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Other Parks / Re: The Joker at SFOT
« on: June 02, 2017, 08:54:18 PM »
Rode it Wednesday and had a great time on it. It's a lot like the old Zipper rides in experience- I got 4 flips on it, while my kids got two.
I find the stories about that stoppage very interesting. They keep saying that a sensor detected a problem and stopped the car. Except there are no brakes where the car stopped. Once it came off the lift it should have free rolled all the way to the end brakes as there aren't any other trims or blocks on it at all. So I'm wondering what the real issue was. Something like a hat stuck in a wheel maybe? Someone at the park did say that there were gale force winds blowing at the time, so I wonder if that was the likely culprit.
In any case it was a lot of fun and fits very well into that section of the park.
I find the stories about that stoppage very interesting. They keep saying that a sensor detected a problem and stopped the car. Except there are no brakes where the car stopped. Once it came off the lift it should have free rolled all the way to the end brakes as there aren't any other trims or blocks on it at all. So I'm wondering what the real issue was. Something like a hat stuck in a wheel maybe? Someone at the park did say that there were gale force winds blowing at the time, so I wonder if that was the likely culprit.
In any case it was a lot of fun and fits very well into that section of the park.