Subsonic Radio

sure... but it keeps you from making a mess all over people 200 feet below you on the ground....

I thought I read in a guidebook that they were to cut down on the noise from screaming. But I could easily be mistaken.

Hathaway wrote:I thought I read in a guidebook that they were to cut down on the noise from screaming. But I could easily be mistaken.

You're exactly right, because DCA is right next to an urban area they need to take precautions about noise. That's exactly why there are the shields, it's to muffle the screaming. Look at California Screamin'; All the drops have shrouds facing the outside of the park. This is to muffle screams as well.

No! It's for technicolor yawns!

I have wondered if it was mostly to stop people from seeing how far they could spit from the top.

I Like the "Spew Guard" idea over the noise barrier...

I never even thought about that, I just thought they were to keep you from barfing over the edge. Smart people that designed that... but I guess that's why they get paid and not me, right?

I'm pretty sure I thought I read somewhere they were to prevent you from spitting when you were up high, but the noise idea also makes sense as well.

That's the only ride of it's kind in the country that I'm aware of that has those shields - my guess is that they're trying to keep the noise down. Similar rides at Islands of Adventure and at the Cedar Fair parks across the nation don't have those and don't seem to be concerned about noise factors.

According to Wikipedia (the fountain of all knowledge, there)...

The seats feature "Scream Shields" to help lower noise going out into Anaheim. These were added after receiving complaints from hotel guests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliboomer

Andy.

Yes, thank you Andy.

And no thanks to anybody else for not trusting me when I said this before! Muahahah!

but, based on the one thread in the off-topic forum (I think, maybe it's anything else), can we REALLY trust the wiki?

acp wrote:According to Wikipedia (the fountain of all knowledge, there)...

The seats feature "Scream Shields" to help lower noise going out into Anaheim. These were added after receiving complaints from hotel guests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliboomer

Andy.

Hey, thats what I added! LOL. Yeah it's deffinately because of the complaints from the hotel guests.

I asked a cast member and they said it was a scream shield, but for their "neighbors" who I take to mean more than just hotel guests.

subsonic wrote:Look at California Screamin'; All the drops have shrouds facing the outside of the park. This is to muffle screams as well

Ah Ha! Silly me. I kinda thought they were maybe some half-tunnel, or something. Makes sense now.