Setting Up the KMG Fireball / Afterburner Ride

Visiting the carnival grounds to see a few more rides set up. This time we are focusing on the KMG Afterburner / Fireball / Feuerball ride
Watch them set up an Eli Bridge Double Eagle Ferris wheel next! • Unusual Ferris Wheel S...
The Afterburner is manufactured by European manufacturer KMG in the Netherlands..
I'm fascinated by the way carnival rides are engineered to fold up and stow away for storage and travel and I seem to learn a new trick with each ride.
Thanks to Jay and the crew from Majestic Midways for giving me the opportunity to document the setup of this carnival ride.
#CarnivalRides #GloryDaysAmusements

[@PeteRondeau]

Stopping by the carnival grounds to watch the KMG Afterburner / Fireball set up. Watch them set up and Eli Bridge Double Eagle Ferris wheel next! ▶kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKWwm4h-bM-HmZI

[@davefroman4700]

The difference between US and EU carnival operators is that in the US they will strip a ride down and get rid of as much scenery etc as possible. Where as in the EU you see showmen carrying around extra trailers full of stuff to make their rides stand out in the crowd.

[@jochemvdmeulen]

I have actually visited the KMG factory A few years ago, and got a tour by the owner. I was writing a paper in high school about amusement park ride safety. And while researching I sent emails to multiple manufactures in the Netherlands asking a few questions. KMG was the only company willing to answer. Since it where quite a few questions, I was offert by the owner a tour at the factory so he could explain and show things in person. lets say that it was a pretty cool experience. I got to see a few rides that were being build and that were there for maintenance, including multiple afterburner's.

[@zR1tz]

that sounds like a dream, glad you had a great time

[@thedman1696]

Glad you did decide to cover a more modern ride too, because it was just as interesting 👌

[@PeteRondeau]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@macster296]

These are so great Pete. My brother and I used to sneak into our county fair before it opened to watch them set up the rides. Some would chase us off and others were happy to let us watch. I remember one guy telling the others to watch their language because they had young spectators. Thanks again for producing these great videos!

[@PeteRondeau]

Thanks for watching and sharing!

[@creative_flow1970]

I swear showmen don't get paid enough for this, haha seems like a LOT of effort! Great video Pete!

[@simpsonsj]

Pretty amazing that it racks onto only two trailers. Considering its size one would think you would need three or four trailers to transport them. The engineering and design that goes into making these rides transportable is mind-boggling.

[@PeteRondeau]

The power of those large hydraulic cylinders is what amazes me the most.

[@bryanoates9393]

This is awesome! I agree that the lighting package is more than enough compensation for the loss of the back wall, those modern LED panels look really great in motion.

[@paigesummers7580]

I’m in love with this page. I LOVE THE FAIR

[@PeteRondeau]

Thanks So Much! glad to have you here!

[@harveyb1963]

I spend a lot of time with a permanent Afterburner 32 so to see the contrast between the 2 is so interesting, thanks for the vid

[@PeteRondeau]

i'd be curious to see the differences myself.

[@Thomas_Bies]

KMG is one of my favorite ride manufacturers. Thanks for this awesome video!

[@SkepticalChris]

I've watched a few of these videos of yours of carnival rides being setup, and it amazes me on the brilliance of the engineering, to design these rides to be able to fold up and fit into a typical space that would be similar to a cargo container or two. I work in the film industry, so seeing huge convoys of trucks with countless pieces of equipment in them is not uncommon to me, but to see one of them open up and unfold, with the help of crew to assemble it into a fully functional entertainment ride is fascinating.

[@MrTapanes]

Oh man, this was great! Love this kind of stuff.

[@oetgaol]

Thank you for the setup videos. I really like your explanation of what is going on.

[@PeteRondeau]

Glad you like them!

[@justinmijnbuis]

Great commentary, plus some insightful tech details. Thanks!

[@PeteRondeau]

Much appreciated!

[@adrianbuchwald6103]

Greatt build up vlog.very interesting. Thanks👍👍

[@OutdoorsWithShawn]

Another great video! They gave the winch a workout all day I'd like to see either a fun house/dark ride or bumper cars set up.

