coaster_junky Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 Gunnarson, who lives in the Riding Mountain area, injured his right foot Tuesday when it was clipped by a roller-coaster car that was zooming down tracks where he had been chained and handcuffed. Gunnarson had freed himself and was diving to safety when the car caught his foot. "It's sore. There's internal bleeding and it's swelling and it's causing me a great deal of pain. It just hurts like heck," Gunnarson said Thursday. He arrived home from China late Wednesday night. Gunnarson, who was shooting the escape in Beijing as part of a Chinese TV special, said he doesn't believe anything necessarily went wrong, the car just clipped him as he was diving to safety. "It was a fast roller-coaster," he said. Although the injury is a painful one, it's far from his worst. link edit: 100 kph is roughly 51 mph Quote
bkroz Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 The roller coaster is Crystal Wings (A B&M flying coaster) at Happy Valley Beijing. Source. I'm so surprised at this... If it were an "illusion" thing and he was claiming that it was magic and it was all smoke and mirrors, I can understand actually running the train. But a real, physical escape stunt? What were they thinking? Had he taken one second longer, he would certainly have died. How would that have looked for the park? Or, for B&M? For China's safety regulations (which, as of late, have appeared to be quite lax). Wow... Quote
coaster_junky Posted July 31, 2010 Author Posted July 31, 2010 does a ride manufactuer have to approve something like this before the stunt is done, or is it left up only to the park? i just ask because i remember a few years ago when criss angel mindfreak did an "escape" from canyon blaster at circus circus in las vegas. Quote
The Interpreter Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 As for this incident, that would depend on the rules (and enforcers) in China. Does Ford Motor Company have to approve before you drive your Ford into the river? Quote
Purplehaze Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 ^Only if it is Toyota and the gas pedal gets stuck Quote
pbkigi Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 I don't know why you would do this hopefully he will be able to walk normally agian but I know it sounds bad he did it to himself. Quote
DropZone99 Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 I wander if Crystal Wings is okay... Seems like that could mess up it's wheels. Quote
Guest rcfreak339 Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 ^It may have but even if it probably wasn't a big problem...Perhaps a little adjusting. Quote
Guest rcfreak339 Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 ^Even then, at 51mph it could have done damage. Quote
SOB_TOM Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 Sad state of affairs when someone cares about a coaster over a living, breathing human being... As for this "stunt," these are timed down to the second. What this means is that if this guy was at a certain point, and was not as far as he should have been, the assistants were most likely instructed to pull him off. What I saw in the pictures, he took more time to take the debris off the tracks, something most likely they did not rehearse in practice. Also, he was most likely delaying to make his 'escape' look more daring, and the jumped a millisecond later than what he should have. Quote
coaster_junky Posted July 31, 2010 Author Posted July 31, 2010 i honestly don't see where i can feel for this man, after all, he wasn't forced to chain himself to a running roller coaster. Quote
Purplehaze Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 I agree with you in a way coaster junkie and SOB and rcfreak. However he is a human being doing a show for the people. He was injured. Who cares if the roller coaster is ok or not it is just a machine. And as RCFreak said even if it did it would just be a little adjustment. As in many other threads where it is talked about hitting your hand on The Beast tunnels. That could tear your arm off. If it happened sure it would be that persons fault not the rides but saying you do not feel sorry for him? The girl who just plunged 40 feet. She could be dead for all we know at this point, we could blame her for even riding it in the first place. No Human life or injury is worth the sake of a ride. Quote
BeastForever Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 Just curious, what kind of coaster is that? Because the track on the right looks like inverted track and the track on the left looks like floorless or stand up coaster track. Or are they different coasters? Quote
The Interpreter Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 It's a B&M flyer like the Superman: Ultimate Flights, Air, Tatsu and Montu... And that's all the same coaster in the photo... Quote
bkroz Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 It's a B&M flyer like the Superman: Ultimate Flights, Air, Tatsu and Montu... Montu, the B&M flyer? GYK, who was about to make a "big blue B&M" joke before realizing that Montu is, in fact, a big, blue B&M... It's definitely not from this angle, but that image is showing the bottom of a pretzal loop (where riders are facing the sky) and a simple flying maneuver that comes after. Quote
The Interpreter Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 Uh...Manta...which was probably named that due to Montu already being out there... Terp, who apologizes for any confusion he has created, now any he will probably create in the future... Hopefully, that clears the air... It must be Sunday, I can smell the fliers in the August air... And who had another poster on another board think he had made up Europe in the Air, and was being sarcastic! Quote
coaster_junky Posted August 1, 2010 Author Posted August 1, 2010 it's a superman model, so it's identical track stat wise. Quote
The Interpreter Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 Except, except, except...the three US Superman: Ultimate Flight models are not identical. Georgia's pretzel loop is either far more or far less intense than the other two, depending on who you ask... Note that rcdb has differing lengths for the three, with SFGAm being the outlier. I do not think this is correct. Quote
coaster_junky Posted August 1, 2010 Author Posted August 1, 2010 okay, then let me rephrase, it's the superman model, and it's nearly identical to the superman flying coasters found at three six flags parks. Quote
The Interpreter Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 The Georgia coaster, unlike the other two US ones, also has a dual loading station, much like Firehawk's, and seven row trains. The other two only have a single side loading station, and eight row trains. Georgia's was the first...and the coaster I did not fit in on media day...a few weeks later, Gary Story, then CEO also didn't fit. The next year, the trains had been redone! Quote
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