theme park rides can be incredibly fun
we often get on them and trust them with
our lives
but sometimes this is not such a great
idea it turns out that from time to time
theme park rides can be very dangerous
from dangerous rides that had to be
demolished
to a russian ride that broke on camera
and left its passenger suspended in
mid-air
here are some theme park rides that had
to be shut down
son of beast son of beast is a very
impressive looking roller coaster
it was part of king's island theme park
in mason ohio
son of beast was built as a prequel to
their roller coaster
the beast son of beast was much more
impressive however than the beast
it was the world's tallest and fastest
wooden roller coaster
and the only wooden roller coaster in
the world with a loop
it was also the fastest wooden roller
coaster in the world
riders would be whizzed around at 78
miles per hour
and be taken to maximum heights of 218
feet this ride was famous among roller
coaster enthusiasts
its wooden structure made it very
rickety and scary
and that made thrill seekers love it
even more but
this all changed in 2006 a train
carrying 27 riders
suddenly came off the tracks all 27
riders came off the roller coaster and
had to go to hospital
inspectors investigated and found a
wooden support beam had cracked
it was closed for some time and then
reopened but
that's when another rider was injured
experiencing head trauma
by 2009 this ride's reputation was never
going to get better
it was shut down and three years later
demolished
the rocket the devo austro of amusement
park is located in st petersburg
russia one of its most popular and
famous attractions
is called the rocket it's supposed to be
a cosmonaut themed ride
the thin metal rocket has 10 seats
you're suspended very high in the air
and you spin around
fast in a circle the rocket is attached
to the ride's arm by two gigantic
cables this happens at 200 feet in the
air
and while this happens the rocket spins
on its own axis
this rotates riders upside down and then
back upright again
basically imitating space travel but in
2010 a massive failure occurred on the
ride
one of the rocket's two cables snapped
this meant the 10 riders were suspended
200 feet up in the air
the only thing stopping their rocket
smashing into the ground was one
thin metal wire thankfully the added
pressure did not snap
the other wire a rescue team arrived and
took more than one hour to get to the 10
people
off the ride but miraculously none of
the riders were injured
investigators later found that the hot
weather may have actually made the
cables
more fragile and this caused one of the
metal cables to snap
that does not exactly boost my
confidence when it comes to theme park
safety
to make matters even more concerning the
ride only shut down for a few months
during repairs
and reopened soon after for more people
to ride
i know russians are pretty tough but
after seeing that video clip i don't
think
anyone would want to risk a ride on the
rocket
thunder river rapids ride
the thunder river rapid ride was a water
ride located in dreamworld
in queensland australia the ride had a
pretty tame reputation for a long time
in fact it was seen as one of the safest
rides in the dream
world theme park but this all changed in
october of 2016.
that's when four riders had their
vehicle flip over mid-ride
it turned over on the conveyor belt
leaving them trapped underwater and
caught in the machinery
sadly the four riders did not make it
and as a result the ride was permanently
closed
despite it having a world-class safety
record beforehand
it just goes to show that with roller
coaster rides you can get
really unlucky perilous plunge
this roller coaster is not only scary
but also mysterious
the perilous plunge is a water themed
roller coaster located in knott's berry
farm
knott's berry farm is one of
california's most popular theme parks
but it's also one of the most accident
prone parks in california too
more than 16 people have been injured at
this park over the years
and in some cases the people did not
live one of their rides perilous plunge
includes a very steep crop riders are
taken down from a height of 115 feet
very fast
plunging them into a very wet end of the
ride despite the ride's extreme height
riders were only secured with a seat
belt and a lap bar
this worked for some people but not
their overweight
riders in 2001 a 300 pound woman got
onto this ride
the seat belt did not wrap around her
stomach so she put it around
her legs when the ride was going down
she fell out
and this caused her to fall more than
100 feet into the water below
the pool was incredibly shallow and
sadly she did not make it
it was a mystery how she got past the
lap bar
clearly the lap bar was not enough and
the seat belt only wrapped around her
legs and not stomach
meant that she fell out her family sued
the park for damages
and after a short closure the perilous
plunge reopened
the ride now has four point restraints
meaning that no matter how big or small
you are you won't fall out
dragon challenge dragon challenge is a
ride located in universal
studios in orlando florida the ride had
a pair of inverted roller coasters
these two roller coasters would chase
each other around like two dragons
dueling
at one point the two trains inverted and
looped riders around leaving only 18
inches between the two trains but in
2011 this part of the ride proved to be
very dangerous
during the loop something fell out from
the other train
this was something that came out of a
pocket of a rider on the other train
the object hit the other man in the face
at very high speeds
and unfortunately this led to his eye
having to be removed
there were many signs on this ride
saying do not take personal belongings
on board
but clearly some riders were ignoring
this rule
to try and make it more safe the ride
operators set the trains to go off at
different times
but this removed all of the fun and
excitement from the ride
this made the ride very unpopular and by
2017
it had shut down the smiler
this might be the most ironic name for a
roller coaster you can imagine
the smiler was a roller coaster at alton
towers in the uk
it was very unique as it had 14
inversions
this would continuously turn riders
around and around
but this all changed in 2015 riders were
riding the roller coaster at very high
speeds
but that's when they noticed a test car
was stuck on the tracks in front of them
they screamed telling the ride operator
to stop the ride
but they were going way too fast and
they were nowhere near the ride operator
they collided with the test car stuck on
the tracks
and people got incredibly caught up in
the wreckage
all 16 riders experienced injuries
and the two girls in the front row sadly
lost a leg
each investigators said what happened
was similar to a 90 mile an hour car
crash
the ride was shut down for some time and
alton towers had to shell out millions
of pounds of compensation to the riders
but just nine months later the smiler
reopened
the ride has not had any other incidents
since this
but i think i'll give the smiler a miss
on my next trip to walton towers
veruct veruct means
insane or crazy in german which is why
it was the name of the world's tallest
waterslide
this was found in schlitterbahn water
park in kansas city usa
the slide was a massive 168 feet tall
riders would go down this at 70 miles an
hour however they soon found out that
there was a problem if the rafts were
loaded with more than one thousand
pounds
they flew off the slide entirely but
instead of fixing the ride they simply
added nets
over the slide the park was allowed to
make its own safety inspections
that is because it gave a lot of money
to the kansas state government
one day a 10 year old boy was sadly
ejected from the ride
he then struck the netting causing his
head to come off
of course this led to the ride shutting
down later that year in 2016.
catapult catapult rides also known as
reverse bungee jumps are very popular in
many theme parks
but one day something very scary
happened on the catapult ride in mount
olympus theme park in wisconsin
but one day something very scary
happened to one catapult ride
this was at the mount olympus theme park
in wisconsin
in 2015 a 13 year old boy and a woman
were preparing to ride the catapult
that's when one of the ride's two metal
cables snapped
thankfully no one was hurt but it did
lead to the ride's closure
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