Poisson
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That's for the video. Need the riders illuminated for a few seconds.
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RIP Ripsaw
That's for the video. Need the riders illuminated for a few seconds.
DiogoJ42
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Not something that needs to exist in the first place. But it ruins the lighting in the whole area.
jon81uk
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Personally I enjoyed getting the video download. But it was my first visit to AT in 5 years...
smidgey
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*Dredge*
Euro Theme Park Archive has uploaded some brilliant 1997 photos of Ripsaw:
From: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14aTKdbtuv/
Great photos etc.... however TIL that Ripsaw had on-ride photography?! I've just checked @Squiggs' Ripsaw page and, sure enough, already documented!
I am rather interested in this camera setup though... I imagined a bank of cameras all in a row but nope! Two cameras and flash on a motorised gimbal... How did it work? Two photos that were cropped several times? Several photos taken sequentially while the gondola was stationary? Did it somehow track the moving gondola? (doubtful) Was it automatic? Was it controlled by a person? I know, mundane! But I want to know.
It did indeed! I bought one on a school trip! Evidence below, though I can’t remember how it worked:
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Mi-Nigle
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I sooo nearly typed "Does anyone know what the photo wallets looked like?" then thought naaahhhhh, no one's going to know that!
They were struggling with ride facts when the got to "Water", then the wording of the final spin fact is both hilarious and incorrect
Thank you for answering my unasked question and taking the pictures, it's completely satisfied my curiosity!