What NOT to do When Stuck on a Roller Coaster - Theme Park Nonsense
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Educational channels on TH-cam are fantastic, you can learn a lot of things about tons of different topics. Problems emerge when educational channels produce videos that claim to be educational, but are actually filled with nonsense.
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I've gotten stuck on coasters a bunch of times and having all my coaster knowledge that's stuck in my brain, I usually like to look around and calm the people who panic. Happened on a lifthill once and I had a full blown nerd moment where I explained to someone, who was having a panic attack, how lifthills work and why it's impossible for us to roll backwards even if the chain rips apart.
Other than that, I sit and hope I don't have to go to the bathroom anytime soon in case it takes longer than a few minutes xD
Recently I got stuck in a dark coaster and all the lights went on so I looked around like ":O" and the guy next to me started to try and calm me down. I wasn't anxious at all, I know my coasters and how they work but it was a really nice gesture.
Just make the interested "uuuuuhhhhh" noise, then they'll know that you're fascinated and not scared
That’s honestly the best thing to do is explain mechanically how it’s impossible for something bad to happen
@@bey630 even if it could happen anyway, it calms them down lol.
I got texts from my sister months ago when my family was at Kings Island after they got off of Orion. They were stuck on the lift hill for about 10-15 minutes. I instantly texted back either something happened that the next section wasn't clear, error with sensors causing a stop, etc.
Kudos for calming strangers down on rides! If you want to count it as a coaster, my mom got stuck on Gringott's at Univeral once. She was a single rider so she was with a dad and two little kids. Not only did the ride stop but they turned the lights on signaling that it would be awhile before they got moving. The two little kids started freaking out and the dad wasn't sure how to calm them down. My mom leaned over and gently told them that nothing bad was going to happen and, with the lights on, started pointing out various mechanisms and showing the kids how the ride works. By the time the ride started up again the kids were disappointed that they couldn't see the mechanics anymore
It always frustrates me when I hear the misinformation in those types of videos. It just fans the fire and makes more people afraid
I agree
I like that, keeps lines shorter
😅😅😅@@Dmv216661
I've been at Busch Gardens a few times when a thunderstorm hit. Well in advance of the storm hitting, they start making an announcement warning guests to prepare for potential severe weather. And when the storm is still like 10-15 minutes away, the announcement becomes "due to severe weather, all ride operations are temporarily suspended, please seek shelter immediately"
they do this at Worlds of Fun, too. I was super fascinated when I first heard it, but like duh lmao.
For good reason, rain can hurt if hit at 50 mph.
I used to think as a kid that the reason they closed down rides in poor weather is because you would get electrocuted 💀💀💀💀💀💀
That day I was playing Roller coaster Tycoon 2 and looked up what a block brake did was the thing that broke my fear of roller coasters.q
There will always be misinformation out there but channels like yours, El Toro Ryan, Theme Park Crazy, etc. are all why I was able to go to Cedar Point and enjoy what I was missing out on for years of my life.
I think entertainment has its place but the biggest crime is dressing entertainment up as fact. That is what truly hurts people more often than any theme park ever could.
even with block breaks, operator error can cause an accident like what happened on The Smiler at Alton Towers, poorly trained staff did a manual override without realising a train had valleyed...
Presenting entertainment as fact has probably played a major role in the shitty state of affairs the politics of many countries are in today. It is incredibly dangerous in general and it should be illegal for mainstream media to do this. If you want to prioritise entertainment over presenting facts, you should be obliged to make it clear that you are not a news reporter or educator.
the thing that annoyed me the most in the first video is that the train is on the wrong side of the track in the a non inverting loop
Why I stopped on Leviathan's lift hill last summer: PUT YOUR PHONE AWAY.
Sometimes ride stoppages arent even related to the technology of the ride itself but the stupidity of humans.
Most big coasters nowadays don’t allow you to have your phone on you or any other loose articles. They make you leave it at the station.
Yeah I wish I could say we didn't allow that in the great not so white everywhere right now north but I'm pretty sure I had my phone zipped up in my coat pocket.
I can say as a ride op, probably the most common cause for ride stoppages we experience come down to guest action in some way. Of course, it's far from the only reason for a delay, but it's a significant factor. Always follow the rules and be aware of what's happening around you when at an attraction - one poor decision from a guest can cause a pretty significant delay for the x-hundred others waiting in line!
