Yearly reminder that this thing existed

you know this is the kind of attraction that runs perfectly for 2 months and then constantly breaks down every two weeks until it eventually closes down, but is never replaced

We need to bring back these classic death machines.

It looks cool but I bet it'd not be as exciting to ride in legit... Cool concept though, it rocks the track to move the coasters saving tons of engineering for driving them.

to be fair this was like late 1800's early 1900's no one gave a shit about safety for rides.

Early rollercoasters were insane. Some had nurses at the loading platform because broken collar bones were not unusual. The Flip Flap Railway roller coaster at Coney Island 100 years ago put 12 Gs on the riders. Today’s rollercoasters are in the 4-6 G range.

...why was there an elephant wandering around?

Now that's a clever contraption.

Wish this was still around so I could see people argue if it’s a credit

I wonder what life altering traumatic accident accured to make them take this down and never even revisit it in future coaster designs

casual elephant strolling by at 0:15

still has more than 1 train on too. what a people eater.

A roller coaster Trabant!

These things look tame by today's standards but the big difference is that when you were in one of those machines you honestly didn't know if it would fall apart at any moment. They creaked and groaned and shook like crazy.

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Visually breathtaking, but the ride experience looks quite lackluster, even for it's time.

I was on it , Coney Island

And they got rid of it because it was considered boring. Pretty crazy

This thing looks like a maintenance nightmare. I can't even imagine how often it broke apart and needed stuff to be tightened down constantly from working itself loose.

When I was a kid they called this the tilted whirl.

We still own and operate this daily

Sometimes I kinda wish a modern-day manufacturer would revive some of these old concepts. Stuff like this or the Virginia Reel

The Scenic Spiral Railway, also known as The Top, operated at Luna Park in Coney Island between approximately 1917 and 1921. —Gemini

It's why we put the first footsteps on the Moon.

Fun!

50年位前に乗った仙臺・八木山の老朽ジェットコースターも、いつ脱線してもおかしくないほどガタが来ていて、ありゃあ怖かったなあ

WANT!!!!

looks like a maintenance/operations nightmare but it's gorgeous to look at🥹reminds me of zamperla's nebulaz in that way

Wow, awesome!

The world before lawyers forced everything to be made for idiots.

Seeing beautiful buildings, Christianity ✝️ and having fun are the things the globalists love to destroy, the contemporain world is all about keeping us in a depressing state.

Cool, centrifugal force powers the cars

18 seconds in huge Tartarian buildings in background