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Just maybe DW should not hire dumb people. The fact that the GB is reporting on this gives the whole thing no credibility.

Let’s hope you never end up disabled.

Interesting that the train the stopped on the lift hill is still sitting there.

You can block people. Crap If I would have known that I would have blocked me years ago.

Whats with the roof over the gaol?

Thank you webslave I never worded that way but that is what I was trying to get across and that's my bad. What has roller coasters have to do with it. It was a workplace accident. That is why Workplace is investigating it. Workplace covers the customer and the employee. So it total the same thing 2 people injured at a place of work.

You might won't to read what I said. I said if it was me and I did not tell her to.

Good job

djrappa can we not. I've been waiting almost 2 years to get my L4 and L5 fused together after a work accident that was not my fault. At the time of the accident I thought it was nothing major and did not worry about it. About 3 years later after returning to a sport I have found out the hard way that my disc in the lumber spine have exploded. Now I cannot go on roller coasters till my back is fixed as I cannot stand longer stand longer the 5 min because of the pain and if I stand longer then this my legs go numb and I collapse after about 15min. I did not tell her to try and take them for all they have but saying you need a lawyer to protect yourself and we can already see Mr CEO is already playing it down. I didn’t what some type of payout for my back I just want to be able to walk longer than 5 min and I think you misunderstand where I am coming from.

ThrillSeekerMore I'm glad you and your family are ok. If this was me I would be going straight to lawyer. I would not talk to the media or any website community until I had at least talked to a lawyer. I would not be attending a meeting with MV before I had talked to a lawyer. I would put money on it that MW will talk to a lawyer before they talk to you. I saw Mr CEO on the news offering you a free day in the park and you deserve better than that.

Lol that will do me.

Makes a man wonder why there isn't a second system to catch the car if it fails independent of the wheels.

Thanks Richard. I did read it when it first went up I must have skipped that part.

Richard or anyone else can someone tell me am I seeing 2 sets of wheels here not on the track?

I snipped some videos and I just can't see anything holding this dam thing on. From this angle it looks like the first car it resting on a bolt and I think this is what the fireman was talking about. Total derailment front and rear cars.

TPR have some good photos from the IAAPA trade show. http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/photo.php?pageid=189&linkid=11285

This father and daughter have been on every channel and in the paper I have some question and thoughts that someone might help me with. Gold Coast Movie World’s Green Lantern passenger tell of her horror as roller-coaster malfunctions At their Eagle Heights Home Mr David Williams and his daughter Fallon Williams who were on the Movie World rollercoaster that derailed. ONE of the six passengers stuck for three hours on Movie World’s Green Lantern ride on Sunday says she was terrified staff would start it again, sending them plunging to the ground. Fallon Williams, 30, of Beenleigh yesterday told of her horror while stranded 20 metres above the ground. She was on the ride with her father David, sister Rachelle, 22 and Rachelle’s partner Alistair Balfe. The loudspeaker message kept relaying saying, ‘Please be patient, the ride will continue shortly’ but we kept yelling out to them, ‘Don’t let the ride continue’ but the hydraulics kept going and we were so worried that if they started it up, it could actually dislodge us because it was so unstable,” she said. (What would the hydraulics they are talking about be? I know the ride was not going to be restated and in there panic state they might of thought because of the auto message it was going to happen. Side question to this one if the ride for some stupid reason was started would the ride remember that a car had not returned to a point on the track? Fallon said she could not bear the pain of bruised ribs and felt unsettled as the gravity of the situation began to sink in. “I’m really sore,” she said. “I woke up really short of breath, with a sharp stabbing pain and neck pain as well from whiplash, as it was pretty forceful and quite scary. “I freaked out and had no idea what was going on. David was left with cracked ribs, a partially collapsed lung and ongoing pain and had to take a day off work yesterday to recover. “I was in hospital until after 1am to have all the scans and checks and the doctors told me I have broken and cracked ribs and a partially collapsed lung,” he said. “I couldn’t sleep because of the pain and now that I think about it, it was pretty scary.” Fallon said she had been most anxious about a 13-year-old girl in the back row sitting in the most unstable part of the cart which was hanging over the edge of the track. “I thank God there was someone little on the edge,” she said. “If it was someone bigger it might not have ended well. “She was so brave. She said her tummy hurt but she remained really calm. “My dad said to us, ‘You realise the reason they were telling us not move is because it could have tipped’. (Or could they have been just taking precautions?) “They had to get the little girl and her mum off first in case the cart overbalanced. “The firies didn’t let on how bad it was in front of us but I was right near them and could see them whispering to each other. “They just kept making jokes to keep us calm. “What else could they do?” David said that when the ride started he could feel it was going faster than usual then suddenly it jolted forward, losing a wheel. (How would it be possible for the ride to go faster than it should have when it has no drive but relies on gravity? How much allowance would ride manufacture have for extra stresses? Surly these things are not built to the bare min and if there was a speed increases it could not be much more) “There was a thud like having a flat tyre going over a speed bump — then we suddenly stopped,” he said. “We didn’t know how bad it was at the time. “Movie World staff told us it had got stuck but it wasn’t just stuck. “We had come off the tracks. “One of the firies told us how bad it was once we got to the ground. We were told when we got down that we could have fallen.” (Not a question but unless there was nothing there at all what would a firies know about a coaster? It would be no difference me going up there and taken a look and telling them it’s going to go) “This sort of thing just shouldn’t happen,” David said. “It’s just wrong.” David said Movie World could try to “sugar-coat it, but it doesn’t change what happened”. (Movie World have no choice but to sugar-coat it but if they are at fault I can’t see why they wouldn’t be made to pay) If it was me and I was in that much pain I don’t think I would be on every news outlet straight away.

