Shot and Drop Towers Information and history - Flat Ride Of The Week 15
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Some of the most fun drop towers in the world, who invented them and do they still see success?
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S&S tower with a non locking restraint: ruclips.net/video/w-krkHQjyLM/видео.html
I have a "fun" story about one of these rides.
Mirabilandia, Italy:,
They build the "Twin Towers" and open them to the public around 2000, 2001.
Then 9/11 happened.
So they changed the name to Columbia, like the Space Shuttle, around 2002.
Then the Columbia accident happened.
It took them a lot of years to change the name and theme again, and now they're the "Oil Towers" and they adapted to the surrounding zone.
I know It's off topic, but it came to my mind just today, plus those two towers are fantastic, I made them both and I felt amazing, even if one of them makes an extremely loud noise when you reach the top and It's very unpleasing.
God really hates Mirabilandia.
That is tough
🤦🏻♀️😬Super interesting! Thanks for sharing!
The bad luck with those names, though. 😂
They must of named them "six flags new orleans" after 2004
Can’t wait until we are able to go to parks again
Steelers Nation the parks are gonna be super busy😂
@@wag1mybrudda387 idk man... People are missing cancer screenings/treatments, child vaccinations, and not going to the ER for real reasons like strokes and heart attacks out of fear of the virus... I don't think they'll be flocking to crowded spaces even when they're allowed to, for awhile at least.
That means no lines!
Bryan Liguori that works in our favour then doesn’t it😂 unlimited rides here I come
Saaaame. I hope things open this summer cause I plan on going to Ohio to visit a possible university choice and hopefully visit Cedar Point.
Apparently at Marineland, If you ask nicely or if they're holding an event, they'll put the tower in "elevator mode" to get a good view of the falls.
We’ve done that at detonator, except it was because of the investigation regarding the time the guy climbed a tower at Knott’s
Double Shot (especially the one at Playland’s Castaway Cove) is my favorite ride of all time. I remember one time when I visited Castaway Cove it was out of service but I got to watch the maintenance man standing on the gondola and rise to the top of the tower. I commend his bravery lol.
omg i operate a double shot at my local park! glad you like it :)
I saw that too. Kaitlin Olson and Glenn Howerton got to ride it like that while filming _It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ in OC. They were in the actual seats instead of on top of the vehicle. Of course, they did do the full cycle too.
These videos really help us community know more on rides.
Can You please make a zipper flat ride of the week because I love these
What happened to you having like 10,000 subscribers
You are growing so fast
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1:52 The term you want to describe here is called "Terminal Velocity"
The first Space Shot was at Reino Aventura in Mexico City. When Six Flags bought the lease in 2000 and renovated the park, Space Shot was removed and replaced by 3 Combo Towers called Kilauea.
My local theme park just fired everyone because of coronavirus.
Scotland has zero theme parks now. ):
I wonder if the ones in England will survive.
Yeah, didn't there used to be an S&S tower at Loudoun Castle before it shut?
It looks like Lightwater Valley could be on the chopping block next.
@@kylethemadman1 yeah it used to be the lucozade space shot. It was better than ice blast and volcano from what I've heard. As of 2019 it's no longer at the park so I wonder if it'll ever return. We also lost hyper blaster at pleasure island. And that apparently was sold to somewhere in the uk
Depending on where exactly you live, you might do like my sister and fly over to Germany to visit one of ours, and it might actually be cheaper than taking a train down to England.
Phantasialand near Cologne comes highly recommended.
@@Atlessa I love the mystery castle, it’s the only attraction world wide where I got a little bit of fear, that’s why it’s my favorite attraction in general. U should check it out, but it’s a special version of the ones from intamin bungee tower, so don’t wonder if u don’t see a tower like in the ones in the video.
But it don’t like it that they changed the lighting, so the light doesn’t flash anymore and u don’t know how high u are, when u aren’t on the top or see the emergency lights above the exits. And I don’t like that it’s so loud at the bottom when u shoot up.
Actually, I think s&s towers aren’t allowed in Germany, cause the safety standards aren’t high enough.
I’ve been on the double shot model in Santa Cruz Ca plenty of times, that one specifically is actually 125 feet tall. It’s easily my favorite ride at the boardwalk. After you launch to the top the tower shoots you back down, I love how it’s not just a free fall. And you always get amazing airtime on your decent and I love how you get 2 every ride. It’s hard for me to decide if I like the S&S towers or the Intamin free fall towers more, they both have different but really fun ride experiences.