I wish I could do that 🤣 but at la ronde we are not allowed to do this, we just have to SCREAM into the lift speaker, and that speaker is veeeeery loud, people on boomerang can hear it
@@CoasterSwiftie just to make sure I understand, you are not allowed to pause the ride when someone brings something unsafe out?
Most importantly, don’t panic. Panic is always the enemy
What? There’s an enemy on the coaster with me?! 😳
Yes, try and keep your heart rate and blood pressure stabile. You can usually do this by thinking of happy memories, keeping you mind anchored on 1 thought at a time, and actively thinking about keeping your muscles relaxed. Not all of this is needed, but it would apply especially when upside down.
If all else fails, ask your fellow riders about something they are really interested in, especially if they are anxious. Not everyone can stay calm, so you should always try and help, it will keep you both calm.
Fear is the mindkiller as they say.
Years back my cousin got stuck on a coaster style ride. It was called The Toboggan, and it would go up a tunnel then spin around the outside of the tunnel. It stuck just as they were midway going up the tunnel and the repair guys were quick to get to work but she had a panic attack. I still remember the repair guys working while telling her 'It's okay, we'll get you out'.
@@MSinistrari Are you sure it was getting stuck that caused the panic attack and not the fact that she was on a Chance Toboggan?
While I can appreciate them at least giving one good piece of advice (stay put and don't mess with your restraint) that is the only actual helpful and informative bit. And that's exactly what you should do in this situation, no matter where you are stuck. Stay put and wait for someone to come tell you what is going to happen, which will usually be either an average evacuation from a place designed to evacuate you from, or that they're going to evacuate you some other way, or in some cases, they'll just advance you to the save evacuation zone, but that's relatively rare. In almost every case you will already be on the safe evacuation zone. People end up evacuated almost every day because of some minor issue. If a ride stops on the lift hill, there's a decent chance some dingaling took their phone out and someone is coming to confiscate it for everyone's safety. It is scary to get stopped, but you are safe and in good hands that will help you.
0:45 they seem to have issues in their animation department. The track is no inversion but a non inverting loop. The train is somehow suddenly riding on the backbone of the track. No wonder it gets stuck…
It’s cheaply animated so they can get it out quickly 😂
Oh Infographics... They used to be alright. But now it's limited facts, then speculation and about 2 minutes worth of research.
For those of you who do not know, a block zone is a section of track that.. ah yes el toro Ryan🤣
The worst part is how the act like they knows exactly what they’re talking about and people believe them
Moral: Don't climb out of a coaster train stuck in an inversion or you're gonna have a bad time. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Well obviously......
So I got 20 seconds in and immediately remembered why I unsubbed infographics. You didnt even say the name of channel, I just remembered how terrible their advice got over time, and it wasnt always bad.
Yeah their videos are getting worse
And bright side, i used to think their vids were legit and there was some discovered land animal that is larger than a blue whale, and to nobody's suprise, it was not real. And one time, because both they did not disclose that the backrooms was not real, and my past self being a gullible dumb*ss, i was scared for like 4 months, and never listened to a song for that amt of time, how tf was i that goddamn gullible.
Their videos are some of the worst on par with 5 minute crafts or bright side
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od i mean 5 min crafts and bright side are made by the same people
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3od not the actors obviously
Apparently, Coaster Studios operates most rides today. 7:07
I hate the channels that give misinformation. So I will be starting to cover those type of videos on my channel.
The only times I’ve got stuck on rollercoaster have been when someone else on the ride was doing something dangerous such as rocking the carriage or something and they purposefully stopped it, in those cases they just told the people to stop and the dangers of it, then they start the ride again, or take them off the ride if they continue or if is easy to remove them
This does make me wonder how you *do* evacuate people stuck upside down. It seems like a pretty difficult operation. Like obviously as a rider the rules are the same as usual - don't panic, stay put, follow instructions - but there must be plans for how to do that if it becomes necessary due to mechanical issues, right?
The firebrigade rescues people one at a time... usually it takes long, but the only way to do it safely.
I'm assuming those videos (or at least the scripts) are created largely with AI. That's why they are filled with nonsense.
