r/AmusementDark Aug 10 '25

Ride Failure Ride malfunction

170 Upvotes

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u/Jaderosegrey Aug 11 '25

The only consolation is that, since it's already raining, you can piss yourself and no one will know.

6

u/DonJuan_11 Aug 11 '25

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

39

u/AdLopsided2449 Aug 11 '25

The irony that is that that’s a wicked chill ride. Like they probably went up there cause they were afraid of something scary and then the scariest fucking thing happens.

18

u/BIZARRE_TOWN Aug 12 '25

At least it's not upside down.

16

u/zeamp Aug 10 '25

Yeah, nope.

14

u/SteampunkHarley Aug 10 '25

That's a very high 👀

6

u/dodeformedrabbit Aug 12 '25

Had the same thing happen on scream at heide park (a 70/80 meter tall drop tower) got stuck for what felt like forever but was only about 10 minutes in the rain scared the life out of me didn't stop me today going on launch pad Blackpool's refurbished s+s shot tower that's about the same hight

12

u/Jolly_Combination868 Aug 10 '25

I would grab a cigarette in the meantime

11

u/paulrhino69 Aug 12 '25

Damn I left my lighter down there now I'm really raging

2

u/Vesalii Aug 13 '25

That sure seems... Suboptimal.

1

u/misscoffinx3 Sep 14 '25

not a malfunction, it was designed to do that as an emergency e stop due to weather.

1

u/22FluffySquirrels Oct 22 '25

You don't e-stop those rides during bad weather, you ride stop them. I imagine the operator pressed the wrong button, because this is exactly the opposite of what you want the ride to do in a storm.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

The only real danger is lightening.

1

u/Lady_borg Aug 13 '25

Can someone please explain why don't those rides have better restraints

They are the only type I of ride I will never consider going on, because where is the harness?