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October 2010 AMUSEMENT TODAY 11

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AMUSEMENT PARKS

FEC’S ATTRACTIONS RESORTS ENTERTAINMENT

SUPPLIERS

BRIEF

Swing Time!

Six Flags St. Louis adding

Funtime StarFlyer in 2011

Cedar Fair adding Mondial

WindSeekers to four parks

PHOTO COURTESY SIX FLAGS ST. LOUIS

Six Flags St. Louis plans to add SkyScreamer, a 236-foot-

tall Funtime StarFlyer swing ride, for the 2011 season. The

ride will seat thirty-two guests in open-air swings and re-

volve high above the park at 43 mph.

RENDERINGS COURTESY

CEDAR FAIR

For the 2011 season, Cedar

Fair will introduce 30-sto-

ry-tall Mondial WindSeeker

swing rides to four of its

properties – Cedar Point,

Kings Island, Knott's Berry

Farm and Canada's Won-

derland. The rides will each

seat 64 riders and cost $5

million.

South Carolina's

Riverbanks Zoo

hosts Spook-tacular

Family-friendly Hal-

loween festivities return to

South Carolina's Riverbanks

Zoo this month with Boo at

the Zoo. The annual spook-

tacular opens on Oct. 15,

and runs nightly October 15

– 17 and Oct. 22 – 30.

During the 12 wild

nights, Riverbanks will hand

out more than 200,000 pieces

of candy to costumed chil-

dren as they stop at the 16

stations along Trick-or-Treat

Trail.

“Boo at the Zoo offers

families a fun and safe al-

ternative to neighborhood

trick-or-treating,” said

Lochlan Baskin, events man-

ager at Riverbanks Zoo and

Garden.

In addition to the candy,

Boo-goers will rock the night

away at the Mummy’s Eeky-

Freaky DJ Dance Party, frolic

in a sea of suds at Franken-

stein’s Foam Zone and watch

in wonder as magician Ray

Hardee performs his Moon-

light Magic. Other activities

include a nightly costume

parade, Creepy Creature En-

counters, and the Mysteri-

ous Maze.

Boo at the Zoo will run

from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on each

of the scheduled evenings.

Tickets to the event must be

purchased in advance and

are $6 for Riverbanks mem-

bers and $8 for the general

public. Boo tickets can be

purchased online at www.

riverbanks.org.

Six Flags St. Louis ofcials

have conrmed plans to give

their guests more to scream

about in 2011 with the intro-

duction of SkyScreamer. Sup-

plied by Funtime of Dolsach,

Austria, the StarFlyer type

ride will join the park’s lineup

of thrill rides as it takes guests

236 feet above the ground

with their feet dangling. Sky-

Screamer will be the tallest

ride in the park and reside in

the Illinois section near the

Screamin’ Eagle.

Thirty-two guests will

board the ride and sit two-

abreast in open-air swings as

they climb to the top of the

SkyScreamer tower while re-

volving at speeds of 43 mph.

At full swing, guests will soar

in a 98-foot circle with the rest

of the park far below. By day,

they will have a bird’s eye

view for miles around. During

the evenings, SkyScreamer will

be highly visible as its lighted

arms whirl above the park.

“We are always searching

for new and unique attractions

that offer a broad appeal,” said

Dave Roemer, president of Six

Flags St. Louis. “SkyScreamer

brings yet another new expe-

rience to our lineup of thrills

that is unlike any other we

have in our theme park right

now.”

Park fans will remember

the SkyScreamer name from

the closed Astroworld themer

in Houston, where the name

was attached to the park's In-

tamin Freefall ride.

Funtime has installed 14

StarFlyers to date, with the

Cedar Fair has announced

that it will add new 30-story-

tall swing rides to four of its

properties for the 2011 season.

The four parks getting the new

rides include: Cedar Point,

Kings Island, Knott's Berry

Farm and Canada's Wonder-

land.

Appropriately dubbed

WindSeeker, the new rides will

be supplied by Dutch manu-

facturer Mondial and will cost

$5 million.

At each of the four parks,

the towers will stand 301 feet-

tall and will feature 32 two-

seat swings located at the end

of rigid arms. Riders, who

must be at least 48-inches-tall,

will be secured with individu-

al over-the-head lap bars with

interlocking seat belt. Once

the 64 passengers are secured,

with their feet dangling, they

will slowly begin rotating as

the swings ascend the tower.

Once at the top, they will re-

volve at speeds between 25-30

mph, aring out 45 degrees

from the tower.

"I have been fortunate

enough to work with Cedar

4See SIX FLAGS, page 12

4See WINDSEEKER, page 12

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