Johnlloyd

I've seen many online. I really enjoy watching old park commercials as I'm into amusement park history!

Hydra the Revenge at Dorney Park!

I'm going, going, going to Canada's Wonderland! (1984 Canada's Wonderland commercial reference)

Tunnel

Alley

I'm quite sure this page was created when they announced that they were renaming Flight Deck, The Bat. That would have been late 2013 or early 2014.

On the bright side, there are still a few Arrow suspended swinging coasters and many Arrow custom loop/corkscrew coasters! Vekoma SLC's are a real head banger!

S&S has released a design for their power tower where the car (or tower?) will rotate before the car gets shot towards the ground. Take a look at it here.

Yes, it definitely is the hair! Mine always goes into "amusement park mode"!

Here is a photo of me on Skyhawk at Canada's Wonderland (I am on the right, as my twin brother is on the left (inner seat)).

Shift

How intense would you say the ride is compared to bother flats at the park? Is it more intense, like shockwave, or alittle gentler, like orbiter? Out of the three times I've rode Skyhawk so far, I would have to say it has a similar intensity rating as Orbiter, but could be considered intense as Shockwave if you did some continuous flipping!

Could anyone imagine a Giant Frisbee ride that swings like a Frisbee ride except the ring of seats doesn't rotate but, goes up and down the swinging arm while the ride is in motion? It would be like a combination of Drop Tower and Delirium! They could name it "Drop Tower: Delirium" !

According to this post on Facebook, it was a locally built version of the Zamperla Disk-o. It's a knock-off, so there's no fear in riding the Zamperla (legitimate) version of the Disk-o. It is a shame though that one person was killed. It appears that the staff were forced to ride, as if the owner of the ride knew as to what was going to happen!

Kings Dominion

PLEASE GOD NO Okay, maybe one with less restrictive "seats"? Or, how about a flying/lay-down Larson Fireball/Giant Loop?

I would love to see a stand-up Huss swinging pirate ship or a stand-up Larson Fireball/Giant Loop. Both rides sound quite fun and a little more intense than current sit-down models of the rides!

Now feel the grip of Vortex! It's Vortex's 25th anniversary at Canada's Wonderland!

I read that somewhere too, and I would not be surprised if they did sell them to other companies. I just found where I had read that. It was on Fabbri's website.

Latitude

I remember reading somewhere that Intamin supplied the magnetic fail-safe brakes to Fabbri for their drop towers. I wonder if Intamin supplies the brakes to other drop tower manufacturers as well?

Storm

Rusting

When I was at Canada's Wonderland last Friday, there was a woman and her children riding Shockwave and she told them not to unbuckle the redundant belt even though the ride operator instructed the riders to do so. She said "the restraint would open and they would fall out and get hurt". I find it quite surprising how some people think that the redundant belt is the only thing that holds the restraint down! The redundant belt is only there if the restraint were to fail. But, if the redundant belt was holding down the restraint, you would be moving around in your seat a lot!

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