Chaos

adrian de santiago · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: Chaos

At SFFNet it says that chaos is defunct/removed! How can that be i thuoght is was closed temporaily not permenetlly! I guess it was because of the accident
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oh and they renamed FT's waterpark from Armadillo beach to White Water Bay! Wink

why is all this happening??

Yoshi · Serpent Rider Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 47

Chaos rides have been having accidents all over the country so I definetly understand why parks are getting rid of them. All Six Flags parks are getting rid of their Chaos rides and some other parks are as well (such as Hersheypark).

batnick · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

what happened to them? for them to be taken out of a park it must have been something bad, right?

ThatTh*ngGirl · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

When several (2 or 3, maybe 4 different installations) rides (Chaos) with the exact same format (spinning flat ride with free-wheeling cars) from the exact same manufacturer (Chance Rides) start experiencing the same bad accidents (cars loaded with people that ended up on the ground), it's time to retire them.

batnick · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:13 am Post subject:

geez that not good. especally since im supposed to be operating one at cedar point this summer. but since ive started tracking cedar points operations i found out that cedar point is obcessed with saftey. which is a good thing but i thought it kinda funny. but in these day u can never be to careful.

ThatTh*ngGirl · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:49 am Post subject:

That's rather ... something.... if Cedar Point hasn't removed their Chaos. IIRC, one of these incidents happened at one of Cedar Fair's parks. Even stranger, I thought for some reason that Chance-Morgan decided to pull all the installations.

Mike Robinson · Site Admin Joined: 12 Mar 2002 Posts: 4184

There was a retrofit that could be done to keep the pin sheering from occurring. Some parks chose to fix the ride, some chose to take them out.
I think in Michican's Adventure's case, it was good PR just remove the ride since it had rolled out into the midway. (Well not really, but it fell and rolled a few feet)

I know they took the ride out of Fiesta and SFNO and my best guess is economics played a part in not spending the money on fixing the ride. It was probably pretty pricey.

I could see why Cedar Point did spend the money to fix their CHAOS as it was touted as the big new ride in one of their non coaster years.

calereneau · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

It WAS a fun ride though....even if it was a slightly nauseating one.
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batnick · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

i have alway enjoyed chaos.

viperdude · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

Cedar Point's Chaos is a pain to operate...batnick will learn that pretty soon.
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batnick · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:43 am Post subject:

we shall see. im looking forward to it.