HeyItsBen Correct :)

The ride operator does not make the ride stop, its the ride sensors, break downs only happen if the ride sensors detect any fault in the cart or the track

Dantopps or if the two cars are too close together

@@ItzBlazeofficial but wouldn't the block brake restart when the cart on the block Infront moves?

@@nexaini correct-ED

lol

it’s so they don’t attempt to climb out themselves as that would be very dangerous

Well it's nothing surprising. It is a block brake so it can easily to stop there.

@@liamwright1105 I expected it to at least complete the chainlift hill if it was a block brake issue. since there is a block brake at the top of the chainlift wouldn't the systems detect theres nothing on the chainlift and at least get the train to the top before stopping it? or was there an issue with the lift hill itself?

@@lotte2899most likely the lift failed to start and that was the technical delay, Probaly why the delay resulted in 2 hours as they will have had to evacuate them (25-50 mins) checked/restart the lift (5-30) mins and the rest to test as each test will have been around 1 mins

1Hundred%NotASpy imagine being a worker

1Hundred%NotASpy there are probably loads of break downs because of the workers becoming insane because of the music

Darkstar The cat nope, I went there last week... they wear earplugs

Tbh, I wouldn't bother me much. I acutally enjoy listening to it 😅😅

1Hundred^NotASpy I was in the queue when it happened and i had to listen to the music for 2 hours and me and my friends started going crazy

It's a lady announcer at my two local stations. One of them called 'Anne' and another one called 'Celia Drummond'.

It is indeed. He did all the announcements for The Smiler, but I believe he passed away not long after it opened.

@@HTCGaming1000 Do you know what his name was?

Yes BUT it can have an unexpected effect (and that's the reason why in many parks, automated messages about evacuations aren't themed) : it scares the hell out of someone. It's a real factor if panic for people to be stuck in a ride (and thanks to many media outlets who uses it. No you can't be stuck for 3 days on a rollercoaster, and no the accident shown in Final Destination 3 couldn't happen in real life, no that way) and breaking the theme can help to get people calm as they understand quicker and faster that : - Immersion is broken so the ride might be - I'll have to listen to these announcements as they aren't show - They tell me that someone is coming or what to do to stay safe I mean, yeah these announcements are great but they *might* freak out less experienced guests. In the park where I'm a ride op', they encourage us to also do ourselves public announcements, multiple times and with different operators, to calm people as it means we're many to come to get you out.

Why is yo comet so big dude a big old comet

That sounds scary, Espeically on a inverted coaster

*the smiler is laughing at your safety*

@@justarandompeep412 XD LOL

@@justarandompeep412 yep

People Hears About The Smiler Crash: *Someone Has Their Phone Out On The Ride* Ride: *Stops On Lift Loop* Everyone:WERE GONNA DIEEEEEEEE Me: owo

EvieKittyQueen EvieKittyQueen He looked exactly like rhett

Good mythical morning

Smiler wasalways safe.

@@danielledewitt1 Correct. The smiler crashed in 2015 due to human error, the fail safe kicked in, but the staff decided to over ride it

@@cherrytop6966 Exactly.

Heights

You dont go high

Alton towers cant build above their tallest trees

2:01 oh haha

Ikr

"no-no-no-na-na-naAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breathe* AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH NO PLEAsE NOT MY TOES UWU AHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

*IMAGINE BEING STUCK! HAHA! STUCK!*

"1 time is funny 2 times is fucking annoying"

Same 😂😵‍💫🤪😂

S4credXPr0 I love it. Also they don't let you choose .-.

Nexaini I know but i mean id still ride it front row! 😀

Nexaini it really makes me angry when they don't let you 😂😂😡😡

If i go to alton towers this year i want to go on the smiler... But i might be to small? Or to young? Im under 10. But my dad said i should be big enough for The Pepsi Max at Blackpool!!!! Yass brah

Cuteteam567 AJ go check how tall u are, u might not if ur under ten, but the height limit is one meter 40 cm.

freya jones that’s... not how it works...

Megan Horan Thanks, they where a pain to make

The smiler is 100% safe and even safer now as additional safety measures have been added.

There's no way that can happen, the system physically will not let a cart go if there's already a cart occupying the next section of track. If you know about the Smiler accident you'll know that the ride operators overrode this safety feature as they believed all the other carts were at the station and not on the track and so treated it as a system error

If you are referring to the crash, they didn't. There is a button they have to press for bad emergency (like the crash) which shuts down everything. (The music, the lights, etc) so yeah, no it wasn't on for 2 hours

I don’t really know if I was referring to the crash or not. It was kinda just in general tbh. But yeah, you’ve got a point. x

@@libby-taylorsversion6131 yep, every ride has a button like that

LibbyJoKendrick I don’t mind the soundtrack

It's designed to be a hang-time ride where it almost stalls within the loops in order to make them last longer, giving more thrill to the ride. It does so in a safe manner, and it won't stop up-side down

bullshit, if it stopped on the first part of the sea serpent roll it would have definitely stalled inside of it. stop lying.

