S&S Worldwide redesigned the flawed components, and tested the ride, before it reopened to the public on December 16, 2015. An investigation revealed that there was a design flaw in the wheel assembly dealing with a bolted joint, and that there was "really nothing that Movie World could have done to prevent it. A Queensland Fire Service Inspector described it as "a fairly catastrophic failure of the carriage" that was the "first time we'd ever seen the actual failure of the machinery". On 15 March 2015, one car of a train became detached from rails when a wheel mechanism broke.Later, eight more teenagers were stuck on the ride for half an hour (30 minutes) while the problem was identified and fixed. Before noon, eight teenagers were stuck on the ride for 70 minutes (1 hour and 10 minutes) due to a minor wiring issue. On 8 January 2013, the coaster stopped on the tracks twice.
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