Theme Park Rides That Had To Be Shut Down

Nothing gets your adrenaline pumping like a death-defying

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attraction. The promise of high-speed spins and drops attracts millions of people to test their courage on these

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each year, but despite the warning signs and super-comfortable lap bars, not all of them are as safe as they are. They seem like this Russian attraction that broke down and its passengers were suspended by a thread or this crazy catapult that almost crushed its passengers. Want to know more, then buckle up tight and secure any loose items on your person while we take a look at some

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that had to close wild son of the beast among the roller coaster enthusiasts of the world this colossal wooden ride called Son of the Beast has legendary status Part of the Kings Island amusement park in Ohio was built as a sequel to its previous wooden roller coaster, the Beast, but like any good sun, this new Beast surpassed its predecessor in every way. : It was the world's fastest and tallest wooden roller coaster, whipping riders at a staggering speed of 78 miles per hour from peaks as high as 218 feet.

And to add icing on the cake, it was also the only wooden roller coaster with a loop when it opened in 2000, but being made of wood didn't make the ride any easier. Structural problems gave Son of Beast a reputation for being a choppy and rough ride, although that made some sadists love it even more, but it became too difficult in 2006 when a passenger train circled around the section of the train. rose bowl, his train suddenly shook as if it had hit a huge pothole at that height. At high speeds, the damage was severe and 27 passengers were sent to hospital with serious neck and chest injuries.

Inspectors later revealed that a wooden support beam under that section had cracked and splintered and the ride was closed, it was repaired and reopened in 2009, but then another rider suffered an injury on board, although this time it was head trauma. caused by the roller coaster's violent shaking, although a thorough investigation found no wrongdoing, its checkered past and harsh reputation were enough for it to close indefinitely that year. The wonderful wooden structure was later demolished in 2012, proving that what goes up will eventually come down in the dangerous dragon challenge When Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, opened a dragon-themed attraction in 1999, fans of the roller coasters were amazed.

It was originally called dueling dragons. The attraction consisted of a pair of inverted interlocking roller coasters that chased each other like two dragons fighting in the air, at one point the two trains even reversed the passengers and spun them just 18 inches apart after that, I bet because all those passengers were left feeling as if they had really conquered a dragon whose name was later changed. the dragon challenge and was added to the wizarding world of harry potter section of the park, but shortly after the move, the dragon riders began misbehaving in 2011, a 52-year-old man was on the ride when, during that circuit iconic, something flew out of the other car and hit him.

Across his entire face, the damage was so severe that his entire eye had to be removed. Concerned that passengers were not taking the numerous no loose objects signs seriously, operators began running the two trains at different times to avoid similar incidents, but this would change. It turned out to be a death blow for the dragons without the dueling feature, the popularity of the attraction decreased and in 2017 it was closed to make way for something more magical and less dangerous, now if you are looking for a wild attraction without the risk of losing an eye, then go ahead and hit those like and subscribe buttons.

I can't send you through a loop-de-loop but I will turn your world upside down with videos about things you never knew before, all done so well now, where were we strenuous? Lantern, the 2011 Green Lantern movie, was universally panned when it hit the big screen, so you won't be surprised to learn that Green Lantern's First Flight Roller Coaster was just as disappointing when it debuted at Six Flags Magic Mountain in 2011. .was promoted. as the world's first fully vertical pattern zigzag roller coaster with 360-degree rotating seats, but this design made it look more like a giant pinball machine than an attraction, however, six flags as fans lined up to try it out and most of them repented, passengers.

They were jostled and jostled down the short 825-foot runway at top speeds of just 37 miles per hour, twisting them around corners and spinning them clumsily at sudden angles, so instead of feeling like they were flying superheroes, it shook them. like fish in a great green. Users of the exchange quickly took to the internet to complain about how painful the experience was, while others chastised it for being short and boring. Fortunately, Six Flags fans didn't have to suffer much longer in 2017, the attraction closed unexpectedly for unknown reasons, some speculated it was due to bad reviews and injuries, while others believed it was due to its waning popularity, Whatever the reason it sat vacant for two years before the park announced it would be closing the attraction for good in 2019, meaning this much-hyped attraction operated for an embarrassingly short time. six years like in the movie this roller coaster turned out to be a big flop oh no oppa is it just me or does anyone else find the brightly painted cars on some family roller coasters like this one or this one really creepy well unfortunately the disturbing design of the cars of the oppa roller coaster at Mount Olympus Park in Wisconsin wasn't the worst of them: The colorful indoor roller coaster was just 43 feet high and with a top speed of just 29 miles per hour, riders didn't go as crazy as they would.