@@george-pi5mo what the hell is a ”Sea Serpent Roll”

@@vaino1801 A coaster element, its quite rare.

@@thirstydemon oh i didn’t know that but Smiler does not have that right?

The Flip Thanks!

not with the music doing your absolute head in, driving you mentally and physically insane

Very Pacey I know right! Alot of people are saying that they felt sorry for me, breaking down on a ride is so fun it can be more fun then just riding it. You get to see more of how it works and places the public arent allowed to go. It almost feels like a diffrent ride! Also my editing isnt that good, its defently better than my recording though :)

PASTA GUY9000 thanks!

_YE_

Beautiful

yikes um-

Joseph Barton wow.. late reply but happy birthday :)

I was in the queue when it happened

it's not often you get stuck???? and if you did why would you start hyperventilating?? it's part of a normal procedure. unless you valley

Megs I’m pretty sure it’s cuz of the cart that got stuck in 2015 ):

Adress: The Smiler

how? the fact the ride stopped shows it is safe. the computer found an error and stopped all cars to avoid an accident, so how is it potentially dangerous?

How? Explain. It’s the safest thing that could of happened.

These incidents can happen all the time and are benine when treated correctly. An incident like the 2015 one is really unlikely. There is no such thing as 100% secure BUT many park already had mesures to prevent the 2015 accident (like evacuating the ride even if not needed when there's an estop) and Alton towers do apply these now. Parks don't want people to be injured. Of course.

*wasn't

pringle100 Pringle I got 6 fast tracks and 3 maze tickets (both valid for 2 people)

Not anymore, it's now opening from 11:00, and the rapids are running throughout the year, and everything will be open by 11:00 every day that the park is open for

Oh no we got stuck in a perfectly safe enviroment for a few hours which is a small percentage of our lifetime to prevent it becoming possibly a lot shorter

LB BODEN Don't, I like breaking down on rides, its fun

Alasdair Clift haha

harrison-_-782 I broke down on that in the spider room, i stood on a presure plate that sets of those loud zombies that come round the corners, so one of those zombies came straight up to my face

they don't take 2 hours to resolve a guest carrying a loose object, but i agree most of the time that's what it is.

No. I got my camera out because we had been stopped there for over 5 mins.

Not always the reason, and besides that wouldn’t require the ride being evacuated, it was more likely a technical issue and in which case, the safety systems did their job and stopped the ride. With every ride (not just The Smiler), there’s always potential technical issues that can arise, and in many cases an evacuation is required for safety precautions. What happened before with The Smiler was 2 members of staff overriding these safety systems, and not realising there was a train stuck on the track. Accidents like that are very, very, very rare and unfortunately even now that a few years have passed, people still make a fuss over every single ride that stops for a routine issue like this, especially at Alton Towers and especially for The Smiler. In many cases it is for cameras, phones or loose items being in your hand, but as they evacuated the ride and had test dummies in one of the cars in the station, I’d say that it wasn’t to do with the camera. Kudos to Alton Towers though for offering free tickets and fast track tickets for the inconvenience - they didn’t have to do that, but the fact that they did I feel is a very nice touch from them personally

Dan McEvoy I believe the manager said it was something to do with the block section breaks. So either the ones the train stopped on, or the ones before the station.

Nexaini Could have been the ones before either set of lift hills, or the ones before or at the station. Either way, the safety system did it’s job & stopped the ride. Good to see Alton Towers very proactive on this, even when we went last year and the queue line was evacuated, the staff were helpful and reassuring the public that the ride will be back up and running again as quick as possible, and about 30 mins later test cars were back flying round the track again. Credit to Alton Towers for offering something back as compensation. Did you get the chance to get back on the ride afterwards?

bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh

The Amusing Rabbit it is the smiler.early in the vid you can hear the halfway music and the captions read “HA HA HA HA HA HA HA”

The Amusing Rabbit you are clearly not funny. You just trying to act dumb. Chessington will never get a thrill rollercoaster and the Swarm is a wing coaster in Thorpe Park

@@Yasin_2312 your clear lee not a smat pers. lnao i have rooden the smooler a lot of time like 10.more than U. i no wat am on abot

The Amusing Rabbit shutup you kid. I bet you find Dragons Fury a scary ride. You kid. What are you doing on KZfaq. You think your are funny but you’re not lmao

The Amusing Rabbit you can’t even spell properly

To get them off