easycoasting
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Hello, does anyone know if there is a coaster boneyard where they keep scraps of rollercoasters that get destroyed?
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Coaster Boneyard
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CanobieFan
Strata Poster
A lot of parks with the land to do it, just keep discarded coaster and ride parts in backstage areas until they eventually get trashed...but there is no one singular coaster dump out there and certainly not one you could visit
Peet
Giga Poster
Sure, it's called Six Flags Great Adventure
Nicky Borrill
Strata Poster
In the UK at least, when a coaster is past it's useful life, and can't be sold on as a working coaster, then it's value lies in the metal. Usually, local scrap metal merchants will purchase the coaster as scrap metal. Therefore they end up at any of a number of scrap yards to be broken down and recycled. Nemesis is a recent example, last I heard, it was still at the scrapyard which purchased it.
I can't imagine it's different anywhere else in the world.
Who knows, you could be driving a coaster around now, or even living / working in a building framed with one.
As @CanobieFan mentioned, if track is to be stored/left to rot, it's usually on-lot at the amusement park. Once they've found a buyer (often a steel scrap yard), track is usually dealt with promptly given financial incentive.
... However, there was a funny incident a few years back where the old Maverick barrel roll (installed and removed after being determined to be too intense) did linger around an older steel scrap yard in Mansfield, OH nearby, 15 years after it was offloaded. Funny that the track wasn't scrapped promptly.
And pin drop on the map where you can see the track: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xi38YVqC9LW1qLjA7
After the funny enthusiast flury, the track was promptly processed - I swung by myself a week or two after that intel drop to see if I could find it, but alas it had moved by that point.
Another funny "boneyard" moment, or rather repurposing - also ironically in Mansfield - was benches I found at the local disc golf course, which were made of upcycled Mean Streak timbers!
... However, there was a funny incident a few years back where the old Maverick barrel roll (installed and removed after being determined to be too intense) did linger around an older steel scrap yard in Mansfield, OH nearby, 15 years after it was offloaded. Funny that the track wasn't scrapped promptly.
And pin drop on the map where you can see the track: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xi38YVqC9LW1qLjA7
After the funny enthusiast flury, the track was promptly processed - I swung by myself a week or two after that intel drop to see if I could find it, but alas it had moved by that point.
Another funny "boneyard" moment, or rather repurposing - also ironically in Mansfield - was benches I found at the local disc golf course, which were made of upcycled Mean Streak timbers!
easycoasting
Roller Poster
Oh, my goodness. That was you? I heard about the infamous heartline section on maverick. So they just dumped it off in Mansfield, OH? Wow, that must have been amazing.
easycoasting
Roller Poster
So the parks can auction off old parts?
roomraider
Best Topic Starter
While technically not boneyards there are plenty of coasters lying around doing nothing in fields, construction yards and in one case an old public park.
Here's a quick off the top of my head list of whats lying around out there and their locations.
Theres plenty of smaller rides out there too, these were just the major ones i can remember.
Unusued
Mack Hyper Coaster, Mack Water Coaster, Maurer Spinner - https://maps.app.goo.gl/xhDy7iHgnK4LTwGr5
Mack Hyper Coaster, Mack Power Splash - https://maps.app.goo.gl/N8LtsCxiqP1BUod78
Intamin Launched, Intamin Spinner, Maurer Spike - https://maps.app.goo.gl/SSDX5uboS4dbFHpW6
Intamin Swing Launch - https://maps.app.goo.gl/cZi1BA1RE5A2gJB18
Intamin Jet Ski - https://maps.app.goo.gl/e85F9Zf9wxVKi8t79
Vekoma SFC - https://maps.app.goo.gl/n5McSAuPBu6WQoNHA
Mack Water Coaster - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cwks389DiuTGztb97
Used
Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang - Ex SFOG Deja Vu - https://maps.app.goo.gl/diy3ujHwJworXzrZ6
Intamin 8 Looper - Ex Monte Makaya - https://maps.app.goo.gl/HfdXL4BY9Sh5z7ds6
Premier LIM Coaster - Ex Speed: The Ride - https://maps.app.goo.gl/2nxqEbFptEu8KCRXA
Vekoma Mega Looper - Ex Horror Express - https://maps.app.goo.gl/QtCoNvg9LsUMzAEr9
Mack Bobsled - Ex Munich Autobahn - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q6QSQBTPdDFN15pz6
Intamin Hydraulic Launch - Ex Zaturn - https://maps.app.goo.gl/13zdEa4ShQVBNURj7
Here's a quick off the top of my head list of whats lying around out there and their locations.
