montezooma Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 I just came across these photos I had taken at the IAAPA convention the Fall before the Bat opened. Arrow was proudly displaying the vehicle at their convention booth. They were nicely done as you can compare to the standard vehicle which I also posted a picture of. The Bat's themed vehicle. The standard vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I still even have the miniature Board Walk & Base logo bats you could win. Me too! I loved that place. As a baseball fan, it was such a cool park. I visited once when it was Circus World, and several times as B&B. It was great to spend most of the day at the park and then catch and early afternoon spring training game for the KC Royals. I'm not sure how many years the stadium housed the single A Baseball City Royals, but we were never there to catch any of those. Anyway, thanks for the memories. To this day, I still miss B&B. The Mets was an obvious choice. The A's.....well, there was a short period (pre-juice) when I was a Big Mac fan. I knew I had this somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montezooma Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 ^ Cool Post. I love it when this threads sparks others to post their memories or old photos. Yes Boardwalk and Baseball is sorely missed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycamps Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 ^That's pretty good detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olsor Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Awesome. Just plain awesome. Keep it coming, montezooma! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Does anyone else find it odd that 'The Bat' hasn't posted in a thread all about his namesake coaster? Does Dave even know this thread exists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerBlackWings Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Though not a fan of baseball, I've always been obsessed with defunct parks..and have only been able to find a limited amount of info on SAID park. Shane, thanks so much for sharing this. :::Eagerly awaits anything relating to old NorthEast/Canada::: p.s. So....where is Hoffa buried???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I, too, wasn't aware that the Luxor boat ride was from Arrow---nor did I know that the Rim Runner in the Adventuredome was as well. (For some reason, I thought the latter was a Vekoma ride.)' Thanks to all who've posted park literature, newsletters, drawings, etc. It's been fun looking at all this cool stuff! Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 "The Florida Hurricane is a fast, fun wooden coaster." ...and thanks to Magic Springs it still is. The only problem is the Gerstlauer train we are stuck with. I would love to know how Arkansas Twister would ride with a PTC train. They appear to do a good job of mantaining the coaster, I notice new wood on parts of it every year. A word of warning: the back seat is murder. The second to last seat is tollerable though. One time on a slow day I had been riding in the second to last seat for several rounds and a couple of women who had been riding up front moved back to the very last seat. When the ride was over one of them hit me on the back of the head and said "You should of warned us about this seat!!!!!" I enjoyed looking at all the pics, esp. those of Florida Hurricane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimaster1227 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I believe I found where Arrow's Pipeline coaster ended up... It is in Kuwait at Al Sha'ab Leisure Park... Both pictures make this look pretty bad (in the condition it is in, but I guess it is nice that the ride lives on, regardless of its poor, grim look. Formerly Arrow's Pipeline Coaster prototype... Spiral Coaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutterflower Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 thats actually Intamins Pipeline (spiral) coaster. used to be in Koreas Sky Plaza before that. It runs entirely on friction wheels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisdag Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I am so diggin this..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Speaking of boardwalk and baseball/circus world,I was just wondering where florida huricane woodie is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ^ Florida Hurricane lives on as Arkansas Twister at Magic Springs and Crystal Falls in Hot Springs, Arkansas. http://www.rcdb.com/ig418.htm?picture=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Didn't Boardwalk & Baseball or Circus World have Schwarzkopf's Wiener Looping at one time? Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ^ Yep. Unfortunately I missed that credit somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montezooma Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Worlds of Fun & Orient Express Now this is the update I have been wanting to do! Worlds of Fun was my favorite park when I was growing up and when they opened Orient Express I couldn’t get enough of that place. I was 15 when the ride opened and I remember I did a report on it for a school project. I wrote to the park asking them for some information that would help me with the report and I got a letter back from the General Manager of the park. Yes he actually sent me the stuff. Then when I finished the report I sent a copy back to him and he forwarded it to Lamar Hunt, the Chairman of the Board. I actually got a personal letter back from Lamar with an invitation to the park. Boy things like that don’t happen today. I have never gotten a personal letter from Dick Kinzel…well actually I have but that is another story. So