload platform.

[KIBeast]

Aren't Vekomas infamous for valleying? Reason I ask is the article is not showing up for me.

[teenageninja]

All Boomerangs (whether inverted, giant, standard) are notorious for stalling at either the cobra roll or inbetween the loop and and second hill.

[KIBeast]

I just didn't see that as anything major considering they all do that. I don't call that little incident enough to say, well, they shouldn't have bought that one. Now, if it winds up havng major downtime, then there's a case.

Edited August 7, 2008 by KIBeast

[Shman]

Ironic....especially given the fact that Silverwood didn't buy the e-platform. In fact I think I remember reading that they were told there were some changes made to the coaster that would make it un-necessary.....guess not.

[RailRider]

Well DejaVu was epsecially known for valleying, more so than your normal boomer.

[Shaggy]

I don't recall Invertigo at KI ever stalling in the cobra roll. I do know that it's valleyed between the lift and vertical loop, as well as at both ends of the station.

Shaggy

[RailRider]

I cant recall it every stalling either at the cobra roll. That was the big issue with DejaVu, hence the Evac Platform in the middle of the cobra roll.

[welchce]

Buyer beware, I guess. How much did they pay for it? I looked and couldn't find anything.

According to Wikipedia, the coaster would often stall in the middle of the ride.

Could they not find someone/thing better than Wikipedia or is that finally a reliable source?

[Tomkatt7]

I wonder how many HOURS it felt like to be stranded up there, only to find out it was only ten minutes

[RailRider]

Buyer beware, I guess. How much did they pay for it? I looked and couldn't find anything.

According to Wikipedia, the coaster would often stall in the middle of the ride.

Could they not find someone/thing better than Wikipedia or is that finally a reliable source?

This is true, thats why they built the evac platform in the middle of the cobra roll.

Evac Platform

You know its a reoccuring issue when you spend the money to build a platform to retrive riders because the coaster stalls all the time.

[The Interpreter]

It didn't stall all the time.

Only because to do so, that would have required it to actually be open to stall!

[KDCOASTERFAN]

I don't recall Invertigo at KI ever stalling in the cobra roll. I do know that it's valleyed between the lift and vertical loop, as well as at both ends of the station.

Shaggy

Yeah,I've never heard of two face stalling in the cobra roll either....sure it's stalled between the loop & second lift on one occasion & has parked itself on the first lift three times so far but never in the cobra roll.

[tigellinus]

Buyer beware, I guess. How much did they pay for it? I looked and couldn't find anything.

According to someone who posted this on Cbuzz, a Seattle/Washington newspaper claimed Silverwood paid 20x the purchase price to transport it and install it....and then a different article claimed SF sold it for $200K....so $200,000 to buy and $4,000,000 to transport and install.

[RailRider]

Wonder what the refund policy is?

[Hendrick]

When a coaster does stall between the loop and the boomerang, how do they get the train back to the station? I've always wondered this.

[KIBeast]

Some of you guys are really going over the edge on this one. The coaster valleyed, which is a problem with most of these types of rides. If it was breaking down on a regular basis, you might have a case.