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I can, at the least, confirm that the dragon and the bear pieces were missing from the front of each coaster train this evening.
The bear felt left out so he decided to jump off too. I’m guessing..
Well, at least there’s SOME good news.
Need that Loctite Red hookup.
The severed head has been spotted! Someone call the Virginia Gazette! (Props if you get the reference.)
It is sad that many people will never experience the severed head “debate”.
DarKastle quotes inbound.
Edit: to contribute a somewhat more useful comment. As a young engineer I was handed a relatively quick read (as engineering texts go) by a guy who had been designing large scale industrial systems for a long time. It was a book about every imaginable type of fastener system one might choose when designing structural or mechanical systems, and why that specific type of fastener system sucks. The chapter on bolts was probably the most depressing, particularly in settings where they need to simultaneously withstand heavy loads and vibration. The older engineer described the book as "a little pessimistic, but largely accurate."
I came away with the impression that you can build anything you want -- but if you want posterity to experience it firsthand as anything other than a ruin, don't use any sort of conventional fastener.
Hence my recommendation that the park reset the bear head on its train using a bed of Roman concrete.
Edit: to contribute a somewhat more useful comment. As a young engineer I was handed a relatively quick read (as engineering texts go) by a guy who had been designing large scale industrial systems for a long time. It was a book about every imaginable type of fastener system one might choose when designing structural or mechanical systems, and why that specific type of fastener system sucks. The chapter on bolts was probably the most depressing, particularly in settings where they need to simultaneously withstand heavy loads and vibration. The older engineer described the book as "a little pessimistic, but largely accurate."
I came away with the impression that you can build anything you want -- but if you want posterity to experience it firsthand as anything other than a ruin, don't use any sort of conventional fastener.
Hence my recommendation that the park reset the bear head on its train using a bed of Roman concrete.
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Ah. But through the magic of the Internet, anyone can still enjoy that highlight of the 2014 HOS season!
There are both a front page article and a Forum thread!
Busch Gardens Cuts Severed Heads from Howl-O-Scream
Well, apparently this is happening… Today we’re seeing an absurd protest from an incredibly small number of people, triggering what may very well be one of the largest overreactions by BGW in recent memory. Busch Gardens Williamsburg staff have spent the past 24 hours removing all the severed...
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https://parkfans.net/threads/the-great-severed-head-thread-of-2014.3614/
Ah. But through the magic of the Internet, anyone can still enjoy that highlight of the 2014 HOS season!
There are both a front page article and a Forum thread!
Busch Gardens Cuts Severed Heads from Howl-O-Scream
Well, apparently this is happening… Today we’re seeing an absurd protest from an incredibly small number of people, triggering what may very well be one of the largest overreactions by BGW in recent memory. Busch Gardens Williamsburg staff have spent the past 24 hours removing all the severed...
https://parkfans.net/threads/the-great-severed-head-thread-of-2014.3614/
And Monster Stomp on Ripper Row has never been the same since ?
I wish we could see the underside of that thing just a bit better.
The internet has plenty of bear butt pics...
These head pieces are really struggling to stay on their trains it seems like?
Yeah, but those aren’t the types of nuts and bolts I want to look at right now.
That is oddly fast isn’t it ? Kind of like they already had them made before if said heads where to come off again ?