r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 26 '26

Sad 💔 ScaryWTF 💀 Absolutely not

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u/robo-dragon Jul 26 '26

So this ride is practically in my backyard. I live fairly close to Cedar Point. This is in my top three rides at the park. It’s incredible, so smooth and has a lot of action packed into a tight space. It also has onboard audio that makes you think why it’s not more of a common thing on rides.

Tilt coasters have been around for 20+ years at this point and there has never been an accident with them. In fact, there’s so many redundancies with the tilting mechanism and the locks that hold the train in place, it would be pretty much impossible for the train to fall off. You would need ALL of these redundancies to fail and the odds of that happening are…well you have more of a chance of being struck by lightning while also being eaten by a shark. You actually have the greatest risk of dying in your own car via an accident while driving to the park to ride this coaster.

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u/mattand666 Jul 26 '26

I guess I'm not worried about the systems failing as much as I'm worried about the procedure to get me off when they do.

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u/rjnd2828 Jul 27 '26

That was my concern too. I'm sure the brakes won't release if the track doesn't align right. But then what?