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An 'amusement ride' is any number of devices found at carnivals, fairs/funfairs, or amusement parks meant to appeal to various senses of the rider.

Contents

Types

Amusement ride manufactures

See also

References

External links

Types

===Amusement Park rides===
Larger rides, normally only found in amusement/theme parks

★ Balloon Race / Samba Balloon

★ Condor

★ Dark rides

★ Disk-O

★ Drop towers

★ Enterprise

★ Ferris wheels or Big wheels

★ Frisbees

★ House of mirrors

★ Insanity

★ Looping Starship / Space Shuttle

★ Megadrop

★ Motion platforms

★ Observation towers

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★ Gyro Towers

★ Pirate Ship / Pharaoh's Fury / Sea Ray

★ Roller coasters

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★ switchbacks

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★ Horror train

★ Sightseeing trains

★ Sky Swat

★ Screamin' Swing

★ Slingshot

★ Swing Around / Apollo 2000

★ Swing Rides

★ Teacups

★ Topple Tower

★ Top Scan

★ Top Spin

★ Train rides

★ Troika / Scorpion

★ Tumble Bug

★ Water Rides

★ wild fire
===Carnival or Funfair/Fair/Fairground rides===
Traditional and transportable rides found at Carnivals/Fairs, many of which may also be found in amusement parks

★ 1001 Nacht / Ali Baba / Falling Star / Joker / Rainbow

★ Breakdance

★ Bumper cars or Dodgems

★ Carousels or Merry-go-round

★ Chair-O-Planes - swing ride

★ Chaos

★ Crazy shake

★ Cliffhanger / Kite Flyer / Fly Away

★ Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick

★ Dive bomber

★ Enterprise (also called Millennium)

★ Evolution

★ Flat Rides

★ Flying coaster (also called Ski Jump)

★ Freak Out

★ Funhouses

★ Fun Slide

★ Ghost train

★ Gravitron / Starship 2000

★ Saturn 6 / Hurricane / Downdraft

★ Helter Skelter or Slide

★ Jump and smile

★ Insanity

★ Kamikaze

★ Kiddie ride

★ KMG Afterburner (Fireball)

★ Matterhorn / Flying Bobs

★ Move-it

★ Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak

★ Orbiter

★ Octopus / Monster / Polyp / Spider

★ Paratrooper or Umbrella Ride / Force 10

★ Power Surge

★ Quasar (also called swing)

★ Reverse bungee

★ Ranger

★ Rock-O-Plane

★ Rotor

★ Round Up / Zero Gravity

★ Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball

★ Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist (also called Twister)

★ Simulator

★ Sky Wheel / Skywheel

★ Slingshot

★ Speed

★ Spin Out

★ Super star

★ Tagada (riders sit in a large bowl, in which it spins round and jolts about)

★ Tilt-A-Whirl

★ Tip-top (similar to a Paratrooper, but the ride sends passengers upside down)

★ Toboggan

★ Tornado

★ Train rides, "kiddie ride" type

★ Twin Flip

★ UFO

★ Waltzer

★ Wave Swinger

★ Whip

★ Wipeout / Trabant (also called Satellite and the Mexican Hat)

★ Yo-Yo

★ Zipper

Amusement ride manufactures

Most new amusement rides are innovations of one of the major amusement ride manufacturers, and in fact many ride types are virtually brand names for particular product line.
From time to time, individual rides are manufactured or reproduced by large engineering companies, but the major manufacturers in the history of amusement rides are:

★ Aero Affiliates (USA) ★ AMECO (USA) ★ A.R.M. (UK) - Turnagain ★ Arihant Industrial Corporation Ltd.INDIA [1] ★ Bakker ★ Bembom Rides (UK)[2] ★ Bennetts (UK) ★ Bertazzon (Italy/USA) [3] ★ Cadoxton (UK) ★ Chance Rides/Chance Morgan (USA)[4] ★ Church (UK) ★ Dartron Industries (USA)[5] ★ Eli Bridge (USA)[6] ★ Lee Eyerly (USA) ★ Far Fabbri (Italy) - Megadrop ★ Gosetto Rides (Italy) [7] ★ Gravity Works, Inc (USA)[8] ★ Great Coasters International (USA)[9] ★ Edwin Hall (UK) ★ Hayes Fabrication (UK) ★ Hindustan Amusement Machines (India) ★ Hopkins Amusement Rides (USA)[10] ★ HUSS Park Rides (Germany)[11] ★ Hrubetz ★ Intamin AG (Liechtenstein)[12] ★ Ital International (USA) [13] ★ Jacksons (UK) ★ Caspar Klaus (Germany) ★ KMG (Netherlands) - Kermis Machinebouw Gaasendam[14] ★ L & T Systems Amusement Rides (USA)[15] ★ Lang Wheels (UK) ★ Larson International (USA)[16] ★ Lusse Company (UK) ★ Mack Rides (Germany) [17] ★ Maurer Söhne (Germany) [18] ★ Maxwells (UK) ★ Mondial Rides (Netherlands) [19] ★ Moser Rides (Italy)[20] ★ Mundial Park(Spain)

★ Norson Power (UK) ★ Owen Trailers (USA) [21] ★ Premier Rides (USA)[22] ★ Protech ★ Pollards (UK) ★ PWS (UK) ★ Reverchon Industries (France)[23] ★ Rollercoaster Corporation of America (USA) ★ Ronald Bussink Professional Rides (Switzerland)[24] ★ S&S Power Inc (USA)[25] - Arrow Dynamics ★ Safeco (Spain) ★ Sally Corp (USA)[26] ★ Sartori Rides Int'l Group (Italy)[27] - Claudio Sartori ★ SBF Rides (Italy)[28] ★ Anton Schwarzkopf (Germany) ★ Sellner Manufacturing Co (USA)[29] ★ Smart Amusements Co (Australia) [30] ★ Sobema ★ Soli s.r.l. (Italy)[31] ★ Sonacase (UK) [32] - Monty Hammond ★ Soriani ★ Joe and Perrin Stevens (UK) ★ Superides International (UK) [33] ★ Sywell Fabrications (Britain) - Henry Thurston ★ Technical Park (Italy) [34] ★ Thrilltime, Inc ★ Tivoli Enterprises (UK) - Richard Woolls ★ Top Fun (Italy) [35] ★ Traver (US) (bought by Ralph E. Chambers in the 1930s) ★ Vekoma (Netherlands)[36] ★ Wards (UK) ★ White Water West Industries (Canada) [37] ★ Wisdom Rides (USA)[38] ★ Zamperla (Italy)[39] ★ Zierer (Germany)[40]

See also

★ Amusement parks

★ Amusement park accidents

★ List of Amusement Parks

★ Architectural structure

★ Closed rides and attractions

References

★ UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.

★ fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.

External links

★ A list of amusement ride patents, with links to the U.S. Patent office

★ Classification of Amusement parks

★ ''Flying Turns - Resurrecting a Legend''. 2007 documentary by Storytellers Media Group about Flying Turns construction at Knoebels Amusement Resort