There is a drop tower called "Scream" at Heide Park in Germany. It features seats that, once you are at the top, tilt forward so you face the ground, with is decorated with nasty looking (but of course fake) spears and spikes before dropping you. Been on it. Did NOT expect the seats to tilt!
Scream at Heide Park (as well as "The High Fall" at Movie Park Germany) is an Intamin Gyro Drop Tower, they can tilt up to 15°.
However, there are other tilting freefall towers (even in Germany).
"Donnerbalken" (a German expression for an outhouse) at Tripsdrill (a park themed to 19th century Swabia) built by Bear/Bartholet can tilt up to 30° (but it's like 15m tall so the tilting kinda is the main gimmick)
Haha that's awesome
@@rctrulez Scream at Heide does _not_ tilt.
One of my favorite FROTWs so far!
Love your channel. So glad RUclips suggested it to me. Thanks!
I am happy u did these rides since I am a ride operator and I have worked the combo tower for an entire season. we actually have a combo tower with a 12 seat arrangement and u r definitely right about walk of shames, I can’t count how many times I was in that situation
My favourite channel for ride info thanks for posting yet again and producing another great video
Given that I am not a tower expert by any means, but I always thought the prototype and original Space Shot that opened was located in Wisconsin Dells, then it was moved to I-Drive in Orlando. The original Turbo Drop used to operate at Buffalo Bills. I have ridden two Turbo Drops that were actually very forceful. The one at Jazzland (which I believe is now on the east coast) and opening year for Supreme Scream at Knott's. Great ride! The Huss version I rode at Oakwood was terrible, besides a nice little drop moment during the last twenty-feet or so of the ride cycle.
interesting, yea I had a really hard time finding out what was the first of these towers to be made so you could very well be right.
@@CoasterCollege @SeanFlaharty
Actually you're both right. I had the priveledge of operating Scream at FT for quite a few years and then another few years training team members on the rides policies, procedures, and history.
Scream at Fiesta Texas was in fact a prototype model - what made it a prototype was that the rides control system was the first in the world to offer "combo mode" which allowed guests to experience turbo drop mode and space shot mode during the same ride cycle. The controls also allow each individual tower to independently be switched from Combo mode to Turbo Drop mode and/or to Space Shot mode.
Prior to this specific towers installation in 1999 all other towers would only be designed to operate on Turbo Drop mode, or on Space Shot mode (a rare few parks did have the ability to toggle between the two but did not have the ability to combine the two experiences).
I work at detonator at world's of fun and I can say that is a fun ride to operate.
Funny thing about Lake Compounce's DownTime: It originally had the seat belts installed in 2019 and they were removed in 2022 and they changed to go with the bumpy ratcheting option.
I am always looking forward to these flat ride videos! And can you please do a video on superloop type rides?
I love the sounds of these rides as well some are louder then others
I rode both of the ones at Ferrari Land, and they were really fun, I can't remember which one I liked more, but I know I really preferred one to the other, I remember them not being too aggressive, as they are larger models, but I liked the shot at the bottom, which delivered a good kick of positive force.
Watching these is very satisfying
Thank you for the clearance on these towers! I come to find them pretty scary, especially when they're out in the open. I wonder if you know about the mystery castle (as far as I read an Intamin tower) in Phantasialand in Germany! I absolutely love it and I think that's solely due to the fact that it's not out in the open :D Also you're not suspended on the outside of the tower but on the inside of a real tower housing so the riders kind of face each others. The whole ride happens in the dark but is accompanied by some light in the ceiling of the tower and occasional lights. It's really scary seeing the ceiling come closer as it does. Also it seemingly shoots you down instead of just dropping you with up to 1,5G. :)
The remove the flashing light on top of the station and know u can’t see so much like before, when u are not at the top :((
it’s less scary know. But from the theme is with the towers of terror the best themed ones! So the should check out.
I used to be a ride mechanic at King's Island and am a huge enthusiast. Feel free to contact me if you need any information on thrill rides. Drop Zone was one of my rides and I can tell ya anything you want to know about it. I loved being at too with the see-through grated floor. The feeling of the gondola dropping while you were at top is indescribable! Tomb Raider/Crypt was another of mine. Love the Huss Top Spins!
Tony Amdi Hey do you have any pics of how the drop towers work? Like the machine room! Thanks!
