Jumbo Jet at CP - CoasterBuzz

Interestingly enough, the Boblo Sky Streek is also at Selva Magica.

Cross Whizzer with Tigg'rr at Indiana Beach and ya have a Jumbo Jet. Well as close as is easy to find anyway.

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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers. ;)

Back when I was a muchkin, The Jumbo Jet was where DT is, The Upside Down House was where Giant Wheel is an Wildcat was where the Dolphin show was placed.

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*** This post was edited by kneemeister on 9/14/2002. ***

WOW.

As said in the link below, the Jumbo Jet was removed in 1978 and went to a park in Massachusets, and is now residing in Russia.

http://www.rcdb.com/installationdetail355.htm

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Call me Peter Soint.

i've been on one of them! the beast at alton towers was there for a few years and looks like it was almost identical to this ride. this ride was great fun! no restraints and such a powerful ride was great. alton towers still has a jet star 2 in the dark called black hole which is well worth a ride even though they have now added lap bars to it *evil!*

i highly recommend everyone tries one of these rides before they all die out like most Schwarzkopf machines are which is a real shame

no restraints?

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Call me Peter Soint.

Nope. Gotta love those things!

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- Peabody

Catherine said:

Looks similar to the Whizzer but if I remember correctly the Whizzer is a dif. generation of a Jumbo Jet.
I am pretty sure I was tall enough to ride CP's Jumbo Jet in it's final year or two (I was a tall kid) but too scared to ride Yeah, I was a wimp as a kid : )

Whizzer was built before the jumbo jet.

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"What is it that no man wants to have yet no man wants to loose?"
"Holy Bogglers Batman I've got it the answer is a Lawsuit."

SJCoasternut, City Jet is ok, but is not a Jet Star III model like Jumbo Jet or Beast. City Jet is a Jet Star VI and is about half the size as a Jumbo Jet and nowhere near as intense. City Jets were made smaller to make them easier to transport and to reduce the intensity of the ride to make it more barable for average crowds. It also has a different structure and much stronger supports.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

CoasterSam, the Jumbo Jets were in production starting in the late 1960s. Willard's Whizzer aka The Whizzer was built in 1975. The Jumbo Jet at CP was installed for the 1972 season.

I was one of the lucky ones who got to ride Jumbo Jet for all of it's years of operations. It was especially fun because you rode in it the same way two people ride on Witches Wheel, with one person sitting on the bench seat in front of another.

I don't recall the roughness, but my favorite part was the spirals and helix. I do recall it was shut down a lot in it's later years.

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

Little known fact (or really good urban legend), the ride used actually move a couple of inches ever year from the force in the turns.

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"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

I thought they removed it because it was sinking. ;)

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Question, what do guy think of Jet Stars anyway?

I've heard nothing but complaints about Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon and Black Hole.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

Jet Stars are awesome little rides. They have those gut-wrenching first drops, tons of high-speed turns, and those restraint-less cars that you relax in as if it was a Lazy-Boy chair.

Knoebels should have kept theirs instead of getting that Whirlwind!

Do those have supports?

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Call me Peter Soint.

What coaster doesn't have supports?

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- Peabody

I was at Coney Island on April 28th, exactly one week after Jumbo Jet closed. I was told that a car had actually derailed, and caused a couple of riders to be hospitalized. I didn't really believe it, but oddly enough, someone had posted on a bulletin board at www.coneyisland.com that the ride had indeed derailed on April 21st. Unfortunately, they have replaced the old boards with an updated format, and those posts are no longer there. Still, it's no proof that the ride did crash, but I found it odd that I heard the same exact details of the accident from two different sources.

RCDB simply says it's closed due to trouble with the trains...

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-Vater
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*** This post was edited by Vater on 9/16/2002. ***

And let's all not forget about the Zambezi Zinger at WOF. It was built in 1973 and removed in 1997...now is in South America. The Zinger was the first ride I ever worked at and miss it dearly. Not hearing "presence" every couple of minutes was a hard change (anyone who has driven the Zinger or if the others are equipped with a presence feature will understand this) Ours was smooth...even after all those years. It was however very loud. We also had to weld it daily near the end. I hope Whizzer lives on for as long as possible. When it is gone, we will have truly lost a great type of coaster.

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Waiting for the CP announcement to be made so that about 1000+ posts will be made complaining about it.

Jeff, yeah, that sounds about right. It was sitting on wooden blooks directly on the pavement as I recall. Hey, it's a portable ride, alright?!