Me, too. We work for Universal on movie production occasions and we ride the park roller coasters for free. My bud works for their theme park roller coaster staff and the entire staff isn’t run by some 2-bit rinky dink carney’ “mechanic”.
No one at their roller coaster staff has anything less than an engineering major from a top reputable school and no one is allowed to touch the machines that run them for at least 1 year as a safety precaution. Everyone starts from design and schematics.
When I was 13 my friends and I were at the city pool. A carney came over to the fence and hired us to help him assemble his big carnival ride. We were allowed to ride it for free that night but chose not to.
Awesome ... probably explains their good safety record! The Travel Channel has been running a series about the World’s Greatest Roller Coasters where the riders voted after the ride — last I saw, I think one in Japan was in the lead. But the big ones look like SO much fun!!!!