It was gentle, although that doesn't mean it wasn't dangerous In 2014, Anthony Thiessen was accompanying her grandchildren on the ride when her safety bar suddenly failed when the ride came to a corner. anthony was thrown like a ragdoll and fell 17 feet onto the hard concrete below is like falling from a one and a half story window. Anthony was placed in a medically induced coma for a month due to the severity of his injuries, but he miraculously survived the roller coaster; on the other hand, safety inspectors did not. They began testing the course using sandbags to represent the rider's weights, but everyone watched in disbelief as the lap bar suddenly opened at the point on the track where Anthony had been thrown.

There was no doubt that Mount Olympus had failed to adequately maintain the strength of the roller coaster. permanently close the attraction that same year. Well, I for one am not sad to see the back of those creepy looking mouse mobiles get into the mouse and get out of here. The human catapult and catapult rides have become increasingly popular with adrenaline junkies in recent years and it's not hard to see why passengers are securely strapped to a single steel capsule that is attached to cables. Industrial strength spring fixed to the top of two huge towers. The cables are then gradually tightened as the capsule remains tethered to the launch pad.

With the push of a button, the capsule is released like a stone from a slingshot. Riders can be catapulted up to 450 feet into the air at impressive speeds of around 100 miles per hour. This is a way to get rid of your girlfriend, but as fun as they are. Look at the people filming them from the ground, the G-force these rides produce can reach up to 5g, which is enough to make some riders faint funny, but that's not the worst that can happen on these attractions in 2015. Drew Larson was filming a video of his 13-year-old son about to ride Wisconsin's Mount Olympus catapult with a family friend.

The ride was designed to launch riders 200 feet into the air at 60 miles per hour, but moments before riders pressed the launch button, something terrible happened. Without warning, the cable on one side of the ride broke, breaking all that tension just inches from the child. Now these rides work by applying about 40 tons of pressure through those cables, so if that kid had been a few inches further to his right, he would have needed a spatula to unstick him, what an incredibly lucky escape, while state documents showed that the trip had passed inspections a month before Mount Olympus.

It had previously failed to display proper maintenance documentation for the catapult in 2013 and when you take a look at the frayed cables on the side it appears that the documents are still missing, fortunately the attraction was closed and removed from the park just two days later, which probably saved future customers from becoming pancake cosmonauts of chaos in the glittering Russian city of Saint Petersburg is amazed by its architecture and history, but it is guaranteed something else to entertain its visitors located in the central Petrogradsky district the Devo amusement park ostrov is a thrill seeker's dream come true and at the center of it all revolves this absolute beast known simply as the rocket, this tall attraction carries 10 would-be cosmonauts in a ground level gondola that is attached to that giant arm using two cables at the front and back of the arm and then gradually winding them before spinning them about 200 feet in the air, but since they are in flight, the gondola rotates rapidly on its own axis, turning the passengers upside down and giving them a real idea of ​​space travel.

Just watching that makes my head turn as much as my stomach, although not as much as this clip from 2010 does. On that fateful day, 10 people literally had their lives hanging in the balance after one of the rocket's cables broke. broke down in the middle of the trip. It took rescue teams more than an hour to get all the passengers off, but fortunately no one reported any injuries. An initial investigation revealed that the hot weather that day may have weakened the metal inside the cables causing them to break, but surely being an outdoor space, these attractions should have been designed to withstand high temperatures in the first place, to Despite that disturbing revelation, the attraction was only briefly closed for repairs. before reopening later that year, so remember the kids on Russia's amusement park rides aren't smiling now, when the world-record-breaking inverted roller coaster opened, the smile at Alton Towers in England, really made fans smile in anticipation with 14 investments he promised to flip.

