Dropzone is one of my fav. rides and the last time I was at the park I observed Drop Zone rotating part way then half way it wouldnt. Or sometimes is would rotate all the way up the hill and other wouldnt roate at all. Plus it seem to me that it moves slower up the hill.

I don't recal seeing a hill but it only rotates half way up the tower and it does it every time, i have been trying since i started going to pki to figure out what tipe of device controls the rotation

message me when u find that hill

I ment tower sorry. Anyway ^^ :offtopic: ^^

im just messin around, how is that off topic

Hmmm. Drop Zone spinning only half-way..... That seems weird.

spinning drive tires power the spin, kinda like the driv wheels on Viking Fury

Yes I know it just hasnt seemed as it was in 1999. They let some little people on Drop zone

Drop Zone Does not spin all the way up it stops after you are in your orignal postion and stays there. I remember when dropzone seemed tall then I went to CP. It still is high for a freefall though. They should make one line 500ft tall that would be scary.

So you only rotate around the pole once because i think I rember it roating all the way up the pole.

In 1999 it was to roate all the way to the top, you would go all the way around twice. Drop Zone has experienced alot of problems with the roating. Sometimes it doesn't roate at all just goes up. So now that's why it only roates once. It's been doing that for atleast the last 2 seasons.

I wish you would rotate all the way up. I also heard from CoasterGuy107 that DZ also had lift problems and it had lift problems that one side would go up faster than the other. and the car would go up tilted.

i would think that would cause it to lock up if i didn't go up evenly, that would really suck!

wouldnt bother me i love heights

you know while drop zone is going up, you notice when you look up @ right side of the car you can see 2 motors controlling the rotation. There are different versions of the gyro drop, the tilt gyro drop, that sucker tilts the seats @ a 15' degree angle and its pretty terrifying :cowboy: and the newer version of the Drop Tower (PKD's Drop Zone) the sucker seats like 50 people, and the magnets come in later for more airtime on DZ @ PKD :chef:

Does PKI's Drop Aone give you much airtime?

I think so...but DZ isn't all about airtime. I think that one of the most fun parts of riding DZ is going up and getting held at the top for seven seconds. When you are up here you are just praying that they let you down as fast as they can and you are scared ****less!

True but I still think that DZ at pki is the better of them. The one that tilts is only like 200 feet. and the had a video and you only drop for like 2 seconds. I think that the DZ at PKI is the most exmtreme free fall in the midwest. Even though it can get boring after 35 times in one season

sorry about the double post but i was wording did they ever find out why that person died on a ride like DZ

speaking of that... someone who was 13 died on drop zone, and now it's not rotating at all! all 4 drop zones were shut down. My cousin's cousin is saying they are thinking about tearing all 4 down, but i don't believe that will happen.

which drop zone did the kid fall out of?

In August, 1999, a 12-year-old boy was killed when he fell from Intamin's Drop Zone Stunt Tower freefall ride at Paramount's Great America theme park in Santa Clara, California. An investigation into his death yielded no explanation as to why he fell from the ride.

The kid you are referring to was (I think) mentally retarded and his mom forced him on the ride. Somehow he was able to free himself from the restraint.

I heard three different stories on what caused his death.

Story one was that there was a restraint malfuction. A guest on the ride said he heard a click (after the click that is supposed to happen) and he looked over and the restraint was up.

Story number 2 was that the boy was too little to ride.

Story 3 was that he had a preexstiing condition and he lost upper body control and that caused him to fall out.

You can belevive what one you want but 3 sounds the most realistic cause restraints almost never come up and number 2 how many 12 year old kids are too short to ride dropzone?

I have heard that he suffered from some sort of mental conditional and was forced onto the ride. The moral of the story is to never force an unwinning partron onto a ride. Whether they're scared or don't feel like riding, or whatever. Especially when it comes to children because they are extremely likely to attempt to exit the ride while it's in motion.

No, they are not thinking about tearing down any of the DZ's. I think this was a fluke mishap, not a restraint failure. So, no need to close any of them.

No, they are not thinking about tearing down any of the DZ's. I think this was a fluke mishap, not a restraint failure. So, no need to close any of them.

but they did...

I don't know if it is just me or not but my dad noticed this to about DZ. Last season when you were rising up the tower it was all smooth, which is normal.. well this season as it rose closer to the top I noticed it would bounce until the very top like the lift was having trouble pulling the seats up or something. Everytime I rode it, it would bounce. Is that normal? I guess its not a big problem or they wouldn't let anyone on if it was.

I rode Drop Zone a few days ago it didn't spin at all. Still a great ride though!

Yea I guess they are having problems with the motor that rotates the seats cause it wasnt roatating today or yesterday. Another thing I noticed was that it goes real slow up part way then stops, goes real fast then stops again, and goes up another 10 feet really slow.