User:JupiterBruzer/Sandbox/Canobie Lake Park ride list

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Canobie Lake Park features a variety of rides and attractions. The Yankee Cannonball, a 1930s-era wooden roller coaster, is one of the park's best known rides. The park also has a looping, steel roller coaster named the Canobie Corkscrew, designed by Arrow Dynamics.

The park once had a simulator ride named "USA Missile", built early in the Space Age by John Taggart and Sam Daugherty.[1] Passengers sit facing the nose of the rocket, which is then inclined. A movie is shown on a screen at the front as a simulation of space flight. While at Canobie Lake Park, it was repainted to mimic the markings used on such launch vehicles as the Saturn rockets.[2]

Other thrill rides in Canobie Lake Park include Starblaster, an S&S Double Shot, which replaced a ride called the Moon Orbiter in 2002. The park also features a rotor ride named "Turkish Twist", and a shoot-the-chutes ride named "The Boston Tea Party". Canobie has one dark ride, named "Mine of Lost Souls". Passengers board a ride train resembling mine car, and the ride is themed around a fictional mine that is beginning to collapse. Another flat ride at the park is the "Psychodrome", a scrambler ride located in a dome, with lighting, music and special effects. In 2005, the park opened Castaway Island, a small water park consisting of a water play structure. In October 2017, the park announced an expansion to the water ride complex, including a lazy river and a series of water slides.[3]

In 2012, the park added Equinox, a ride that lifted and spun riders on a giant mechanical arm. Despite the ride's popularity, it was shut down in 2014 after persistent mechanical problems left the ride operating "sporadically". The park has stated that safety was not an issue.[4]

 

Roller coasters[edit]

Name Description Image
Canobie Corkscrew A steel roller coaster from Arrow Dynamics with two corkscrew inversions. Originally manufactured in 1975, the Canobie Corkscrew operated at Old Chicago from 1975 to 1980 as the "Chicago Loop",[5] at the Alabama State Fairgrounds as "Corkscrew" from 1982 to 1986, before moving to Canobie Lake in 1987. The Canobie Corkscrew is one of the first steel looping roller coasters manufactured in the world and is part of a series of Arrow corkscrew models produced from 1975-1979. Originally painted with a yellow and blue color scheme, the ride was repainted in 2012. A view of the Canobie Corkscrew roller coaster
Untamed Untamed is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter, opened at the park in 2011.[6] This is the fourth Euro-Fighter to be added in the United States, the only one in the Northeast, and the first roller coaster to be opened in Canobie Lake Park since the Canobie Corkscrew in 1987. The ride features a 72-foot vertical lift and a beyond vertical drop at a 97 degree angle, as well as three inversions: a vertical loop, an Immelmann loop, and a zero-G roll. A view of Untamed, Canobie Lake Park's newest roller coaster, as one of the coaster cars goes through a loop
Yankee Cannonball A PTC wooden roller coaster, and the park's oldest roller coaster. The ride was given its name in commemoration of the American Civil War.

Thrill rides[edit]

Name Opened Manufacturer Description
Ice Jet 2017 Chance Rides A Flying Bobs ride.
Pirata 1986 S.D.C. A pirate ship ride
Psychodrome 1989 Eli Bridge Company An indoor scrambler ride with flashing lights and sound effects.[7]
Starblaster 2002 S&S Power A Double Shot launch tower ride, opened for the park's centennial.
Turkish Twist 1981[8] S.D.C. A Rotor ride.
Wipeout 2004 Chance Rides A Wipeout ride
Xtreme Frisbee 2007 HUSS A Frisbee ride

Family rides[edit]

Name Ride manufacturer and Type Description Year added
Antique Carousel Looff/Dentzel/Stein & Goldstein carousel 1902
Antique Cars Arrow car ride Unknown
Blue Heron Boat ride A boat ride that takes guests for a 20-minute trip on the lake. 2005
Boston Harbor Patrol 2008
Canobie 500 Arrow race cars 1977
Canobie Express Crown Metal train ride A train that runs through the park, around Castaway Island, and along the lakeshore. It runs on 2 foot narrow gauge tracks. Unknown
Caterpillar Harry Traver caterpillar ride A family flat ride. 1963
Crazy Cups PTC teacups 1958
DaVinci's Dream Swing ride 2003
Dodgems Bumper car ride 1930s
Giant Sky Wheel Ferris wheel 1981
Mine of Lost Souls Sally Corporation dark ride 1987
Over the Rainbow Zamperla balloon ride 2001[9]
Rowdy Roosters Flying Scooters Unknown
Skater Zamperla Disk'O 2005
Sky Ride SkyTrans chairlift[10] Unknown
Twist & Shout Sellner Tilt-A-Whirl Unknown
Wave Blaster Zamperla 2009
Zero Gravity Battech Enterprises Round Up Replaced a similar Round Up ride. 2008
Water rides
Boston Tea Party Hopkins Shoot the Chute 1998[11]
Castaway Island WhiteWater West AquaPlay RainFortress[12] 2005
Policy Pond Log Flume Hopkins log flume 1982
Tall Timber Splash WhiteWater West water coaster 1994