Not likely in the case of the videos used here, both are a few years old.
Rides get stopped, happens to all kinds of rides.
You all seen some attractions suddenly get closed while in the park. It's a small world gets stuck a ton in Disney France,.
It being a rollercoaster is just a bit more spooky. but it's a very mundane thing.
I have two somewhat interesting story’s one we were stopped on the final brakes of pantheon because the system would not allow what would have been the last train of the night to dispatch and what seemed like every 30 seconds for the next 15 minutes they were chucking if we were okay which was weird because we stopped where we normally would have and being not okay would make no difference as maintenance was already on the way. Another day I was at kings dominion and there was visible lightning and i305 remained open
On the last Friday of Ops, I got stuck on Gatekeeper's lift during a very windy national anthem ride. It was shakier than you would expect.
Technically couldn’t a powered coaster stop anywhere since it is powered by a hot rail and power could just be cut?
Yes, it could. But they're not really rollercoasters.
yes, like radiator springs racers, or test track at disney parks
@@me-myself-i787Yep. Rollercoasters cars power them selves. It’s not related to any other part of the ride.
@Zyghqwyv Test track is one of the only rides im still fearful of even as a coaster enthusiast it just seems like you can't stop that fast but it always will
@@HugeRMCFanBoY-bx3odhave you seen the real engineering video on how it works? Reccommend it
You should see some of the 'advice' videos for aircraft emergencies. "The seats in the Boeing 747 couldn't pass an automotive inspection!!!" they shriek. The seats in a 747 aren't installed in automobiles.
Also... I wouldn't say that a roller-coaster train doesn't have brakes, just that it only has half of a functioning brake system... It has (effectively) brake rotors, but no brake pads.
I actually plan visits to my local park on days it’s supposed to rain in the afternoon to avoid crowds, and I know that at least there they use weather bug to keep track of lightning. It’s also fun to ride metal coasters in the rain imo, if you can get past the feeling of rain pelting your face you’ll notice the trains actually move faster
If you say a place for entertainment, yes, I love laughing at stupid nonsense that I know about.
One helpful piece of advice would probably be something like your legs might be very weak for a while when you get righted, so don't try and walk for a bit. But they'll probably have EMT's supervising you anyway.
lmao that one where they say you shouldn't touch your seatbelt nor move if the ride gets stuck, and then the emergency brakes are on the train and can be disabled at the operator booth?! Jfc i can feel my braincells committing unaliving 😂
I was put off from coasters when I was little because I loathed the idea of being stuck in an inversion. Even now as a coaster lover, I really don't much care for inversions.
But after getting stuck on Dollywood's Daredevil Falls *right* next to some extremely noisy theming for over an hour, I think I'd prefer being stuck upside down. I'm pretty sure it did some minor hearing damage.
Lmfao the water ride?? I’m crying 🤣
At first, I thought this was the mine ride 💀
Don't worry, the only coaster element that did killed people is airtime
Yes, the friggin' big boy log flume. I haven't been on it since, which is a shame because the theming on it is awesome and USED to be a big draw for me.
Y'know, until said theming nearly drove me bonkers...
I wasn't worried about dying in an inversion, just getting stuck. They're not... Unfun? Just less fun than other coaster aspects. But they're still the #1 spot I would not want to have a train stall at.
Ngl, having to do a walk down a huge chainlift hill would actually be kinda cool. I wouldn't hate that.
Miss information on rides is huge! Regarding stuck rollercoasters i have even seen “trustable” news sites posting about them like if it was a danger to passengers
I got stuck on Superman at Great America once, which would have been fine, except the seats were still lifted up and my arms and legs were just… hanging in dead space. They got us down after a good 30min, but it was uncomfortable for the duration for sure
Happened to me too at the final brake waiting for train in station to leave. I tried to lift my head up so it didn't feel like I was hanging and preventing me from getting sick.
That happened to me in July lol, that sucked. Was at the final brake run
@@musickid43I’ve done that on Manta in Seaworld even though nothing is wrong since it takes forever to unload and reload it, especially if there is another car in front of you.
It's almost like fearmongering. If they want to make people scared of coasters, there's plenty of ways to do it without lying 😂
The second video made me go "the ride would have been closed long ago if there was an incoming thunderstorm, the heck??"
