Skycoaster has always been one of those "quiet giant" companies. They are known, quite well, they are popular, but they aren't in the media every couple months because of an accident or failure.
@@ThrillsofColdplay Have they been removed because of accidents/incidents? A lot of these upcharge rides actually aren't very profitable 95% of the time because most people don't want to pay extra to ride a ride that, in their words, "is part of the park anyway".
if you know the name of company in this line of work typically its for something bad, you dont hear good news because its boring and normal, so the news is mostly about the bad stuff because its more interesting and gets more views but it always makes the world seem much worse then it is, like those bad things exist, but they are far outside the norm
TLDR : Sky coaster is just a giant swing. And they have good customer service Slingshot is literally at its name. You can trust it as good as handheld slingshot, which is not yours and nobody know when and how it's gonna break.
If they were more careful with the modifications and actually maintained them then they would be a lot safer. User error should not be considered as part of the safety risk imho. That's like saying cars are more dangerous because some people don't take care of them and sometimes as a result wheels fly off or breaks fail. No it isn't the cars fault that you put 5X the expected lifespan of use onto certain parts.
@@oceanbytez847 car is indeed more fatal and dangerous than other transportation tho, espescially public transport Yes, there's many factor why. But that's the point, so many thing can't go wrong espescially from the user
Thank you for being respectful and not showing any shocking footage of deaths. I really appreciate that when you got to talking about a deadly incident in which the entire capsule detached, the video just showed a ride bouncing around.
From a very casual physics perspective, sky coasters work with gravity acting as a stabilizing force with riders moving in a smooth, easily modeled arc, while the capsule rides primarily fight against gravity, and are jerked rather abruptly (apparently into semi-random directions) as they reach the highest rise and fall of each pendulum period. The capsules are inherently less predictable, higher-jerk systems
Also they don't put nearly as much stress on the safety-critical components of the ride's design. In swinging back and forth, no pieces have to have the same kind of elastic give that the elastics do in traditional slingshots. Funtime mitigates this risk by adding a bunch of extra redundancy and moving the high potential energy contraption away from the riders, but the traditional design is incredibly dangerous. It's like in engineering how relying on components meant to flex and/or stretch will dramatically increase the need for regular maintenance, pieces like that tend to fail more frequently because the things they're doing are the same sorts of things that would normally count as harsh wear on rigid parts.
With how many times those bungees have snapped, having riders in mostly open cars where they can be hit by debris or slammed into the ride supports feels negligent as hell. It also feels like those capsules move very erratically, which would be incredibly difficult to predict the forces on riders.
I was a Site Controller at Cedar Point's Ripcord in 2011! I had worked SF Great America's Skycoaster the previous season, though not as a site controller. Once Cedar Point heard I had that experience, they instantly assigned me to Ripcord because they knew how specialized the training is, and even coming from a different chain (at the time) they trusted it. The requirement to have a site controller on scene at all times was great for my finances. As the summer went on and others gradually left, I got scheduled lots of hours because I was needed. And I got to do lots of free test flights
I was site controller at valley fair for 2 summers, and the start of the 2nd year I was 1 of 2 that they had until like June. Tons of hours whenever I wanted plus I loved working there anyway since it wasn't busy all the time like other rides. Plus all the test flights! (The other SC didn't want to test fly ever so more for me!)
@phyllojoe5346 oh I actually meant Six Flags, not San Francisco. But, i did recently visit California's Great America to see the sister to my home park. Knew the closure was pending and made a point to get there.
I worked at Six Flags Darien Lake one summer. We had both a Slingshot and a Skycoaster. As for the ride, Slingshot was OK. Upon launch, it seemed like it would keep going. The rest was bouncy and somewhat boring compared to Skycoaster. Skycoaster always scared the s**t out of me. Hanging there waiting for the call to pull the rip cord was nightmarish. Nothing between me and the ground. The stitches in the harness might come undone, it seemed. The little speaker up there was crappy, which added to the feeling of the whole thing coming apart. That drop was like dying a little, and I remembered things from my childhood I had forgotten about long ago. After the initial drop, the upswing was sublime. It was a feeling of having cheated death. I spoke with a group of military veterans who had served in an airborne unit, and they said that they came every year for the Skycoaster experience and also that it was much scarier than jumping out of an airplane (because you're so high up, the fall seems slower). Skycoaster was a lifechanging experience while Slingshot wasn't. We had rollercoasters that were scarier. We hadn't heard about any incidents with Slingshot. If we had, it would have been a lot more frightening.
I’ve worked there too and ridden both and slingshot doesn’t really bother me but skycoaster gives me anxiety so I just start counting how many fish I see in the lake as it went up
I did that twice already. The moment they/you pull the release might feel scary. But after that, you soar and swing through the air until the pendulum becomes slower.
The ONLY ride I refuse to go on are those goddamn slingshots, they fucking terrify me. I DID do the skycoaster at Valley Fair in Minnesota, though, the RipCord, and it was quite possibly the best time of my life
You got to separate the slingshots though. I would not for the life of me go on a sling shot with bungee cords. But the Funtime ones with Steel cables and stationary springs on the bottom are absolutely safe.
Ha...me too! Rode it a couple times in '96-'98. As I made a comment, I rode with a crazy friend who was shaking it and I was so afraid my feet were going to come out from the bar you were supposed to hold your feet on! Thinking back is funny because I'm pretty sure we were on microphone and everyone could hear us! She was yelling. We're going to die and I was probably using the f word telling her to stop shaking! 😳🙄😄
Like nearly every "accident" they were preventable by serious human inspection, but like doors being sucked off a plane, not everyone takes human inspection seriously. As long as people are texting and driving, which is nearly everyone in the city I live, then you bet your bottom dollar, everything can be deadly at any moment due to lack of seriousness toward safety.
The funtime slingshots are incredibly safe. They do deliver a tamer ride, though. Still, safetey first. They still provide a thrilling ride with a great view. I personally recommend the funtime slingshots without any doubt. The newer restrains for the funtime ones came a lot later, though! The first ones used the same ball and the "standart" over the shoulder restrains. Skyline Park in germany still has the old gondola.
@@PuentesRE In Geiselwind there is another Funtime Slingshot, not too far away from Skyline Park. Fairly new, too. This one is located in the woods and uses the more open gondolas with Gerstlauer restrains.
@@theussmirage Never trust anything with a bungee... whether it's theme park rides or fitness equipment. Always count on the bungee breaking because eventually it will.
Thank you for this video! I’ve been trying to talk myself into riding the sky coaster at SFOG next year, mainly because it’s the only ride there I haven’t ridden. 😂 This video may just give me the confidence to do it. It’s not height or free fall that scare me; it’s the thought of just dropping straight down and hitting the ground. Nice to know they are considered very safe.
