It's there. Follow Sarah's arm, you can see some kind of wristband on her right wrist and the bar is visible near that.
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MK Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack
- Thread starter TheCoasterNerd
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Still the same restraint setup:
Thanks for that. I missed that one. May have to keep an arm around the little guy as he may try to go flying. Haha.
The ride’s single lap bar really makes you feel like you’re going to fly out if you have a mismatched height/weight profile than your fellow rider. It’s one ride where I am actively holding onto a child the entire time.
No doubt the ride is safe, but I often question how no one has been ejected yet.
No doubt the ride is safe, but I often question how no one has been ejected yet.
Note the fold away piece on the first row of the car for easier transfer from wheelchair.
Also it seems that the padding on the restraint bar has also been removed. This may explain the lower height requirement.
Notes from Neverland
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Chip Chipperson
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Any word on previews before May 3? I fly in the day before so it would be great if they have some AP or DVC previews ahead of the official reopening.
Slowjack
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Hmm. On my daughter's first trip to WDW, we rode BTMR when she was just tall enough at whatever was the old height requirement. She rode next to my wife and I rode in the car behind. My daughter was apparently very frightened by how loud the first chain lift was.
Point being, she told me this, while on the second lift hill. That is, she turned around, such that she was on her knees on the seat, facing backwards, entirely unfettered by the bar. I frantically shouted and wife corralled her back under the bar before the top of the lift.
So I'm not sure I'm cool with them lowering the height requirement if the restraint system has not meaningfully changed.
Point being, she told me this, while on the second lift hill. That is, she turned around, such that she was on her knees on the seat, facing backwards, entirely unfettered by the bar. I frantically shouted and wife corralled her back under the bar before the top of the lift.
So I'm not sure I'm cool with them lowering the height requirement if the restraint system has not meaningfully changed.
HMF
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I am supposing that is the time it took them to convince TDO it was nessacary.'over the last 5 years'
Disone
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Agreed! Me too!!!! They just look wrong with one drive wheel.
Ehhhh. I'm sure the technology has come along that they could bring them back now. They were cosmetic but they were also not the cause of the accident. The front drive wheels are actually weight-bearing but the second set was just cosmetic. Cosmetic indeed and they just look completely off without them. Time to find a "safe way " to reinstall them.
The coaster cars are new. That's the intentional aged look. You just gave them the ultimate compliment. They're purposely antiqued brand new cars and you just commented that they couldn't even bother to repaint them. Some imagineer read that and said " Mission accomplished."
Woah.... That's a lot of padding. I don't recall the original cars having that much padding especially on the sides.
Disgruntled Walt
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I believe the track has been slightly straightened in this shot:
There was rocking effect built into the track here, and I don't see it in the profiling.
There was rocking effect built into the track here, and I don't see it in the profiling.
MerlinTheGoat
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You are most likely correct about this. I've been waiting to get a confirmed closer look at this section of the track. But I did make a post about 2 weeks ago in this thread about this. There were possible hints of this in earlier photos, but it was harder to see. A friend told me quite a while back that this section of the track had been straightened out and would no longer jostle and jerk sideways anymore. Just straight with vertical humps now. They weren't going off photos either, someone working on it told them about this. It's starting to appear that they were correct.
I was never a fan of this jerkiness myself (I also think it distracts from the scenery and makes it harder to focus on it), but I know others liked it and it'll be a controversy when they realize it's gone. Wonder if this was the infamous "kidney stone dislodger" section of the ride. Guess the nephrologists will be happy to get more customers...
HakunaMatata89
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The change to the height requirement is interesting.
Coaster Lover
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No doubt the ride is safe, but I often question how no one has been ejected yet.
Physics... I'd suspect that the minimum vertical g's is still >0. Lots of "floater" airtime, no "ejector" airtime. The lap bar is there more for psychological purposes. There are significantly more intense coasters out there with similarly minimal restraints that have operated safely without anyone falling out for just as long (if not longer) [Phoenix at Knoebels comes to mind].
How many centimeters is that?