Why do the zoomerang coaster gets stuck at the butterfly?

Question

the reason i ask is because when i first went to lake compounce and i saw in newspapers zoomerang stuck i never rode it after that cause i was afraid i might get stuck and eather have to jump 20 feet from the butterfuly or wait to be sved any idea where it might be and who's fault it is?

Answer 1

Don't you just want to hear it's unsafe. That's why people say when stuff like that happens.

There are five ways that this could happen. When you are going backwards from the station to the first lifthill, it lets go too early, and than it gets stuck in the cobra roll (what you call butterfly).

The second one is that it releases on the first lifthill, goes through the station, than the cobra roll, goes through the loop, and than doesn't hook onto the chain, and goes backwards through the loop, and it lands in the cobra roll. There are brakes near the loop, and the lifthill so this hardly ever happens. The brakes didn't work this time, and it got stuck.

The third reason could have been that it was going through the whole course of the ride, and maybe it was raining, and it was windy. I think that rain slows down the ride, and wind surely does also. These two things were too much, and it got stuck in the cobra roll.

The fourth reason could be that the brakes don't engage, or are barely working in station when you are done with the ride, and thus it keeps on going until it hits the cobra roll.

The fifth reason is that when it releases from the lifthill, let's say the brakes are working, and they aren't supposed to work at that time. It could get stuck that way.

Think about this. This hardly ever happens when it gets stuck in the cobra roll because it's that stupid of a ride even though it's only a machine.

As for getting off when this does happen, are you kidding me about jumping 20 feet, or waiting to be saved?? It's very easy to get off that part of the ride. They have a platform in which you go down stairs. It's easy for the employees to release the restraints on these rides even when they aren't in the station. So, stop being so scared, please.

Look at this picture, and see the platform: http://rcdb.com/ig432.htm?picture=3 It's on the right side of train. Than, you see stairs. That's what that is for.