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Dragons Not Dueling?
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- Aug 20, 2009
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- Apr 20, 2008
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Haha, I love how everyone still calls them Fire and Ice (myself included)
Hopefully this is just a temporary fix.
I sincerely hope this is some kind of temporary technical glitch. If this is permanent due to some freak accident, I'm going to be quite irritated. First, they ruin an awesome queue and give Dueling Dragons a cheap and horrible name change. Not even going to mention the embarrassing names they gave Fire & Ice. And now they take the "dueling" effect away?! Sad.
Hope this is not permanent. I am going to be there tuesday or thursday (with many others it seems) and will take a look. Universal will really let me down it this becomes a permanent change.
This better not be permanent. They were designed to duel; that's the whole point of the near-misses.
Staggering the trains is not going to eliminate that extremely small chance of someone getting hit with a projectile; they can come from anywhere.
These things already have low enough ridership as it is. Taking out the most unique aspect of the ride certainly won't help that.
Staggering the trains is not going to eliminate that extremely small chance of someone getting hit with a projectile; they can come from anywhere.
These things already have low enough ridership as it is. Taking out the most unique aspect of the ride certainly won't help that.
- Apr 20, 2008
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http://screamscape.com/html/islands_of_adventure.htm
Apparently a Screamscape reader sent in a story of him being hit with something on the other train as well, and this is the reason that the trains aren't being dueled anymore. Apparently Universal believes that it's a single person behind these attacks, and Screamscape as well. I mean, for 2 objects to hit people within weeks of each other when the ride has never had this happen in 12 years? It's somewhat suspicious. I don't know how you would protect from that then... make everyone empty their pockets?
Apparently a Screamscape reader sent in a story of him being hit with something on the other train as well, and this is the reason that the trains aren't being dueled anymore. Apparently Universal believes that it's a single person behind these attacks, and Screamscape as well. I mean, for 2 objects to hit people within weeks of each other when the ride has never had this happen in 12 years? It's somewhat suspicious. I don't know how you would protect from that then... make everyone empty their pockets?
You severely underestimate the stupidity and careless of our society. I can see this being anyone under 30 honestly.
Geez, Mick, first the Dudley Do Right fire, now this? Someone's getting WAY too competitive.
Universal needs to get to the bottom of this and fast! But I don't know what more preventative measures can be taken to ensure rider safety while dueling. Are the coaster's safety monitors not enough to catch what's going on? And if this is truly some moronic guest doing this , well, he should be stoned to death. Maybe that's a little extreme. But it's angering when some idiot ruins it for everyone else.
Well this is disappointing news. I guess with "dueling" stripped from the ride's title there is not really a case to be made as to why it shouldn't be single trains. Other than it totally sucks and nobody likes the decision...
This really upsets me. Dragons Challenge is one of my fav coasters because it's never got a long wait, so I can go on both tracks back to back. If they keep the no dueling aspect I will probably never ride this again. This really saddens me. If they ever catch the ******* who threw those things I give universal full permission to use brute force to make the message that 'thats wrong' stick (assuming it was the same person who did both attacks).
