I loved Skyscraper at Cedar Point. I had ridden that thing at least 100-times over the years it was there. They would offer platinum pass holders crazy deals on that thing. Also, I had ridden it at all three of its locations; Dorney, Valleyfair and finally Cedar Point. The first version I had ridden was actually back in 1999 on I-Drive in Orlando. It was named Katanga. It was common practice to tip the ride operator to give a "full power" ride for an extended period of time. Like most versions of this ride, riders were stopped at the top half-way through the ride. Katanga didn't do this to load the other arm as they usually only ran it with two riders. The reason they stopped at the top was to encourage riders to manually flip themselves while at the top. It was really fun, and scary as hell at the same time.

i understand you wanna help Alex but, 1: i can barly hear him talkin. 2 :when he speaks in sounds confussing to me. 3 :he doesnt have that same special tone/voice like you what these videos makes so great.

The Funtime Chaos Pendle you're talking about is still operating in Australia. It's now called Fury and it goes to my local Summer carnival :D

Now that I'm all caught up with the FRotW videos, here's what I'd love to see spotlighted at some point: 1) Tilt-A-Whirls and Waltzers (would be very interesting to see a comparison of the two) 2) Musik Express / Himalaya (sooo many manufacturers) 3) Stick-to-the-wall rides (Rotor, Round-up, and the ever-asked-for Gravitron) 4) Scrambler (a classic) 5) Pirate Ship rides 6) Flying Bob rides (similar to #2 above)

Im kinda surprised youve never rode one of these yourself. Pretty much every single decent sized fair ive been to has one of these.

My Aunty and Uncle bought Chaos Pendle from Europe and shipped it to Australia. Here they changed the name to “Insanity” and got the design changed because of braking difficulties. Then was purchased by another part of my family and was renamed “Fury”. The ride is still operating but doesn’t travel as often as it should. Note* when we were renaming the ride from “Insanity” I wanted to name the ride “BlackOut” but sadly we didn’t.

Next time you do such a Video, it would be better if you Show the model youre talking about ( for example, when you were talking about the Funtime boosters, you First showed a mondial Turbine :) ). I Got the chance to experience the rotating Gondola on the "Gladiator" ( Mondial Turbine ) at my german local fair last year. Its a really cool feature when youre sitting up in the Air waitng for the people in the other Gondola to take their seats, becasue you can get a cool 360 View. Its also cool for the general ride experience ( When do you have the Chance to be flipped upside down sideways? ), but sadly the ride operator didnt rotate the gondolas when the main arm was going Full Speed, so that Part pretty much felt like a Fabbri Giant Booster. Cool Video!

Prater in Austria seems to love this ride, they have 2 Boosters + a similar ride (Black Mamba).

I rode with black mamba it was insane and the safety thingi on the seat popped slightly not an security concern! It has a lot of safety backups in that case!

The one at Saint Louis is open...very long ride. My 14 year old son rode it last month. The Gondolas spin, and they had 8 people per gondola. He was on the ride for more than 4.5 minutes. They loaded one gondola, ran a full cycle one direction of 7 or 8 rotations, then swapped the other gondola and ran a full cycle the other direction. It was not an upcharge ride.

I've seen boosters with rotating gondola's and a fan/prop above each of the two gondola's at dutch fairs since about 2008

Great video! I have vivid memories of seeing a Skyscraper model at the California State Fair in like 96/97. I remember getting freaked out when I saw the seat belt harness.

Only Fabbri Giant Booster in the United States(for now) is Ray Cammack Shows' Titan. Incredible spectacle and intense cycle. Hope it comes to the San Diego County Fair one day as the company is one of the largest operators at that fair.

I love the booster rides, been many times on fabri booster maxx's and it pulls some serious g forces. Funny enough the smallest booster type fabri is offering is actually in my experience more intense than the Maxx version, but this is because you're traveling a way smaller diameter, while making the same flips with the gondola. It makes the ride feel way faster.

I've ridden Speed at the Indiana State Fair and it's pretty fun, my favorite portable flat for sure

About the France exident. It did not crash into the ground or game lose. They changed something in the software so they could move the loading podium faster. Something with there illegal change went wrong and the podium came up during the ride. The gondola smashed into to podium

1996 introduced the Gravity Works Skyscraper first appearing at the 1996 Florida State Fair

They had a Booster ride at the Seattle Center Fun Forest around the late 2000s. There's an on-ride video of it on KZfaq (at the time I am writing this). There is no way I'd ever ride this thing, much too scary for me, but it's cool to learn the history behind it. Thanks for posting.

