Calypso Rides Info and History - Flat Ride Friday 20

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@MrMakoFL 7 ай бұрын

Great ride that paved the way for Huss to create the Breakdance

@billchief397 3 ай бұрын

I want to try a European break dance...in the usa they are more lame broke dance. Slow and family friendly lame speed. So much wasted potential

@MrMakoFL 3 ай бұрын

@@billchief397 slow broke dance lol. I like that.

@billchief397 3 ай бұрын

@@MrMakoFL and crazy dance can be a lazy dance depending on operators

@MrMakoFL 3 ай бұрын

@@billchief397 yeah the Craxy Dance is slow

@dindog22 4 ай бұрын

a fully themed out Calypso really is a beautiful thing

@30Hzzz 4 ай бұрын

I love Flat Ride Friday! ❤

@CoasterCollege 4 ай бұрын

Happy to say it WILL be back next summer!

@Geminifan20 3 ай бұрын

Love this type of ride and rode the one at Cedar Point recently and it’s very fun and for the next Flat Ride Friday I suggest you cover the Rock-O-Plane

@Coyotek4 4 ай бұрын

Many years ago, Great Adventure (perhaps before they were acquired by Six Flags) had a Calypso. I do miss that ride (and those days). Haven't seen one recently, to say the least. Admittedly, though, it's basically an inclined Scrambler with fancier seats. Wouldn't stop me from riding it if, say, Knoebels ever got one.

@Fox_on_a_Rollercoaster 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes the calypso. I rode this a bunch. I still do! It's every year the the Oktoberfest at the "Oide Wiesn" (Old Oktoberfest) section. Still a great ride. There was a rebuilt Calypso with lifting plattform and gondolas with fixed roations, that could look in the normal direction, inwards and backwards called "Raggae" owned by german showman Winter. The footage you showed is surprisingly shaky. Btw a small tip to improve the image quality: Upscale your renders to 1440p. You'll get the better codec YT offers and improves your footage quality by a ton.

@coasterfair2602 4 ай бұрын

Wish someone would bring this back so more parks can purchase more (I never rode this ride but looks a lot of fun)

@bluecoasterplays 4 ай бұрын

My smile grew when you mentioned spinovator

@summermazur3064 4 ай бұрын

Calypso has been one of my favorite rides at Cedar Point since my first visit there as a kid in the early '90s. Great spinning ride!

@andrewgrindley6773 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for making these videos, loved Flat Ride of the Week and this definitely felt like a worthy successor to it. Also loved to see you covered some rides that are quite popular in the UK (the Miami & Remix). Looking forward to the next season and also hoping for a revised video on the history of the Waltzer.

@jordancaleb3419 4 ай бұрын

I love the calypso at cedar point. I’m glad they keep it around

@beowolf9480 4 ай бұрын

I'm going to miss this series now, but it will be nice to have what really happened back though, I've missed that series

@iseneau27 4 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, there is one Calypso operating in the UK that has been converted into a Break Dance....

@GbHandlebar 4 ай бұрын

I think that’s the one that used to be at the Kursaal amusement park in Southend-on-Sea. I remember riding it there, in its standard form. It seemed very old, even then.

@chfilms1 4 ай бұрын

owned by john bomber smith and called outbreak

@robwarner9371 4 ай бұрын

@@chfilms1it features in one of Slothy Vlogs videos. Can’t post links, unfortunately. It looks absolutely manic!

@chfilms1 4 ай бұрын

@@robwarner9371 ye it does would love to ride it

@bluescreening 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for flat ride Friday! Very informative and enjoyable :)

@janmcguire5268 3 ай бұрын

Oh, I love this! I would love to ride a calypso! It would feel nearly exactly the same as a scrambler.

@stellaVista 4 ай бұрын

I just wanted to updated my comment, only to find that it´s not here anymore. It contained some additional info including KZbin-links. Strange that! Anyway: The company that built the distinct ride vehicles is called Ihle, not Bruchsaal (which is the name of the town, where they are located).

@GermiesCoasterYard 3 ай бұрын

Calypso is one of my favorite flats at Cedar Point! I never knew the similarity to scramblers was by design. Also, curiously, I had to measure CP's Calypso platform recently and I only measured an 11º grade.

@bizarrealtispinax2747 3 ай бұрын

You should make one of these on Huss TriStar, what an awesome nearly-defunct ride.

@TheDjpwn3 4 ай бұрын

I always thought the renaming/retheming of Cedar Point's Calypso to Tiki Twirl was bizarre; now I get it

@tigerrocks503 4 ай бұрын

Fiddlers Fling at Six Flags Great America (my home park) is one of the more bonkers Calypsos as it’s literally feels like a Tilt A Whirl on cocaine. Also it opened with the park in 1976 so it’s almost 50 years old.😊

@flashback0978 4 ай бұрын

Yes the one in CA is the same ... I believe they are Schwarzkopfs

@tigerrocks503 3 ай бұрын

@@flashback0978 they are

@Spark1118 3 ай бұрын

I love this ride! Its been forever since I rode it but I remembering it being much more intense than a scrambler/sizzler.

@JohnRides11 3 ай бұрын

Flat Ride Friday is amazing ❤

@mitchellbassjr9506 4 ай бұрын

I got to ride by myself at Cedar Point a few years ago,, it was flying with just me on it.

@markvolpe2305 4 ай бұрын

Spinovater @ Canada's Wonderland, Calypso @ the old Myrtle Beach Pavilion, and the former Crazy Quilts/Sidewinder at Six Flags Darien Lake all have/had a larger capacity than the ones like at Cedar Point with 5 arms with 5 cars on each and it seemed like those had a bit steeper angle, but I could be wrong. Crazy Quilts was one of my favorite rides at Darien Lake, it seemed like they took it out for no good reason.

@EJWizard 4 ай бұрын

Darien Lake had a version of it called Crazy Quilt. I think they took it out about the time they put the wood roller coaster Predator in. 1990ish?

@markvolpe2305 4 ай бұрын

They took it out after the 1999 season after Superman was built that year, it was renamed Sidewinder, I sure missed that ride, it also had a bigger capacity having 5 arms with 5 cars each.

@darrylelkins681 2 ай бұрын

Myrtle Beach Pavillion had one of these when they closed in 2006

@randomstuff-yb7xb 4 ай бұрын

I rode this ride at Cedar Point back in 2019

@TheDanteOxalis 4 ай бұрын

The soviet union had their own version! It used cast-iron chairs on a lazy susan atop a lazy susan, with a shared overhang. I have a picture of it, but youtube is weird about links. Its definitely a sight to see

@janmcguire5268 3 ай бұрын

That sounds fascinating!

@Shredxcam22 4 ай бұрын

Can we get a tower ride Tuesday?

@RideManDave 4 ай бұрын

The German ride car builder is “Gebrüder Jhle Bruchsal” which is Ihle Brothers of Bruchsal. I believe Jhle is the correct German spelling (and what we see on all those rides they built cars for) but on the Internet I keep seeing it spelled “Ihle” which more easily gets you to the correct pronunciation…in German, the “J” has more of a “y” or “i” sound.

@julianelehmann 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, using the "J" glyph there is an old-school stylistic choice. "Jhle" would not be pronounceable in German. Capital I is written like that in the cursive usual in the 1950s-1990s too - I believe this is about disambiguation; avoiding straight "just a vertical line". Compare the European way of writing 1 and 7 (1 with a slanted serif, exactly like this here, 7 with a horizontal bar and an additional short horizontal stroke in the middle to disambiguate).