What Coaster Is this?

[stormrider]

http://www.italintl.com/detail_page.php?record_id=822

 

Looks like maybe a mine train to me, but with a different track.

[TheStig]

And for $660,000 it can all be yours, station gates included!! That is kinda odd, a Arrow/Intamin. Hummmm...

 

Colin C

[stormrider]

Ah, a search from RCDB reveals as I suspected, an Intamin ride modified by Arrow later on

http://www.rcdb.com/id105.htm

 

Some track looks different, and it looks sort of like the mine train with new track style at Fiest Texas.

[lapseofreason]

I don't know, but this same site is trying to sell Mr. Hyde's Nasty Fall from Geauga Lake:

 

www.italintl.com/detail_page.php?record_id=564

 

Interesting.

[ECZenith]

And that Mr Hydes was actually bought from my then homepark Rocky Point in Warwick, RI. It was in bad shape before it got to Geuaga. Good luck to its next buyer!

[SharkTums]

Ahh good old Lightning Bolt!

 

I have 2 out of 3 of it's incarnations! Robb has all 3!

 

Indoor Intamin

Outdoor Intamin

Outdoor Intamin, with Arrow section added on

 

I really miss that MGM Grand Adventures, it was themed really well and had some neat attractions!

[robbalvey]

*sigh* I miss it too. The one shot they actually had at making a decent park in Las Vegas...and it totally got fucked up!

[DATman]

I adored that ride when I went to Vegas. I was so sad when I heard that the park closed. It was such a fun place...

 

 

Quick! TPR fundraiser!!! Let's buy it and donate it to whatever housing development paves magic mountain!

[Jew]

^^Ditto. Kind of sad now to see nothing but the entrance building and the former main entrance gates in front of their condo towers (that's a rant for another day...Vegas condos).

 

If only you didn't have to walk like 1000000 miles to get to the park...

[waterviper]

If only you didn't have to walk like 1000000 miles to get to the park...

 

Then it wouldn't be Vegas!

[ebl]

I went there only once for their "Scream Park" Halloween makeover (October 1995). Lightning Bolt was still indoors at that time and I rode it once. Too bad I never went back to ride it once it was moved outside.

 

Eric

[QueerRudie]

Wow. If I only had the land...

 

I have very fond memories of riding Lightning Bolt as an Indoor Intamin and an outdoor Arrow/Intamin- those trains are still some of my favourite types out there. Nothign quite like the push-pull effect of the first drop into the figure eight movement, or the catapult over the lift hill element.

 

I still remember the 'Disneyesque themeing' of the indoor model- complete with space station colours and 'retro space mod' styling. And that cool little model of Vegas as the train headed into the brake run and onto the transfer track- very fun indeed for a junior coaster model. It was my first Vegas Coaster- and it is sadly missed!!!!

 

HEY HARRAH'S/ RIO. Good thing to keep the kids amused while Mom and Dad are spending their college tuition!!!!