I've seen these at the CNE a couple times. Never been much of a ride person, I have more of a theoretical interest in theme parks and whatnot than an actually-going-to-them interest, but this is on a list of rides I kinda want to give a try some time.

The booster at one of my local (now closed) parks was named HydroMax. Funnily enough, if you google that name, you get copious amounts of penis pumps. Bit of a heart attack when I was trying to show it to my young nephew.

The Turbo Force was originally designed and built by Soriani in 2000, but when Zamperla bought the company, they started producing it themselves, making small modifications. The very first Turbo Force once traveled across the U.S. and since 2007 it is operating in Mexico.

It’s awesome that the Turbo Force model used to operate at Six Flags Great Adventure

Couple of corrections: The first Fabbri Booster went to the UK and was owned by M&D’s (Matt and Douglas Taylor) of Scotland. It made its debut in 2001 at the famous Kirkcaldy Links Market. After getting exported a few years later, Matt and Douglas bought the first ever booster maxxx, called Bomber Mark 2. This now travels France but has been given a complete retheme and is now called Monster Maxxx

10:00 was made to be curious about the fan above the gondola, I was watching it carefully to see if the rotation matched any kind of (de)acceleration.

I rode the sky scraper at zero gravity Dallas and it's currently one of my favorite flat rides

Skyscraper by Gravity Works debuted at the Florida State Fair in 1997. That is the model in the Gravity Works brochure that was shown.

its a shame zamperla isnt making the turbo force anymore. Spectacular midways brought it to my town from 2001 to 2008. Then they sold it after the economy crashed :(

Cedar point does not seem like a park that would get one of these, expecially after the failure of vertigo

According to Six Flags ST Louis it sounds like the gondolas will spin. Website says dual spinning motion.

I used to love spin doctor in blackpool but it was such a short ride cycle it was barely worth it

Octopus rides next pls!

the Booster was launched by Fabbri in 2000, had its lance in lattice format and was in 40m version.

And now we’re getting booster type rides for 2020 at 2 six flags parks...can’t wait to see how those turn out

Playland at the PNE has a ride like this it’s called Revelation it’s scary!

not including tower rides and ad one’s will make the booster the tallest flat ride (tell me if im wrong

Models I managed to ride: 2 different KMG speed 16 A fabbri booster Mondial turbine And finally a fun time chaos Pendelum

Talk about the hopi hari accident, in 2012, where a girl died from falling over 25 meters, in the eiffel tower "ride"

I have been on one at butler fair before it was fun I do verify it as the super version of the zipper

Yup, another flat ride at my state fair. I'm not sure what the capacity is but I believe it's a total of 4 riders, two in each gondola. It's enclosed and colored yellow.

You should make a video on the Fabbri hard rock models! Those are AWESOME

Great video. Although the booster Maxxx was produced before 2007 as one debuted at Nottingham Goose Fair in 2006.

The Skyscraper rides are one of the coolest of these rides

Currently stressed out about possibly not being able to go to Canada’s wonderland in July because of the borders to Canada being closed :( I just gotta keep my fingers crossed that it stops. But even if I don’t get there this year, it will hurt since I’ve been looking forward to it for almost a year, but I could get to BGW and get on pantheon if I don’t get to wonderland, so I guess it’s a win-win.

absolutely incredible rides! the best ones are the fabbri booster and the mondial turbine! also when you talked about the funtime booster you showed a video of the mondial one sorry had to point that out 😂im a funfair fanatic! i love the furioso we had one come to london and i rode it about 10 times it was so much fun!

At 10.36 in this video it mentions that a gondola came off a Fabri Booster and the other gondola was stuck at the top of the ride. This would be impossible as the drive motors cannot hold the weight of a single gondola. I know this as I build up and pull down a travelling Fabri Booster in the UK. All Fabri Boosters have special motors that you have to wind in when building up and pulling down to hold the weight of a single gondola and the weight of a single arm when it's unpinned.

I love this ride. it is so much fun

Sadly The Great Escapes version was caught up in a whole mess with the locals but, it was all resolved and Adirondack Outlaw will be opening in mid to late June. I do have pictures of those plans if you would like to see them.

11:40 can relate not for half an hour tho but the kmg speed at my local fair didnt have the brakes released when it was loading so i was upside down for 4-5 minutes few years later i saw the same one stuck upside down for a fair bit longer at another localish fair.

There was a very unsafe homemade looking one of these in Pigeon Forge, TN operating in the early 90s

Sesame street park one is closed for the poor maintenance, but it's really big, i mean, BIG

Great!

