Amusement Park Ride-On Railroad rolls back the years in your own backyard

amusement-park-railAll right, you might not be as rich as Michael Jackson back in his heydays before his life began to be plagued with numerous issues, financial ones included, but this does not mean that he did not have his fair share of fun when he was still alive. If I am not mistaken, his Neverland Ranch is truly a place of wonder and amazement, especially to the little ones out there. After all, who does not want an amusement park right in his or her very own backyard? You can also own a semblance of that with the $23,000 Amusement Park Ride-On Railroad from Hammacher.

Sure, you would need a pretty large backyard in order to enjoy this particular installation on your home’s grounds, not to mention being rather well off to part with such a sum right from the get go, but then again you do not need to be a multi-millionaire or a megastar in order to do so. The Amusement Park Ride-On Railroad happens to be a 1:8 scale ride-on electric train set which creates a backyard railroad, including the ones inspired by the types found in iconic amusement parks of yesteryear. An adult driver will sit atop the 18″-high tender, where he or she controls the locomotive’s speed, forward/reverse throttle, and regenerative anti-lock brakes with a pair of passengers in the 65″ L x 17″ W gondola car in front of a trailing caboose.
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The World’s Tallest Waterslide Better End In the World’s Deepest Pool

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A Hand-Built Amusement Park in the Middle of the Italian Forest

A Hand-Built Amusement Park in the Middle of the Italian Forest

A documentary called Ai Pioppi, released by Fabrica, directed (and scored) by Coleman Guyon, and written by Luiz Romero, documents the incredible story of Bruno, an Italian restauranteur who, in his spare time, is hand-building an entire amusement park in the woods.

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The Cabin In The Woods Cabin Is Gonna Exist And It Sounds Terrifying

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Attraktsionus Double Ferris Wheel: Twice the Fun, Possibly Twice as Dangerous

I love a good amusement park ride as much as the next guy, but even I might have some second thoughts about riding on this unusual double ferris wheel if it ever showed up at my local Six Flags.

attraktsionus double ferris wheel

Designed by the frequently whimsical, always creative team at Art Lebedev Studios, the Attraktsionus concept would link two ferris wheels together with a single set of cars that can travel between them.

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Presumably, some sort of giant belts or cables would drive the cars between the two wheels, thus combining the sensation of riding a ferris wheel with that of a gondala ride. Thanks to the different wheel sizes, the whole thing looks like a giant bicycle chain when viewed from a distance.

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I’m doubtful that we’ll ever see this ride turn up at real world amusement parks, but I do think it would be cool to create a whole series of fantastic and impossible rides like this. Oh yeah, there already is

Amusement Park Riders Get Stuck 300 Feet in the Air

I go to amusement parks, but if I’m being honest, I’m not a big fan of heights. I don’t tell people I’m afraid of heights because I don’t want to be a puss. So I do the next best thing, I walk really slowly and scream at anyone who touches me even slightly because I’m convinced I’ll suddenly fly off those high platforms. It woudn’t have been a good day for me to be at Knott’s Berry Farm in California when 20 riders were stuck for four hours, 300 feet in the air.

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The 20 people were riding the Windseeker ride, which takes the people over 30 stories into the sky, with their legs hanging in the wind, and spins them around. One woman says her husband kept her from having what I’ll call a “bat sh*t crazy” moment because she’s afraid of heights. She says he kept her calm, but the first half-hour was difficult.

Eventually maintenance workers were able to get all of the riders to the ground between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m., which was long after the park closed. This is the second time this month riders of this particular ride were left stuck in the air. Knott’s Berry Farm says the ride will remain closed until they can find the cause of the issue.

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Israeli donkeys get WiFi-equipped for historical theme park

Israeli asses get WiFiequipped for historical theme park

It’s WiFi for your ass — the animal kind — and it’s only available in Israel. Yes, as unreal and inappropriate as that proposition may seem, an historical amusement park located in the Middle Eastern country will offer tourists the opportunity to tweet, email and upload photos on-the-fly from the back of a burro. Known as Kfar Kedem, or Village of Yore (sounds exciting!), the unique attraction attempts to reenact life from the Common Era’s First and Second centuries, albeit with a healthy dose of wireless internet. So far, only five of the village’s 30 available donkeys are currently outfitted with routers, but park manager Menachem Goldberg’s toying with an expansion to the rest of his “fleet.” Sure, a biblical ren faire might not be your number one vacation destination, but if you’re in the area, there’s no way you can pass up this low-tech ride back in time.

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