@@G.M.C2005No slingshot yet either, but my home park doesn’t have one. I do like drop towers, just have always been intimidated by the cable and/or bungee type rides.
I did that very skycoaster for the first time a few years ago. I had similar reservations as you: what if it breaks and I fall to my death? But as stated, there's lots of redundancies, they make sure you're safe and comfortable before you go up, and honestly you're only freefalling for a moment before the rope catches you and you start to swing. It's surprisingly fun! I hope you can manage to take the leap!
Went on one in Oakwood Theme Park when I was about 12 or 13. Honestly AMAZING experience. It’s sooo scary when you’re up high and the fall at first but once you’re swinging it’s fantastic. Truly like flying!!
DO IT! My sister and I did the one at Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh back in the early 2000s, and we STILL talk about how it was our favorite ride we've ever been on (and we are thrill ride junkies, although I can't spin too much with vomiting, so the slingshot was never in the running for me)
I’ve been on a sky coaster, I felt completely safe, besides it being so close to a building but after watching others ride I saw that it was far enough away. With the way we were strapped in I didn’t feel like I would slip out and with how much I tensed up I wasn’t going anywhere. It was a cloudy day that day and I was kinda worried that the wind could affect it but after we rode it they closed it temporarily I guess because of wind, or employees were on break. And one thing where I could imagine user error is the way they signal the pull chord. He said he would give me a thumbs up but he just kind threw his hand into the air so I couldn’t tell if that was the signal but after a few seconds he signaled again and I pulled the chord. I can imagine someone pulling the chord too early as it’s still pulling them up although I don’t know wether they have a safety mechanism or if its designed that they still fall just not as high🤷🏼♀️. I always try listen to the workers and do as they say because although I love thrill rides I’m very safety conscious. I don’t go to amusement parks often so whenever the county fair comes around I’m very picky about which ones I ride. There’s one they bring often like the swinging boat and it just has a lap bar, I had a bad experience riding one in an amusement park (I was exactly the height minimum) and almost fell out. So when my friend wanted to go on it and we sat down I couldn’t shake this gut feeling I had so I told her that I don’t feel safe on it, and she’s usually the one that backs out of things first so when she heard me say I didn’t feel safe she believed me so we didn’t ride. Nothing bad happened in that run but my gut was telling me no so I listened.
On a skycoaster if you pull the record before you get to the top you're basically just cheating yourself out of a ride but nothing else happens it just means that you don't go as fast or as far
Swinging ships are so safe people stand up on them. There's a particular one where the park installed cages on either end that you could stand up and get thrown about in. If you're that worried about the ship you should sit right in the center where the mast is situated until you're used to the negative gs pulling you out of your seat on purpose. The bar is meant to keep you down, sorta, it's more of a grab bar so you don't fly out too much. Basically you are meant to hover at the peak of the swing. If the hover scares you sit closer to the middle, you'll experience less negative gs.
Omg I hate those swinging ship rides so much, they always have like no protection other than a thin metal bar and yet they go like vertically, and they feel like they just keep going higher and higher and aren’t slowing down, I hate them so much, I rode one once and never again, just watching them makes me feel uneasy
After working some positions on a skycoaster and riding a few of them many of times, I always feel completely safe on them. The only one that still gets me scared is the 300ft model at funspot Kissimmee (understandably)
Tried my first skycoaster a couple years ago and it's a solid ride but it did help me realize I don't like free falling. Made me lose interest in bungee jumping and sky diving lol
You'd never catch me getting on one of those sling shot things. Even before this video. And this video didn't really bring up any points about the design of the thing that I didn't already think about. But now knowing how they build the things because of this video, I'm not standing anywhere near one....
I went on one of these sky coasters in the early days (literally in 1999) for a birthday. I'm glad to hear that these things ae actually super safe. It.... kinda makes sense though. I've always thought that the stress put on reverse bungee rides was just treading a knife edge and seeing so many incidents where the cords snap is just chilling. .... why did we think it was even a good idea?
i worked at a place that had a skycoaster installed. just a family funpark. once the park closed, i noticed the skycoaster was very quick to be dismantled. this explains why! they take care of their stuff. never operated it but did get hustled to ride it twice. not my thing. however, im glad to know my fears of getting dropped and splatted were 100% irrational this time around.
i don’t know if all parks are like this, but at kennywood you have to pay extra for the sky coaster and it isn’t run by teenagers. everyone is paying close attention to you and their surroundings. plus they swaddle you up so nice in the flight suit, it’s impossible to not feel safe lol
This makes me less inclined to ride the slingshots. Those things terrify me. And yeah technically the risk is still low that issues would come up on the sling shot, that isn't what makes it terrifying. What makes it so is what happens when things do go wrong. I don't trust that they are the safest when not working well.
Another thing: On Skycoaster's Wikipedia page is for London UK an entry for a park called "Skyborne", which is said to have a Skycoaster, which is 200 ft high, without any citations, nothing. I have been personally bongling my mind about this park and coaster. A search back in 2010 when I was in London returned nothing useful, other than an airline training agency. Other parks which have this coaster have links, which this entry does not. This is mysterious.
I was a site controller in 2012-2013 at Six Flags New England, Site MA-28. I would like mention that in our case, we did not receive training directly from SkyCoaster. Instead, we were first trained by our already-certified site controllers that had been in our ride crew the previous season, and then a representative from SkyCoaster would visit our site in early June to proctor both a practical and written exam. 95% of the ops trained on our site were site controllers, because if you're going to be trained on all four positions (flight suiter, expediter, assistant controller, controller), you might as well go all the way. Site controllers also got a small pay raise and get to fly for free at any SkyCoaster site in the world, as long as you have your site controller card with you, of course.
@@CoasterCollege Our site controllers were ride operators employed by the park, not by SkyCoaster. SkyCoaster provided us copies of the owner's manual and example written exams, but all of our direct, hands-on training was done internally based of those materials. The only time a rep from SkyCoaster ever showed up was to proctor the practical and written exams.
Portland Rose Fest had a Funtime slingshot for years. I loved riding it. It hasn't returned though, so it must've gotten too old. Nice to know either the owners (Funtastic Shows) or Funtime cared enough to stop using it.
My mom has been on the Sky Coaster at Mt. Olympus when she was a teen/young adult (yes, THAT Mt. Olympus). It sounds like their standards are so high that not even Mt. Olympus could mess it up!
Sky Coaster takes their training seriously. I worked on the one at Canada's Wonderland for a summer. The fail safes they have in place make it super secure. It still scared the crap out of me the first time I rode it though
I took two flights at the Cdn Wonderland one and walked off without harm, the last time a year ago. The crew works so professionally. I tried to visit the other skycoaster in Montreal back then, but time did not allow. I will come back to Mtl soon and have bought a ticket for LaRonde.