Theres plenty of smaller rides out there too, these were just the major ones i can remember.
Unusued
Mack Hyper Coaster, Mack Water Coaster, Maurer Spinner - https://maps.app.goo.gl/xhDy7iHgnK4LTwGr5
Mack Hyper Coaster, Mack Power Splash - https://maps.app.goo.gl/N8LtsCxiqP1BUod78
Intamin Launched, Intamin Spinner, Maurer Spike - https://maps.app.goo.gl/SSDX5uboS4dbFHpW6
Intamin Swing Launch - https://maps.app.goo.gl/cZi1BA1RE5A2gJB18
Intamin Jet Ski - https://maps.app.goo.gl/e85F9Zf9wxVKi8t79
Vekoma SFC - https://maps.app.goo.gl/n5McSAuPBu6WQoNHA
Mack Water Coaster - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cwks389DiuTGztb97
Used
Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang - Ex SFOG Deja Vu - https://maps.app.goo.gl/diy3ujHwJworXzrZ6
Intamin 8 Looper - Ex Monte Makaya - https://maps.app.goo.gl/HfdXL4BY9Sh5z7ds6
Premier LIM Coaster - Ex Speed: The Ride - https://maps.app.goo.gl/2nxqEbFptEu8KCRXA
Vekoma Mega Looper - Ex Horror Express - https://maps.app.goo.gl/QtCoNvg9LsUMzAEr9
Mack Bobsled - Ex Munich Autobahn - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q6QSQBTPdDFN15pz6
Intamin Hydraulic Launch - Ex Zaturn - https://maps.app.goo.gl/13zdEa4ShQVBNURj7
CedarPoint6
Hyper Poster
I think a lot of us probably have parts and pieces from various places. A lot of parks have tended to sell bits of used stuff or pieces from defunct coasters. I have wood from maybe 6 or 7 wooden coasters, some rail from Kraken, wheels from Manta, Kraken, Ice Breaker & Atlantis, launch cable from TTD, lift cable from EGF, a seat belt from Big One, a B&M harness, and a few other bits and pieces. And then I have a wild mouse car, which is of course the price of my collection!
I totally forgot about your Halloween getup, handing out candy from the ride car. True GOAT material here!
Nicky Borrill
Strata Poster
This does happen too. From odd bits, right down to full auctions of everything on site when a park closes down.
American Adventure, which was pretty much where I live currently, auctioned off everything on site. From full working rides, to props, to ride parts, everything.
(Side note, if anybody ever comes across one of the log flume boats let me know, been after one for years as a flower bed for the pub beer garden... I've always thought that whoever had the pub when it closed down, missed a trick, being one of, if not the closest pub and all that, a bit of the history should have stayed here. Has to be an American Adventure one though, obviously. Have come across loads of others on my searches.)
easycoasting
Roller Poster
You got parts from Kraken….how did you manage that? I thought Kraken was still in operation.
CedarPoint6
Hyper Poster
It is, but maintenance happens. So I was able to get some items from it that way.
would've been more cool if the answer was: "Yes Kraken is working, but I'm not telling which parts I took.
"
Coaster Hipster
Giga Poster
Is it appropriate to plug in the still born SBNO B&M Hyper & Wing Coaster @ HotGo Park in China?
Hot Go Dreamworld (Wanghua, Fushun, Liaoning, China)
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roomraider
Best Topic Starter
I went for coasters that are lying around in pieces so the list didn't get too stupidly long
The DB lists over 300 SBNO coasters which is kind of insane.
Wonderland Eurasia must take the biscuit though.