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- From: chrisl@joplin.wri.com (Chris LaReau)
- Subject: Re: Six Flags buys another BATMAN -- THE RIDE
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- Keywords: Batman, over-used name
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- References: <1992Dec18.161203.4521@pmafire.inel.gov> <1992Dec18.205152.17007@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com> <1992Dec18.213834.16905@pmafire.inel.gov> <BzHLKu.C88@unix.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:56:23 GMT
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- In <BzHLKu.C88@unix.portal.com> rivit@shell.portal.com (Russell Michael VanTassell) writes:
-
- >The Paramount/King's/Santa Clara/Marriot's Great America Tidal Wave
- >is a cam/flywheel driven shuttle looper... I'm pretty sure. They're
- ><continually> back there tweaking on the system back in the employee
- >roads...
-
- Nope. It's a weight drop. The easy way to tell is that the weight drop
- ones have the large tube under the 140' hill after the loop. The tube
- is where the 45 ton weight is dropped to push the train. The flywheel
- models have no such tube.
-
- I think there were only 4 weight drop ones built: King's Dominion King Kobra,
- Carowinds White Lightnin' (both with steel-lattice loops, both defunct),
- and the Great America Tidal Waves (CA and IL, with the IL version soon to
- be reborn as Batman The Ride at SF Mid America).
-
- Chris
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