[@WVUHatton]

Good stuff Pete- always wondered how this process worked. Hope your making some restoration progress this winter. Merry Christmas

[@keithsquawk]

The design and engineering needed to both transport and then rig /de-rig is quite something. The placing of fittings to keep huge lumps of steel in the right place when being swung about and then being re-used for the ride proper always impresses me.

[@marcandrew777]

That lighting package…………WOW!!!

[@blakerogers2608]

4:31 I thoroughly enjoyed that 😂 great stuff! I never knew they fill some of these trailers with water until your videos. And all of the special components like the feet are just brilliant.

[@SteveHylton1969]

When I was growing up I'd hear people call these guys "Carnies" derogatorily, and would insinuate the rides weren't safe because they were all high when they built them. I'm not saying that never happens, but these guys look like they take this seriously and know what the hell they are doing. Thanks for showing this side of the carnival.

[@quetzalcoatlz]

I came here to post the same sentiment. I'm glad I had an opportunity to educate myself and see the hard work that goes into building a ride.

[@NotReal-oy6dw]

What you felt back then was true for the times. Years ago Midways ran under a team where maybe 3 or 4 out of 25 guys had a technical or mechanical engineering degree. Now more than half of a shows team has some form of formal training.

[@dananderson3077]

Will watch it in a few....Merry Christmas!

[@PeteRondeau]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@Fluben]

Woooo! Been looking forward to this! Love your videos man

[@dipkill28]

Love these videos! I’ve always been into coasters and amusement parks, but never explored the side of traveling rides. These videos are a great insight. If possible, I’d love to see a dragon wagon set up. Keep it up!

[@JLT_MEDIA]

o yes what a video love this ride its like a Christmas present thank you

[@PeteRondeau]

Merry Christmas!,🎁

[@Studio23Media]

So glad you chose to cover this ride! The engineering involved is so fascinating! It's really neat how they're able to do so many different things with the same 2 winches!

[@PeteRondeau]

I really enjoy seeing how the tools needed to assemble the ride are built into the structure of the ride itself and most people never even notice - nor would they have reason to. I just find it interesting.

[@Studio23Media]

@@PeteRondeau I never thought much about the engineering involved in folding them up until I found your channel! I always saw the rides being brought in and set up at the local fair, but never paid close attention. But you've sparked a new interest for me, and I may have to go watch them set up this year!

[@audiodude74]

We’ll have two KMG XXL’s in America in 2024. It’s jaw dropping how that’s set up.

[@PeteRondeau]

What show?

[@audiodude74]

@@PeteRondeau Wade Shows and Butler Amusements.

[@anthonyhitchings615]

Awesome thanks for sharing please do more

[@lefthanded5473]

Wow this is so cool to see. I love riding this at carnivals. I always figured it was a complicated process to build these rides. I wonder how one gets into this profession of traveling around the country constructing and deconstructing these rides all year round.

[@philrabe910]

5:18 I've actually built a functioning ferris wheel prop for a Dannon's yogurt commercial (fun with children on a tv stage) 1/4" plywood and pine framing, it had a 18' wheel about 6' off the deck. It had lights and a commutator.. er... After looking it up, I need to call that a slip ring!! lol

[@lucasm7177]

Very rad Pete, haven't seen too many updates to the ride restoration videos, hope all is well with you and your family. Happy holidays from NY!

[@PeteRondeau]

I've been traveling a lot for work the last few months. I'll be talking about that in the next update.

[@typhoon5100]

Great video!!! 😊greetings from Austria Would definetely be awesome to see more kmg rides in your video style

[@PeteRondeau]

I'd be happy to do it, I just need to find operators willing to give me access to the rides

[@ArcadeGenius]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!

[@peterpan5295]

Great video brother 🙏

[@PeteRondeau]

Thanks so much!

[@nohands3255]

I don't care if they're vintage or not watching them get put together is cool. I'd say whatever you can film is cool.

[@Joost.]

Really nice to see this ride being build! One bit of feedback though, if you make so many (very) close-up shots like you did in the beginning it is quite difficult to actually know whats going on. :)

[@BubaLabinski223]

That had to take two whole days to set up and that definitely took some engineering and design and set up. Wow most impressive. How did he remember how to set these things up? Did they go to school for it?

