In the old days it would have been a mess, but with reservations, it will just be a busy MK, but nothing overwhelming.
It's really fine. There is nothing unsafe about it.
In the example I gave, the restraint is hovering about 2 feet over the child, so again, no restraint at all.
that might be a bit exaggerated but I agree with the overall point. Coasters don't have to go upside down to cause issues and typically if they are going upside down, they're going fast enough to not matter...it's the hills and negative G-forces which are IMO more of an issue
That's what I get for posting when I'm half a sleep. I got it backwards.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I think Tron has more then 3 trains. With Double load and unload stations plus a hold point just before the unload fork they could casade five right there.
But the outside section is so thematically perfect, matching in the movies, when the programs go outside the computer and zip around under some lights.
And yet never has there been an issue with someone falling off the ride. BTMRR consists almost entirely of positive and lateral g-forces with essentially no negative g-forces. The deep bucket seats keep you plenty safe on the ride (even if you rode with no restraint at all). The restraint isn't there to prevent you from getting out of the ride, it's just there to discourage you from getting out of the ride. The single bar restraint helps with load/unload times substantially. Any change to individual lap bars would significantly decrease throughput of the ride.
Thankfully there's been no accidents like that, but I can't be the only one who has seen what I described whipping out of the load station and thought, "oh, no..."
The 40 inch requirement becomes moot because this is a SHARED SEAT/RESTRAINT. What modern thrill ride allows for a min/max arrangement and can claim to do so safely? Trying to keep this focused on Tron, imagine a rider seated with the restraint at the maximum setting. Now sit a scrawny four-footer next to them, but keep the same configuration. Should be okay, right? There is some padding I believe.
40 inch height requirement is not moot as it still factors into where parts of the seat will fall in range.
You really don’t want Thunder to be any fun at all, huh?
Size - and fat content isn't only about the calf portion of the restraint, though surely people who gain large amounts of weight also get much larger calves. Larger calf sizes are clearly evident with weight gain.
Or maybe da just holds onto the kid like a normal sane person would. Stop creating problems where there are none. I rode Big Thunder with my daughter last year, you could barely see her head from the seat behind, and guess what, I held her so she would go flopping around in the seat.
For fun round numbers let's say BTMRR has 2000/hr capacity... and let's say it runs 12 hours per day. That's just under 9 million riders per year. It's been open for 43 years. At some point you have to put more stock in the data than on the human nature fear of seeing a little tike ride out of the station when you say the safety restraints are outdated (over 350 million test cases, and this is just one park).