@@taylorherr3708 Unfortunately, this was kinda before camera phones were widely used (2002-2005), But it's pretty simple. two giant winches are up top of the tower that raise and lower the catch car. The catch car would lower down to the gondola and the latch "dog" would engage via a pneumatic cylinder. The catch car would raise to the top. After a few seconds, the pneumatic cylinder would pull in releasing the gondola. The gondola itself contains many rare earth magnets. The magnets would go through the white fins on the side which were different alloys depending on the phase. Some were aluminium, silver, copper, etc alloy. All were non-ferrous metals. When a magnet goes through certain metals, it causes an eddy current to develop inherently rejecting the magnetism creating the slowdown
I have yet to ride a drop tower, although one of my friends almost got me to go on one at the fair last year.
I might just try it now
love your vids
I've ridden ice blast, supreme scream, volcano, big shot, and dr dooms. I really like these. Some are absolutely insane. And some... are unfortunate less interesting
8:33 The Ballistic Tower must be the only ride of this kind that can both shoot riders downwards as well as drop them like any regular freefall ride!
There was one time, in a long time ago, At Dollywood mystery mine, A kid scream and they shut down the ride, I don't know why, Can you find out?
Fun fact; in 1999 Six Flags Fiesta Texas became home to the first two combo towers every built by S&S, they were the first two towers to use both the turbo drop and space shot mode in the same ride cycle AND are easily able to switch between drop mode, shot mode, and combo mode, if ever necessary.
The ride opened on March 13th of 1999 but the rides dual function made it such a popular attraction that the wait time in line would average between three to five hours and due to this extreme popularity the towers were temporarily shut down just barely a month and a half after opening as the company immediately invested in adding a third tower to the attraction. The third tower was completed in one of the fastest installations I've ever heard of - all three towers were operational and open to the public on May 28th of 1999.
You're welcome. :)
Oh so when it was two towers they both operated as Combo Towers? I have a photo of when the ride was new and the third tower was there, only to support the structure a la Rocket or Dominator.
@@212ElevatorsSo far as I know, yes. The third tower was initially just a support component - but as aforementioned having three to five hour lines just for the ride is a pretty good cause for a temporary closure to install the necessary components into/onto said support tower and transform it into a working ride. Well worth it in my opinion - I mean when the rides fully staffed with efficient operators it can be pretty easy to hit the rides theoretical hourly capacity of 900 riders per hour (300 per tower).
As for the ride operating in combo mode in it's opening year? I personally did not get to visit the park in that year, but in my past experience working at the park - I was always taught to train team members with primary focal points on safety, efficiency, hospitality, ride statistics as well as components, and finally on ride history.
Over the years I've found that management at the park has always aimed to give the best overall experience to guests which in this case means giving the best of both worlds by keeping them all set on combo mode. It's actually extremely rare to see them operate in Drop mode only or even in Launch mode only. In 13 years I've only seen one of the three towers operating in Launch mode for an accumulative entirety of about one month, and have never seen any of them operating only on drop mode.
@@lancedawalga4268 For that VR event they did in 2017, they ran in Turbo Drop mode. Their ascent nowadays is actually a bit slower than most S&S towers. Nowadays I think S&S should do something regarding these towers, as their shots only make it about 3/4 up the tower.
Some of the information in this video is just crazy!! 👀 I get nervous with drop towers lol
been on the legendary seat at Indiana beach... yeah, it was literally just the seat-belt holding it down... best ride on a double shot I ever had.
I can't stop watching your videos but I'm not really complaining :)))
The one at Action Park was relocated to Six Flags
I've only ridden the Huss one by now, but I conceived it to be rather intense.
We have the original space shot in Finland at Linnanmäki, Helsinki. It's great
Hey my man love the content and live about 40 minutes away from cedar point. was wondering if they are still planning on opening this year? want to go with my friends so BAD and say hi :)
The Intamin Drop Towers can also be customized. In my „home park“ Phantasialand a customized and fully themed Intamin Bungee Drop Tower is located. Its called Mystery Castle, was built in 1997 and ist abolutely stunning!
i operate a double shot type ride called the “brain drain” at my local park. the amount of guests i have to ask to leave because the restraint was too small is too many, its honestly heartbreaking. but honestly other than that, super fun ride to operate
Yes blast off at Darien lake gave crazy airtime until 2019. It was closed half of the year to add the new seatbelt but they also killed most of the airtime, I was very disappointed with my first ride after the modifications
Millennium Force Man That’s a shame
Coldplay 325 my home park always neuters and gets rid of the best flat rides so I guess I’m used to it, we used to have an insane top spin that got removed
Millennium Force Man I’m happy my home park still has a Top Spin
Coldplay 325 it ain’t as intense as the one that existed at Darien lake
ok that’s weird, none of the options you mentioned for S&S are on the Hellevator at Playland in Vancouver, BC. glad I’m not able to fit on it anymore.
