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So this ride is basically Roman Rapids. It's even built by Intamin who built RR. So my question is, what stands between me and this accident at Busch Gardens Williamsburg? Granted, it's an accident at an otherwise safe park with a relatively clean safety record per the article, but does the park have particularly stringent safety requirements or above-standard testing and supervision of its rides? I always feel safe at Busch but I'm just curious as to how it compares to other parks when it comes to prevention of these horrible incidents.
 
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Merboy said:
So this ride is basically Roman Rapids. It's even built by Intamin who built RR.
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Wrong.

This is NOT an Intamin ride.  Many media outlets erroneously named Intamin as the manufacturer.

Also, the ride system is different from Roman Rapids revolving boarding platform.

Here's a statement posted on Intamin's webpage.

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The victims have been identified. Two of the children ejected from the raft witnessed their mother, and their uncle and his partner die in this accident.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/dreamworld-deaths-children-watch-mum-and-friends-die-in-ride-accident/news-story/20be2cff92f55e85d603f04864882450
 
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Pretzel Kaiser said:
BGT is closing down their rapids ride due to this incident while investigation happens.
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Actually, quite a few parks worldwide shut their rapids rides down. Merlin closed all of theirs.
 
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So again, does anyone know if Busch takes extra precautions to make sure its rides are safe? Like above-standard requirements? Like I said, I assume Busch is totally safe and have no worries, but I'm just curious about the thoroughness of their policies.
 
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I'm not going to lie that coaster sounds great. Blue Fire is one of my favorite coasters. It was a lot of fun.

On another note it seems like the trend is going to be the launch up and stall and go back up a spike and then get launched over the top.
 
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I recall back when I was a kid thinking I wanted to be a coaster designer (before I realized how insanely hard it'd be to get that job), I had in mind this exact concept of a ride where trains can go different directions for different experiences each cycle - inspired by seeing the track switch for adding new trains to Big Bad Wolf.

I sure hope this model is successful and we see it come stateside. It seems family oriented, but I'm curious if they can adopt the design towards higher thrill models.
 
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This looks like an incredible ride. Also the different paths thing makes it seem like this could be an incredibly high throughput coaster.
 
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A layout diagram, with some professional notation & drawings overlayed 😆
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So it appears, based on the description of 'multiple different cycle paths', the ride can either:

A) Leave the station (orange), go up Lift 1 and drop backwards like a boomerang, and go around the blue track backwards, up Lift 2 into the Pivot Table (purple), slide over and drop down the red track; or

B) Leave the station, go up Lift 1 and all the way into the Pivot Table, slide over to Lift 2, drop backwards and take the whole blue section backwards, then up Lift 1 again into the Pivot, then over to the red to finish the circuit.

Love the ability to reuse sections of track in different directions!
 
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