Ride breakdowns

[towers freak]

[quote=""siralgenon""] Don't get me wrong i'd love to see behind the scenes on a ride, just not one with zombies and tarantula's! [/quote]

It would be no more scarier than walking through tesco when they're selling the naff halloween stuff.

[madkitty]

saturday was a complete joke - sonic, thirteen, air, nemesis and oblivion all broke within 1 day - to say a complaint is in the making is an understatement, we managed 2 rides all day!

[MinteButtons]

[quote=""madkitty""]saturday was a complete joke - sonic, thirteen, air, nemesis and oblivion all broke within 1 day - to say a complaint is in the making is an understatement, we managed 2 rides all day![/quote]


I was surprised at the number of breakdowns, I've seen Air have downtime but never Nemesis or Oblivion, so all 3 B&M'S in one day was surprising.

[Alex Tyler]

[quote=""MinteButtons""][quote=""madkitty""]saturday was a complete joke - sonic, thirteen, air, nemesis and oblivion all broke within 1 day - to say a complaint is in the making is an understatement, we managed 2 rides all day![/quote]


I was surprised at the number of breakdowns, I've seen Air have downtime but never Nemesis or Oblivion, so all 3 B&M'S in one day was surprising.[/quote]

I must of had a VERY lucky day because the only problem I had was Sonic and as we got to it it reopened.

[NeilHD]

I didn't see anything broken on Saturday and got on loads of rides.

On Sunday Sonic broke down whilst I was in the queue but was only down for 15 mins or so and once they'd released all the cars back to the station it started running again.

[joshc807]

It seems Sonic has been having a few problems this season

When I went it broke down twice, and when the engineer came he just look annoyed and said to the staff, 'here we go again'. Both times he just had to restart the ride, so I wonder if there is a major fault with the ride?

[stretchy]

The Monorail had an evac this evening. Pirate train broke down near Air. First time I have ever seen this happen. Have a photo if anyone is interested, but is poor quality.

[djtruefitt]

How do they evac the monorail?

[stretchy]

Very carefully. I've put a couple of pics here

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[warren90]

last year my and a few friends were on Duel and it stopped .I got a really good score as well but the ride reset as i got my camera out anyway when the staff came round i asked him if we could walk around and have a full look. 1st he said no but then went "why not" so we got to go all the way round with the lights on

[Big Dave]

Very rare that they evac the monorail as it takes so long and the platform (unless its been modified) could only carry a very very small amount of people due to the weight restrictions. Dont think I have ever ever seen it done. Seen them send a work train out to pull a stuck one before :P

[mrbrightside]

By the looks of it that monorail train was pretty empty - must be a bit scary to be standing up there on a thin bit of platform though!

[NoseyElephant]

I've only ever had problems with th13teen and rita. Both were down because of some electricity fault in the whole of the dark forest, but the problem was fixed fairly quickly! I have to say AT seems to be the best at fixing breakdowns/not having any problems at all. Other theme parks i have been to are shocking in comparison

[RyanY]

Th13teen seems to break down for 10-30 minutes every time I go into the queue line and once in may this year it was broke for the whole day and that was made even more annoying because the people I went with hadn't been on it.

[stretchy]

[quote=""mrbrightside""]By the looks of it that monorail train was pretty empty - must be a bit scary to be standing up there on a thin bit of platform though![/quote]
I think they split the train into 2 halves and evacuated each half separately, But I didn't stay around and watch, Just noticed what looked like different people if you look at the photos only half of the doors are open.

[quote=""Big Dave""]Very rare that they evac the monorail as it takes so long and the platform (unless its been modified) could only carry a very very small amount of people due to the weight restrictions. Dont think I have ever ever seen it done. Seen them send a work train out to pull a stuck one before :P[/quote]

Yes I've been on one that was worked on and fixed, but this is also the first time I've ever seen it evacuated. They closed Air and Nemy whilst the Evac was happening. (even though Air seemed to be closed more due to technical issues and Nemy, due to them needing the staff for the Monorail evac.

[hugarh1]

Every time I go to the park Oblivion seems to have technical issues while I'm in X-sector. It happened today, when I went at scarefest last year, and at scarefest the year before. The only other rides that have broken down on me are Spinball, which was closed for the rest of the evening, and Air.

[Stelios7]

Rita doesn't normally breakdown, it's someone in the queueline using there mobile.

[djtruefitt]

It always seems to break down when im in the queue or near the front of the queue. Although it never seems anything major as usually once the maintance guys get there and press a few buttons its working again.

[Don't_Look_Down]

[quote=""Stelios7""]Rita doesn't normally breakdown, it's someone in the queueline using there mobile.[/quote]

Oh yeah? I can't think of one trip where Rita hasn't broken down

Th13teen and Air are the other two that always seem to break down when I'm there.

[Bote]

Th13teen and Air are always to be expected. Both were brand new systems when installed, and Air is a prototype, so it is only to be expected.

Oblivion doesn't seem to break down as such. It's more a case off if someone is seen using their phone onboard they will halt it until it is dealt with, but even that doesn't take too long.

Nemesis very rarely has issues.

Rita... Well. I blame Intamin and Windows XP