Strange Roller Coasters

[LiamC]

Aesthetically that looks horrible! Was it meant as an indoor type coaster?

 

[BigAl]

I don't think it would have looked much like the animation. Had they built some... or at least one... I'd have thought it would have been about as compact as wild mouse coasters (from which they were based) and El Loco coasters, etc...

The track that the car in those images sits on is tri-track (could be just for display, of course), and I doubt the ride in the animation would be able to support a coaster with those supports.

Anyway, as I said, it's just an animation to give potential buyers (at the time) an idea of what the ride may look like.

 

[BigAl]

Not a strange coaster, but Lightning at Kuwait Entertainment City is a Batman clone and is strange for the fact that every seat has two seat belts, each seat has its own letter stuck to the front, each row has it's own number stuck to the side, the trains only have six rows and an annoying siren goes off when a train is ascending the lift hill...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUs_z88D3Y#



It also features a station that isn't bland in the slightest...

Just check out its lush surroundings!

Dire.

 

[DiogoJ42]

I can only asume that the odd seatbelts are a result of the local custom of everyone wearling long robes? Or maybe so that women don't have to have something strapped between their legs?

 

[Sam]

Check out this coaster, that opened this year in China.

It's a standard loopscrew affair but get this... it's launched. Here's a mystifying photo that Duane Marden posted on Twitter:

I love that they're basically still using Arrow designs from the 1970s for the supports and track of the corkscrews!

Can anyone find any more photos/info on this ride? I'm stuck...

 

[DiogoJ42]

I've always loved those old Arrow supports, they are so pleasing to the eye.

 

[BigDave]

Yeah some of the older rides I still find the most visually pleasing

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[CGM]

Can anyone find any more photos/info on this ride? I'm stuck...

It's just bizarre, why would you even resurrect the loopscrew model? Let alone put a launch in it!

Also, not a fan of new look RCDB, please change it back Duane!

 

[DiogoJ42]

Sense: this layout makes none.

 

[John]

The launch on that thing is the roller coaster equivalent of find & replace.

 

[BigAl]

Not strange, but how many people know just how many wooden Wild Mouse coaster there are out there?

Of course, we all know about the one at Blackpool Pleasure Beach as well as the other one in storage from Southport Pleasureland which is being saved for Dreamland Margate. Many will also know about the two still in operation in Australia. They have one at Sydney's Luna Park and another at Aussie World in Queensland. But there are two more in Indonesia as well...


The first is Crazy Car Coaster at Wisata Bahari Lamongan:

Lovely retro cars!

Here are the videos I could find of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW8soNRWg#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3S_ggJnJZs#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V3PpSHFy7o#



The other example was built by Hopkins & Pearce (the creators of the two wooden Wild Mouse coasters in Australia) and operates at Jawa Timur Park 2 under the name of Animal Coaster:

Comic Sans for the sign!

Every car has a unique paint job.

There aren't many videos of this one, so I found a couple of this coaster from when it was Wild Mouse at Batu Night Spectacular (also in Indonesia):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzWcqFtPfU#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrH0QJsfIQ#ws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzgNyJVUhY#



Of course, there may very well be one or two more wooden Wild Mouse coasters out there which are in storage, just like the one for Dreamland. If anyone knows of any more out there, do tell!

 

[John]

If only BPB's Wild Mouse could still run as many mice as Crazy Car...

 

[Russ]

While slightly on the topic of BPB, I found this footage of PMBO which I haven't seen before or even heard of.

Seems it was a one off publicity stunt for Team Jordan F1. I am not sure what year this was anymore info would be nice.

Turns out this was a real F1 car and it was used to advertise their re-vamped Formula 1 go-cart track. The driver was Ralph Firman, from what I can work out this was in 2003 as this was the only year he raced for Jordan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC-Exh-NxLE#

 

[Towers freak]

Alpine Coaster to the top of the Great Wall of China and when your finished with the sights ride it back to the bottom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO5a4m3GOsg#ws[/url

 

[Sam]

The mad trains on the defunct White Canyon at Yomiuriland.

 

[DiogoJ42]

How rough must it be to need THAT much padding? O_O

 

[Ted]

Saw a POV of that from TPR a while back. I thought it must have been really rough to have so much padding 0_0

 

[BigAl]

High Speed Rollercoaster at Suôí Tiên Park, ironically, has one of the slowest lifts imaginable (over two minutes to climb a mere 98.4 feet)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4pku6fmoeQ#

However, I spotted this park on a TPT article and it appears to have one of the most amazing looking water parks I've ever seen...

It's just a pity their coasters look absolutely diabolical!

 

[Lottie.]

OMG! How picturesque can one park look! <3

 

[Ted]

I do love it how two thirds of the video is the coaster going up the lift hill, is slow as hell and has shoulder harnesses. =P

Mind you though, the water park does look amazing.