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- Subject: Re: Flight Commander elaboration request
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.010109.18690@megatek.com>
- From: stickman@megatek.com (James Hsieh)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:01:09 GMT
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- Sender: stickman@megatek.com (James Hsieh)
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- In article <1992Nov18.215404.22396%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu> mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.) writes:
- >
- >> 2. Aren't people weary to ride a ride which someone expired on?
- >
- >Some. Then again, others become more excited about the ride. But
- >the increased safety measures the park imposes on the ride after the
- >incident cause the now-longer lines to become even slower.
- >
-
- Or in some cases, equipment is changed, like I believe the trains on
- Colossus at SFMM were after the woman fell out in the late 70's (the
- ride has had 3 different sets of trains in its history, I can't remember
- who made the first set, but the second set were PTC trains which were
- installed at about the same as the incident, I think the year after --
- anyone remember for sure?).
-
- People weary to ride? Having worked on Colossus, sometimes you got the
- question, "Didn't someone die on this ride a few years ago?" to which
- there was usually a "canned" response. I remember that I had to memorize
- one which I have since forgotten, (or rather, don't remember it accurately
- enough to quote here). But it never seemed to scare anyone off the ride
- at the last moment.
-
- --James
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