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Post February 4th, 2010, 6:39 pm

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Hi guys!

Do you remember the James Goldstone's movie: roller coaster, the big thrill, released in 1977? I'm curious to know if really exists that rollecoaster steel looping in an amusement park somewhere in the world or has been constructed in studio. Seem that coaster is real, unlike the Devil's Flight, in which there were a lot of mistakes.
Would not be very difficult to reproduce it with No Limits! Here we see the whole ride:
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... [lol] ...

That's some interesting footage of Revolution, it looks quite differen't without all of the trees.

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Post February 4th, 2010, 8:05 pm
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no .. it does not exist anymore.
there's a white piece of over braked crap in it's place.

Post February 4th, 2010, 8:48 pm

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^LOL, and OSTR's. I remember just a crappy padded lap bar. That was an alright movie, bad guy wants to blow up coaster, cops save the day flick. Interesting to see what the terrain looked like before the trees grew in. It's the first steel looping coaster right? Before Corkscrew at Knott's?

Post February 4th, 2010, 8:54 pm
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nope.. just AFTER corkscrew at knott's.. i was very young but i remember the ads for revolution very well.. a bunch of minutemen force the redcoats onto it and win the revolution.. it was 1976 .. everything had a bicentenial theme

Post February 5th, 2010, 5:11 am
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Wow, I didn't know that the trees 'grew in'.. The only thing I liked about that coaster was that it felt cool diving through the huge trees. I've ridden Revolution, but that video above makes it hardly recognizable to me. Well, 1976 is like two of my lifetimes ago (I'm 17). So, that is pretty old and it makes sense as to why it doesn't look the same.

Post February 5th, 2010, 6:13 am

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Thanks for the replies guys! (especially cp-soad) I did not expect that someone was interested in my post. [:)] However that coaster exists and it is this:



Opened: May 8, 1976
Type: Steel Looping coaster
Speed: 55 MPH
Height: 113ft
G-Force: 4.9
Inversions:1

I've already built it and I have to smmothing it, but I will not upload it because all my coaster had bad grades and Mr. "Turbo" He also insulted me: http://www.coastercrazy.com/track_excha ... e=mytracks [:(]

and I have no time to perfect them because I still work and study simultaneously. However, this post could serve as a advise of coaster enthusiasts remake. Seem that nobody had remaked it!

Post February 5th, 2010, 8:39 am

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Originally posted by Onjin

^LOL, and OSTR's. I remember just a crappy padded lap bar. That was an alright movie, bad guy wants to blow up coaster, cops save the day flick. Interesting to see what the terrain looked like before the trees grew in. It's the first steel looping coaster right? Before Corkscrew at Knott's?

This movie treats a stupid argument: the rollercoaster. But psychologically it's done right.
When I was a child, what impressed me in that film was: the terrorist was nice in face but was bad inside, one of the first film that showed me not to trust anyone!


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