I've never ridden Kings Island's Skycoaster because I've been too scared that it's unsafe. This video gave me a lot of confidence. Maybe I'll finally work up the courage to ride it!
Bro there’s one at the faire in my area and I’ve always hated it because of my sensitive hearing because it always had this loud horn when it set off. SO glad of that bc if I was super brave and that wasn’t around, I could be dead.
And then you have the "Skycoaster" a La Foire du Trône (Paris, France) which suffured an accident where a woman was left literraly dangling from her feet, inches only above the plateform railing... This is an non-Skycoaster pendulum attraction, so that means at least one exists.
i went on the sky coaster at wonderland in canada I believe 3 different times over the course of from my early teens to mid-20s, and never felt any issues on them. the slingshots make me nervous as all hell
What I'm getting from this video is Do maintenance, have a pro overseeing the coaster, follow guidelines on restraints and use better engineering to make sure there is less points on failure oh and close monitoring
Went on a Skycoaster in Oakwood Theme Park in the UK over 10 years ago now when I was 13. I had SO many fears whilst reaching the peak, THE SEAMS ARE GOING TO RIP, IM GOING TO PULL THE WRONG CORD AND FALL OUT- honestly it was terrifying, my heart was in my throat the entire time. The fall was just as terrifying, felt like I was going to splat on the floor!! But then it stopped and we swung and I was literally flying and it was incredible. Absolutely amazing experience and evidently- was super safe because I didn’t splat on the ground. I recommend it to anyone considering it. Do it!!
I feel like they should have a coiled up cable in the bungee cord to catch the capsule if it snaps, instead of if it snaps just death. Or maybe an intentionally weak part of the bungee that's monitored by a doohickey that automatically cuts the bungee at the safest position to make them not go splat
I went on the skycoaster called ripcord at Michigan's Adventure and before I rode I saw many people ride with no incident. It is also a very thick metal wire and the only way to fail is a human error of the rider's doing which is also unlikely because of how the workers explain exactly what to do to ride safely. I had a great experience in Michigan but my favorite part by far was the ripcord. Its not as tall as others, at 85 feet, but it is still a thrilling ride and I encourage others to ride skycoasters because there are no regrets. Except the money I played like 50 bucks for just me.
The slingshot using springs, seems like such a natural solution, but it’s probably more expensive to install, which is why the other two companies don’t use it.
From a physics perspective, skycoasters only have to hold the weight of the rider, as the wire is always taut, allowing for steel cables to be used, and with a very gradually increasing load. Slingshots on the other hand must pull with many times the weght of the riders, as they physically fling the rider up into the air. The cables also experience sharp peak loads and need to be completely elastic. Elstic cables experiencing dynamic loading are inherently less durable than static steel cables undergoing near static loading. From this it is easy to see that slingshots are inherently more dangerous than skycoasters.
There are definitely different versions of Skycosters. I’ve done that between very tall trees, though it was called a "giant swing”, with a different harness structure
I’ve done a sky coaster, specifically the one at Six Flags America (yes the park is as mediocre as people claim), and tbh I felt 100% safe doing it. There’s not as many variables and points of failure as with a slingshot, and I trust a metal cable way more than I’d trust a bunch of elastic bands
I remember going to Six Flags Great America before I was into coasters and I saw the towers that they set up and me and my friends thought it was a piece of a broken coaster lol
Six flags or great america? Or both? My mum has gone on the sky coaster at great America, she didn’t mind it (she prefers the drop tower) but it does cost money so it’s Wack since we’re already paying for the park.
@@ConcreteXF oh no im sorry it’s because where I live, we have a six flags amusement park, and we have a great america amusement park (californias great america) and I had no idea there were other great americas scattered around, so I thought the commenter had just forgotten to put an “&” in the middle of the two. Cool to know there’s other great americas out there then!
The difference is that one is basically just a swing, the amount of tension isn't ever that significant, it's powered entirely by the force of gravity. So long as you know the length of the rope, you know exactly where to keep clear so it doesn't hit anything. The other is what amounts to a rubber band, constantly held under an immense amount of tension because it is the source of energy that launches the riders into the air. And, as is all too common when it comes to amusement rides, the equipment is not checked or replaced anywhere near as often as it should be. It doesn't NEED to be dangerous, it's only a result of the safety culture (or lack thereof) in the industry that makes it so.
I saw that thing in 2003 with like 13 and was very hesitant to do that. The years after I tried to do this but was too early or I traveled an area without parks. I gathered enough confidence when I lived in Toronto in 2018 and did a swing at the Skycoaster at Canada's Wonderland, which I repeated 5 years just last year.
I remember riding the sky coaster as a teenager back in 1996... I was riding with two other friends and as we were being lifted slowly up one of my friends who is acting really crazy started purposely shaking causing us to sway back and forth vertically as my feet were trying to hold us using pressure. That was the only thing holding our legs up... She was hollering. We're going to die. We're going to die and laughing but I was freaking out telling her to stop as my feet could have slipped from the bar that was used to hold our legs!!!😳😳😳😱😡
I would definitely choose skycoaster over a slingshot just because skycoaster has an actual drop and seems also like a just smoother ride because it's free fall whereas slingshots even the fun time ones just seem like you get shaken around like a bunch of marbles in a clothes dryer and with the track record of some of those slingshot rides I would rather bungee jump off of an actual bridge with a shipping channel nearby then to a slingshot
It is strangely anxiety inducing to watch this because accident footage is sprinkled into harmless b-roll. I wonder if you could mark accident footage with an icon or something?
I know you're mainly coaster/ride focused, but the imagery of these reverse bungees immediately reminded me of an experience I had as a kid - there were renditions of these sort of bungees, with a trampoline underneath, where the bungee cords would (ideally) safely allow you to achieve higher... well, heights, on the trampoline. Any idea what that would be called and the safety of it? Part of why I wonder is because they were in *shopping complexes* during the school holidays!
they are definitely still around, quite common on smaller street fairs etc in everything-is-forbidden Germany and I'm no expert but I never heard of a serious accident so I guess they are fine ^^
Bungee trampolines have tons of individual bungee cords. On admission you will be weighed, then the appropriate amount of cords gets attached to the harness (which is a climbing harness). Doing flips is strictly forbidden, as is swaying from side to side. You essentially just go UP! and then down again. Jumping up to 5 meters is an experience. =)
I did a slingshot with no capsule where they clipped the harness straight onto the bungess in bulgaria around 04, was totally awesome but might not have been the safest
The slingshot there is not owned or operated by Funspot, it's actually a completely separate operation ran by Slingshot group, a fairly sketchy company.