Dust My Broom didn’t see the seatbelt or hear the ratcheting part either, and I know they didn’t change the restraint to that first option when I went last August for the PNE, but when it eventually opens up again I’ll check.
The Double Shot Towers are more insane the ejector airtime really makes them more fun
The sound of Adventureland's Space Shot hissing and pumping is a huge part of my childhood. I don't care for rides like that, but dang if those sounds don't bring back great memories.
The only drop tower i did in my life is an intamin 2nd gen freefall around 40 meters high at Gardaland, my home park. I would love to ride the oil towers at mirabilandia considering it's not so far away from my house but I'm only 12 years old so i can't decide. Awesome video by the way!
Fun story:
So, I live in Lake Charles, LA and every year around May there is a pirate festival called Contraband and it lasts for several weeks. It was my mother, her friend, my younger sister, her friend, my friend, and me. There was this tower ride(I dont remember the name) and I never rode it before. I am terrified of heights which makes riding rollercoasters hard. I didn't want to go alone my sister's friend went with me (my friend was too scared). So the operator straps us in, checks to make sure we're secured, and we're SLOWLY lifted up. About halfway up I start to panic at how high we are and I just remember wishing they would drop us now. So I look up at the ride to see if we were getting close to the top. The instant I look up to see the top of the ride it drops us. I clench my eyes shut and scream to the top of my lungs. Once the ride reaches the point where it catches us by slowing down, I'm a hysterical mess. I'm crying, and breathing really fast and all the while my mom, her friend, my younger sister, and my friend are rolling with laughter at my reaction. But in the end it was fun, I did enjoy the drop even though it scared the crap out of me.
Double shot is what I have at my local park. It’s so fun!! When I first went on it I was talking with some ppl and they said the scariest part is the waiting to be shot up. And boy were they right.
Where’s the video at 9:14?
I mean, I wouldn't know where to put them, but Disney's(Otis) Tower of terror? For me is the most thrilling of the drop towers, at least the one in Paris. Cool video!
Both Tower of Terror rides in the US are great.
I live in Higashinari-Ku, Osaka Whats the best flat ride around my ways you would say?
12:03 The combo towers at SFOT and SFFT have ladders inside the steel frame.
I've always thought it was cool that S&S is based out of my current college town of Logan Utah.
I’m actually early for once. Kinda. Lol but one hour ago! For me the time would of been 6:30 am.
Superman Tower of Power At Six Flags Over Texas and Power Tower at Cedar Point are the coolest looking ones
If I remember correctly, Superman Tower of Power SFOT is the tallest ride of its kind in N. America.
The ones that bounce are personally less of an adrenaline rush, if you’re in SoCal the best ones are Supreme Scream at Knotts and Lex Luther Drop of Doom at magic mountain.
The first one i went one was the double shot, and it has been the last for quite a while now.
I am proud to be operating the first Shot and drop tower detonator
Neat
The prototype of the S&S Space Shot is now at Magical Midway in Orlando.
Imagine one of these at 400 Feet
Who makes the shot tower at Hershypark? It was by far my favorite out of the few that I have ridden.
Its a modern S&S tower!
Detonator was the first S&S SS. The one for Action Park in 96, compared to 95.
Orbit at La Ronde actually gives crazy air time, way stronger than the air time hills on Goliath (B&M hyper) in my opinion. I've been on 3 other shot towers last year and I was so disappointed.
My home park has the original version of the space shot
There was/is a shot and drop on the German Fair, called Power Tower 2 and was/is owned by Schneider. I dont know of it is still traveling or where it whent. Maurer & Söhne build it. Apperandly it is called a free fall, but has it deffenatly shot and droped you. The gonel is suspender and puld down by cabbels, so in my eyes its not a complete free fall, I think? I whent on it in München a few year back and it was deffenatly fun!
It's sadly sold to Mellors and is now in Saudi-Arabia. It's not really a freefall but not a Shot n Drop either, I'd say something in between. I'm pretty sure I quickly mentioned it in the Flat Ride of the Week Episode 3.
I rode it in Luxembourg 3 years ago, it was really good, I wish I could ride it again one day.
Dude maitainance has balls of steel
where can i go to find what inversions a coaster has?
Rcdb.com
Has B&M made any flat rides or designed them in the past?
They have not made any that I am aware of.
your Indiana beach story- *NONE* of the seats lock. it also pulls some of the best airtime on a double shot.
What do you think of lightning rod at dolly wood?
