Skyline Attractions

While reading this thread, I had never heard of the Kid Flash coasters at SFFT and SFoG, so I looked them up on RCDB and discovered they were manufactured by Skyline Attractions in November 2023, then closed less than a year later and removed this February. I then looked up Skyline and found the other two coasters they built, Harley Quinn Crazy Coaster at SFKK which operated for about a year and was removed in 2021, and Tidal Twister at Sea World San Diego which operated for a whopping 4 years before being removed in 2023. I remembered seeing both of these when they were fairly new and thought they were pretty cool concepts, and the Kid Flash coasters look like neat little racing coasters, but it struck me that all four* of them have had unusually short lifespans.

What's up with this company? Is there some catastrophic design flaw that's unfixable? I read that it was started by a former GCII employee and that they partner with them on wooden coaster designs, but it appears from my industry-ignorant eye that their steel coaster designs are complete failures.

*There is actually a fifth, but the unmentioned one was part of a temporary art exhibit.

Also...

Skyline Attractions 100% failure rate > RRR

Tidal Twister rarely operated during those four years as well. Don’t want to give the impression that Skyline was almost competent with that one.

I just noticed that as well with the database corrections. I met those guys once, who seemed to know who I was but I can't say I knew them (I don't know many people anymore). Seemed like a cool product idea, so I'm curious about what happened as well.

The museum coaster was a fun little novelty. I'm glad I got to ride it.

The Kid Flash coasters had the problem of derailing due to a lack of dedicated upstop wheels. I'm not sure about the other installations but they seem to be good at designing the layouts but not making working coasters

In other Skyline news, Worlds of Fun had to cover the spiral lift on Zambezi Zinger because the ride couldn't operate in any form of precipitation. Assuming that this was another Skyline creation, then this was yet another fail on their part...

I'm pretty sure the tech is GCI, with Skyline layout design.

Skyline does a lot of hardware stuff for GCI. They designed and manufactured the new gen trains that Zambezi is using.

Anton figured out a spiral tire drive lift in the 70s, I can't see anything significant you'd need to change from then.

Clearly the best fix was to install a tunnel over the entire lift rather than address why it doesn't work in the rain...

I'm an EINO (engineer in name only), I wonder if they'd hire me.