someone dies at disneyland today :/

The same ride here at DisneyWorld has been closed for routine maintenance (so the workers for the rat say), and now there saying that they'll not re-open it until the reason for the accident in Anaheim is determined and safety measures can be taken.

I feel pretty horrid for the people who were in the accident and who had to witness it.

[x-post] Really? I hadn't even thought about that possibility, but it would be odd to keep it running, I guess. Or maybe they could change the route or something. I know a kid lost his foot in the ride in the past year or two, while loading or unloading. I wonder if they close the Anaheim ride if they'll A) close the Orlando ride too and B) if they do close both rides, would they be willing to bring back 'Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'in their place?

i hope they bring it back!

Gives a new meaning to the phase "risky fun":< This story was scary, since I can remember going on rickety rides like the Cyclone at Coney Island, and not thinking twice about if I could fall out. However, I'd always thought there would be greater risk of death from something like a heart-attack (as some of those rides can go pretty fast).

This was horrible for the deceased person's family, for sure. If Disneyland's rep gets tarnished any more, who'll want to go? The domino effect means that Mickey might get hit with a pink slip.

How many people have died at Six Flags parks, for instance?

what media companies are associated with/owned by disney by the way?
curious because my friend heard about this on fox news yesterday evening,but there was no mention of it on the news on any other channels last night

when i was a little kid, i thought disney rides were so weak. the rides at great adventure or at the jersey shore were where it was at!

or not.

(seriously, i was expecting sunny day real estate to pop out of the cosmic kiosk in the Tomorrowland food court last time i was there)

I wouldn't be surprised if the next Disney movie will be based on the tram ride from the parking lot.

there was an latimes article about old disneyland rides years ago saying how arbitrary the decisions were on what stays and goes. the tiki room, the most retarded show/ride at the park, is still there cuz some big disney boardmember won't let it go.

this guy i knew had the architectural plans to the haunted mansion on his wall. if you grew up in socal it was like looking at god's drafting board.

i still want to crash that top-secret club in the new orleans section.

http://www.wxii12.com/video/23827571/index.html

A couple is looking over childhood photos in preparation of their wedding when the husband recognizes his father in the background of his wife's childhood photo. Could it be???

I didn't think this was all that weird until they mentioned that the families were geographically distant. Cool!

they've apparently reprinted the "Death at Disneyland" issue of the "Murder Can Be Fun" zine

I used to wonder about the strange people in the background of family photos. Their stories go untold.

I wondered about the strange peole in the foreground of family photos.

Can you do Eurodisney in a weekend/long weekend, including travel from south UK (ideally Eurostar)?

Why would you revive a thread about deaths at Disneyland to ask this!?

well, if you'd like to die at disneyland, your best bet would be...

Apologies. That was insensitive of me - have no good reason for using this thread.

It wasn't a Disney property, but since this thread was bumped already:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/07/20/5015425/investigation-into-womans-fatal.html

Witnesses said Esparza “basically tumbled over,” perhaps when the ride made a sudden turn, and disappeared into the evening.

John and Darlene Putman of Rockwall said they were in line Friday when the Giant returned from its fatal run. They saw an agitated man and woman in their 20s climb out of a car.

“They were screaming, ‘My mom! My mom! Let us out, we need to go get her!’ ” John Putman said.

Ride operators spoke with the couple, and one made a call. They put on helmets and headed for an area under the coaster, the Putmans said.

One of the riders, Carment Brown of Arlington, said she watched Esparza ask one of the Six Flag ride attendants to make sure she was corrected fastened because her lap bar did not click more than once. “Everybody else is like, ‘Click, click, click,” she told the Dallas Morning News. “Hers only clicked once. Hers was the only one that went down once, and she didn’t feel safe, but they let her still get on the ride. That could have been me.”

And the part where you can tell this happened in Texas:

Neither the Arlington police nor fire department are participating in the on-going probe, which for the time being is being solely undertaken by the amusement park’s owner.

Mayor Robert Cluck said he had no information on the investigation...

Oh god that kind of thing gives me nightmares. I was on a ride once as a teenager that a similar thing happened on - one of those circle loop rids where the carriages swing up one side, and back, and eventually loop right over a few times. I was too small for the padded bar and I honestly had to *hang on for dear life* screaming my head off, I thought I was going to fucking die. It was the worst thing ever.

disappeared into the evening

yeah, raised a brow @ that

That was... curious wording indeed.

Like they make it sound like she just fell out, disappeared, no one could find her and no one much bothred to look, just the park operator with a torch in the dark.

good start for a twilight zone imo

well this frightened the hell out of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0KmTMf0VVQ

wait (1) that shit was hilarious, and (2) I'm disappointed it didn't go further

I know this feeling of weightlessness. I feel it in my dreams every night.

I looked up Superman roller coaster accidents, and yikes there were quite a few.

Most recent one involved a decorated war vet who was ejected from his seat and perished in a fall.

The http://www.iwise.com/authorIcons/537/Paul%20Harvey_48x48.png ?

Dude had NO LEGS.

i don't really go on roller coasters. others should follow my lead

Hmm, maybe. Is there a long line?