anyways onto my report on Orient Express and Worlds of Fun. It was kind of surprising at that time for a relatively small park to be developing such a major coaster. I think this coaster put the park on the map. At the time it opened it was the tallest, fastest coaster with the most inversions. It had this unique looping, twisting element the park dubbed “the Kamikaze Kurve”. It also had those great interlocking loops, one of the coolest elements that Arrow came up with, especially when the trains were timed perfectly so two trains went through the loops at the same time. Obviously this was not possible on Orient Express but it sure was cool on Loch Ness Monster and Lightnin’ Loops. So lets first take a look back at the park as it appeared in the late 70’s and then onto the announcement, facts and pictures of the Orient Express, one of my all time favorite Arrow coasters!!! Orient Express…They Warned me! and a personal letter from the parks Chairman of the Board. a personal letter from the park General Manager... park map Interlocking Loops! the ride in action Lamar Hunt, the chairman of the board of Worlds of Fun and the owner of the KC Chiefs. How cool is it that he took the time to write a personal letter to a 15 year old kid that was interested in his park??? Cool guy! the parks magazine that was distributed at the parking booths. It has some great article on the Orient Express, roller coasters in general and fun park puzzles and stuff. The first Arrow Boomerang. what is up with the top of that lift???? this ride had everything: 115' drop at 55 degree angle, 100' long tunnel, top speed of 65 mph, interlocking loops and the "Kamikaze Kurve" a fancy name for an Arrow Boomerang, the first of its kind. ride design and layout the very cool logo! 1980: the big announcement! Schussboomer was a Schwarzkopf wildcat coaster located in the Scandinavian section of the park. After the Orient Express opened this ride did not hang around for too much longer. some postcards from the park. an info sheet on the coasters at the park including the Orient Express. the other new attraction was Le Carrousel. can you imagine a merry-go-round being a new attraction nowadays? even though the ScreamRoller was the big attraction at that time, the Zambezi Zinger was the ride that kicked a$$. the Zulu was a Huss enterprise that was one of the new attractions added this season. the souvenir book from 1979 season showing the various theme areas and attractions at the park. the park map from the 1979 season. The big attraction then was the ScreamRoller, a standard Arrow corkscrew. the official Orient Express bumper sticker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I fulfilled a theme park dream, when I finally got to ride the Zambezi Zinger on a 1995 visit to the park, with friends I was staying with. And we rode the Orient Express too, but my sights were set on the ZZ, lol. It was amazing, especially the butt kicking tunnel (and speed!) at the end of the layout. Thanks for posting all of this great stuff on this, and the other parks and coasters/attractions, Shane. It's an awesome assortment of paperwork and photos. And exactly how BIG is your "attic" anyway??? Looking forward to more and more and more and... (Edit: I forgot to mention... After we had been to WoF that early June, the accident with a girl/guy {I forget, sry} being thrown out of the Express, happened just a week or so after we'd been there! Very wierd to find out about it, after having just ridden the coaster.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montezooma Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 it's HUGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niiicolaaah Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 My dad has the Orient Express credit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIP Psyclone Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ^Well, if we're on the subject of rare credits we or our fathers have, I might as well contribute. My dad says he rode the Cyclone Racer in Long Beach, CA on its last day of operation, which according to RCDB was 9/15/1968. www.rcdb.com/id1945.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOVE SFKK Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I have this credit. Got it the year before it closed. It was my first big coaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozart67 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 sigh..WOF has a special spot in my heart as the first park I sought out purely for thrills, back in 1983. The Orient Express didput WOF on the map, and for good reason. The first drop was awesome, probably the steepest and highest steel I had been on at the time. The Kamikaze curve (although I remember commercials back in Kansas calling it the Kamikaze loop) was an awesome inversion and the ride was smooth as butter. The other ride that put them on the map (but in a bad way) was when they converted the Screamroller into a head-bashing neck-twisting stand-up coaster called the EXT (or Extreme Roller.) After one ride, I had a bruise behind each ear from the "headrests". And, yeah, the Zinger, just like SFOT's old Big Bend, was amazing. Thanks for the trip in the Wayback Machine, Peabody! Your attic must be an antique shopper's dream and an anal-retentive's nightmare. Scott "EXT was actually more painful than Joyland's Nightmare" Mayfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Shane, I would PAY to see your attic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastergeekhal Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 PINBALLL!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUST RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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