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Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:13 pm

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Knoebel's Amusement Park will be resurrecting the old Flying Turns style ride by creating their own!

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Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:13 pm

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Knoeble's construction update page; http://knoebels.com/update.htm

Various pictures of other 'Flying Turns';
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Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:14 pm
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Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Anywayyyyyyy............

Yeah im really excited to see how this turns out. Can i just point out this will be based on the flying turns once seen at Elucid beach! YAY!

Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:35 pm

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SWEET!!! I hear that flying turns are really really fun, well from coaster books anyways, but these should be good.

Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:40 pm

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Originally posted by jpecool

Everyone say thankyou to me for finding this out! Hail me as your god! [:D] or not....... [:(]

Anywayyyyyyy............

Yeah im really excited to see how this turns out. Can i just point out this will be based on the flying turns once seen at Elucid beach! YAY!

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Post February 3rd, 2006, 4:42 pm

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I say based, it isnt the actual layout. But they are using one of the actual cars from Elucid beach to base there cars on aswell! Just safer ones [:)]

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Originally posted by jpecool

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Uh, Dick Knoebel announced this at Phunphest. You know, last OCTOBER?

Post February 3rd, 2006, 5:17 pm

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Originally posted by Thorazine

Originally posted by jpecool

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Uh, Dick Knoebel announced this at Phunphest. You know, last OCTOBER?

He did? I was there, and all I remember is the Phoenix "ceremony". Unless the ride was announced at another time during the Phunfest, I don't see how I could've missed the announcement.

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Haha this makes me laugh in the picture it looks like low paid volunteers![lol]

Post February 4th, 2006, 7:32 am

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Meh well if he announced it ages ago who cares? They are starting construction so its worth to have a topic about it anyway.

Post February 4th, 2006, 10:42 pm

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The Mack bobsled coasters are very much like those pics of Flying Turns that I've seen. Avalanche at PKD and Avalanche at Blackpool are examples.

What will be so different about Knoebel's version?
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Flying turns were constructed out of wood and did not use any means of "tracking" the trains so to speak, the track allowed the cars to freely travel through the course of the "track" with no restriction whatsoever, causing for a more adrenalistic ride. However, I suspect the Flying Turns at Knoebel's will contain some means of tracking for safety reasons, though I would assume that it will be constructed fully from wood in order to truly resemble the flying turns of the past.

Post February 5th, 2006, 2:55 am
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isnt la vibora a flying turns coaster
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Post February 5th, 2006, 6:31 am
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^ IMO, they're all bobsleds, only this one is wood
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Originally posted by e-man

Flying turns were constructed out of wood and did not use any means of "tracking"


The Mack version don't use any tracking on the actual course
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According to Screamscape.com, we might see Flying Turns open in the 2012 season.

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Originally posted by Tetsu

According to Screamscape.com, we might see Flying Turns open in the 2012 season.

Yeah after like 25 years.
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Post December 15th, 2011, 12:55 pm
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Yeah just like hoe we were supposed to see it in the 2010 season, the the 2011 season.

As far as i'm concerned, it's just a sexy lawn ornament for the park.
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