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American Adventure Park

Anyone know during the season of the Diver Bomber ride where it actually was located? 1993 season
 
My only memory of American Adventure was meeting Hunter from Gladiators, the year the double looping Gladiator coaster opened.
 
Rick said:
@Enter Valhalla, quite right

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Not one to be nostalgic really, but I do miss it. Every single time I went to the park it was scorchio, what a treat.
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10 haunting photos taken moments before disaster
 
I had no idea that the big arena actually had a show originally, I always have memories of it just housing the go kart track, which then moved to the other side of the lake a few years later and left a massive empty seating stand with no purpose.
 
That is fascinating.

Had to laugh when they start talking about a bad operating season due to unexpectedly bad weather. Some stories never change!

Feel so sorry for the local traders. They always advertise these projects as a great opportunity for local jobs. But the people who built Britania Park ended up with nothing.
 
A perfectly clement season would have made no difference. The park was insolvent the whole time it was open, the court case would later reveal. As you can see from that video, Kellard was a complete dreamer and should never have been responsible for the coffers of any business, leave alone a greenfield theme park project.

There might have been a few more people through the gate and a few more pictures though. For a tourist attraction, pictures of Britannia Park are very *very* few and far between.

It's fascinating to see brief glimpses of some of the buildings which lasted the full course of American Adventure's tenure, without their Americana overlay.
 
Spark said:
Cant find anything on the maps
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It was on the island as I recall. It will be on the maps I need to scan in.

In the meantime, here is the Info Pack from 1991. I think I only visited the park maybe six or seven times, but my memories of it are so vivid, a great place in its day, despite the somewhat deserved derision in its final years.

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siralgenon said:
Nothing rattles me more than when Theme Parks say they have / had over 100 rides and attractions and they've actually got about 10 :rolleyes:
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In the same way a lot of UK parks did in the 1990s, there was quite a lot to do that wasn't riding rides, 100 is perhaps stretching it though, by any definition.

On one trip I recall panning for gold longer than we spent on coasters, I am not sure there was any in there...
 
I'm not sure it's that much of a leap actually

If you just look at the rides and shows and things to do - working around that map you have:
  1. The Railway
  2. Steamboats
  3. The Missile
  4. Black Hole
  5. Balloon Ride
  6. Astro Glide
  7. Augusta Golf Challenge
  8. Super Karts
  9. Rocky Mountain Rapids
  10. Fort Fun (play area - not sure if this had opened in '97)
  11. Runaway Train
  12. Nightmare Niagara
  13. Panning for Gold
  14. Lazy Lil's
  15. Pedalos
  16. Silver City Shootout
  17. High Sierra
  18. Yankee Clipper
  19. Junior Clipper
  20. Sooty Show
  21. Kids World (indoor play area)
  22. Rio Grande (little train ride)
  23. Canoes
  24. Carousel
  25. Motion Master
  26. Singing Bears ( <3 )
  27. Helter Skelter
  28. Octopus
  29. Farm
  30. Mini golf
  31. Skybowl/SkyCoaster
  32. Twin Looper
  33. Buffalo Stampede
  34. Snake Slide

The park wasn't short of things to see in this time either, they still had all the lovely theming and photo ops. Presumably the 100 count includes all the various arcades, retail and catering stuff which is a bit of a stretch but that is invariably how parks come up with these figures.

The selection highlighted on that map is weird though. It seems like they started by listing the areas but then added some random attractions. Note that Pier 49 is incorrectly listed as the walkway to Snake/Adventure Island.

Also notable is that the leaflet features images which date back to 1987 of Pioneer Playland, which had been gone since 1994. Naughty.
 
The main entrance was still there then so you had the bear band, shops and other units at the top of the park. When u the indoor play area they could have included every ramp and slide u went down. I bet they even included the arcade machines in that so it could say there was 100 things to do in the park.
 
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