Last Friday when I was at the park with a couple of friends I left early and they stayed and closed down the park. Well he didn't say his exact time it happened but they were riding on FoF later on in the night and his train valleyed. From what I could tell by the video he took and his story, it was right in the middle of the Cobra Roll. He said they had to walk down what looked like a set of stairs off to the side and were then evacuated out by the path by the final brake run. I will try to get him to post the video he took as he was walking off the ride looking up.

Has anyone ever heard of an instance like this happening? At first I thought he meant that the MCBR had just stopped them and they got off that way, but from what I saw and what he told me it actually did valley perfect.

Very interesting...It hasn't happened to me. Not even close.

Things like this always leave me wondering what it would be like if I were one of the people involved.

Another reason I will not go on that ride again. I have never heard of Flight of Fear valleying )

Well seeing how there is no catwalk or set of stairs anywhere near the cobra roll for them to safely evacuate from, I'd say no.

Besides, a reason to not go on that ride again?

Make whatever choices you need to make, but that's like hearing about a rollback and deciding to never ride Maverick again.

Pony Express? That's a different story.

Another reason I will not go on that ride again. I have never heard of Flight of Fear valleying )

I feel the same way about my car tires.

One went flat once. I am never getting in a car again.

Forgive me for asking such a noobish question but what does valleyed mean?

^It means to get stuck in a low point between two hills... in a valley, if you will.

The industry also refers to this as saddling.

getty up horsey!

Hm...I highly doubt there is a way out in the middle of the cobra roll. You can see it on the ride a little bit, and all I see is track - no steps. Also, how could it valley during that point of the ride? It's still going near full speed...if it valleyed near the end close to the corkscrew I can understand that.

Vekoma's Giant Inverted Boomerangs had a habit of valleying in the cobra roll, and had huge scaffolds and staircases added pretty quickly once that started happening.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

REALLY AFTER:

Definitely not insinuating that Flight of Fear really did valley there. Just sayin'. Plus, the original poster is going by what his friend said. Even many of us here might be baffled by the layout of Flight of Fear, so it's much more likely that the ride was stopped on the midcourse brakes (more than it normally is, I mean) and people were unloaded from there. As you can see, the MCBR is about at the same height as the cobra roll, so a guest surveying the room in darkness would be confused.

I don't see how it could valley there. It's still going very fast, so fast that many don't even know there is an inversion there.

We 100% know that the cobra roll wasn't the culprit. AZ Kinda Guy confirms that there is no catwalk on which to evacuate.

A coaster train can get stuck on any portion of its circuit. So the notion that it got hung up in the cobra roll is not out of the question. However, it is highly unlikely.

If the OP's friend video recorded his experience of being unloaded and having " to walk down what looked like a set of stairs off to the side and were then evacuated out by the path by the final brake run," then we know that the cobra roll wasn't the stopping point.

I am in the process of trying to acquire the video from him. Like I said I am just telling you what I heard, don't shoot the messenger. He has also informed me a ladder was the means of evacuation from the train, only from the train, not down from the ride.

This was taken from an iPhone but you can make out at one point the train valley'd in the middle of the cobra roll it appears, and then the video pans over to show where they ended up walking down from.

Why is it that every time someone shoots a pov, the ride goes through a malfunction?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GCCVdhMK8&feature=related

^He wasn't shooting a POV, he started to film whenever they climbed down. But yes it always seems like it happens when someone has a camera in their hands.

The third one wasn't a POV, was it? isn't it just a camera that's always on the ride?

I forgot that there is another catwalk/platform that extends down from the mid course brakes. However, my mind escapes me as to whether or not it provides access to the low point of the cobra roll.

Edit: Just looked at some pics and there is no access to the cobra roll via the lower platform. The lower platform provides access to the pull out of the third inversion.

Alot of the videos and pics that are posted online as a POV are not done by the parks. I have been on Flight of Fear when it almost valleyed.

http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=a_8kmveRIBE

What do you call this because it is the highest point of the ride.

The three(?) times its happened, its been referred to appropriately as stalling.

Thanks