Flying Turns CONFIRMED coming to Knoebel's

[Imeanbusiness]

Honestly I allways thought the park should renovate County Fair and give it a Riverview theme, and put a Riverview Clone in at the location of Splash Water Falls.

[FParker185]

I think the Revere Beach Lightning looked far crazier, especially the trick track

[BP317]

A quick update, 4 years later this ride is still not open and appears to be just sitting there. It looks like they are having some major difficulties figuring out how how to get it to safely sustain operation and recently put an update on their website that says there is still no scheduled time for it to open and it will not open until they are sure it can safely operate.

[Paradise]

Why even attempt to start a project, that you don't know will work safely? LOL

[david]

So what is the problem with Flying Turns?

[Coaster Justin]

^ 2 Parts of the Ride.


1- Anything

2- Everything

[monsterfan99]

Or they realized the ride was never safe by today's standards.

[Luxornv]

Or they realized the ride was never safe by today's standards.

Yeah, I'm not sure how closely they tried to keep this to the one from Riverview, but one of the problems Riverview had with it was they had to continually reinforce the turns with more studs since the wooden boards kept warping. They had added so much to it that it began to look like a caterpillar and even renamed it as such. Of course that came after years of operation and probably has nothing to do at all with what is currently wrong with this ride.

[BP317]

The Flying Turns is still sitting there and not operating. Knoebels website is advertising the new/relocated coaster dark ride Black Diamond as their new ride for 2011 and no mention of the Flying Turns anywhere. RCDB still has the coaster listed as under construction.

[monsterfan99]

Almost to the 5 years anniversary of when construction started on the ride. During that time

- Hard Rock Park was designed, built, open and closed twice.
- Children born at the same time will be entering pre-school
- 34 Majors coasters in the US have opened
- Knobels itself has removed 1 coaster and added 2 more

[FParker185]

As of Jan, Rick Knoebel said they were waiting on a new set of chassis, they were hopeful to begin testing again early this year. Not positive but I think I remember him saying they brought in Steve Okomoto to work on the design of this set, hopefully he works something out.

Knoebels is definitely in over their head on this one, the problems on the originals are to numerous to list, let alone now with modern ASTM standards. Even after they get it working, assuming they do, it's going to be a maintenance nightmare, it's going to be a giant black hole right in the middle of their budget sheets. So if it does happen to open to the public at some point, make it a point to ride it asap.

I heard a year or 2 ago there were already enormous gouges in the trough just from testing, I know on the originals the inside of the trough was painted, and they actually would repaint parts of the inside of the trough every single night to help cut down on wear and tear. The train would wear the paint rather than the hard to replace lumber, and still it cost a fortune annually rebuilding the trough. I'm really surprised Knoebels built this in the first place.