Riders were upside down more than any other roller coaster on the planet, but all those smiles soon turned to screams after the shocking events of 2015. As a car full of passengers circled the track, they suddenly noticed a car of empty proof that was trapped in front of them. They desperately searched for help, but it was too late. They collided with such force that the metal of their car buckled and pinned the front-row passengers to their seats. Rescuers rushed to the scene and spent hours trying to pull them out of the rubble. The riders suffered some degree of injury, but two girls in the front row were so badly trapped that each horribly lost a leg.

The attraction was closed and an in-depth investigation was launched and it was revealed that a fault had been detected in the attraction. Earlier that day, according to procedure, the operator sent an empty test car, however, the test car got stuck on a circuit due to some strong winds and failed to clear the track without realizing what had happened. , the operators ignored safety warnings and released him. The next car full of passengers sent him careening towards the test car and at those speeds it was like watching a car crash at 90 miles per hour. This operational oversight was so serious that Alton Towers' parent company, Merlin Group, closed three other attractions it owned and operated.

Similarly, the accident was eventually blamed on inadequate training and human error and the Merlin group was forced to shell out millions of pounds in compensation, but just nine months later the Smiler was incredibly back in action; It just didn't seem like enough time to have it. All those problems were solved and the Merlin group was accused of putting profits before people, however, the trip has worked without further incidents since, although I think they should have changed their name instead of the smile, how about the crasher, maybe the smasheror maybe just the death trap? I have better names, let me know in the comments below.

Collective action park in the 70s and 80s. Health and safety was more of a suggestion than a rule, as evidenced by the existence of an action park often hilariously called collective action park. Because of the number of injury lawsuits filed against it, it was widely considered the most dangerous amusement park in the world. Opened in New Jersey in 1978 and the attractions they boasted about were completely crazy when you entered the park, the first time you saw the mind. A cannonball loop was an enclosed tube slide that riders slid down in total darkness that threw them through a loop before plunging them into the water, but the slide was not adequately padded and therefore , he whipped them through this hard plastic casing in The breakneck speed left many of his testers toothless.

Next up was the Colorado River Ride, a truly insane version of a classic lazy river ride. Passengers were given rubber rafts and were thrown mercilessly against the sides of the ride, hitting their knees, feet, and hands as they were thrown. and then there was a serf massacre, I mean Surf Hill, a huge slide divided into several lanes that, thanks to some really poor engineering, saw riders catapulted into the air at the slightest bump, ouch my shins are bruised just by look at this, as you can probably see what the attractions were. So dangerous that no self-respecting insurance company would insure the park, so Action Park CEO Eugene Mulvihill created his own insurance company and insured it himself illegally, and that kid stuff is what we call fraud. , even so, the death-defying cannonball circuit was open for a while. all month before they

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it down after riders complained of broken noses and back injuries, but that was just the tip of the injury iceberg.

The action park dubiously reported only 14 broken bones and 26 head injuries in its 18-year tenure, although the actual total is believed to appear to be much higher, but that's not the worst part because the park also took its toll. life of not one, not two, but six people before it was closed in 1996. Hoo, it sounds like that. The place was not so much a water park as a watery grave. Drop Knott's dangerous berry farm likes to promote itself as the number one theme park in California and I'm sure that would be true if it weren't for the large number of serious accidents they have had since 1983, at least 16 people have been injured. injuries, some of them fatally, on the park's 40 roller coasters and family attractions, although an accident on the popular and dangerous water ride really put the seriousness into a mystery when it opened in 2000.

The attraction featured a record fall of 115 feet and super steep from the top, ensuring passengers' hearts were racing and shirts were soaked despite the height. Passengers were only secured with a lap bar and a seat belt, which proved to be a problem for some of their larger guests. In 2001, a 300-pound passenger somehow broke free of these restraints and fell over 100 feet into the shallow pool below. Unfortunately, he did not survive, but when the boat returned to the station, his lap bar and belt security were still blocked, no one was there. able to figure out how the restraints could have failed until the coroner noticed that the 50-inch seat belt was eight inches shorter than his abdomen to fit, he placed the seat belt over his legs and consequently slid off He clearly should not have been allowed to ride and his family sued the park for damages, but after a brief closure, the attraction reopened with new four-point restrictions so that no visitor, regardless of their size, it could accidentally come out again.

