A serious, respectful question about your roller coaster posts: what would you change? Coasters have minimum and maximum heights, so size limitations don't just affect fat people, and making restraints bigger would leave most riders too loosely restrained (though some newer coasters have a few larger seats). Meanwhile, squeezing large people into too-small restraints is a leading cause of roller coaster deaths. Isn't safety more important than potentially fatal inclusiveness?

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spideygirl89-blog

Don’t pay much attention, do you? Just like airlines, hey keep making seats and restraints smaller than they used to be, just to cram more people in. The Harry Potter ride isn’t even a roller coaster, just a ride, and it has notoriously small seats. Multiple major newspapers have written about it since it opened.

The truth is, the makers of the rides choose what size they’re going to build for, what size they’re going to make the rides safe for. They choose not to make them safe for fat people. That is what I would change.

-MG