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Selected pictures list
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A floorless diving machine train on display at Busch Gardens Africa, part of a retrofit to SheiKra.
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is a simulated freefall thrill ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The attraction opened in 1994 and an identical version opened at Disney's California Adventure in 2004.
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Sequoia Adventure is a roller coaster located at Gardaland, an amusement park between Peschiera and Lazise, at Lake Garda in Italy.
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Ocean Park Hong Kong is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The Mine Train (pictured above) opened in 2000 and is located in the Adventure Land section of the park.
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Alpengeist is the tallest complete circuit inverted roller coaster in the world. The ride is located at Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Virginia. Built by Swiss manufacturers Bolliger & Mabillard, Alpengeist features six inversions: an immelmann loop, a vertical loop, a cobra roll (pictured), a zero-g roll, and a wing over.
Portal:Amusement parks/Selected picture/6 [[Image:|center|300px|Shoot-the-chutes, Dreamland, Coney Island, N.Y.]]
Shoot-the-Chutes is an amusement ride consisting of a flat-bottomed boat that slides down a ramp or inside a flume into a lagoon. Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk invented the earliest example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island. In the original ride (pictured) the flat bottom boat was pulled up the ramp by cable and turned around on a small turntable to be ready for the next load of passengers who arrived at the top by elevator. The bottom of the ramp curved upwards, causing the boat to skip across the water until it came to a stop where it was then guided to a landing by an onboard boatman.
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Luna Park's Scenic Railway has been operating since 1912 and is the oldest contunually-operating roller coaster in the world. The park features various heritage registered attractions and is itself listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
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The Parachute Jump is a non-operating amusement ride on Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, New York. Twelve cantilevered steel arms protrude from the top of the tower, each of which supported a parachute attached to a lift rope and a set of surrounding guide cables. Riders were belted into a two-person canvas seat hanging below the closed chute and hoisted to the top, where a release mechanism would drop them, the descent slowed only by the parachute.
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Side view diagram of the Back to the Future: The Ride theater showing the ride vehicles in their lowered (bottom) and raised (top) positions as well as in the process of being raised into the the theater (middle).
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A log flume is an amusement ride consisting of a water flume and artificial hollow logs. Passengers sit inside the logs, which are propelled along the flume by the flow of water. The ride usually culminates with a rapid descent and splashdown into a body of water.
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