[@user-pi1ru4tq5x]

I’m the uk, we have the storm ride which looks so fun to set up not gonna lie

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Brilliant

[@mikek4288]

Im an ex rides op at an amusement park so this stuff is interesting to me. The only thing that suprised me was the water ballast thing, so practical

[@PeteRondeau]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheCoasterSam]

I’d love to see a video on how one of those fairground roller coasters are set up

[@awesomeninja9178]

festa shows has freak out and i always ride it

[@joesmith6972]

Used to love this ride at the county fair before it was involved in the deadly accident in Ohio.

[@davidoickle1778]

A lot of work!

[@SonSantana]

The water filling part made me give a like 😂😂😂

[@PeteRondeau]

🤣😂 LOL

[@cup_and_cone]

KMG says 3-4 hour construction time with 3 persons... I think that number might be embellished.

[@PeteRondeau]

I agree. That seems a bit ambitious.

[@robertfish6617]

@@PeteRondeau or dangerous!

[@Thesmokercoaster]

Use to work on the kmg freak out. For those who don't know. Basically an afterburner with four sets of gondolas. And it took five guys four and a half hours to pull down. So yeh maybe a bit exaggerated.

[@karenkalasy8251]

​@@Thesmokercoaster wowzer people don't realise the hard graft that goes into the build up and pull down. Are u a showman?

[@Thesmokercoaster]

@@karenkalasy8251 uswd to work now amd then when the faie was local ish but I stopped now. I'll give u an example. The four triangle shaped legs that fold out of the trailer will take three maybe four guys maybe five minutes each leg just to push it 90° out. Then had to hold them out to be able to put the base of the legs on that usually take one but two men is easier. That's just one part. Look up a set up video. Just type in kmg freak out set up.

[@Tejay1970]

Thank you very much for the whole video. Especially for the showing of the serial plate. Is the name of the first owner misspelled? I thought it was Cumberland Valley Shows - not Camberland - Or am I wrong? Since when is the ride under the ownership of Majestic Midways?

[@PeteRondeau]

Yes, the name on the plate is spelled wrong. It went from CVS to NAME then to Majestic. They’ve had it for about 3 years and completely rebuilt it.

[@davefroman4700]

And this is the small version of this ride. The big one is 4 trailers wide.

[@alaeriia01]

I thought XXL was a three-trailer ride?

[@Joseph-zu5iz]

Cool

[@aaprcob]

Just curious, after watching the build process, would you trust to ride it?

[@Koka_Moka]

In Germany we have a few of them such as Rocket or Hip hop fly

[@cyrusscrazycorner6284]

love your videos

[@lle8500]

Kmg is the best!

[@M3GAN_474]

Can you show a set up of the ring of fier carnival ride

[@chrisruppel8183]

Oh please show alllll rides! New and old

[@gio2vanni86]

Their like a school where you learn all this? Just asking because man that is a lot of bolts and torques and the use of the wench. Wow just amazing, i hope those guys get paid well. Lots of peoples lives at stake, don't want miss a bolt bob!

[@PeteRondeau]

One of the things that helps is there are typically no extra parts. You keep putting the ride together until you run out of parts. If a bolt becomes damaged or a wedge is stretched out and needs to be replaced, you have to get it from back at the shop or off the maintenance truck.

[@dedevak]

how much time does it take

[@pedrothe_fairfans]

I Really Love This Ride And They Have Name Of The Ride Cyclone Fireball / G Force From RCS Fun / The Beast / KMG Alterburner

[@alaeriia01]

I'm more of a KMG XXL fan, but the Afterburner is a sweet ride. Now if only our local showmen would buy something other than Technical Park stuff...

[@samtovar2447]

Nice!!

[@petercrowl9467]

Now imagine doing all this in the rain

[@PeteRondeau]

miserable...

[@4everpee]

this afterburner looks greatly maintained

[@PeteRondeau]

It was completely rebuilt within the last few years and stored inside in the off season. That helps a lot!

[@4everpee]

@@PeteRondeau I think they choose rebuild it when after the incident at the ohio state fair. KMG order to stop any afterburner to operate at that time.

[@PeteRondeau]

They didn't even own it back when that happened. But that may have been why the previous owner sold it. But yes, in addition to all the rewiring and motor and bearing replacements, this has the redesigned seat gondolas.

