New rides @ small parks

[Jordanovichy]

Breaking news! Clarence Pier has a new attraction this year...the Solent Eye! It takes riders up to just over 100ft to give great views of Portsmouth's housing estates and the sea...on the clearest of days you might be able to see the distant, rolling hills of the Isle of Wight. It's a steal at just £6 per rider. Just forget about the 350ft viewing platform half a mile away in the Spinnaker Tower which costs a very unreasonable £8...

What a load of crap. Give us a new cred ffs. Have some photos I took on a wander earlier.

Oh, and it isn't included on the Clarence Pier wristband either.

 

[Dave]

What a load of crap. Give us a new cred ffs. Have some photos I took on a wander earlier.

Oh, and it isn't included on the Clarence Pier wristband either.

You're asking a lot there! Nothing will happen there until Skyways is gone, always think a Intamin Zac Spin would fit well there!

 

[Lofty]

Dreamland Margate are getting an Enterprise - don't know if it's a permanent feature, or whether it's just a seasonal addition.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/dreamland-announces-new-ride-93023/

 

[Martyn B]

Pleasureland Southport also have a new Big wheel for this year.

Yay.

 

[SilverArrow]

Dreamland Margate are getting an Enterprise - don't know if it's a permanent feature, or whether it's just a seasonal addition.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/dreamland-announces-new-ride-93023/

Fingers crossed for permanent. Might just be a temporary replacement for the Topspin though?

 

[GuyWithAStick]

That looks like a temporary enterprise. But like said, hopes is for permanent.

 

[Lofty]

It more than likely is a temporary attraction, but when we say temp, we mean it lasting the whole season.

I'll find out soon when I go back to the park.

 

[Gavin]

Amazing. I love their take on "classic" rides: stuff from the '80s and '90s.

 

[Martyn B]

Very true that Gavin.

What happened to these 'stages' of the park opening more and more classic stuff?

Oh, and I don't think it's replacing the Topspin, as there's a video with the Topspin sat next to it.

 

[Ben]

HOW HAS NOONE MENTIONED THAT OLD MACDONALDS GOT A NEW, REPLACEMENT BIG APPLE

http://rcdb.com/13874.htm

CRED

 

[GuyWithAStick]

Edit, I didn't notice something

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[Martyn B]

Haha I saw that the other day when driving past, but I just assumed they'd repainted it.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

I lost the topic, but Mall of America just opened their form of Soarin' called "Flyover America". Here's the ride's website:

flyover-america.com

 

[CanobieFan]

Santa's Village in NH is adding one of those super fun SBF Spinning Coasters. http://rcdb.com/13949.htm

 

[TilenB]

^ I have to say hats off to SBF Visa for managing to sell quite so many in a space of only 3 or so years. I guess they've must have sold about 30 by now.

 

[CanobieFan]

20, so far http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&mo=12178 of the 'standard' model +1 Beech Bend has the double one. http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&mo=13616

I've ridden the ones at Andretti Thrill Park and Pier Park Amusement Rides. Both were a lot of fun.

 

[Hyde]

Thank God for that downward bank to legitimize the credit count. :razz:

 

[TilenB]

20, so far http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&mo=12178 of the 'standard' model +1 Beech Bend has the double one. http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&mo=13616

I've ridden the ones at Andretti Thrill Park and Pier Park Amusement Rides. Both were a lot of fun.

Plus a few traveling ones and a couple that rcdb is yet to find. I guess that the total should be at about 30 (or a bit less) by now.

 

[Thekingin64]

It's not really a park as such but ZipWorld Forest in Betws-y-Coed is getting an Alpine Coaster: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/bus ... e-11336201

With the one opening soon in Snowdonia, they'd better get on this quick to claim "UK's first".

 

[CanobieFan]

Another one of those SBF spinning coaster is popping up, in West Virginia! Camden Park is adding the first new coaster to the state since the 1960's - http://rcdb.com/13971.htm