@@CoasterCollege wouldn't say that. Yes, funtime rides are sold by ride entertainment in the US, but so are Gerstlauer and Metallbau Emmeln ride in the US, but not over here in Europe. The Funtime Skycoasters also seem very different in tower design to the SkyCoaster one
I will never ride one of the rubber band slingshot rides; that said, I have been on slingshot at Cedar Point, as well as multiple skycoasters (also including the one at CP), and I tend to prefer the skycoaster better (esp since the one at CP is half the price of the slingshot, despite having significantly more setup... why is the slingshot so much again? 🤔)
Skycoaster "suits" also seem to be standard hang gliding equipment, i.e. built by an established industry, tested due to long-existing standards and used by a considerable number of sports pilots, so there is a lot of experience behind this technology. If it exists, don't invent it again.
The big problem I see with skycoasters is that it looks like it takes half an hour just to strap one or two people in versus a slingshot that probably only takes a minute (if that). How do parks with skycoasters handle capacity?
Simple, they have multiple flight suits. This means that one group rides the ride, one waits, and one is getting suited up. They can manage similar throughput to slingshots.
@@CoasterCollege I can see that helping, but it still looks like an agonizingly slow process to get people into that harness, even if you have two or three available on standby. But hey, if it works it works. I think I'd prefer the sit-down version. The "Superman" position looks like it would break my back.
I've ridden multiple slingshots, but I live in the Netherlands, so there are extremely strict checks by TUV. (Also Germany and Belgium). Not going to ride one in a country with less regulations like France, the UK or US. I've ridden one Funtime sky coaster at Walibi Holland, but don't think it was worth the markup.
I've never seen a skycoaster. They seem pretty awesome... but fucking hell those slingshots are terrifying. I see them all over the place and they just look so dangerous. I will ride basically anything with hydraulics or a track, but those seats strapped to a cord... fucking never.
100% safe in the thumbnail is not true, they are safer but they are still prone to operator error, theres one specific video that comes to mind. when shes swinging and she falls and her foot barely catches it and saves her life plus lives/bones of several people on the ground. idk i don't like when its said that something is 100%... theres probably at least 1 case where it isnt
I know the video title is meant to attract clicks, but I don't think it's fair to call catapult rides dangerous. There are indeed more accidents with slingshots than sky coasters, but I don't think they're so accident-prone as to cause them dangerous.
@@CoasterCollege How many accidents can be attributed to maintaience being lacadasical? IMO those incidents, at least, would seem to be more on the operators (and any companies that don't provide sufficient training) at tle very least (with things like lack of redundancy I'd argue absolutely being able to be attributed to the design).
@@DanknDerpyGamer The fact that other rides with the same level of maintenance, including Funtime slingshots, don't have these problems. The design of elastic slingshots is inherently unsafe.
@@CoasterCollege I'm not sure about that. I didn't mean it as an insult, that was actually my favorite part of the video. Someone talking about a gruesome death with upbeat edm blasting in the background is just funny to me lol
I don't think you can ever say 100% safe like in the thumbnail; You cannot guarantee someones safety, not even a doctor can, and to make it an absolute is ridiculous
Skycoaster has always been one of those "quiet giant" companies. They are known, quite well, they are popular, but they aren't in the media every couple months because of an accident or failure.
Some have actually been removed from Six Flags parks and I’m curious if Great Adventure will remove Dare Devil Dive
@@ThrillsofColdplay Have they been removed because of accidents/incidents? A lot of these upcharge rides actually aren't very profitable 95% of the time because most people don't want to pay extra to ride a ride that, in their words, "is part of the park anyway".
Most of those sky coasters are all over the Jersey shore st the amusement parks
Most of those sky coasters are all over the Jersey shore st the amusement parks
if you know the name of company in this line of work typically its for something bad, you dont hear good news because its boring and normal, so the news is mostly about the bad stuff because its more interesting and gets more views but it always makes the world seem much worse then it is, like those bad things exist, but they are far outside the norm
It’s amazing to me how safe the sky coasters are even though it doesn’t look like much safety wise with cables and everything
Clearly it has to do with that there is one manufacturer of them and because they really care about the safety. It does look dangerous though.
@@teijaflink2226 exactly
@@teijaflink2226I did the 300 foot one in Florida these are my favorite rides in parks even more then coasters
TLDR : Sky coaster is just a giant swing. And they have good customer service
Slingshot is literally at its name. You can trust it as good as handheld slingshot, which is not yours and nobody know when and how it's gonna break.
who told you I never owned a slingshot and one just appeared at my childhood home
If they were more careful with the modifications and actually maintained them then they would be a lot safer. User error should not be considered as part of the safety risk imho. That's like saying cars are more dangerous because some people don't take care of them and sometimes as a result wheels fly off or breaks fail. No it isn't the cars fault that you put 5X the expected lifespan of use onto certain parts.
@@oceanbytez847 car is indeed more fatal and dangerous than other transportation tho, espescially public transport
Yes, there's many factor why. But that's the point, so many thing can't go wrong espescially from the user
but does the sky coaster also work for fursuiters? 🤔
@@circuitbreaker1434 natural selection
Thank you for being respectful and not showing any shocking footage of deaths. I really appreciate that when you got to talking about a deadly incident in which the entire capsule detached, the video just showed a ride bouncing around.
From a very casual physics perspective, sky coasters work with gravity acting as a stabilizing force with riders moving in a smooth, easily modeled arc, while the capsule rides primarily fight against gravity, and are jerked rather abruptly (apparently into semi-random directions) as they reach the highest rise and fall of each pendulum period. The capsules are inherently less predictable, higher-jerk systems
Also they don't put nearly as much stress on the safety-critical components of the ride's design. In swinging back and forth, no pieces have to have the same kind of elastic give that the elastics do in traditional slingshots. Funtime mitigates this risk by adding a bunch of extra redundancy and moving the high potential energy contraption away from the riders, but the traditional design is incredibly dangerous. It's like in engineering how relying on components meant to flex and/or stretch will dramatically increase the need for regular maintenance, pieces like that tend to fail more frequently because the things they're doing are the same sorts of things that would normally count as harsh wear on rigid parts.
With how many times those bungees have snapped, having riders in mostly open cars where they can be hit by debris or slammed into the ride supports feels negligent as hell. It also feels like those capsules move very erratically, which would be incredibly difficult to predict the forces on riders.
Except the fun times one, that one is much more controlled
I was a Site Controller at Cedar Point's Ripcord in 2011! I had worked SF Great America's Skycoaster the previous season, though not as a site controller. Once Cedar Point heard I had that experience, they instantly assigned me to Ripcord because they knew how specialized the training is, and even coming from a different chain (at the time) they trusted it.