[@j_y06]

@@4everpee It was owned by North american midway entertainment under the name “Feuerball” and it was bought sometime in late 2019-early 2020 by Majestic midways

[@Jvideos5]

Make a video for the pharaoh's fury and the fireball the one that goes upside down.

[@richardwilliams2794]

how many trailers 2 or 3 for everything ? love all your videos Rich from England

[@PeteRondeau]

2 total. Well technically they brought the fog machine in another truck but the ride is just 2 loads

[@richardwilliams2794]

@@PeteRondeau happy Christmas and thanks for reply keep up with your great channel

[@extremestormspotterdavidS]

This ride used to be NAME All Star unit FEUERBALL.

[@hardlyhobbies]

Can you do the zero gravity ride set up PLEASE

[@tomvoncharon6359]

This stuff is mesmerizing! Still...makes me wonder and cercerns me a bit. I know these rides get routine inspections by local and state officials, but come on...do you really think those "officials" know anything about all of those moving parts? Perhaps

[@PeteRondeau]

A fatal accident on this type of ride at your Ohio state fair was responsible for totally changing the way rides are inspected in that state. Ohio has some of the most rigorous requirements in the country for both rides and ride inspectors

[@adriansilva4096]

Seems safe building a ride like that at night lol

[@alaeriia01]

That's what floodlights are for.

[@supremetakio69]

Bolts stretch after torquing!!!

[@karenkalasy8251]

Do u have to be an electrician or engineer?

[@zijmoraes3172]

I put all my trust in 8 bolts lol💀

[@PeteRondeau]

I put all my trust in 4 nuts every day.

[@zijmoraes3172]

@@PeteRondeau ✨️

[@djavatar68]

How the heck do they remember what part goes where and in the order its supposed to be???

[@PeteRondeau]

There are a few different things. First of all, there is a manual and the person who is the lead for the ride has read it. On this particular ride, the lead also was the same person who completely re-wired it from scratch, so he is intimately familiar with it. Secondly, these rides have no extra parts. They have just the correct amount of parts. When you are out of parts, and all of the holes have fasteners in them, you know you are done. If you have an extra bolt, you know you aren't done. And finally, every season there is a single crew that becomes responsible for a ride's assembly/disassembly. Once they have done it a few times they don't even need the ride lead.

[@djpanicmusic4026]

Can you do the FREAK OUT ride? :D

[@PeteRondeau]

If I find an operator willing to let me record it, sure!

[@oscarherrera8674]

That's lots of work credit to the builders 👷‍♂️ 👏

[@MrCyberShow]

I’m never gonna ride something that’s attached to a semi truck bed. lol.

[@cgrcowboy62]

Apparently, Oliver Anthony has a twin brother.

[@cdarting91]

The airbag suspension looks like it’s about to be ripped in half.

[@MrMakoFL]

KMG messed up on the plaque. It’s Cumberland 😝

[@PeteRondeau]

Yes. Something probably got lost in translation

[@Random_Emergency_Light]

Next ride?

[@PeteRondeau]

Next few videos will focus on our rebuild projects and then we can hopefully get back to some setups when the rides come back out in the spring. We may also stop by majestic’s shop and see what projects they are working on in the off season

[@UHGHGGGGG]

RCS named the kmg fireball its named G force.

[@sebasllaura7254]

Anyone remember the fact that this ride was involved in an accident in the Ohio State Fair?

[@NotADoctor558]

1:32 is that a Raspberry Pi?

[@OutdoorsWithShawn]

That's exactly what I was thinking... "This modern day ride is ran by a Raspberry Pi?!?!" I assume it's for the lighting package, but could be wrong.

[@PeteRondeau]

Yes that is controller for the RGB lighting

[@NotADoctor558]

@@PeteRondeau That's awesome. Thanks for the reply.

[@elliotcheadle1196]

They can push the cars but not lift the yellow cones 😂

[@samimacc3127]

You can clearly see missing bolts in numerous spots. Pretty sure during every tear down and set up some things go missing 😢😮

[@PeteRondeau]

I challenge you to point them out.

[@J155P]

Cant imagine how many busted knuckles and smashed fingernails it takes to set up and take down regularly. And thanks for calling Alien Abduction "Gravitron".