I rode the one in the intro :)
The middle tower on the hershey triple towers has GREAT airtime! tbh it seems like the gs are kinda close to the ones on the cvrazy chinese one you showed video of
Miney Thora That one in China looks absolutely mental it looked sped up at first
@@ThrillsofColdplay ye
You forgot to also mention about S&S's rotating option or the 20 seat configuration.
You should do a video on action park.
I rode Liberty Launch at holiday world and I had an accelerometer in my pocket that read -1.4g on the top of the first launch.
Sweet
I think I have only ridden one of these, Its the dr doom free fall at islands of adventure. The launch up was fun and the bouncing was boring. It was too short though. Ive seen 2 other S&S drop towers but i was hoping you could tell me what model the skyline scream is at american dream and the hershey triple towers ar hersheypark
Both are S&S towers, not exactly sure what model.
The Hershey tower at Hersheypark is a Rotating Tower model. The other two are either Space Shot, Double Shot, Turbo Drop, or Combo Tower model.
@@titan_thrills It actually isn’t. The rotation is _optional._
Wanted to share this
When I was 15 I rode the sky screamer at six flags fiesta texas. One of the ride operates pulled my belt and it came out and just stuck it back in. I got REALLY WORRIED. When the ride started I checked my belt and it came out so I was 99 feet in the air with NO RESTRAINTS on a swing. If the ride had went backwords I would have flown out easy. I was screaming for my damn life and so was the person next to me becuase we had no idea what to do sooooo we just screamed. When the ride stopped I just ran away crying and didn't tell the ride operater and felt bad that someone else couldve gotten hurt if I didnt speak up
I noticed that you did not include the drop towers that are added to the coasters such as Lex Luther and the ones on dragthrill racer..
Those are a different type of drop tower, they were covered in the mentioned FROTW episode 3.
I personally prefer a Fabbri Mega Drop. The one in Australia pulls -5.5G and goes 0-204km/h in 1.8 seconds :D
I thought the one at the top of the Tower in Las Vegas was the first. Worlds of Fun was the first twin structure.
Host a coaster game show like what you did in your old debunk live streams
These are the only rides I won’t go on anymore I just hate the feeling I get when it drops!
There is a drop tower in myrtle beach that only operates with a seat belt no other restraints it is fun best and scariest drop tower ever recommend it in the loop did a video on it the guy who took the video said it was the scariest drop tower he rode
I feel like I'm going to die every time I ride a drop tower, which is why I love them.
Exactly, so much fun!
I wish it was possible the bigger ones gave airtime like the smaller ones
what is Dr dooms fear fall . its a launch tower, right?
I think it's a Space Shot.
Yep!
I think the s&s towers are banned in Germany like a few other s&s products, due to safety concerns. (I am not one hundred percent sure, but 90%)
I think the wheels themselves and the plastic stoppers for security, if a wheel brakes, can’t be allowed by the German TÜV. As well as the old restraints without the safety belt and how the gondola was put together in general. Don’t look to close at them from an german engineering perspective, if u are about to ride them hahaha
i believe the wheels on the double shot are just to keep the gondola centered and to prevent a lot of movement (cause itll move a bit if guests are kicking their feet lol)
Ocean city nj has a double shot and I know because they didn’t change the name or theming it’s just called double shot
My fav is doctor doom
That’s definitely the coolest looking one
been on double shot my hole life in ocean city nj
Wowie
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-1g is not freefall, that's 0g.
Since you doubted the -1g I guess you ment that S&S claimed -1 when the actual value was 0g/freefall.
Btw: What about the Intamin/Ride Trade "Ballistic Drop Tower" (Mystery Castle at Phantasialand, Germany)?
I like the ride and theming, but that thing feels really forceless.
The model used inside Mystery Castle was called Bungee Drop by Intamin. I don't think they ever built more than the 8 units used there. It can definitely accelerate downwards faster than freefall.
g is a unit of acceleration, so 0 g would be 0 acceleration. Normal freefall acceleration is 1 g, that's where we get the unit "g" from. The weird part is the negative sign; a force in the opposite direction still has positive magnitude to me 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe the company wanted to imply the ride is powered on the way down too, to upsell its coolness, so they made "and then it comes back down" into "-1 g" as a euphemism.
Intamin and Larson have the best drop towers
First time I rode one of these it broke down on me 😂
I dont even think keansburg has the new restraints for the double shot drop tower
do The Zipper
Why did coronavirus have to hit the year Great Escape gets Adirondack Outlaw. We were finally getting a new exciting ride, and then boom china says sike bitch.
What if S&S could be hired to build a Multi Complex Tower with 5 or 6 Towers!? 5 OR 6!