The word verut means crazy or insane in German, which made it the perfect name for the world's tallest water slide built at Schlitterbahn Park in Kansas City. The veruct had a gigantic slide 168 feet high from the top that launched riders down a 17-story deadly drop before launching them down a five-story slope at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour—okay, that looks incredibly exciting. , but as you can imagine, designing something so tall and slippery came with some serious bumps that during testing if the rafts were loaded with over a thousand pounds and flew off the slide completely, but instead of improving the ride, The designers simply placed a net over most of it to prevent passengers from being blown into the air.

I mean, I'm no expert, but even for me not that. It sounds safe, but Schlitterbahn had made significant financial donations to the state of Kansas, so it was allowed by law to conduct its own safety inspections. Could it sound more suspicious after roughly concluding that each raft must weigh between 400 and 550 pounds? pounds to be sure, the attraction opened in 2014, but these shady safety practices sealed the fate of this fatal slide. In 2016, a ten-year-old boy died in a verruckt when he was ejected into the net. Two women on the same raft were also seriously injured and police began a thorough investigation.

The combined weight of the three passengers reached a supposedly safe 545 pounds, but the 73-pound boy had been allowed to ride in the front. Experts believe this uneven weight distribution contributed to the raft becoming airborne. The second hump, something rigorous testing should have caught the attraction's egregious safety violations, closed and dismantled in 2016 and a quick change in the law came to the park. He was unable to perform safety self-inspections again. The human catapult a catapult. It is a type of medieval catapult that was designed to launch huge objects with a sling through the force of a counterweight.

These were excellent for sieges, as their projectiles landed on or over city walls in unpredictable patterns, knowing all that, no one would be foolish enough to consider tying a human to one of these well back in the 1970s. 1990, a dangerous sports club in England built a huge catapult on a Somerset estate for the sole purpose of launching people into a remotely placed net for just 40 pounds, which today would be about 140 almost anyone could sign up to be thrown at random. 100 feet above the English countryside and this was as safe as it seemed. One woman who tried it, named Stella Young, managed to hit the net but then quickly bounced back breaking her neck and pelvis, but instead of closing this death trap they simply added a larger net and put people in a ball so that They wouldn't shake and bounce when landing now, as I said before, catapults are not precision instruments and this will become all too clear in 2002.

A poor student named Kustadin Yankov who tested this terrible trebuchet was thrown so far from the target that he missed completely. the network and unfortunately it did not survive. It was an accident waiting to happen that finally

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this idiot down. low forever fatal the fujin raijin ii exhibition ground had been a popular theme park in japan since its opening in 1972 and the incredible fujin raijin ii was one of the most famous attractions built in 1992, this steel roller coaster strapped its passengers Whipping them over half a mile of track at around 70 miles per hour was a huge success and ran without a single problem for 15 years, but in 2007, when the train was about to enter A circular section of the track, the wheel axle of the second car suddenly broke causing it to tilt to one side, it traveled almost a thousand feet before the broken section hit a railing and brought the train to a screeching halt.

The event claimed the life of a young woman and injured 19 others after a thorough investigation. revealed that the car's axles had not been replaced in a shocking 15 years, but the axles were not even part of the routine daily or monthly inspections, but this incredible oversight ended up costing more than one human life, the entire park closed while it was carried out the investigation. took place and the attraction was closed, although when it finally reopened in 2015, no one returned, expo and had lost the trust of the people and just two short years later, the park closed its doors forever, a flying fascist machine.

The design of an attraction generally falls into one of three categories. The good is the bad and then there is the right, wrong and anyone who knows his story can see that this one fits into the latter category. This unfortunately designed attraction called Adler Flug, which roughly translates to eagle flight, was installed at the Tatsumania theme park in luffington germany did you hear that right germany this gets worse and worse as time goes by godless it was naively designed in 2019 with each of the two chickens' rotating arms designed to look like eagles as they were lifted and spun, riders could spin around. the skies like a frozen bird, but from a distance these eight rotating arms look like two rotating hate symbols that are notorious in germany for all the wrong reasons, so notorious that displaying these unconstitutional symbols is illegal throughout the country, the mistake was quite innocent and The park's owner, Rudiger Brown, apologized profusely for any offense caused, but rather than closing the attraction completely, he got to work removing two of the arms from each head.

Now, when they spin, they look like two perfectly innocent pinwheels instead of one spinning hate crime. survived any of these reckless trips when they were still in operation and do you know of any others I didn't mention? Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching.