Good. GOOD.So, a quick rundown of what's going on with Ice Breaker!
- As mentioned before, the original idea was for IB to have a 48" height requirement (This is what SW wanted), and Premier modified the trains/shin guards to secure smaller riders.
- Passholder previews arrive, and those modifications weren't enough because kids got tossed around more than expected and got smacked by those ever-pointless comfort collars, resulting in minor injuries and the height requirement getting raised to 54".
- Since then, Premier has been working with SW for a solution. What's been settled on is a seat belt along with the regular lap bar, and removing the comfort collars to avoid any more smacking around by them.
- With the solution in place, the height requirement is now permanently 48".
Finally, this has a rippling effect. Comfort Collars are now no longer mandatory on Premier Trains as the secondary restraint. Parks are now able to opt for a seatbelt instead, and because of that, SFMM is now getting a third train for Full Throttle since they didn't want to when Premier was having CC's mandatory for any new train.
So the main takeaway of all this, Comfort Collars sucked. Always have, always will. Now parks have the option of getting rid of them completely, so good riddance.
Font want to turn this into a SFMM thread, but unfortunately Cal OSHA won’t allow the comfort collars to be removed from WCR. It’s technically considered a “safety feature” which cannot be removed for any reason. They would have to make new trains for WCR to get around it like they did with Revolution to get rid of the OTSRs on that ride, but that would make WCR even better.