Gravitrons

[TilenB]

Where have all the gravitrons gone? I remember riding one in a travelling fair some eight years ago. It still is my favourite flat ride. Does have some more information where the remaining gravitrons operate, or which showmen do own them. I'm aiming more to Europe and NA

 

[insanecoastervids]

most travelling fairs have them

 

[bmac]

If you're talking those Starship 2000 things Rye Playland has one. They also had a few sprinkled around in the local fairs by me (Frying Pan, McLean Day, Fairfax Festival). I think it just depends on location and how hard you look.

 

[BBH]

All of the local fairs by me usually have one travelling with them, but I'm not a particularly big fan of seeing the ride op in the middle being a blur.

 

[furie]

By Gravitron do you mean a Meteor/Gravity Wheel ride - a circular cage that starts flat and then goes up so you're pinned in a wheel motion?

Or do you mean a Gravitron ride, where you're inside a spinning "room" laying at an angle and the room spins, you slide upwards and the floor falls away?

Lightwater Valley has the former (I think? Bought from Loudon?), Pleasure Island the latter.

 

[TilenB]

By gravitrons I mean these enclosed high speed turning rides. Isn't the other called Enterprise?

 

[furie]

Gravitron

Gravity Wheel/Meteor/Round Up

Rotor

The reason I ask is that I've never seen a Gravitron at a travelling fair in the UK, but Rotors and Gravity Wheels are quite common.

That doesn't mean they're not common elsewhere of course

 

[BBH]

Gravity Wheels and Gravitrons, I've seen both, I've ridden both, you just have to know where to look, it's like a Pharaoh's Fury type thing, they're common, but if you don't look, you're not gonna find 'em.

 

[Thekingin64]

There's usually a meteor thing at my local fair. I saw some rotors at the Goose fair on Saturday though.

 

[SoCalCoaster521]

Just hit one at the North Idaho Fair last month, they're pretty common in the Northwest US.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86n-cnl3bE[/youtube]

 

[T0M]

All of the local fairs by me usually have one travelling with them, but I'm not a particularly big fan of seeing the ride op in the middle being a blur.

How does the ride op appear as a blur?

 

[BBH]

All of the local fairs by me usually have one travelling with them, but I'm not a particularly big fan of seeing the ride op in the middle being a blur.

How does the ride op appear as a blur?

The ride op sits in a box in the middle of the "capsule", but the box doesn't spin. We are a blur to the ride op and the op is a blur to us.

 

[Mysterious Sue]

Never even seen a Gravitron, so no, I don't think they can be common on the UK fair circuit.
Love the Meteorites and Rotors though, and the Gravitron just looks like a better made version of the Meteorite.

 

[bmac]

There's a fair in Fairfax County from October 19th-21st and they have a Gravitron, if you really want to ride one I suggest you get your ass out here now.

Location: Frying Pan Park in Herndon, VA

 

[Mysterious Sue]

Lol, thanks bmac, but it's a bit far from London to get there by tomorrow!

 

[furie]

Pleasure Island in Cleethorpes has Alton Towers' old Gravitron.

They're not really like a rotor as you lie at an angle.

Pleasure Island, everything there made me feel sick - and I hadn't even been drinking the night before!!!!