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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, awesome! Must have been a rough one Taiko Tounge
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Does this mean Son of Beast wasn't the first wooden looping coaster.
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Thanks for introducing me to that site!
Personally, I enjoyed this video: www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81144
I wonder why we don't have bumper cars like that nowadays?

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^ Looks like potential TPR members existed back then; the station shots look uncannily like an ERT session. Taiko Laughing Red


I wonder if Jeff Johnson is in that video...? Taiko LMAO!

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"Does this mean Son of Beast wasn't the first wooden looping coaster." (deathbydinn)

That's what it means.

I never knew there were looping coasters in the early 1900s. When I was in high school, we watched some films where they showed them, and I thought, "Hey, they say that the Revolution at Magic Mountain is the very first looping coaster, but look at this..." Revolution was the first STEEL looping coaster ever, and the first in the modern age.

In many instances, rides we thought were novel and feats of engineering in our lifetime were actually first done back when our grandparents and great-grandparents were kids.

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I was watching some of the other footage, and I love the look of the track on the Scenic there, like the others.
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Nice job with that find- astounding, really. It must be something in the German water or something, considering the origins of some of the greatest designers (Anton, for example).

The ride looks like the old K'Nex looping coasters of the early 90's- and nearly as similar cars!

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This makes Vekoma seem so smooth... Taiko LMAO!
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Nice job with that find- astounding, really. It must be something in the German water or something, considering the origins of some of the greatest designers (Anton, for example).

The ride looks like the old K'Nex looping coasters of the early 90's- and nearly as similar cars!


I was thinking the same thing, but more in that region of Europe...

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Wow! Thanks for posting this link and getting us all hooked on that sight! I had also never heard of that double-loop coaster. Can you imagine the g-forces?!?
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