The requirement to have a site controller on scene at all times was great for my finances. As the summer went on and others gradually left, I got scheduled lots of hours because I was needed. And I got to do lots of free test flights
I was site controller at valley fair for 2 summers, and the start of the 2nd year I was 1 of 2 that they had until like June. Tons of hours whenever I wanted plus I loved working there anyway since it wasn't busy all the time like other rides. Plus all the test flights! (The other SC didn't want to test fly ever so more for me!)
Aw, the bay area Great America's skycoaster is the only one I ever went on! Did you know that place is closing in the next 5 years? :(
@phyllojoe5346 oh I actually meant Six Flags, not San Francisco. But, i did recently visit California's Great America to see the sister to my home park. Knew the closure was pending and made a point to get there.
I worked at Six Flags Darien Lake one summer. We had both a Slingshot and a Skycoaster. As for the ride, Slingshot was OK. Upon launch, it seemed like it would keep going. The rest was bouncy and somewhat boring compared to Skycoaster. Skycoaster always scared the s**t out of me. Hanging there waiting for the call to pull the rip cord was nightmarish. Nothing between me and the ground. The stitches in the harness might come undone, it seemed. The little speaker up there was crappy, which added to the feeling of the whole thing coming apart. That drop was like dying a little, and I remembered things from my childhood I had forgotten about long ago. After the initial drop, the upswing was sublime. It was a feeling of having cheated death. I spoke with a group of military veterans who had served in an airborne unit, and they said that they came every year for the Skycoaster experience and also that it was much scarier than jumping out of an airplane (because you're so high up, the fall seems slower). Skycoaster was a lifechanging experience while Slingshot wasn't. We had rollercoasters that were scarier. We hadn't heard about any incidents with Slingshot. If we had, it would have been a lot more frightening.
I’ve worked there too and ridden both and slingshot doesn’t really bother me but skycoaster gives me anxiety so I just start counting how many fish I see in the lake as it went up
Skycoaster was definitely scarier for me than skydiving, other than the initial psych out of jumping out of an actual plane
I've been so scared to ride a sky coaster, but this video has convinced me to give it a try if I ever come across one
I did that twice already. The moment they/you pull the release might feel scary. But after that, you soar and swing through the air until the pendulum becomes slower.
The ONLY ride I refuse to go on are those goddamn slingshots, they fucking terrify me. I DID do the skycoaster at Valley Fair in Minnesota, though, the RipCord, and it was quite possibly the best time of my life
You got to separate the slingshots though. I would not for the life of me go on a sling shot with bungee cords. But the Funtime ones with Steel cables and stationary springs on the bottom are absolutely safe.
Ha...me too! Rode it a couple times in '96-'98. As I made a comment, I rode with a crazy friend who was shaking it and I was so afraid my feet were going to come out from the bar you were supposed to hold your feet on! Thinking back is funny because I'm pretty sure we were on microphone and everyone could hear us! She was yelling. We're going to die and I was probably using the f word telling her to stop shaking! 😳🙄😄
@@airfilm_fehmarnyeah but for the general public it’s a pretty safe bet to just avoid them since they don’t know that lol
Like nearly every "accident" they were preventable by serious human inspection, but like doors being sucked off a plane, not everyone takes human inspection seriously. As long as people are texting and driving, which is nearly everyone in the city I live, then you bet your bottom dollar, everything can be deadly at any moment due to lack of seriousness toward safety.
It's quite obvious. One has crap under tension. The other is just a swing
The funtime slingshots are incredibly safe. They do deliver a tamer ride, though. Still, safetey first. They still provide a thrilling ride with a great view. I personally recommend the funtime slingshots without any doubt.
The newer restrains for the funtime ones came a lot later, though! The first ones used the same ball and the "standart" over the shoulder restrains. Skyline Park in germany still has the old gondola.
And the Skyline Park one, was the only time I've tried it. Super fun and included with park admission.
@@PuentesRE In Geiselwind there is another Funtime Slingshot, not too far away from Skyline Park. Fairly new, too. This one is located in the woods and uses the more open gondolas with Gerstlauer restrains.
slingshots always look really really fun, sad to know they're generally so unsafe lol
Its depends though
The models with the 'spring box' are significantly safer than the bungee ones. I only ride the Slingshots with a visible springbox.
I didn't find it fun I felt really insecure then a year or 2 later the one I rode snapped never again for reference I love rollercoasters
@@theussmirage Never trust anything with a bungee... whether it's theme park rides or fitness equipment. Always count on the bungee breaking because eventually it will.
Thank you for this video! I’ve been trying to talk myself into riding the sky coaster at SFOG next year, mainly because it’s the only ride there I haven’t ridden. 😂 This video may just give me the confidence to do it. It’s not height or free fall that scare me; it’s the thought of just dropping straight down and hitting the ground. Nice to know they are considered very safe.
Have you ride a slingshot?
@@G.M.C2005No slingshot yet either, but my home park doesn’t have one. I do like drop towers, just have always been intimidated by the cable and/or bungee type rides.
I did that very skycoaster for the first time a few years ago. I had similar reservations as you: what if it breaks and I fall to my death? But as stated, there's lots of redundancies, they make sure you're safe and comfortable before you go up, and honestly you're only freefalling for a moment before the rope catches you and you start to swing. It's surprisingly fun! I hope you can manage to take the leap!
Went on one in Oakwood Theme Park when I was about 12 or 13. Honestly AMAZING experience. It’s sooo scary when you’re up high and the fall at first but once you’re swinging it’s fantastic. Truly like flying!!
DO IT! My sister and I did the one at Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh back in the early 2000s, and we STILL talk about how it was our favorite ride we've ever been on (and we are thrill ride junkies, although I can't spin too much with vomiting, so the slingshot was never in the running for me)
Sky coasters are pretty rare here in Europe. There used to be some portable slingshots on the fair circuits but they diminished too
Skycoasters might bear special exams permits by the TUV…
There’s one in Oakwood Theme Park in the UK, and in Blackpool Pleasure Beach
@@smallandsweet7 yea but in mainlang europe its hard to find
@@m.hoffman2889 In the netherlands is one and at the Antibesland at the Cote Azur in France, this is near Monaco.
I’ve been on a sky coaster, I felt completely safe, besides it being so close to a building but after watching others ride I saw that it was far enough away. With the way we were strapped in I didn’t feel like I would slip out and with how much I tensed up I wasn’t going anywhere. It was a cloudy day that day and I was kinda worried that the wind could affect it but after we rode it they closed it temporarily I guess because of wind, or employees were on break. And one thing where I could imagine user error is the way they signal the pull chord. He said he would give me a thumbs up but he just kind threw his hand into the air so I couldn’t tell if that was the signal but after a few seconds he signaled again and I pulled the chord. I can imagine someone pulling the chord too early as it’s still pulling them up although I don’t know wether they have a safety mechanism or if its designed that they still fall just not as high🤷🏼♀️. I always try listen to the workers and do as they say because although I love thrill rides I’m very safety conscious.
