DC Rivals HyperCoaster train stuck mid-course

[Ashley]

Now that is an awesome sight, never thought I'd love watching Hypercoaster traversing the track so much.

Hopefully won't be long till she's back open.

[Ogre]

Huzzah!

[Whombex]

9 hours ago, franky said:

Credit to u/ClassyDaedra for the footage

Good job on crediting the OP Franky 👍

[PoolGuy]

DC Rivals is under going testing. Hopefully soon she will be back open.

[Rivals]

24 minutes ago, PoolGuy said:

DC Rivals is under going testing. Hopefully soon she will be back open.

It’s great to see but i wonder why they had to take the lead car (forgot what it’s called) piece off of the train? also, what was the 7News report about, im guessing they’ve finally heard about the ride stalling?  

[joz]

They were reporting on traffic jams on the m1 and just had a helicopter with live shots of places people are going

[red dragin]

23 minutes ago, Rivals said:

It’s great to see but i wonder why they had to take the lead car 

Probably to connect the winch to the chassis so they could pull it up the loop. 

[Dean Barnett]

Ah using water dummies.. what a great idea!

[Ashley]

28 minutes ago, Dean Barnett said:

Ah using water dummies.. what a great idea!

What's wrong with that?

Are you volunteering to take a water dummies place? 😁

[jhunt2]

2 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:

Ah using water dummies.. what a great idea!

I feel like you're implying that they should have used water dummies on the morning cycle that valleyed in the first place, but surely you see what an unnecessary waste of time and effort that would be for a regular morning cycle?

It would actually be counter-intuitive for the exact reason demonstrated by this valley. There's no point in the operating team knowing that a full train will safely make the circuit if an empty one potentially won't.

[New display name]

6 hours ago, red dragin said:

Probably to connect the winch to the chassis so they could pull it up the loop. 

It is clearly shown, still attached in the video.

[Dean Barnett]

7 hours ago, jhunt2 said:

There's no point in the operating team knowing that a full train will safely make the circuit if an empty one potentially won't.

I do believe there was a roller coaster down the road that required a minimum amount of people in the train to dispatch …

[Rivals]

2 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:

I do believe there was a roller coaster down the road that required a minimum amount of people in the train to dispatch …

it’s also 27 years old, made by a completely different manufacturer with a completely different layout and hasn’t had that rule since they got new trains.

Before this a Mack coaster has never valleyed and 9 times out of 10 it’s hauling, they don’t need a rule like that.

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by Rivals

[Dean Barnett]

13 minutes ago, Rivals said:

 

Before this a Mack coaster has never valleyed

[Ashley]

A roller coaster that required a minimum amount people in it was Psyclone, at SFMM.

It was damaged in an earthquake, they made repairs, however, it was never the same again.
Even with people on the ride the train would still crawl through some parts of the course.

[Rivals]

1 minute ago, Ashley said:

A roller coaster that required a minimum amount people in it was Psyclone, at SFMM.

Im 90% sure when GC was Cyclone they required a certain number of people on the train to avoid valleying in the rides S-bend section before the helix and reverse sidewinder.

 

1 hour ago, Dean Barnett said:

that was due to the launch speed not being accurate making it stall at the top of the top hat, having guests / water dummies on it wouldn’t have helped. 

[jhunt2]

4 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:

I do believe there was a roller coaster down the road that required a minimum amount of people in the train to dispatch …

Different coaster, much older, different manufacturer. Apples and oranges.

The point of morning cycles is to test for any warning signs that the ride could fail to operate normally during the day. There's no point running a test cycle with a loaded train when the weather conditions suggest that lighter trains' speed could be one of those points of concern.

DCR doesn't have any minimum rider rule as far as we know, so if an empty train can't complete the circuit, then it can't be considered safe to open for the day. If the crowds are small and a cycle only has half a dozen riders, the train could very well behave quite similarly to an empty one. Operators need to know that - no point knowing that a full train is safe to run but not knowing exactly how many riders they need at minimum to prevent a valley.

[Dean Barnett]

I think we can all agree now that it was way too windy for the ride to be dispatched.. especially empty.

[Slick]

14 hours ago, jhunt2 said:

There's no point in the operating team knowing that a full train will safely make the circuit if an empty one potentially won't.

Literally Cyclone for the longest time. Still might be the case, not sure what the case is with the Vekoma train. 

[New display name]

2 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:

I think we can all agree now that it was way too windy for the ride to be dispatched.. especially empty.

The only person agreeing with you is yourself.

[Naazon]

4 hours ago, Rivals said:

that was due to the launch speed not being accurate making it stall at the top of the top hat, having guests / water dummies on it wouldn’t have helped. 

I guess it also technically never valleyed. More... hilled?

[Brad2912]

DCR is cycling with no water dummies 

[Prequel]

5 hours ago, Dean Barnett said:

I think we can all agree now that it was way too windy for the ride to be dispatched.. especially empty.

I don't think I've ever seen Movie World use water dummies for their morning tests on any ride. Thinking about it, I don't think I've seen any theme park on the Gold Coast use water dummies for their morning cycles. 

Constantly filling up trains with water dummies every morning just seems like a massive waste of time. You are speaking like you knew this was gonna happen, when this has never happened in the 5 years the ride has operated at the park. 

You're not an expert, nobody is expecting you to be an expert, stop pretending to be an expert. 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Prequel

[Rivals]

32 minutes ago, Prequel said:

I don't think I've ever seen Movie World use water dummies for their morning tests on any ride. Thinking about it, I don't think I've seen any theme park on the Gold Coast use water dummies for their morning cycles. 

Yesterday the ride was cycling with dummies and there was still one - two earlier today

 

[Dean Barnett]

2 hours ago, Prequel said:

I don't think I've ever seen Movie World use water dummies for their morning tests on any ride.

I never said that - I'm saying if they decided to cycle the ride when it was too windy they should have chucked some dummies on.. it probably would have made it around with more mass (which is more speed).