CorkscrewFoley Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 Well done as always Shane! I love the one especially of Mindbender at night, and the up close shot of Tidal Wave's loop....There is something pure and amazing looking with Schwarzkopf loops.
RoCo Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 "Tennessee Tentacles!" Â Forgot to add: Love the Togo "Inviso-Supports" on the right side of the Carowinds brochure cover. Â EDIT: For those who didn't know, "Togo" is actually slang in the regional Southeast dialect for "Bolliger & Mabillard." True story...
montezooma Posted January 19, 2011 Author Posted January 19, 2011 Here is a brochure and a couple of postcards from BEMBOM BROTHERS WHITE KNUCKLE THEME PARK
Shockwave Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 I loved Flamingoland back in the day before all the new generation of rides. The Bullet And Magnum Force were incredible. Â The Bembom Brothers/Dreamland brochure makes me quite curious to see how the place was before its recent difficulties, especially back in the early 1990s. I visited in 2004 after a lot of the rides had departed, and the Scenic Railway was pretty much the only thing of note. Like a lot of seaside resorts, Margate had seen better days since the proliferation of cheap flights to Europe.
montezooma Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 I am going to end the third day of the Lightning Round with another Media Kit from Paramount's Carowinds, this time introducing DROP ZONE STUNT TOWER
montezooma Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 That Giant Splash looks great, like it's falling from the heavens! And a theme park in Gettysburg? Wow, now you can go learn fictional and nonfictional history all in one area. Keep it coming Shane, they look great! Â PS-When is it time to start preping for the coming season? Â Well work never really ends...it just really slows down. But today was the official day of "Back to work for the new Season" The Winter rest is kind of nice but it is really good to get back to work. I am excited for the upcoming Summer season!
montezooma Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Today's update is Sea World...no, not the ones you are thinking of. This is the Sea World from down under. SEA WORLD, AUSTRALIA
Scott45 Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 These are fun! Â Time to visit Carolwinds again, I think the last time I went was '83! Â
montezooma Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 Standing But Not Operating... AMERICANA
KCForce Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 I love the picture of the Corkscrew at Flamingo Land...it looks twice as tall as the 75 feet it really is. Seems to kind of be a thing with adverts in the U.K., not that it isn't done anywhere else, exagerate things without straight out lying. Camera angles are every thing. Oh well at least in the U.K. and Europe they open some of their parks year round, so that makes up for it.
montezooma Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 Anyone remember this water park? Â OGLE'S WATER PARK (worst name ever)
montezooma Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) Let's continue with water parks. Here is one right across from the island... THE BEACH Edited January 21, 2011 by montezooma
BudtheWeiser Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 hmmm! I don't recall ever seeing the "Twist and Splash" from Page 40 in the ride catalog. Does anybody know of any currently installed? Â Heres a pic of Blackpools posted on their facebook page and a certain rollercoaster undergoing a new paintjob as part of its rebranding
montezooma Posted January 21, 2011 Author Posted January 21, 2011 Here's something really Random for the Random Lightning Round. Meisho's version of the Shuttle Loop.
PSiRockin Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 "These vehicles are also equipped with undertrack and side-wheels for maximum safety and smoothness." It doesn't look too smooth to me...
montezooma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 Here's another random update from another ride manufacturer, this time the Swinging Turns...Vekoma's version of the Suspended Coaster
montezooma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 While on the subject of ride manufacturers let's look at some wood!
montezooma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 To kick off the Weekend Edition of the Lightning Round here are some highlights from Arrow Newsletter they used to publish. Â Anyone remember the boat ride that used to float around the base of the Luxor Pyramid????
montezooma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 NAGASHIMA SPA LAND is home to one of the last remaining Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loops, that alone makes me love this park...plus the wood coaster kiss ass!
montezooma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 At one time Japan was home to 4 Schwarzkopf Shuttle Loops, all the fly-wheel version. Toshimaen amusement park was one of those parks. Unfortunately just recently it was removed. Here is a look at that park. Â TOSHIMAEN AMUSEMENT PARK
coastercrazy216 Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 What ever happened to RCCA? Are they still in business?
montezooma Posted January 23, 2011 Author Posted January 23, 2011 Here is a great article from National Geographic that features some GREAT shots of The Turn Of The Century at Marriott's Great America!
QueerRudie Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Incredible... Some of those shots of Mountain View were amazing- and to see the Turn of the Century looking pretty phenominal all around. Â It's sad to think that such a coaster was considered 'outdated' back then, requiring a retrofit to be a quad inversion coaster. I think had it stayed the way it was, it would be considered a gem and a classic today. Perhaps we could convince Intamin to give it a go again, as it would turn some heads with those incredible airtime hills... Â R.D.
KCForce Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Wow. I had the original article from National Geographic World when it came out. The Arrow train they are working on is the Loch Ness Monster. Because the article said it was now open (The Loch Ness) I'm assuming they got the pictures for the article several months if not the year before they published it. I didn't see the year it was published, but I think it was 1978, when I was 10. I had yet to ride an Arrow coaster and could not figure out how those restraints worked - that is how you got behind them. I envisioned you either slid behind them, or they opened similar to the Togo stand-up coaster restraints. I was really surprised when I rode my first Arrow, the Screamroller at Worlds of Fun in 1979 and saw that they lifted up! It was new technology in 1979 that was only 4 years old at that time. Other rides didn't use them yet, it wasn't until some time later that rides other than Arrow corkscrew coasters used them. Something that is a lasting legacy from Arrow. I *think* if I remember correctly Intamin *might* have been the first to use shoulder harnesses on their first generation Free Fall....details from back then are bit fuzzy these days.
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