Weird, Wacky & Strange Coaster Bits

[rollermonkey]

Ummmmmm... good god. This beauty is delivered to you by Shanghai China Fun Equipment.

That's awesome. Between what I hope is a fisheye lens, the Soquet-style track, the Pinfari ZL layout and the train, it hits WTF in just about every way possible.

Every other support is a column, and the other hale are A-frames/bipods.... Why?

 

[elephant58]

Why am I not surprised that one's a chinese coaster.

 

[roomraider]

Not a coaster bit as such but certainly weird. This thing is called the Century UFO and looks like a starflyers evil twin. The ones below are at Jinxiangshan Land in China and another Chinese park I've not identified yet.

Check out a video of one in action here. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTcxMzQ2NzY4.html
The way it slowly rotated the riders over freaks me out just looking at it. I get freaked by tower rides as it is.

Source: http://www.vhcoasters.com and http://www.jinxiangshanland.com/shownews.asp?id=406

 

[Gavin]

^That looks amazing. Horrendous, but amazing. The only way to improve on that would be to make it drop from the top.

 

[Mysterious Sue]

That can **** right off

 

[Lofty]

Re: Weird, Wacky & Strange Coaster Bits

I absolutely need that in my life. It's so wrong yet so right.

 

[roomraider]

Is it me or is there a guy smoking in the 2nd pic as the ride rotates?

 

[rollermonkey]

Looks like someone hurled off the right side of that same pic.

 

[Smithy]

Looks as if they had half a star flyer and a handfull of seats from one of those bungee rides you see abroad and decided to just weld them together.

 

[Gangster4Life]

In the Far East do they like to torture the people or something :?: :lol:

 

[Xpress]

Found this on rcdb:

http://rcdb.com/10337.htm

A spinning big apple! Fancy that...
(Or are they quite common?)

It has a f***ing motorcycle hand brake!!!

 

[TilenB]

http://coaster-count.com/coasterimages11347.xhtml

This. Apparently it is travelling around Germany with Norbert Witte, the guy who once owned Spreepark. Oh, and I've also found the manufacturer if anybody is interested.

http://www.peter-petz.de/eng/produkt/looping.htm

 

[Smithy]

What the :|

 

[kimahri]

The loop is fake, what a RIP!

 

[Intricks]

This thing:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shellytichy/1321171989/
It is on the left of the image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shellytichy/1319015240/
The train.

Does anyone have anymore information on this thing? Its been at the Canfield Fair and the IX Indoor Amusement Park up in Cleveland.

 

[TilenB]

The track looks like from Togo Kiddy Shuttle or one of Sameco's rides. But the trains...

 

[CanobieFan]

It was built by ARM/Larson. Its called G-Force and it seems to be rather unpleasant. YouTube has video of it as well.

 

[Martyn B]

Nice re-welding job done on Knightmare:

:lol:

 

[metalhead7]

http://rcdb.com/1335.htm?p=18114

I'm sure it's been posted here before, but I didn't feel like going through 56 pages of material again

 

[furie]

Nice re-welding job done on Knightmare:

:lol:

Same contractors working on The Smiler by any chance?