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- From: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Arrow & Vekoma: What's the connection?
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 03:35:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
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- It's always been obvious to me that (mechanically, at least) Vekoma's
- roller coasters are very similar to Arrow's products. I've always wondered
- what the connection between the two companies is.
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- Does Vekoma have a license to use Arrow's mechanical designs, but then come
- up with their own variations from there (as in Boomerang and
- Kamikaze/Ninja)? What little I've seen of Vekoma's designs seem to
- generally be more interesting than Arrow's usual "inversion checklist"
- style of rides (again, the Kamikaze/Ninja comes to mind--from the pictures,
- it looks much more interesting than most Arrow megaloopers).
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- So, again, what sort of collaboration exists between Vekoma and Arrow?
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