Parks Coasters and Rides in Movies and TV

[thrillrider]

There was an episode of wonder woman where she was at magic mountain. I have it on dvd(I know...sad). It has something to do with a monster living under revolution.

[Hockeydad]

Wow, I can't believe it took until page 6 to have a mention of KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. But this is coming from a guy who still owns the original VHS of the movie.

 

About the Banana Splits show: The amusement park clips were filmed at Coney Island (Cincinnati) & Six Flags Over Texas. I got interested in it one day while watching the show on Boomerang. They list the parks in the credits at the end.

[Crazy_Behemoth_Lady_Jess]

Final Destination 3, Riding the Bullet, as well as the new Cats and Dogs 2 were filmed at Playland. I actually saw filming equipment being set up for Cats and Dogs 2 when I went there 2 years ago.

[trustkill22]

Encino Man

 

and i'm pretty sure they're at SFMM on the Viper.

[Crazy_Behemoth_Lady_Jess]

Just remembered SCBB was shown near the end of the movie Wild Hogs.

[coasterbear30]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but in 90210 they go to SFMM for their senior trip and ride Viper.

[CorkscrewFoley]

Summer School-Corkscrew @ Knott's.

Ugh...since we have our little cousin this week, went to see Cats v. Dogs 2, and Playland was in there.

Roller Coaster (Canadian film)-PNE as well.

Night at the Roxbury-Westcoaster in the background of one of the beach shots.

[bellhop96]

The Jaws scene on The Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood was used in several movies. I dont know their names but they is a link to them on The Studio Tour.com! a very good website for inside Universal info!

[samisthabomb]

Hopefully no one has mentioned this, but the film "Funland" was filmed at Six Flags Over Georgia.

[DOCTOR DOOM!!!]

Has anyone seen the toyota commercial with SFMM's Viper in it?! What does toyota and Viper have in common?! The commercial pointed out the wheels on the coasters train! I couldn't hear the sound cause I was at work when i seen it! Finally has Viper had any brake failures lately?!

[cooksta77]

It was just to promote a self-sustaining Amusement park based on Toyota's new car technology.

-Cookie

[sibbi89]

In the movie shock labyrinth, whats the coaster?

[coaster-crazy]

Lady from Shanghai - 1947 - Orson Welles - The scene at the VERY end of the movie features Playland-at-the-Beach. (in San Fran, closed 1972) (You can also find the movie on Netflix)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xQvthS1HI

^Skip to 6:07

 

Death of Ocean View Park - Ocean View Park - 1979 - Features basically the demolition of the park/park's coaster. I got it on DVD and it's EXTREMELY hard to find - well worth it though. Also, strangely enough, the movie Rollercoaster (1977) had its opening scene featured at Ocean View Park. They filmed there on it's last day of operation in 1977. The park then stood idle until 1979 when the Death of Ocean View Park took care of the rest.

 

~Nicholas

 

p.s. I know of others. ... just can't think of them a.t.m.

[cfc]

Here's a very obscure (not to mention wretched) movie that used the old Long Beach Pike: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies. There's even some wood coaster POV in it.

 

 

This flick is completely unwatchable without the help of Mike and the Bots on MST3K.

[DarkStitch626]

Six Flags Great Adventure's "GASM" makes a last appearance on "Morning Glory" a new movie coming out this year.

[Wumbology]

Oh, hey... On a recent episode of Mad Men the parents of two children are having a discussion while their children are eating dinner. One mentions "a house in Rye" and the son says, "Rye? Isn't that where Playland is?"

 

Playland Park represent.

[B-RadG]

Six Flags Great Adventure's "GASM" makes a last appearance on "Morning Glory" a new movie coming out this year.

Just got home from Morning Glory (which was awesome, by the way) and GASM stars as "The Manhandler." The Manhandler is a brand-new coaster with a 95 degree drop and it reaches 133 mph.

[Chrisrad]

Has anyone seen the toyota commercial with SFMM's Viper in it?! What does toyota and Viper have in common?! The commercial pointed out the wheels on the coasters train! I couldn't hear the sound cause I was at work when i seen it! Finally has Viper had any brake failures lately?!

 

I just saw it.

 

Toyota's latest ad campaign involves correlating their automotive technology to uses in everyday life.

 

In this instance, the driver of the SUV in the commercial talks about using hybrid regenerative braking on roller coasters to eventually have a self-powered theme park.

 

For some hybrids, braking energy is absorbed, stored, and re-used for acceleration. The commercial talks about doing this with roller coasters.

 

I'm a Ford guy myself, but the commercial was still cool.

[tuxedomask5432]

I'll never forget watching "3,2,1 Contact" on PBS as a child. One one particular episode, they featured an old school "free-fall" drop tower ride (park unknown). Of course no one can forget an episode of "NOVA" with Drachen Fire and Grizzly.

 

Some television show in the 1990's (some today show type program) featured professional WWF wrestlers marathoning rides on Batman: The Ride at SFMM. And I remember how the reporters on the show mentioned that the G forces were so strong that they distorted their video camera's image.

 

Finally, here is one that many not know of: "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" (1968)

 

This movie filmed a few scenes at Dorney Park and featured rides on the Thunderhawk, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Scrambler, and The Pirates Cove.

 

Apparently, a "Kid's Bop" video featuring "Move Along" by The All American Rejects was filmed at Dorney Park as well.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorney_Park_&_Wildwater_Kingdom

[Mr. Starr]

Apparently, a "Kid's Bop" video featuring "Move Along" by The All American Rejects was filmed at Dorney Park as well.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorney_Park_&_Wildwater_Kingdom

 

Yes, it's here:

 

[WARNING: Mute sound and just watch the POVs ]

[jarmor]

For years and years I have been dying to know if the roller coaster ending in childs play 3 is at a real park or a really good mock up!

Here's a semi clip of the coaster...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbcUpxE0mDo&NR=1

[SenseOFone]

According to the trailers for the up coming Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, they filmed some scenes on Goliath at SFMM

[The Big So-So]

Liseberg was featured in a sequence from Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film "Dreams." Included is a ride on Bergbanan, a woodie that operated from 1923 to 1987, according to RCDB.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZdryPxlgcg

[sammmmmy]

In spy kids 2 or 3 (I don't remember its been years since I last saw them) The first scene takes place at schlitterbahn, and the girl asks the kid where her water is for the Super Slide (Master Blaster) and points to it in the background.

 

Later in the movie they go to Six flags fiesta texas ( I don't remember what they called it in the movie) and there's various shots of goliath and poltergeist. (Plus there's this weird thing where they turn the Rip Cord thing (not sure if thats the real name) into a weird roller coaster.

[Blatch]

Ah yes, the almighty thread bump.

 

My most recent TV credit happened recently, while seeing a Cambridge Eye Doctors (I think it was that...) commercial. It had the Mind Bender from SFoG in it, and in particular, there were some good scenes of the one of the loops and the first turnaround, as well as a shot of a much larger coaster in the background near the end (Could it have been Goliath? I was never really sure).