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@deepseasponge99 @branchlnebullet @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA And posted afterwards

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A thoosie YouTuber with over 80k subs, CoasterDash, just posted a video in which he promotes riding @SixFlags's/@KingsDominionVA's wooden coaster, Grizzly, in a WILDLY and OBVIOUSLY dangerous manner. Original video is still live on his YouTube channel, but 🖼️ & 📽️ just in case:

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@themeparktrib Would certainly be... "brave"... for someone to buy one right now. If Skyline shows via the upcoming C.J. Barrymore's install that they've figured out the basic track & trains, MAYBE someone domestically on a very tight budget could trust them with something larger like this? 🤷‍♂️

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@CoasterConquest That 1 year warranty may come in clutch. 😬

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@SkylineAttrax These throwback models have been becoming a bit of a trend at IAAPA lately, but we haven't seen many sell yet. If the price is right and Skyline can inspire confidence re: reliability, I could see something like this finding a good home at a large FEC or small park though. 🤞

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IRM Rides leaked @SkylineAttrax's "out of this world" IAAPA announcement! 👀

Skyline is debuting a modern reimagining of the classic S.D.C. Galaxi named the Gal XE2. Looks to be a large P’Sghetti Bowl w/ a chain lift.

Height: 49'
Speed: 25mph
Length: 1144'
Min Rider Height: 36"

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Roller coaster influencer CoasterDash posted video of himself riding a Six Flags roller coaster with what appeared to be dangerously loose restraints one month after a rider died at Six Flags Over Georgia. https://t.co/jJ861TZefD

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@dw1812_ @Urbex_Coasters @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA @BuschGardensVA Hey, your facts are getting in the way of his absurd narrative! Rude!

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@vandineofJDE @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA Just because a ride CAN dispatch doesn't mean every rider on the train is in a safe condition to dispatch. As stated in the official Grizzly operations manual, restraints must be pressed down against each rider's lap in order for a train to be safe to dispatch.

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@GeneralASC @LeonDaviess @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA Yes, and in the time since it has been reprofiled to increase the airtime AND CoasterDash's lap bar as shown in the video is actually further from his torso and lap than a buzz bar would be.

In other words, buzz bar argument: invalid.

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I welcome the constant, forthcoming "confrontation" by an army of scrawny, squeaky-voiced, 11 year old thoosies in coaster shirts that is sure to plague me for years in Goliath queues across the country. 🙄

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@FarRightSabrina @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA It was reprofiled with increased airtime by GG with individually-ratcheting PTCs.

And yeah, @SixFlags/@KingsDominionVA carry a HUGE amount of responsibility here—buck stops w/ them. I think we should self-police our community when our influencers promote bad behavior too tho

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@WallinBallinR @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA @BuschGardensVA Correction: Trying to ruin someone's career for promoting dangerous behavior to their young, impressionable audience in the wake of a widely-publicized, industry-harming death resulting from a rider being ejected from a coaster. If you can't see the problem, you're totally lost.

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@FarRightSabrina @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA Yes, many times. Phoenix is designed to run with buzz bars, Grizzly is not. Additionally, CoasterDash's restraint in the Grizzly video is further from both his torso and his lap than a buzz bar would have been. Easy to see if you look up photos to compare.

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@thundrstriker1 @Doctors__TARDIS @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA @BuschGardensVA Absolutely. Following the reprofile, it has shot up people's rankings not just because it's smoother, but because that first drop absolutely yeets you to the stratosphere in the back now.

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@Urbex_Coasters @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA @BuschGardensVA You are just wrong. Individual, ratcheting PTCs have enabled a broader range of forces on wooden coasters. Do you intend to sit here and tell me that it's safe to ride The Voyage with Buzz Bars? (It's not, obviously.)

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@Doctors__TARDIS @xavier_raccoon @FL_Coasters Despite that thoosie's best efforts, Verbolten still lacks seatbelts for now, thankfully.

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@Doctors__TARDIS @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA @BuschGardensVA It actually is. It's visibly further from both the riders' torsos and the riders' laps than the old buzz bars were. Also, Grizzly was reprofiled by The Gravity Group recently making the airtime even more violent than it used to be—so it's not an apples to apples comparison anyway

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@FL_Coasters @RCManiac_ This is an absolutely deranged one. Minimum verify for a skinny dude on Iron Gwazi is a death wish.

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@RCManiac_ "DidyDash?" Is there more lore? 👀

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@NEOThoosie @SixFlags @KingsDominionVA Just hunted down the video. What the actual fuck.