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.
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The museum coaster was a fun little novelty. I'm glad I got to ride it.
I develop Superior Solitaire when not riding coasters.
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