I don’t go to amusement parks often so whenever the county fair comes around I’m very picky about which ones I ride. There’s one they bring often like the swinging boat and it just has a lap bar, I had a bad experience riding one in an amusement park (I was exactly the height minimum) and almost fell out. So when my friend wanted to go on it and we sat down I couldn’t shake this gut feeling I had so I told her that I don’t feel safe on it, and she’s usually the one that backs out of things first so when she heard me say I didn’t feel safe she believed me so we didn’t ride. Nothing bad happened in that run but my gut was telling me no so I listened.
On a skycoaster if you pull the record before you get to the top you're basically just cheating yourself out of a ride but nothing else happens it just means that you don't go as fast or as far
@@sfotnews8633 that’s what I figured
Swinging ships are so safe people stand up on them. There's a particular one where the park installed cages on either end that you could stand up and get thrown about in. If you're that worried about the ship you should sit right in the center where the mast is situated until you're used to the negative gs pulling you out of your seat on purpose. The bar is meant to keep you down, sorta, it's more of a grab bar so you don't fly out too much.
Basically you are meant to hover at the peak of the swing. If the hover scares you sit closer to the middle, you'll experience less negative gs.
@@spinningpeanut I probably was just freaked out at the time bc I was 8 when I rode my first one😅
Omg I hate those swinging ship rides so much, they always have like no protection other than a thin metal bar and yet they go like vertically, and they feel like they just keep going higher and higher and aren’t slowing down, I hate them so much, I rode one once and never again, just watching them makes me feel uneasy
After working some positions on a skycoaster and riding a few of them many of times, I always feel completely safe on them. The only one that still gets me scared is the 300ft model at funspot Kissimmee (understandably)
I live by King's Dominion VA and I love watching the people going on the sky coasters. It looks like so much fun
Tried my first skycoaster a couple years ago and it's a solid ride but it did help me realize I don't like free falling. Made me lose interest in bungee jumping and sky diving lol
You'd never catch me getting on one of those sling shot things. Even before this video. And this video didn't really bring up any points about the design of the thing that I didn't already think about. But now knowing how they build the things because of this video, I'm not standing anywhere near one....
I went on one of these sky coasters in the early days (literally in 1999) for a birthday. I'm glad to hear that these things ae actually super safe.
It.... kinda makes sense though. I've always thought that the stress put on reverse bungee rides was just treading a knife edge and seeing so many incidents where the cords snap is just chilling.
.... why did we think it was even a good idea?
i worked at a place that had a skycoaster installed. just a family funpark. once the park closed, i noticed the skycoaster was very quick to be dismantled. this explains why! they take care of their stuff. never operated it but did get hustled to ride it twice. not my thing. however, im glad to know my fears of getting dropped and splatted were 100% irrational this time around.
i don’t know if all parks are like this, but at kennywood you have to pay extra for the sky coaster and it isn’t run by teenagers. everyone is paying close attention to you and their surroundings. plus they swaddle you up so nice in the flight suit, it’s impossible to not feel safe lol
This makes me less inclined to ride the slingshots. Those things terrify me. And yeah technically the risk is still low that issues would come up on the sling shot, that isn't what makes it terrifying. What makes it so is what happens when things do go wrong. I don't trust that they are the safest when not working well.
Another thing: On Skycoaster's Wikipedia page is for London UK an entry for a park called "Skyborne", which is said to have a Skycoaster, which is 200 ft high, without any citations, nothing. I have been personally bongling my mind about this park and coaster. A search back in 2010 when I was in London returned nothing useful, other than an airline training agency. Other parks which have this coaster have links, which this entry does not. This is mysterious.
I was a site controller in 2012-2013 at Six Flags New England, Site MA-28. I would like mention that in our case, we did not receive training directly from SkyCoaster. Instead, we were first trained by our already-certified site controllers that had been in our ride crew the previous season, and then a representative from SkyCoaster would visit our site in early June to proctor both a practical and written exam. 95% of the ops trained on our site were site controllers, because if you're going to be trained on all four positions (flight suiter, expediter, assistant controller, controller), you might as well go all the way. Site controllers also got a small pay raise and get to fly for free at any SkyCoaster site in the world, as long as you have your site controller card with you, of course.
If you were trained by a site controller then you were trained directly by Skycoaster
@@CoasterCollege Our site controllers were ride operators employed by the park, not by SkyCoaster. SkyCoaster provided us copies of the owner's manual and example written exams, but all of our direct, hands-on training was done internally based of those materials. The only time a rep from SkyCoaster ever showed up was to proctor the practical and written exams.
Sky coasters should honestly be setting the standard for ALL rides
Portland Rose Fest had a Funtime slingshot for years. I loved riding it. It hasn't returned though, so it must've gotten too old. Nice to know either the owners (Funtastic Shows) or Funtime cared enough to stop using it.
To be completely honest, I find skycoasters to be much more enjoyable then slingshots so this is a win for me
My mom has been on the Sky Coaster at Mt. Olympus when she was a teen/young adult (yes, THAT Mt. Olympus). It sounds like their standards are so high that not even Mt. Olympus could mess it up!
Sky Coaster takes their training seriously. I worked on the one at Canada's Wonderland for a summer. The fail safes they have in place make it super secure. It still scared the crap out of me the first time I rode it though
I took two flights at the Cdn Wonderland one and walked off without harm, the last time a year ago. The crew works so professionally. I tried to visit the other skycoaster in Montreal back then, but time did not allow. I will come back to Mtl soon and have bought a ticket for LaRonde.
This is why, if you want to add a slingshot ride to your park, you should always go for the Funtime models.
We have a SkyCoaster at Canadas Wonderland it's been there for decades and is still IMO the scariest ride in the entire park!
I've never ridden Kings Island's Skycoaster because I've been too scared that it's unsafe. This video gave me a lot of confidence. Maybe I'll finally work up the courage to ride it!
Bro there’s one at the faire in my area and I’ve always hated it because of my sensitive hearing because it always had this loud horn when it set off. SO glad of that bc if I was super brave and that wasn’t around, I could be dead.
And then you have the "Skycoaster" a La Foire du Trône (Paris, France) which suffured an accident where a woman was left literraly dangling from her feet, inches only above the plateform railing...
This is an non-Skycoaster pendulum attraction, so that means at least one exists.
