Boy falls from Excalibur spin ride at Camelot

Interesting looking ride..never saw it before. Kind of a hybrid of an Enterprise, UFO, and MaxAir. I'd ride it, no doubt.

^Mike, I think that's the same ride that SF moved from GAdv, where it ran *occasionally* as Evolution, to the St Louis park (where it's now named Excalibur).

edit: Cool park, impossible to find, but they do have the world's only gasoline-powered coaster, AFAIK.

I think you're right, Gator.

For the record:

Xcalibur

Evolution

rollergator said:
^Mike, I think that's the same ride that SF moved from GAdv, where it ran *occasionally* as Evolution, to the St Louis park (where it's now named Excalibur).

It didn't look like GA's to me, but that's probably because I never saw that one in motion...:(

^I said "occasionally". ;)

For the record, I never got to ride Jump or Evolution at GAdv. Finally got Evolution at SFStL - eventually got on a Jump at Puyallup (and Jump2 at Canada's Wonderful-Land).

Is that a Huss ride?

No, Fabbri. I just can't begin to understand how this happened.

rollergator said:
^I said "occasionally". ;)

For the record, I never got to ride Jump or Evolution at GAdv. Finally got Evolution at SFStL - eventually got on a Jump at Puyallup (and Jump2 at Canada's Wonderful-Land).

I've been trying to find a pic of a Jump. Can anyone help?

Let me Flat Ride that for you.

Also, Great Adventure History

rollergator said:
For the record, I never got to ride Jump or Evolution at GAdv.

Honestly anyone who actually got to ride Jumpin Jack Flash at SFGAdv should get a trophy or medal because it was closed far more often than it was ever open. That goes for the majority of the "War on Lines" flats that were installed in 1999.

Which truly is a pity, since both rides look awesome!

I rode Jumpin' Flash at SFGAdv. It was the best flat ride I have ever rode.

It was also the only new flat ride open for the day, during the war on lines debacle.

GAdv. was my home park for 3 years: Fall '02 to Spring '05 and in 50+ trips I never saw the Jump run.

I believe they have one of those on the large fair circuit out here.

RCPete said:
Is that a Huss ride?

Nope, the one at SFStL is a Vekoma. At least that is what they told me last month.

The Giant Evolution that lives at SFStL now is a Nauta-Bussink ride. It is one of two, I believe, that were built. Similar rides found elsewhere are much smaller.

I got a ride on Jumpin Jack Flash, I thought the ride was really cool. Line was too long for Evolution, but I got to ride it in St. Louis, and thought it looked a lot better than it rode.

Only gas powered coaster? What about all those carnival coasters (and the Strickers wood coasters) that run off generators.

Maddie is correct - Nauta-Bussink.

C-Dave: Those are actual lift-hill "coasters". This is a powered ride, the lead car has a gasoline engine that drives the train around the course.