I thought this was an interesting snapshot of the clashing of two eras of amusement rides. I took this photo on my recent trip to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. It was a beautiful park and probably my favorite Six Flags park in terms of aesthetics. There was a surprising amount of greenery and some of the best theming I’d seen at a Six Flags.
Over in the Rockville area that’s themed to look like a Main Street USA circa the 1950′s, I came across this interesting sight. At the end of the street was a carousel with an awesome piece of red curved steel positioned just behind it in Superman Krypton Coaster’s cobra roll.
Disclaimer – I didn’t actually count the horses on the ride, I just looked up the average number of horses I saw in a listing of carousels for sale. So please, classic ride junkies go easy on me.
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May 19, 2011 at 03:42
Hopefully the horses won't stampede, if they do, all of the two-year-olds will have nothing to do!
On a slightly more serious note, I imagine that the sound of the coaster probably overpowers the sound of Carosel music. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
May 19, 2011 at 08:01
When is your Superman Krypton Coaster review coming? I really want to see it!
Thanks
May 21, 2011 at 03:55
It'll be my next review. I had the Hellcat review all ready to go, so I published it. Krypton should be up within the next week or so.
May 19, 2011 at 10:28
It's new vs old!
May 19, 2011 at 12:24
That is a cool pic. Don't you think that Superman Krypton Coaster might scare little kids on the carousel with its thunderous B&M roar, though? Still a great pic. Fiesta texas might be beautiful, but six flags great adventure is the best six flags. But i can understand great adventure isnt as nice looking as other parks. This may be due to so many people going there.
May 20, 2011 at 13:12
When I first saw the title of this post, I thought you were talking about Krypton's Horsepower. Why don't they list that as a stat?
May 20, 2011 at 15:52
I'm not a gear head, but I'm pretty sure you need an engine to measure horsepower. Krypton is gravity-powered like most coasters so I think miles per hour and g-forces do the trick.
May 20, 2011 at 18:01
the measure the speed and horsepower on a car.
May 21, 2011 at 01:39
It's probably just not appropriate because coasters don't have engines. That's my guess, anyway.
May 22, 2011 at 09:38
on a launched coaster it might make sense. a guy on the maintenance staff at Knott's stated the horsepower of Xcelerator's hydraulic launch system before, can't remember the numbers but it was something ridiculously high, several thousand.
May 22, 2011 at 10:29
I think the Horsepower is probably the amount of force that the car/train is pushed by to make it move.