Picture of the week

Kent_M · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject:

Warp 10 / 2000 was a portable ride (Huss Troika) and was mounted on a trailer. The steel loading platform was sloped toward the center high enough to conceal the trailer wheels and frame underneath.

When the ride was first bought, they had originally planned to put it in a different location but decided instead to put it up front where the AstroWheel had recently been removed to help fill the big empty space it left behind.

A few years later when they moved it to its new home across the Park, they constructed a concrete pit to place the trailer in so that the base of the ride would sit closer to the ground. They did this for two main reasons: First, to make the ride look more like a permanent, park-model ride, and second, because the sloped steel platform could get very slippery when wet or with a small amount of leaked hydraulic oil on it. I am sure they wanted to reduce the liklihood of dizzy folks getting off the ride and slipping on the platform...

Mike Robinson · Site Admin Joined: 12 Mar 2002 Posts: 4184

I remember that, even when just wet that platform was slippery. Anyone remember the light package that was on Warp 2000 when it was installed?

It was beautiful but unfortunately some guest unscrewed a bulb, stuck his finger in the socket and was electrocuted during the 84 season senior night.

CPR was administered and the guy made it but the lights were removed.

I think that was the first Signal 1 I heard over the radio.