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Jeffrey Seifert said:
The Great Escape's Schwarzkopf Jet Star (Nightmare at Crackaxle Canyon) has been moved four times. It was originally installed at Beech Bend Park in Kentucky, moved to Kentucky Kingdom, Darien Lake, then The Great Escape.
I was wondering about that one as I was reading this thread. It began as the Starchaser at Beech Bend in Bowling Green, KY and then was moved to Kentucky Kingdom under the same name. At Darien Lake it was called Nightmare at Phantom Cave. It then moved on to The Great Escape, where it is known as Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon.
This was one of my first coaster as a kid, when it was at KK. It was removed from there in 1995 after several accidents and general lack of interest from patrons.
That would make it three moves, four parks
The Cyclone was a steel wild mouse build by Pinfari and operated from 1976 to 1980 at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure.
From 1981-1997 it stood near the back of Holiday World as the Firecracker, and was their only roller coaster for years.
For the 1998 season, it operated at Jolly Roger Amusement Park.
According to www.rcdb.com, it was booked at the I-X Indoor Amusement Park in 1998 and 1999, in Cleveland, OH.
In 1999, it was set up on the Ohio State Fair Grounds under the name Avalanche.
This wasn't exactly a portable coaster. It obviously spent a great deal of time at Holiday World. However, it made its way to 5 locations in 4 moves.
We may have a new record here...
It started in Germany, then went to Coney Island (NY), then Knoebels, then Morey's Pier in Wildwood, and the then went to France (where it supposedly operates today.) That's five locations that I count, and I'm not quite sure how much it moved around before coming to Coney...
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-Rob
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I think I have a coaster that wins the award for "most relocated", as well as the award for different total incarnations. Go here and follow the path, thanks to RCDB. Or, if you want a brief summary of what I'm illustrating...
This ride was built in 1959.
Ride moves to Fun Forest and opens as Broadway Trip for 1962 season.
Ride is relocated to Cedar Point as Broadway Trip for 1963 season (either that, or operates in Cedar Point between 1960-62 and then goes to Fun Forest- RCDB is unclear which is the case).
Ride is relocated again, this time to Palisades Park as the Broadway Trip and operates from 1963-67.
Ride is removed, sent back to Mack for refurbishment and is then sent back to Palisades, reopens as the Love Bugs and operates from 1968 until the park closes in 1971.
Ride is relocated to the Canadian National Exposition as the Love Bugs and operates from 1972-?.
Ride is relocated to Casino Pier (Seaside Heights) and operates as the Love Bugs from ?-1988.
Ride is rethemed as Wizards Cavern and operates to this day.
I had NO idea that this ride has been around that many blocks, or had seen so many incarnations! While the ride isn't much, it does have quite an interesting history!
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-Rob
A.C.E. member since 1990
Posting @ Coasterbuzz since 2000
E.C.C. member since 2002
My life is spent in between metal railing, where I stand for hours just to sit down for 3 minutes then to get up and do it allover again.
*** This post was edited by TheRIckser 10/17/2003 8:39:20 PM ***
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I'd like to thank the academy , and my mom , and my fans,and.....oh forget it , I hate you all.
If you go on to RCDB and pick a coaster you can track its history.
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http://coastertrackrecord.tripod.com/
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Jeffrey Seifert said:
The Great Escape's Schwarzkopf Jet Star (Nightmare at Crackaxle Canyon) has been moved four times. It was originally installed at Beech Bend Park in Kentucky, moved to Kentucky Kingdom, Darien Lake, then The Great Escape.
Before Beech Bend Park bought this Jet Star, it was owned by Amusements of America. It came to my local fair about 3 years in a row back in 1970, '71, '72. I contacted AoA a while back inquiring about their old Jet Star. That's when they told me it was sold to Beech Bend.
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I was thinking about the Broadway Trip too. It was built for the fairgrounds and travelled two seasons afaik. It was basically a custom wild mouse with a spiral lift.
Schwarzkopf was involved too, he had built a similar ride before, the "Reise um die Welt" (Trip around the world) which had a similar layout and excessive theming. This ride was a hit with the public, but the it was far too heavy for the time and it was plagued by technical problems. Since this was Schwarzkopfs first coaster he was NOT very proud of it and after a few back-breaking seasons (for the owners) and a brief stay at Viennas Prater, the ride disappeared without a trace.
The Broadway trip was much more refined and incorporated a crane within the buildings support structure. But still the ride was very hard to move. It was as well very popular and the lush and posh appearance was the bomb in post-war, cinema crazy Germany . I used to see newspaper photos from the fifties with riders screaming in sheer terror and joy while going down the drops. I would think it was the start of the baroque flatrides which appeared in later years.
Seeing that the ride ist still operating today (albeit a not so wonderful theming) shows that there is something about the concept still attracting people today.
@ theRIckser
The Eurostar was built by Giovanola and marks the end of the giant transportable coasters coming from Germany. It started with the first Wildcat models (the one at CP), designed by Stengel and Schwarzkopf. The rides used to get bigger and we saw the wonderful Jet Stars and Jumbo Jets.
In the seventies the loopingcoasters appeared. The first model used to be the Looping Star (identical to the Viper at SFAW), then the slightly smaller Silberpfeil (a model can be found at BGT) appeared.
After the huge success, the coaster race started on the fairgrounds as well: The double loop (Dorney) was followed by the triple loop (now in the UK). Then came the most insane of them all, the mighty Thriller (now the sadly mutilated Zonga at SFMW) and in 1989 the Olympia Looping made its debut. This is as well the only one thats still touring the fairs (besides Eurostar).
Its remarkable that these humoungus rides made good money for their owners (instead of insane costs), yet the german themeparks are still shying away from big looping coasters, thinking the audience would not like them.
Oh, and it takes a little longer than three days to erect/dismantle the Eurostar. Usually it takes about seven days to set it up. It can be done faster if time is tight.
While Olympia Looping is still wonderfully smooth and thrilling after 14 years, time has not been kind to the Eurostar. It is not a pleasant ride anymore.
Ooops, been writing a novel again.
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i was a teenage Schwarzkopf stalker
kRaXLeRidAh said:
Actually, Windjammer has. In the form of thousands of soda cans.
I am sure glad they have heavy unwieldy steel pop cans these days.
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