Maybe I'm just jaded by the "how to survive a plane crash" type videos, but I was surprised by how much "well yes, but only kinda" truth there was in these 😅
At least neither of these had something stupid like step-by-step instructions on how to free yourself and climb down.
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I see some familiar coasters from my home amusement park (Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom) playing in the background…nice!
Never gotten stuck on any big amusement ride
It always shocks me how many people think roller coaster trains can stop on demand at any given point (such as on loops or downhills.) Ran into a comment on another channel on some roller coaster accident where they asked why didn’t the train stop immediately after someone got thrown.
I think these videos do more harm than good. They are fear mongering and spread misinformation for clicks.
I’m really excited about the series. Think it’ll be cool.
ive gotten stuck on rides twice in my life. The first time was on a kidde coaster at my local amusement peir. it valleyed and stalled. The second time was on skull mountain at 6 flags great adventure. The brakes at the end of the ride malfunctioned and we were stuck for like 10 minutes.
Roller coaster trains have no brakes? That is true 99% of rollercoasters. There are still few roller coasters that have brakemen on the train. We have one here in Finland at Linnanmäki and I think Tivoli in Denmark had another.
True. There's one in the UK that's absurdly old that has brakes operated by someone on the roller coaster itself. There are no brakes on the track at all.
These videos count as entertainment just as much as the spam in my mailbox counts as mail.
If stuck upside down on a roller coaster, instruct your fellow riders to lean backwards and forwards like you're on a swing set until you move enough that gravity eventually forces the coaster back down the inversion loop.
If you're stuck upside down, gravity has already been nulled.
That will only work if there hasn't been a mechanical failure.
As someone who’s worked in Attractions at Disneyland CA some of the stuff said by these channels is absurd. Saying “Don’t be the first in line cause it needs to be tested and warmed up” is just plain ridiculous to hear as if we just press a button at park opening and hope for the best
I've only been stuck on a ride once and it was on the brake run of Shambhala, stuck there for ~5-10 minutes before the ride started working again and I could exit via the station
"Coaster trains DO NOT have brakes!"
Many do not, but there are exceptions to the rule. "Alpine Coasters" and "Scenic Railway" coasters (such as the one in Melbourne, Australia, which has the record of being the second oldest operating roller coaster in the world) both have manually-operated, train mounted brake systems (except at the end of the ride, where stopping a train quickly if the train-mounted brakes fail is a must.)
I'm certain you already know of these exceptions, but I thought it wise to point it out, as not doing so is misleading in and of itself.
thrill rides are tricky, because their appearance is daunting and they appear unsafe to the general public, having major mainstream channels spout nonsense about ride safety for views wont really help this view at all
"make sure you do your research if this ride has gotten stuck before" just makes people more scared about a mundane lifthill stop, plus this general trend of these channels painting the picture of getting stuck upside down when you can count the number of times that has happened on one hand is just getting people more worried about potentially being stuck upside down for hours. its fearmongering, if there's any industry that likes doing this, its mainstream media, it gets people scared of coasters, in turn they'll watch more videos about ride incidents, and then those channels get more views because those people wanna know more about ride safety
I knew that the Infographics Show was bad, I didn’t realize it was that bad
As a ride operator who has operated coasters before... what was the first presenter's plan for when those "ropes attached to it to keep it oriented correctly" encounter the support structure of the attraction? The track isn't free-floating...
Also the misinformation in the original videos did so very much psychic damage to me.
Two minutes of research was really too much for them, huh?
isn't that Coaster Bot in one of the shots? he would be severely disappointed if he saw this shit (I'm not talking about your video. keep up the good work)
Is it just me or did anyone notice that the loop drawn in the infographic video is a non-inverting loop like the one found on Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit?
Keep up the great work! What is your home park?
Cedar Point!
Merry Christmas Brennan
To be honest the 2 videos that you showed from the two channels that I saw are compleat nonsense and I have watched one of the videos that you have shown in the past and it's very rare that you would get stuck on a inversion on a rollercoaster ride because of a rollercoaster where to mouth function the block bracks would automatically stop the train halfway across the ride
lol yeah I remember the animated story too
Oh god not the infographics show...Called them out on Twitter for copying someone elses SCP content and they got really annoyed about it but that's all they do! paraphrase and churn out content with that crappy artstyle they always use!
