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Strange Rides

Rick said:
What's curious is that there aren't many duelling rides that rely solely on a control system to ensure that they don't meet/collide - it's usually that they operate closely to one another but their paths are forced to be independent of each other (think of something like Vertigo at Tivoli, for example).

From the sped up footage, it appears that if one of them stopped and the other continued .... well, that would be sub optimal.
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It looks like that, but I don't think there's any point they could actually meet, presuming the end stop where they nearly touch is a physical limit the cannot be exceeded.
 
This looks crazy as heck :eek:



Only one of its type, manufactured by KMG and located at Attractiepark Drouwenerzand in the Netherlands. It travelled on the Dutch fair circuit for a while but left as it takes too long to park.
 
skyscraper said:
This looks crazy as heck :eek:



Only one of its type, manufactured by KMG and located at Attractiepark Drouwenerzand in the Netherlands. It travelled on the Dutch fair circuit for a while but left as it takes too long to park.
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Rollover was built by Nottingham UK. Instead of one large outward-facing gondola, the ride featured 8 sideways-facing gondolas which were capable of turning upside down as the ride picked-up speed. This idea was not successful, and the ride was converted to a standard Miami in 1999.

 
IDB said:
Rollover was built by Nottingham UK. Instead of one large outward-facing gondola, the ride featured 8 sideways-facing gondolas which were capable of turning upside down as the ride picked-up speed. This idea was not successful, and the ride was converted to a standard Miami in 1999.

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The difference with that one is the seats are free-spinning (I think), whereas the KMG one has electrically-controlled seats.
 
I often hear people on this forum talk about how they really miss the former Cyclone at Southport Pleasureland. But did you know you can still ride an exact clone of it in India?

Yes, I kid you not, a clone of Southport’s Cyclone was actually built to exact specifications by Blackpool Pleasure Beach engineers at Nicco Park in Kolkata, India in 2003; it even shares the Cyclone name: https://rcdb.com/2485.htm

One of only 2 wooden roller coasters in India! But it gets better, because the other wooden roller coaster in India is an exact clone of Blue Flyer at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, also built by the same group of Blackpool engineers at EsselWorld in 1995, named the Zipper Dipper (as the Blackpool ride was also named back in the day): https://rcdb.com/1390.htm

I never would have thought that rides as unique as these would have been cloned, particularly so many years after the original opened!https://rcdb.com/1390.htm
 
IDB said:
Ever fancied riding a Miami whilst in a cage?

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This is going to be one of those things I think about quietly for a very long time... I watched the people in the right hand cage during the ride cycle and I couldn’t help but ask myself how they weren’t hitting their heads on the top/side of the cage??

Great find!
 
I started watching that video thinking that it all looked pretty normal, then I saw the two cages on either end of the gondola. How bizarre!
 
The Europeans love a good dodgy stand-up ride. There’s stand up Magic Carpets and Pirate Ships travelling the Spanish fairground circuit.
 
IDB said:
Ever fancied riding a Miami whilst in a cage?

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Horrific...use of the word Soccer! Actually the more I watch, the more I spot something worse :eek:

Nobody has ever looked at a Hollywood Yankee, thought I know how to improve that and bolted on two homemade cages on the side. Grim!
 
I wouldn't like to be in the cage when the usual Miami gearbox failure happens I can tell you that.

That aside, I'd give it a go. Might make one less boring.
 
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