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OMG...someone please tell me I am not having tunnel vision! This looks just like Opryland's log flume! And as far as I know, no one knows what happened to that ride! I'm sure lots of others look like it, but the Opryland one was unaccounted for after the park closed...could that be it???

 

-Julie

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A log photo from Opryland! (www.thrillhunter.com)

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A log photo from the link above

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This is the old Arrow Flume that once operated on Funtown Pier in Seaside Park, NJ. While the generic parts don't give much away, the "G" does. The ride had a large "LOG FLUME" sign using that exact font.

 

It was a massive ride, built on the edge of the pier- nearly 100 ft above the crashing surf below. It featured two lifts, and two large drops and was operated as an outside concession on the pier. When current management of the pier took over in 1999, the concessionaire had his contract bought out, and the ride was dismantled and put into storage. Until now, no one seemed to know where.

 

Shame- it was one of the best rides on the Jersey Shore- pretty comparable with the Hopkins Zoom Phloom at Morey's Piers in Wildwood. If I come across any photos of the ride, I'll post a link here.

 

-Mark

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This is the old Arrow Flume that once operated on Funtown Pier in Seaside Park, NJ. While the generic parts don't give much away, the "G" does. The ride had a large "LOG FLUME" sign using that exact font.

 

It was a massive ride, built on the edge of the pier- nearly 100 ft above the crashing surf below. It featured two lifts, and two large drops and was operated as an outside concession on the pier. When current management of the pier took over in 1999, the concessionaire had his contract bought out, and the ride was dismantled and put into storage. Until now, no one seemed to know where.

 

Shame- it was one of the best rides on the Jersey Shore- pretty comparable with the Hopkins Zoom Phloom at Morey's Piers in Wildwood. If I come across any photos of the ride, I'll post a link here.

 

-Mark

 

Oh man, I loved that flume! I live five minutes from Funtown Pier and I used to ride that flume all the time during the summer. It's a shame how it ended up, because it was awesome!

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^^^Sure, answered earlier in this thread when it was actually determined what the flume in question actually was...

 

When current management of the pier took over in 1999, the concessionaire had his contract bought out, and the ride was dismantled and put into storage. Until now, no one seemed to know where.

 

I never had the chance to ride this, but Zoom Phloom in Wildwood is awesome, though Seasides location is much cooler looking than Wildwoods. I remember my first ride on the Jet Star on Casino Pier, as we were going up the lift, we were above the water, and a pod of rays swam by. It was pretty sweet!

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^WWL is the hydro-flume (AKA the boat ride). Snake River Falls is CPs flume, and that is still intact.

 

I wanna ride the field-flume!

 

You got it backwards.

 

Snake River Falls is the hydro-flume, which still stands.

 

WWL was the log flume at CP. And WWL was removed this past off season. In it's place is going to be the 2007 coaster.

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^Nope, he's right (sort of). SRF is the "flume" (though its more of a shoot the chutes than a flume) WWL WAS the hydro-flume. The reason it was called a hydro-flume was because the final ending had a sort of hydro-jump, resulting in more water being sprayed everywhere. Jet Stream at SFMM is one such remaining Arrow Hydro-Flume.

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Poland Springs Plunge at Great Adventure is also a Hydro-flume

 

Arrow only built a limited number of Hydro Flumes (incidently, all in the U.S.). They were more expensive than log flumes and designed with capacity in mind (all had turntable stations, longer boats that could seat 5-6, and a double spillway drop.

 

As of last season, only Hershey and CP ran their hydroflumes in high capacity mode (in other words, using both spillways).

 

The only remaining hydro flumes left are Splashdown (Poland Springs Plunge) at SFGAd, Yankee Clipper (Ice Mountain Splash) at SFGAm, Jet Stream (Ice Mountain Splash) at SFMM, and Coal Cracker at HP (only one run the way it was intended from day one).

 

Other hydro flumes included Yankee Clipper's ex-twin at PGA (removed after the 1998 season for Stealth), and PKI's model (removed after the 2000 season to make way for Tomb Raider the Ride).

 

Note how all of the above rides with the exception of Coal Cracker were all second flume rides for flourishing 1970s theme parks, which were overwhelmed with the popularity of their log flume and required additional capacity (the SFGAm/PGA rides opened with the park though).

 

-Mark

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