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Merch/Ride parts

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towerstycoon

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Hi there, I'm a new member and this is my first post. Just wondering what cool merch or ride parts you guys have, in my collection the ride parts I've got are the double nemesis bolts, Rita launch cable, duel score counter, duel blaster (glow in the dark edition), and most recently big one track. Has anyone else got a duel score counter, I know they weren't sold officially as I got mine off eBay but if someone else has got one and managed to get it working that would be great!
 
I have a running wheel from Super Wirbel (sadly too big to make a practical ashtray), and half a seatbelt that fell off Megaphobia when it wasn't supposed to.
 
towerstycoon said:
Hi there, I'm a new member and this is my first post. Just wondering what cool merch or ride parts you guys have, in my collection the ride parts I've got are the double nemesis bolts, Rita launch cable, duel score counter, duel blaster (glow in the dark edition), and most recently big one track. Has anyone else got a duel score counter, I know they weren't sold officially as I got mine off eBay but if someone else has got one and managed to get it working that would be great!
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I have a section of Steeplechase lift chain!
 
I have a Shockwave Wheel and Restraint, Troublesome Trucks Wheel and River Rapids Door all Drayton Manor stuff need to get more stuff outside of Drayton Manor and Alton Towers as those are the 2 I have the most merch and ride parts from
 
My coolest item is probably a shield off a boat from the old Valhalla! I was bought it as a birthday present when I turned 17, and my mum said it was “still wet” when it arrived in the post (for reference, I live nearly 200 miles south of Blackpool by car)…

I also have a bit of steel track from The Big One, as well as two blocks of wood from Wicker Man.
 
Very long list of scrap Blackpool ride parts...wheels, links, anti roll backs, upstop mushrooms and so on...and a full car set (four) of big dipper wheels.
Also Big One wheel for a clock surround, and a very nice service board for a certain woodie from the past.

The story goes..."In the good old days, when whoring a coaster to death at the end of the (very quiet off peak) day, ride staff would bribe solo riders to clear off for the day (so they could close early), with a bit of scrap metal from the service bins."

Those were the days.

Now they flog them off in the shop under the flying machines.
Including brand new shiny wheels for a rodent ride that died years ago...funny that...I thought rust never sleeps.
 
I've got a Wild Mouse block, a Wild Mouse wheel and Megafobia lift part that I use as a doorstop and a Treetops Zierer bogie I use as a desk tidy
 
Islander said:
Hah. See, as someone who works alongside an engineering department, seeing people get excited about things like bog-standard proxi-sensors will always amuse me
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It's the same with any fandom. I'm sure people who build film props (with the obvious exception of Adam Savage, King of the Geeks) are bemused at how people can spend millions at auction on a lump of scrap parts they glued together in day 40 years ago.

When you work with something every day, it becomes mundane to you, even if it's actually a very high tech bit of kit.
 
towerstycoon said:
Wow! Saying I’m jealous is an understatement, is the oblivion item a track sensor?
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Yes, as @Islander said above it is a bog standard off the shelf proxi from Oblivion.

It is 100% the most generic item there and i have considered getting rid of it but the unique part is that its history is Oblivion. It's not from another mechanical device, it is Oblivion. That's more important than what it physically is itself.
 
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