Info graphics is more like disinfo/missinfo graphics
the fact that i trust the infographics show so much 😭
they were more info then entertainment before, now they seem just like money printing machines
@@sarcarsm7113 almost every youtuber above 1mil is doing that right now.
@@sarcarsm7113 i’m glad i stopped watching them then
@@sandraestrada3295 yep, good decision, you missed out on literally nothing
Be aware of lighting
Sure I'll try that
Has Anyone Ever Died While The Train Was Stuck?
Not that I'm aware of
Lightning storm coming, let's stop a train full of passengers on top of the lift hill.
Man, that second one is a massive channel, out here spawing unresearched nonsense. I swear, this stuff infuriates me.
What's up with the oversized logo blocking over half of the video clips? Using others video without permission?
No, it's all my footage, other comments on past videos asked for me to make it more clear when I am talking vs the original video.
Maybe I just wasnt paying attention, but I'm confused. Did those two videos actually have any bad advice? It was mostly just incorrect information about how you’ll get out, and I guess a bit of unnecessary advice/overkill in regards to not being the first to ride and stuff. Did I miss the part that actually tells you to do the wrong thing?
They must be prepared to cut restraints in case other emergency procedures fail.
they dont "cut" restraints, they use an emergency release
I like Infographics, but not mentioning block zones is bad.🤦♂️
1500 words on what not to do at a stop light
The sheer amount of fear mongering and disinformation about roller coasters is insane. All those “would you ride this” videos or armchair engineers who know nothing about these complex machines, making others scared.
I’ve even had a coworker years ago who went to Cedar Point tell me they didn’t ride Dragster because it “swayed too much.” They claimed to be an engineering student and that the swaying meant it could fall over. I told them to reread their textbooks on very tall structures and that inflexible, rigid structures are more likely to break under high stress. Must have blown their mind to learn that skyscrapers sway.
"Do your research."
How ironic coming from that video 😒
I know right
Love the video, not a huge fan of the music while you’re talking though.
Also idk if it’s a copyright thing (not trying to sound picky) but the CC logo in the center of the screen IN MY OPINION is a little distracting. I’d much rather just be looking at the coasters in the background.
One persons thought lol take it with a grain of salt
@@JordanOverstreet Thanks for the feedback, funny enough on the last video I had people reach out asking to add some kind of visual indicator for when I'm talking. I guess this isn't it. I'll change it up next time!
Back in my day you could look at dislikes to know these channels were bullshit.
I miss those days
Seems to me that the script is written based on some google searches and send to an animation department without much further communication. So the script already contains some errors because the writers didn't understand what they found. And the issues get worse because the animators have to guess what they need to draw based solely on the text they received.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY N00B 2 PRO RIDER IS BACK!!!! GIGA COASTER IS SO FUNNY!!!!!!! PLEASE LAUGH
These videos have no place as entertainment because their BS can get in the way of people having fun.
I HATE CLICK BAIT 😡
Those videos are terrible they seem to be made to stoke fear.
I was stuck on most every coster i been on demon at sfgm a water ride i most get stuck it be like 50/50 i not get stuck and i do but idc how it got stuck more time in the park XD.
There’s no way these aren’t AI generated videos 🙄
Both were from a few years ago, too old for AI imo
Cheap, content farm 'entertainment' channels that brand themselves as educational or factual sources are one of my least favourite types on the platform. In my opinion, it's becoming a real problem in society in general - people aren't interested in facts or experiences from people with real industry experience, they just want quick, clickbait stories.
Nonsense
This is why we need the dislike button back!
4:01 Was that some antisemite stuff I just saw?
Lol wtf are you taking about
This is the most frustrating and least informed video on the internet
I don't appreciate the overtly antisemitic charicature at 4:06.
These are the crappiest clickbait I’ve ever sat through, if you weren’t poking holes in it I wouldn’t be watching.
Can you please stop putting your channel logo over footage of coasters? It's really annoying..
Coaster studios is better
title seems misleading, the videos get a lot wrong but the one thing they are both correct on is what you should do if you're stuck on a coaster, that being wait for help and for the love of god don't try to undo your restraints. so by calling it what not to do you're saying I should try to get out by myself?