King Chaos New Cycle

[monsterfan99]

^Condor also has one as well. It involves the spinning stopping at the top for a few seconds if I remember right.

[traincrossing9]

Don't forget that Chubasco gets turned into Terror Twister 2. I don't think the ride cycle changes (maybe a little longer?) but i'd consider it a Fright Fest mode.

[DBru]

I've never ridden an actual, standard top spin. However, I LOVED both The Crypt at KI (well, not with its latest cycle, but...) and Riptide/Cliffhanger at Canada's Wonderland, so I'm really looking forward to experiencing King Chaos when I visit SFGAm for the first time on October 3rd.

I checked out some videos on Youtube, and based solely on those, I think the Fright Fest cycle looks WAY more tame than the usual one. With the standard program, the series of flipping action looks pretty intense and exciting, while in the Fright Fest version, it seems that the gondola is locked for most of the cycle, meaning that there isn't a single free-flipping moment.

If anyone here can offer up more discussion about this, it would be really cool. Flat ride-wise, this is pretty much what I'm looking forward to the most.

[Goku1910]

It goes higher and faster

I didn't know those arms could extend to make it go higher!

[Ilovthevu']

I think King Chaos and Revolution are the only ones with different cycles. Mostly because They're carnival models, and are easy to change.

No, they aren't carnival models. Carnival models have trucks underneath them. The only carnival rides I can think of that come completely off of a truck are the Eyerly Spider, and the Sellner Tilt-A-Whirl. Every other carnival ride you see, there is a truck or 2 trucks underneath the ride. Even the Yo-Yo rides you see at Six Flags like Magic Mountain, St. Louis, or Over Texas are permament installations instead of their being a truck underneath the ride.

Really, Condor is the ride that could have come from a Europe carnival, and that's about all I can think of at our park from a carnival. No carnival in the US would have a ride like Condor though. For the Top Spin, I believe that Fabbri has made one that carnivals have bought for the road though in the US! There are no Frisbree carnival rides in the US though I don't think. In Europe, yes but those are carnival models as in having a truck to go with them, and not just put into the ground.

"FRISBEE is available as road model trailermounted or park model to be installed on a concrete base."

I think your point though was that just because they are "carnival rides", they can do whatever they want with them. For a roller coaster, the same thing applies with them wanting to add trims when the company that installed them originally didn't have them. They sometimes slow the chainlift speed also like Intimidator. They sometimes get new harnesses for rides like Intimidator had certain ones, and they get different ones. There was a Vekoma boomerang in which they got different harnesses for that. I have seen roller coasters run multiple cycles in a row compared to the typical 1. They can change the roller coasters wheels to make it go faster.

For carnival models of rides like the Revolution in the US, I would say the closest rides there are to that type of ride are the Venture Scat, Gravitron / Starship, and Zero Gravity / Round-Up. In my opinion, Scat beats all of them including Revolution.

[FParker185]

Condor is a road model as is King Chaos. Park models don't have the water ballast tanks on the sides. Revolution is in fact a park model. Programs are pretty easy to change all around weather a ride be road or park model, though most large portable flat rides are manually operated.

[CoasterNick3157]

King Chaos this year fright fest is lame.

[Necropolis]

Im glad King Chaos has a new cycle. Out of all these years Ive been going to SFGAM I finally rode King Chaos for the first time opening day of Fright Fest. I actually was able to handle it. I could ride it again. The water looked more like pepto bismol than blood though. haha. It looks intense but when I rode it, it was fine. The ride did stop spinning right when I was about to get sick. Whew. Just in time!

[scott2608]

Got stuck on king chaos today for 5 min at the top at least not upside down. No exit pass for getting stuck went to guess services and they said that we we were not stuck long enough now my shoulders are killing me.
I can't stand this administration it cost them nothing to give skip line passes, I got one yesterday when I was stuck on demon.

Also there not running the fright fest cycle this year, I like that cycle much better.

ADMINISTRATOR EDIT: Do NOT try to probe for employee or executives emails in this forum.

Oops sorry I didn't mean to probe was just asking sorry.

[stockboy300]

I was disappointed that it was not different. At least Revolution was different.

[Johnny.Ink]

I agree Stockboy.

I really found Revolution so much more fun during fright fest...

[scott2608]

^ I didn't like it the first time I was on it the first week, but I did like the second time on Columbus day.

OK lets get this back on topic KING CHAOS.

[Necropolis]

So how do they set up or program the cycle? Or does the ride operator control how long it goes for or how many spins it gets in one ride? Im really curious.

[DejaVu2001]

^ There are preset cycles. Maintenance can select cycles in the electrical room. The ride operator controls nothing except starting the ride, and occasionally stopping the ride early for various reasons.

[scott2608]

^ I tried to explain this to a guy with his son on revolution at fright fest but he didn't believe me he thinks that when the OP said you want to go higher and faster that the OP did something to make go faster, I continued to tell him it is a program that is set by maintenance for fright fest and the OP has no control other than starting the ride, he ignore me and told his son what he was thinking.
Whats up with the GP these days?

[Necropolis]

People are stubborn and will do anything the get their way. Its just childish themes among the GP...THAT and complaining to get things for free. Sorry had to vent for a bit. But oh well. I wouldn't let it get to you. You'll prolly never see those people again or even never remember them either. No offense but there a lot of white trash that go to the park. Just something I noticed...Im not racist or anything but its kind of hard not to notice the kind of people that go to the park to visit.