Is there a ride similar to the Mondial Turnine? The main difference would be that there was only one arm, but still propeller assisted, very tall. I recall seeing it at a county fair in Wisconsin I went to. I seem to remember it being called the high flyer but can’t find anything like it when searching online. The only reason I’m sure it only had one arm is because I remember it swinging back and forth until it had enough momentum to complete the full rotation. I also recall watching the propeller change direction to assist in swinging the single arm each time it would start moving in the opposite direction.

I've been on a travelling one, it's pretty fun, but nothing too special, the main intensity for me was the height, considering it was the tallest thing around.

booster are fun, KMG speed is currently my favourite flat ride model

You missed the big one called g force at fantasy Island uk it was the only one of its type made

I need to go on this someday

Its actually gonna be built at the great escape, everything was worked out they passed it a couple months ago. It will just be in a different area

There actually one fabbri booster call the power it go to my local fair call the Yamboree it own by Crabtree amusement

You forgot the turbo force in the us were the tension strap on one side broke and turned in to a whip hitting 3 games and hurting 7

We have a speed at our county fair, but transporting rides spook me so I haven’t risen it.

I got to ride skyscraper at cedar point and it was pretty fun!

There’s a model called the Power at my state fair. I’m planning on riding it next year coz I missed out last year :)

I was supposed to ride the one in St Louis last weekend but plague cancelled my vacation.

Why are they called boosters?

You should do a video on the slingshot/ bungee catapult rides

FujiQ Highland's clock thing... I forget the name but it's something like Panic Clock or Maniac Clock... is that one of these?

Last year a girl injured her arm on the chaos pendle in Australia and it really confuses me because I went on it and there was nothing there to injure you arm on.

Those capriolos looks insane

Prefer the KMG speed variant, just seems faster :-) ... Vomitron though, thats gotta be to best name in the world !!

I have mixed feelings about these after getting stuck at the top of one of these as a kid where I was falling through the shoulder restraints literally facing certain death.I shouldn’t have been on that ride if I was too small to be secured, I held on for dear life. Felt like forever before we could get off.

Go solo. None of your collaborators are as good as you. You have a radio voice.

Do the Huss Topple Tower if enough info about it exists

Love this👍👍👍

Great video! Only problem is that it's kinda hard to hear what the other guy is saying 😕

For the next video or a video in the future, you should do a Graviton discussion.

I hope they don’t get banned bc at my fair we used to have the booster but in 2017 they got banned

I swear if you don't make a Gravitron video...

If you haven't ridden Vertigo at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, you haven't lived.

You forget the infinity model from kmg

I've ridden black mamba at wiener prater and it was awesome😍😍😍

How much they cost?

Next video😍👍

Yes big up fantasy island carnt beat a British amusement park especially one with 2 amazing vecoma coasters

13:20 Unfortunately, you missspelled "Mondial". Even though it's pronounced the way you spelled it in the video (at least the english pronounciation of it; in reality, it's supposed to be "Mon-dial" with a french-y sorta accent to it. So kinda like: Mondi-ahle), it's still spelled "Mondial"

I rode the one at the Minnesota state fair in (I think) 2017. Do you kn9w what model that is?

So you never rode a booster. Neither have I

Do scad tower history

Ok i like the coster collage guy but the other guy is hard to hear and when he speaks there is no confidence and he trails off alot it would be a better channel if the other guys wasnt there

Alexander !!

Hell NO, never gonna get me in one of these :P

You are forgetting the original named booster ride. The huss booster (more like a breakdance) Ow and some advice, at least try to find Soms videos of the right rides when you talk about that type

Trying to be polite, and please respond, the info given in this video is highly incorrect. As being interested in boosters rides my whole life, this is sad to see videos like this out here.

homeboy needs a better mic...

My dude love your channel and videos but your friend needs to speak with confidence, consistently and with a clear mic like yourself. You have a voice for it, he doesnt unfortunately, he keeps changing how loud he is, I'm sure he can write and research but he needs to help you out more here, can barely understand him and it's not his accent that's hard to listen to here

Is face reveal coming soon

I can’t hear a word the other guy says. His mic is utter garbage. I can hear you fine, but I can’t hear him sorry. He slurs his speech so often.

Why do one of you sound like you're in a bathroom?

Please redo these videos without the guy talking thru a pringles can. You should just narrate the whole video.

But I think you forgot about this one!... (I don’t know any info about it) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m6qVfM9-p7aypqs.html Edit: you also didn’t mention this ride on the (inverting pendulum rides) video...

The guy with the accent was painful to listen to...between his apparent inability to read, and his sound quality...yeah, maybe don't use him again🙄