They took out the spinning on Cat in the Hat?

[Metro West]

Must admit my boy loves the ride and especially the spinning, to be honest it makes me ill!

It's the same with me and my mother and I'm in my 40's and she's in her 70's.

 

[tippANDbb]

I hope the bring the spinning back it would suck if they didn't.

 

[Cyrano]

I've heard from a highly regarded person that they are fixing the calibration and that once it is fixed it will go back to spinning.

Excellent news

My DD does not go on many rides because she declares them too scary.However Cat in the Hat was one of her favourites

 

[xApril]

Well, Screamscape seems to have something else to say about the story.

Park News - (5/3/10) According to an insider, my hunch about why Cat In The Hat is no longer spinning is said to be true. Speaking with us only as an anonymous source, they reported that there was a minor incident involving a family with a small child on the ride. At some point in the ride the adults were not paying attention to the child who apparently got a little “scared” and slide down to the car’s floor under the lapbar. Upon approaching the “revolving tunnel” scene, the “couch” began it’s usual spin sequence, which resulted in the child being ejected from the ride car.
If I’m not mistaken, there are warning in place to parents to keep their children seated at all times on this ride, but as expected the family isn’t taking responsibility for their child’s actions. Meanwhile Universal’s ride crew also failed to spot this on the security camera feeds and press an E-Stop as well. Honestly though, I would think it would be very hard to catch something like that on a battery of security monitors while as a parent I keep an eye (or hand) on my younger children on rides at all times to ensure they stay put and aren’t freaking out and trying to jump the ship.
So for now all spinning has stopped on the ride until Universal Creative and the engineering team come up with a fix to prevent this from happening again. This could involve adding some kind of doors to the sides of the car, or it may involve adding an individual lap bars system like they have on Men In Black, which uses the exact same ride system.
While we don’t know the exact day of the incident, we were supplied with a copy of a work permit from the city to Universal Orlando signed on April 13th, 2010 for a “Backstage Technologies, Inc.” to come work on the “UIOA Cat In The Hat Rotating Room Effect”. So I’ve got to wonder if something was damaged in the incident and quickly repaired. The first report I received about the non-spinning version of the ride was on April 24th, and at that point I was told that it had already not been spinning for more than a week, which fits right into the week the work permit was filed.

If that's true, I hope they can figure out a fix soon.

 

[bubba's mom]

So, has anyone heard of the parents suing over this...because I see it coming... Anyone know how the child is?

another inattentive parent ruining it for other people.....

And...how didn't they catch it on the security cameras? Heaven forbid you whip your camera out to take a picture...they are all over THAT tho....

the whole thing is a big, fat shame.

 

[xApril]

Yeah, no idea how they didn't catch it. I was on the ride the other day and when I actually paid attention, I noticed how many cameras there actually are!

It's like elementary school all over again, one person does something wrong and everyone else has to suffer.