Talk:Amusement ride

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Contents 1 Horror Train/Switchback/Corkscrew 2 Removed Some Links and Fairground/Amusement Park 3 Removed Thrill Ride 4 List of ride manufacturers 5 Kamikaze? 6 Caterpillar 7 Jumping Thingy

[edit] Horror Train/Switchback/Corkscrew

I believe Horror Train is supposed to be a Ghost Train. This is a dark ride, and not a roller coaster. A corkscrew is a roller coaster, but there is already a category for roller coasters. Why have that one at all. You can name all the categories for roller coasters then, and that would be stupid. To me, this is just a portal to see other rides. If you land in the dark rides category, you can find all the dark rides. Thus, similarly if you click on roller coasters, you can find all the roller coasters.

Honestly, I can add a lot of categories to the roller coasters such as wooden/steel/flying/sitdown/floorless/boomerang/mouse/stand up/4th dimension/mega coaster/hyper coaster/giga coaster/ inverted coaster/out and back coaster/dive coaster/impulse coaster/LIM coaster/rocket coaster-accelerator coaster and probably more!!

So, what's the point of having corkscrew on this page??? If you want minimal categories of roller coasters, we can put steel or wooden underneath roller coasters. However, I don't think roller coasters needs anything more than that link. --Dinofunsaur 23:20 24 November (UTC)

[edit] Removed Some Links and Fairground/Amusement Park

I'm surprised this hasn't come up before. I moved Gravitron, Tilt-A-Whirl, and Zipper to fairground rides. They are more at fairs/carnivals than amusement parks. There are some of these at amusement parks, but it's very small portion. Also, Huss Top Spins, and Enterprises are at more amusement parks than fairs/carnivals. So, they put them above.

Also, Top Scan, Super Bowl, Steam Yachts, Jolly Tubs, Pharaoh's Fury, and Roll-O-Plane didn't go anywhere except to add a new page. So, I removed them. This is disappointing. If you can find a link to those rides, please put them back on.

Flying Coaster doesn't belong here. It's a roller coaster from Elitch Gardens. I removed that.

Um... There's a flat-ride called the Flying Coaster. If they were referring to the Volare, then by all means keep it removed. Timetrial3141592 00:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

--194.25.159.210 16:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC) I believe Gravitron, Tilt-A-Whirl and Zipper should be re-added. Despite being overshadowed by more fandangled amusement park rides, they are still a valid and valuable addition to any amusement park's line up. Food for thought, I hope you will agree.

--Dinofunsaur 23:08, 24 November (UTC) My problem is that I think those rides are more carnivalish rides. How many amusement parks have a Gravitron, Tilt-A-Whirl, and a Zipper. That's why I put them under carnivals in which could be found in amusement parks. I didn't just delete them. They are still there.

I can name a lot of carnival companies that have those rides, but not as many amusement parks. Just around me, the Tilt-A-Whirl is at All Around Amusements, Windy City Amusements, All Star Amusements, Spectacular Amusements, Spectacular Midways, Fantasy Amusements, Astro Amusements. The amusement parks only have one at Kiddieland, and there is another Tilt at a kids center in Villa Park.

So, in my opinion, I see Tilts MORE at carnivals than amusement parks. This is sad, but this is the way it is. I would love if Six Flags Great America, Over Georgia, St. Louis, Gaugea Lake, Disneyworld, Disneyland, Universal Studios, and others would get a Tilt-A-Whirl. Sadly, it's not that way. The point is that I didn't remove the rides, but I just moved them to carnivals/fairs because they are more prominant.

The difference between the two categories is that one contains bigger rides that are mostly only at amusement parks while the other one contains mostly carnival rides. This doesn't mean that it can't be at both. You just try to pick the best one. It's like the Gravitron. I know Windy City, Astro (Starship, and Gravitron), Great American Rides, and All Star Amusements have one. Our amusement parks don't have it. Zipper, we have 4 by carnivals, and none at amusement parks.

The Zipper is a carnival ride. The Tilt-A-Whirl is both a carnival ride and a park ride. Timetrial3141592 00:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Thrill Ride

I've removed the thrill ride entry since it seems to me like a generic term, mostly covered by "amusement ride" (a roller coaster, listed here, surely is a thrill ride, for instance). -- Egil 07:46 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] List of ride manufacturers

I've put together a list of ride manufacturers, largely culled from the pages on the history of rides at University of Sheffield NFA, and balanced with more USA manufacturers from Coasterchild.

However, its now looking a bit long, and a bit like a web directory, so I'm not so sure about it anymore. -- Solipsist 1 July 2005 17:48 (UTC)

[edit] Kamikaze?

Will the person who added the link to Kamikaze please disambiguate it? Cactus Wren 12:38, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caterpillar

Is the ride traditionally described as "the Caterpillar" in New England linked under another name? ◄HouseOfScandal►02:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jumping Thingy

Anybody know the name for those inflatable jumping thingies that you see at every amusement park? Aelffin 02:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)