Since GD reopened from maintenance, You have to be apparently over 10yrs old to start riding the ride 

3 hours ago, Adventures With JWorld said:

Since GD reopened from maintenance, You have to be apparently over 10yrs old to start riding the ride 

They probably dont want those “fearless” young children going up there by themselves and then have the ride stop on them, traumatising them. Perhaps they think children over 10 would better understand what a stoppage is. 

Why would they think children over 10 understand stoppages when whole media outlets still can't get their heads around a stoppage.

15 hours ago, Adventures With JWorld said:

Since GD reopened from maintenance, You have to be apparently over 10yrs old to start riding the ride 

My little sister who is 7 went on it like 2 days ago?? 

I don't know how many kids carry ID.  I have a hunch this is another in-house safety mechanism to protect DW if something was to go wrong.

Edited April 18, 20187 yr by Skeeta

DC Rivals has a minimum height and age. But the change will be insurance driven no doubt. 

Edited April 18, 20187 yr by red dragin

1 hour ago, red dragin said:

DC Rivals has a minimum height and age. But the change will be insurance driven no doubt. 

For the purpose for insurance what is the difference between SM and Rivals?

19 minutes ago, Skeeta said:

For the purpose for insurance what is the difference between SM and Rivals?

 

No idea, but I imagine if a ride at my Theme Park killed 4 people, my insurers would be searching for every possible risk there is and try to mitigate it where possible.

But it gets to the point where it becomes overboard, and everything is in bubble wrap and things become less fun or annoying. Most of the changes made at DW already have made some of their rides more annoying than they are worth. So hopefully this stream of in house changes stops. Yes people died, but im sure the chances of something this major ever happening again is very very unlikely. There is being safe and secure, and then there is just being stupid. 

It's really just additional layers for the park's ops teams to use at their discretion as a response to the way customers respect the minimum safety requirements. Once upon a time folks would take it in stride if little Timmy wasn't tall enough to ride, nowadays it can lead to a full blown argument at the front of the line and a very public uproar on social media.

And to add - it's not like they have any real way to know if someone is over or under the age of ten anyway, however if something were to happen and folks had knowingly defied signage and guidelines then it's another safety layer for the park to defend itself with, should anything occur.

TLDR, it doesn't matter unless you're trying to be un-safe.

Edited April 18, 20187 yr by Roachie

That's going to cause so many arguments and upset guests from kids that could ride last visit and then not now.

 

Not that many care but Abyss has always had a restriction on being over 8 years old to rides Abyss.

On 19/04/2018 at 7:15 PM, Tim Dasco said:

Not that many care but Abyss has always had a restriction on being over 8 years old to rides Abyss.

But see Tim... THAT is relevant to the discussion, so its the perfect time to mention it!

For those who don't know already...

Jack Darke's BuzzSaw pushed back another month 

Little Rippers pushed back slightly

Edited May 1, 20187 yr by themeparkaddict

Potentially some good news theming-wise for WWF

It is undergoing maintenance for a couple of days soon.

 Storm Coaster has had it’s propeller missing from the submarine for a while now.

Sorry for the quality.

1 hour ago, themeparkaddict said:

Potentially some good news theming-wise for WWF

It is undergoing maintenance for a couple of days soon.

Optimistic at best.

 

1 hour ago, Mc coaster said:

 Storm Coaster has had it’s propeller missing from the submarine for a while now.

Sorry for the quality.

Actually it disappeared not long after the TRRR incident.

4 hours ago, Mc coaster said:

 Storm Coaster has had it’s propeller missing from the submarine for a while now.

Sorry for the quality.

I thought it was an upturned container boat?

1 hour ago, Glubbo said:

I thought it was an upturned container boat?

It is, but if we correct that then honestly we would never be done correcting people.

Something doesn’t seem right here 🤔

5 hours ago, themagician said:

Something doesn’t seem right here 🤔

Back to the Future re-theme confirmed.

🤣

Jack Darkes Buzzsaw has once again been pushed back, this time until the 4th June. At what point are we able to call it an extended closure? 3 months?

@themeparkaddictYou will need to ask the only theme park enthusiast @Rollercoaster_Loverif it is a extended closure or not.  Us general public have no idea what you are talking about.

 

@Rollercoaster_Lover any ideas? 

1 hour ago, Skeeta said:

@themeparkaddictYou will need to ask the only theme park enthusiast @Rollercoaster_Loverif it is a extended closure or not.  Us general public have no idea what you are talking about.

 

 

Whatever