Cheap knockoffs by sketchy showman will always be unsafe no matter what ride unfortunately.
The reverse bungee, two deaths from this ride in Ireland. Its the only ride that caused the most deaths on a travelling fair in Ireland
I did a sky coaster once, thing was a ton of fun! The bungee capsule never looked fun to me.
i went on the sky coaster at wonderland in canada I believe 3 different times over the course of from my early teens to mid-20s, and never felt any issues on them. the slingshots make me nervous as all hell
What I'm getting from this video is
Do maintenance, have a pro overseeing the coaster, follow guidelines on restraints and use better engineering to make sure there is less points on failure oh and close monitoring
Went on a Skycoaster in Oakwood Theme Park in the UK over 10 years ago now when I was 13.
I had SO many fears whilst reaching the peak, THE SEAMS ARE GOING TO RIP, IM GOING TO PULL THE WRONG CORD AND FALL OUT- honestly it was terrifying, my heart was in my throat the entire time. The fall was just as terrifying, felt like I was going to splat on the floor!! But then it stopped and we swung and I was literally flying and it was incredible. Absolutely amazing experience and evidently- was super safe because I didn’t splat on the ground.
I recommend it to anyone considering it. Do it!!
I feel like they should have a coiled up cable in the bungee cord to catch the capsule if it snaps, instead of if it snaps just death.
Or maybe an intentionally weak part of the bungee that's monitored by a doohickey that automatically cuts the bungee at the safest position to make them not go splat
I went on the skycoaster called ripcord at Michigan's Adventure and before I rode I saw many people ride with no incident. It is also a very thick metal wire and the only way to fail is a human error of the rider's doing which is also unlikely because of how the workers explain exactly what to do to ride safely. I had a great experience in Michigan but my favorite part by far was the ripcord. Its not as tall as others, at 85 feet, but it is still a thrilling ride and I encourage others to ride skycoasters because there are no regrets. Except the money I played like 50 bucks for just me.
from just a first look , one of them does not repeatedly applies peak tension to the equipment...
The sky coaster sled looks like a ton of fun
I have done it a few times, it feels like falling out of a chair 300ft in the air. Except without the pain.
@@CoasterCollege I did that one also in Florida in 2018 and I felt safer compared to laying down on Great Adventures
The slingshot using springs, seems like such a natural solution, but it’s probably more expensive to install, which is why the other two companies don’t use it.
From a physics perspective, skycoasters only have to hold the weight of the rider, as the wire is always taut, allowing for steel cables to be used, and with a very gradually increasing load.
Slingshots on the other hand must pull with many times the weght of the riders, as they physically fling the rider up into the air. The cables also experience sharp peak loads and need to be completely elastic.
Elstic cables experiencing dynamic loading are inherently less durable than static steel cables undergoing near static loading.
From this it is easy to see that slingshots are inherently more dangerous than skycoasters.
I can't help but feel like I'm at an investor meeting for SkyCoaster
I'm sure skycoaster would trash their sister manufacturer in an investor meeting
There are definitely different versions of Skycosters. I’ve done that between very tall trees, though it was called a "giant swing”, with a different harness structure
I’ve done a sky coaster, specifically the one at Six Flags America (yes the park is as mediocre as people claim), and tbh I felt 100% safe doing it. There’s not as many variables and points of failure as with a slingshot, and I trust a metal cable way more than I’d trust a bunch of elastic bands
I remember going to Six Flags Great America before I was into coasters and I saw the towers that they set up and me and my friends thought it was a piece of a broken coaster lol
Six flags or great america? Or both? My mum has gone on the sky coaster at great America, she didn’t mind it (she prefers the drop tower) but it does cost money so it’s Wack since we’re already paying for the park.
Six Flags owns the Great America in Illinois. If you didn’t know there was a Great America in Illinois, I can give you the rundown.
@@DAOzz83 i think they were confused between the one in illinois and the one in maryland
@@ConcreteXF oh no im sorry it’s because where I live, we have a six flags amusement park, and we have a great america amusement park (californias great america) and I had no idea there were other great americas scattered around, so I thought the commenter had just forgotten to put an “&” in the middle of the two. Cool to know there’s other great americas out there then!
@@Palpo_pics Oh right i forget about that one for some reason, thanks for clarifying!
The difference is that one is basically just a swing, the amount of tension isn't ever that significant, it's powered entirely by the force of gravity. So long as you know the length of the rope, you know exactly where to keep clear so it doesn't hit anything.
The other is what amounts to a rubber band, constantly held under an immense amount of tension because it is the source of energy that launches the riders into the air. And, as is all too common when it comes to amusement rides, the equipment is not checked or replaced anywhere near as often as it should be. It doesn't NEED to be dangerous, it's only a result of the safety culture (or lack thereof) in the industry that makes it so.
My first sky coaster was at Royal Gorge Bridge and Park. The swing itself is not high but flying over the gorge makes it terrifying!!!
I saw that thing in 2003 with like 13 and was very hesitant to do that. The years after I tried to do this but was too early or I traveled an area without parks. I gathered enough confidence when I lived in Toronto in 2018 and did a swing at the Skycoaster at Canada's Wonderland, which I repeated 5 years just last year.
I remember riding the sky coaster as a teenager back in 1996... I was riding with two other friends and as we were being lifted slowly up one of my friends who is acting really crazy started purposely shaking causing us to sway back and forth vertically as my feet were trying to hold us using pressure. That was the only thing holding our legs up... She was hollering. We're going to die. We're going to die and laughing but I was freaking out telling her to stop as my feet could have slipped from the bar that was used to hold our legs!!!😳😳😳😱😡
I would definitely choose skycoaster over a slingshot just because skycoaster has an actual drop and seems also like a just smoother ride because it's free fall whereas slingshots even the fun time ones just seem like you get shaken around like a bunch of marbles in a clothes dryer and with the track record of some of those slingshot rides I would rather bungee jump off of an actual bridge with a shipping channel nearby then to a slingshot
It is strangely anxiety inducing to watch this because accident footage is sprinkled into harmless b-roll. I wonder if you could mark accident footage with an icon or something?
That slingshot is freakin SCARY 😱😱
So, in summary, what really matters is who made the ride. If it's made by Ride Entertainment Group (Funtime or Skycoaster), it's safe.
Love the sky coaster attractions
"Austrian Fun Time" Yeah no thanks the world had more than enough of that already
As long as you don't get a free "gift" with every ride.
I'm guessing that Kennywood's Skycoaster is closed permanently due to Steel Curtain being in the flight path.
Those slingshot rides have always looked like death traps to me, this only further makes my point... You couldn't pay me to ride one of those things.
