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Cable on Slingshot Ride Snaps But, every once in a while, we hear about a horrifying case of an amusement park ride gone wrong. Like in this video above, your day can go from terrific to tragic in ...
SlingShot is a reverse bungee ride manufactured by Funtime and featured at several Six Flags amusement parks, including Cedar Point, Carowinds, and Canada's Wonderland. The first installation opened at Kings Island in 2002, but the park retired the ride in 2022. An additional fee is required to ride, which is separate from park admission.
The reverse bungee (also known as catapult bungee, slingshot, or ejection seat) is a modern type of fairground ride. Video of SlingShot at Cedar Point The ride consists of two telescopic gantry towers mounted on a platform, feeding two elastic ropes down to a two-person passenger car constructed from an open sphere of tubular steel.
On September 7, 1998, a 25-year-old Spanish-speaking man was struck by the dangling leg of a 28-year-old woman riding Flight Deck.There were allegedly issues with his ability to understand the park's English warning signs, and he entered the ride's restricted area to retrieve his hat.
In 2017, a bungee ride stopped working at a county fair in California, leaving riders suspended in the air for nearly half an hour. One of the passengers, 19-year-old Roger Rodriguez, was left ...
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The Slingshot is a Batmobile-like contraption with two wheels in the front and one in the back, which, technically, makes it an autocycle. There’s a steering wheel and manual stick shift, plus ...
At the time, the amusement park was known as Adrenalin Park and featured the company's Sling Shot and Vomatron rides. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2010, Funtime threatened legal action against Dutch amusement ride manufacturer, Mondial , after that company unveiled the WindSeeker which bears similarities to Funtime's patented Star Flyer ride.