Drop Zone got stuck at the top for almost 20 min on august 1. I know its not very important but I just felt like telling people about it.

That is the exact reason why I have only ridden Drop Zone once. If we were stuck I seriously would have a heart attack from the anxiety of not knowing when we were going to drop.

Me and gnarkiller where watching it be held up there for a long time, then they where droped very slowly, then when the where ten feet above the ground they droped. Once they where testing it the brakes almost didn't work and it was closed for an hour. We saw people inspecting the ride.

They got dropped slowly and when it got close to the bottom it dropped and the breaks barely stopped it.

I also noticed that on Friday it stayed up much longer than it was supposed to, almost a min.

deb

HMMMM well there magntic brakes, so they can't fail!

I see two more people just made the idiot list....

I see two more people just made the idiot list....

lol

Good to see you on here again Sparky

lol

Once they where testing it the brakes almost didn't work and it was closed for an hour. We saw people inspecting the ride.

lol, brakes almost didn't work I think magntics work 24/7 lol. Please tell us what else happen? Did hydraulic fuiled go everywhere

(most people should know what im talking about, "hydraulic fuiled story")

What's wrong with that statement? Magnetic brakes can't fail... just like friction brakes can't fail. Right, Magnum XL-200? Right, Beast?

I don't know what story that is. What is fuiled?

No you're both wrong, they just replaced drop zones breaks with fin brakes similar to the coasters...

No you're both wrong, they just replaced drop zones breaks with fin brakes similar to the coasters...

im sueing them! becuase I can't fit in the seats anymore! What else they gona change?

No you're both wrong, they just replaced drop zones breaks with fin brakes similar to the coasters...

im sueing them! becuase I can't fit in the seats anymore! What else they gona change?

and we will sue you....

for not knowing how to spell

What do seats have to do with fin brakes?

No you're both wrong, they just replaced drop zones breaks with fin brakes similar to the coasters...

im sueing them! becuase I can't fit in the seats anymore! What else they gona change?

and we will sue you....

for not knowing how to spell

What do seats have to do with fin brakes?

Lol your takeing my post to serous. I was being sarcastic. gees.

I'm calling BS. Who's with me?

It has been stuck at the top before for more then 20 minutes its happened before this was about 2 years ago maybe and no joke about it people were on it too! They had to lower them slowly and it was crazy.

For the record, the thing got stuck on the top on its very own media day. And it was for longer than 20 minutes. I was actually a wee bit perturbed I was NOT on that cycle. But I don't think it had anything to do with the braking. In fact, I know it didn't. So, yes, it can get stuck at the top. But I doubt that braking had anything to do with it.

Controller Runs MS Windows.

It locked "up"

computer snafu?

those darn things

They recently removed the brakes on Drop Zone, the air cushion it falls onto stops the ride. The magnets depolarized themselves.

/sarcasm

I got stuck up at the top back in 1999, during a day they were fliming the know it all shows in the Paramount Theatre.

I know what happened. Quite simple actually:

When the brakes almost failed, there was a depolarization of the upper atmosphere, causing the core of the Earth to change its axial spinning by 15 degrees, therefor reversing the effect of magnets for approx .0005 seconds. During this time, Drop Zone was 10 feet of the ground and dropping.

See? All makes sense.

You put way too much thought into that.

Actually, thats an old theory on how the Earth CAN lose its magnetic field. If the core switches direction of rotation, or stops, the Earth will lose its atmosphere.

Something like that.

^ O noes!!!!11 someone do something =o

the sky is falling?

Just Drop Zone.

Wait, woulnt that mean its working? Im confused...

=O drop zone just got cut in half! picture soon!

This doesn't seem that complicated. Drop Towers tend to be less complex than coasters (at least, the non S&S ones). Why so much discussion of the brakes? Isn't it the small carriage that tows the car to the top and lets go?

If it didn't let go like it should have...what other option is there but to tell it to come back down still attached to the car? I'm sure it's complicated with the safety system and all, but wouldn't that be like an e-stop?