Children's rides[edit]

Name Ride type Year added
Alpine Swing Children's swing ride 2003
Autobahn 2009
Boats Unknown
Fire Engines Unknown
Flower Power Children's whip ride 1994
Helicopters Unknown
Jeeps Unknown
Jump Around Children's Wave Blaster 2009
Jungle Bounce 2003
Junior Sports Cars 1958
Kiddie Canoes Unknown
Kiddie Carousel Children's carousel Unknown
Kiddie Dragon Coaster A Zamperla children's roller coaster with a train designed like a dragon. 1991
Mini Dinos Unknown
Mini-Skooter Children's bumper cars Unknown
Pony Carts Unknown
Sea/Land Rescue 1989[7]
Sky Fighters Unknown
Tanks Unknown

Former rides[edit]

Name Ride manufacturer Year added Year retired Notes
Bowling alley Unknown Unknown Unknown After purchasing the park in the 1960s, the owners burned all the pins from the bowling alley to keep warm during their first winter.[13]
Calypso Mack Unknown 1988 Replaced with the "Moon Orbiter".
Equinox KMG 2012 2014 A twisting, spinning and flipping ride. Removed due to mechanical issues.
Fascination Unknown Unknown Unknown Replaced with the "Jackpot Casino".
Figure 8 roller coaster Frederick Ingersoll 1902 1935
House of Seven Gables Unknown 1938 Unknown A walk-through haunted house.
Jr. Roller Coaster Unknown 1970s 1984
Kosmojets SDC Unknown Unknown Replaced with "Wipeout".
Matterhorn SDC Unknown 2007 Replaced with a concession stand "Hotdog Diner".
Moon Orbitor Unknown 1989[7] 2002 Replaced with the "Star Blaster".
Ocean Trip SBF 2001[9] 2008 Replaced with Boston Harbor Patrol
Paratroopers Unknown Unknown 2006 Replaced with "Skater".
Petting Zoo Unknown Unknown Unknown
Rockin' Rider SDC 1970 2004 Originally called Galaxi at Canobie before being rebranded/renamed; Replaced with "Xtreme Frisbee".
Round Up Unknown 1980 2007 Replaced with "Zero Gravity" (Round Up)
Roller skating rink Unknown Unknown Unknown Used to house ScrEEEmfest haunts
The Swamp Pretzel 1954 Unknown A dark ride that was replaced with the Can Alley game and employee center building.
Swimming pool Unknown Unknown 2007 Removed during the construction of a larger main entrance.
Tiki-Maze SDC Unknown 2016 Formerly the Crystal Orbiter, on broken motor-driven platform.
USA Missile Unknown Unknown Unknown
Vertigo Theatre Unknown Unknown 2009 Replaced with Autobahn to make room for "Wave Blaster".
The Whip Unknown Unknown Unknown Was replaced with Matterhorn, then Equinox, until the latter ride was removed.
Wild Mouse B. A. Schiff & Associates 1960s 1980s Used wood supports and steel track. The Paratrooper replaced the Wild Mouse, and was later replaced by the Skater attraction.
  1. ^ "Coney Island Space Age Icon - will it be destroyed?". Coney Island History Project. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  2. ^ "USA Missile (Canobie Lake Park)". ThrillNetwork LLC. Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  3. ^ "Canobie Lake Park Gets Partial Approval For New Water Park". Patch. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  4. ^ Ireland, Doug (July 30, 2014). "Equinox shut down at Canobie Lake Park". Newburyport News. Newburyport, MA.
  5. ^ Cowette, Colleen (June 17, 1990). "Salem's Canobie Lake Park Has Given 80 Years of Fun". New Hampshire Sunday News. Manchester, NH.
  6. ^ Bullock, Joel (24 November 2010). "Canobie Lake Park adds new roller coaster: Untamed in 2011". Gadling. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  7. ^ a b c "CANOBIE SPECIAL", Boston Globe, April 16, 1989.
  8. ^ Sandy, Adam. "The Flat Joint". Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  9. ^ a b "More sure signs of spring: Canobie Lake Park opens", New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH), April 29, 2001
  10. ^ "Our Clients". SkyTrans Manufacturing, LLC. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
  11. ^ Miller-Medzon, Karyn (July 5, 1998). "For your amusement - Region's theme parks have a host of new rides to thrill and chill you". Boston Herald.
  12. ^ "Canobie's new Castaway Island water complex opens", New Hampshire Union Leader, May 26, 2005
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference arcadia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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