I know you're mainly coaster/ride focused, but the imagery of these reverse bungees immediately reminded me of an experience I had as a kid - there were renditions of these sort of bungees, with a trampoline underneath, where the bungee cords would (ideally) safely allow you to achieve higher... well, heights, on the trampoline.
Any idea what that would be called and the safety of it? Part of why I wonder is because they were in *shopping complexes* during the school holidays!
they are definitely still around, quite common on smaller street fairs etc in everything-is-forbidden Germany and I'm no expert but I never heard of a serious accident so I guess they are fine ^^
I believe they are called bungee trampolines, they are still around and I haven't heard of anything bad happening with them.
Yay, glad to hear they're still around + safe! They were part of my childhood that I loved, so I hope future kiddos get to play around on them :)
Bungee trampolines have tons of individual bungee cords. On admission you will be weighed, then the appropriate amount of cords gets attached to the harness (which is a climbing harness). Doing flips is strictly forbidden, as is swaying from side to side. You essentially just go UP! and then down again. Jumping up to 5 meters is an experience. =)
I did a slingshot with no capsule where they clipped the harness straight onto the bungess in bulgaria around 04, was totally awesome but might not have been the safest
Slingshots are just accidents waiting to happen. We know that relying on companies to perform maintenance doesn’t work
You forgot to mention why sky coasters face more wind related weather closures when compared to roller coasters.
Because they can hit the towers
Depends on what company makes these is what makes them dangerous and those bungies degrade over time and like a rubber band they snap
7:07 this is the funspot in kissimiee florida, it has both a slingshot and a skycoaster and i think thats funny given the topic of the video
The slingshot there is not owned or operated by Funspot, it's actually a completely separate operation ran by Slingshot group, a fairly sketchy company.
Skycoasters are also made by Funtime, as seen on the one at Walibi Holland (source: Coasterpedia)
Yes but considering that they are essentially the same company as skycoaster this isn't surprising.
@@CoasterCollege wouldn't say that. Yes, funtime rides are sold by ride entertainment in the US, but so are Gerstlauer and Metallbau Emmeln ride in the US, but not over here in Europe. The Funtime Skycoasters also seem very different in tower design to the SkyCoaster one
I will never ride one of the rubber band slingshot rides; that said, I have been on slingshot at Cedar Point, as well as multiple skycoasters (also including the one at CP), and I tend to prefer the skycoaster better (esp since the one at CP is half the price of the slingshot, despite having significantly more setup... why is the slingshot so much again? 🤔)
The fear of actually dying isn't a trait I enjoy in my rides. I just like them moving fast and stuff. So I will skip on the bungee cords.
Skycoaster "suits" also seem to be standard hang gliding equipment, i.e. built by an established industry, tested due to long-existing standards and used by a considerable number of sports pilots, so there is a lot of experience behind this technology.
If it exists, don't invent it again.
Austrian Fun Time doesn't sound like the sorta ride you find at a theme park XD
I'm surprised that an Austrian company manages to get the best in the safety side of a ride
that padded harness adds zero survivability on the sky coaster
The big problem I see with skycoasters is that it looks like it takes half an hour just to strap one or two people in versus a slingshot that probably only takes a minute (if that). How do parks with skycoasters handle capacity?
Simple, they have multiple flight suits. This means that one group rides the ride, one waits, and one is getting suited up. They can manage similar throughput to slingshots.
@@CoasterCollege I can see that helping, but it still looks like an agonizingly slow process to get people into that harness, even if you have two or three available on standby. But hey, if it works it works.
I think I'd prefer the sit-down version. The "Superman" position looks like it would break my back.
So what I've learned is if you're going to ride a slingshot make sure it's a "Funtime" slingshot.
Yep
Do you know what manufacturers major themeparks use for flat rides? anyway, love your videos!
Check out the playlist on my channel "flat ride of the week"
I've ridden multiple slingshots, but I live in the Netherlands, so there are extremely strict checks by TUV. (Also Germany and Belgium).
Not going to ride one in a country with less regulations like France, the UK or US.
I've ridden one Funtime sky coaster at Walibi Holland, but don't think it was worth the markup.
A number of slingshot accidents have happened in the Netherlands, 3 are featured in my "every elastic slingshot accident" video.
@@CoasterCollege I already started watching the video when I posted to see if I was wrong
6:40 oh my god what is that? When did that happen?
I've never seen a skycoaster. They seem pretty awesome... but fucking hell those slingshots are terrifying. I see them all over the place and they just look so dangerous. I will ride basically anything with hydraulics or a track, but those seats strapped to a cord... fucking never.
100% safe in the thumbnail is not true, they are safer but they are still prone to operator error, theres one specific video that comes to mind. when shes swinging and she falls and her foot barely catches it and saves her life plus lives/bones of several people on the ground. idk i don't like when its said that something is 100%... theres probably at least 1 case where it isnt
That was not a real skycoaster
Didn't someone fall out of a sky coaster recently??
People should start calling playground swings “ceiling coasters”
At least Skycoaster stands by their products and go above to see them operate safely
I felt safe riding the slingshot at the Minnesota State Fair.
3:05 I thought he was wearing a fashionable pink dress
Now you tell me !!! Did the sling shot 4 times .
6:50 why is the music happy
Carowinds Xtreme SkyFlyer 2006. ✌🏾
Idk why I’m watching this, I’m too scared to ride either lol
it's 2AM...
LMAO same
both rides will not run in highwind
Indeed
“Sponsored by ride entertainment”
You would think with how much of their footage I use
I know the video title is meant to attract clicks, but I don't think it's fair to call catapult rides dangerous. There are indeed more accidents with slingshots than sky coasters, but I don't think they're so accident-prone as to cause them dangerous.
I would say compared to average amusement rides they are dangerous
@@CoasterCollege How many accidents can be attributed to maintaience being lacadasical? IMO those incidents, at least, would seem to be more on the operators (and any companies that don't provide sufficient training) at tle very least (with things like lack of redundancy I'd argue absolutely being able to be attributed to the design).
@@DanknDerpyGamer The fact that other rides with the same level of maintenance, including Funtime slingshots, don't have these problems. The design of elastic slingshots is inherently unsafe.
@@CoasterCollege Ok yes, I've watched some more videos of yours and agree.
bruh how do you know these things
Time in the industry
5:54 this music doesn't vibe with the subject matter to the point of comedy
Broski you're the only one who thinks that.
@@CoasterCollege I'm not sure about that. I didn't mean it as an insult, that was actually my favorite part of the video. Someone talking about a gruesome death with upbeat edm blasting in the background is just funny to me lol
And your more at risk of failing to your death
I don't think you can ever say 100% safe like in the thumbnail; You cannot guarantee someones safety, not even a doctor can, and to make it an absolute is ridiculous