Attention Walmart Shoppers, they did not screw the pooch. You are watching a viral marketing campaign. For those of you who spell “physics” with an “f,” the calculations are not difficult for this ride, and the opening date was always the same. All videos of potential catastrophe are deliberate test-to-fail studies for insurance purposes. If you still are not sure, if you still are worried, then the marketing scheme worked, because after you survive you will go at least once more, brag of your survival, and in that way bring in many more customers who will want to see if they survive too.
There is a minor flaw in that advertising philosophy, since I'm in the first category, there is no way I'm ever getting on that thing........" Epic FAIL!"
Yes, yes, that’s it, they announced a live date, then tore the ride down to rebuild it differently and missed that date, and two more since, all because of viral marketing..... that’s it.
Sorry but that’s nonsense, you don’t construct the ride on site completely and then tear it down and spend another month rebuilding it as part of a marketing campaign, to only have to miss the new date again.
They screwed the math, pure and simple. The entire concept is ill conceived, even the retrofitting they did to “fix” it is pretty well slap dash “engineering” as well.
Simply put, 60 MPH in a vehicle that is not connected to anything other than by gravity, filled with people who are not connected to the car by anything but gravity, sent toward a ramp clearly angled way to steep to do anything but result in flight when more than a certain load was put in the thing isn’t viral marketing, its bad math.
Don’t believe me, go watch the ride where they did it with the designer and engineer, if you watch that ride closely you’ll see they barely make it to the top of the hill, they didn’t do their math right, pure and simple. If you think engineers don’t screw up simple math, you have a lot of history of system failures to catch up on.