I think a lot of comments are stupid but I’m not going to waste my time pulling these people upon it because it’s always the same people. I don’t know how many TPR members have been on it but considering a lot of the people on that site would be from America I would say it very few have been on it. It has not been around long enough and in general Americans do not travel that much to Australia. Looking at US exit site last year 601,325 travelled to the Oceania area. That is 0.0018% of the USA population has come to the area. I don’t know how many TPR there are but how many there are divide that by that number. Very big chance that the 15 people talking have never been here. Also there was speculation (^I guess the four pins that hold the side friction and upstop wheels snapped and the bottom part of the wheel assembly fell off. It's hard to tell, if only the man's arm can move a little...) Does not sound like this. “we'll have to wait until the investigation concludes before we find out what happened.... ok we'll wait"” I tried to send this to you as a message but it’s says you can’t receive so I place it here. You have a right to reply and please do but I will not continue with this so I don’t derail the topic.

I don't think it has anything to do with the maturity level. They have never been on it so they fill no connection. We only have a few parks so if we don’t talk about it else do we talk about. The parks cause us to speculate on most things because they do not give us any information. (If we didn’t speculate on things we would never get to the bottom of things. As you know in the states most of the attractions are released sometimes years ahead they even have walkthroughs going on and big press releases while we see a sprinkler been moved around and it’s the next big thing). But I do think it goes over the top sometimes but if we didn’t I would only have to come to this site once a year.

I have had my own experience of light on and lights off and the lights on was more crazy then lights off. I was riding the supernova at Expo 88 when it stopped at the final brake run before it entered the station. The light came on and they pushed us back into the station. They sent us around a second time, I can only assume they forgot to turn the lights out again. The supernova I would class as a family coaster but not for smaller kids. Once the lights came on it became a thrill coaster there was a lot of track squeezed in that shed so the whole ride was full of head choppers and the drops that where very steep but you lose that perspective on a ride when you have no horizon line.

Mikaykay as a self-appointed air crash investigator, I mean self-appointed coaster crash investigator I have a few question for you. What location on the track was the car when you heard the bang? When you saw the parts fly off did you see the front car go first or the back car or couldn’t see? How long did you think the grinding lasted for? How long after you heard the bang did it take the second car on the track to stop? Did they get your details before you left? Do you like chocolates?

Yea I was listening to him on the radio just now. Apparently to him it is standard practice for the CEO the help in all Estops.

They had cranes there last night and it was all lit up so I would say they worked through the night.

I just listened to Rob on Hot Tomato and he said that this is very rare that something like this would happen but it can happen. No disrespect to Rob but the media are clutching at straws a bit if they are getting news from Rob it’s not like he has any more information on what happened then us.