Cabel SasserAug 23, 2023

🌟 In 2006, Imagineering started work on how to improve/fix Disney California Adventure.

Today, you can one one of the first people on the planet to look at NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN CONCEPT ART for an idea that didn't make it! A re-theme of California Screamin' that would combine a funhouse with… well, you'll see:

https://cabel.com/2023/08/19/paradise-lost-06/

(A.K.A. spending my retirement on unnecessary auctions again)

Paradise Lost ’06

If you know me, you know I’m easily obsessed with ideas that never made it. Well, great, now I’ve got a new one. When it opened, Disney’s California Adventure was a good theme par…

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PS: for you higher-level Disney nerds, check out Page 12 of the document in the post! It breaks down all of the ride systems at Paradise Pier, who manufactured them, capacities, etc.

(Trivia: the Maliboomer was made by "S&S Sports Power Inc.")

https://archive.org/details/paradise-pier-dca-scope/page/n11/mode/1up

Disney's California Adventure: Paradise Pier/Boardwalk Scope Definition : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Walt Disney Imagineering document, purchased via public auction, that describes the full scope of work necessary to improve Paradise Pier as part of a $1...

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Show threadKelly GuimontAug 23, 2023
@cabel I don't know what level of Disney nerd I am, but I have a couple of framed prints of concept art (from an employee auction) showing the "original" DCA from 2001. I feel like if I showed someone now, I could just say it's from a theme park attempt that never happened and it would seem believable.
Show threadgormsterAug 23, 2023
@cabel S&S are big players in the roller coaster game - they manufactured Do-dodonpa, the fastest accelerating coaster with the tallest vertical loop. They’re also behind most of the air powered vertical launch rides you’ve seen.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Aug 23, 2023
@gormster @cabel sports power
Show threadgormsterAug 24, 2023
@louie @cabel to the tune of https://youtu.be/M59NqwDQeW0?si=pIovRvFiGUmkRHjy
The Chemical Brothers - Horse Power (Official Music Video)

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Show threadCabel SasserAug 23, 2023
@gormster I was shocked that they bought Arrow Dynamics in 2002! How could S&S have been bigger than Arrow Dynamics?! Awesome.
Show threadgormsterAug 24, 2023
@cabel Arrow is a pretty sad story. They basically invent the hyper coaster then next minute, dead.
Show threadParkscope Joe :RCID:Aug 24, 2023
@cabel @gormster arrow went bankrupt trying to build X at SFMM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2_(roller_coaster)
X2 (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

Show threadgormsterAug 24, 2023
@ParkscopeJoe @cabel my memory of the whole thing is that arrow were kind of luddites? They lagged on CAD and simulations and wanted 4D to be fully mechanical… whereas all current 4D coasters are computer controlled.
Show threadParkscope Joe :RCID:Aug 25, 2023
@gormster @cabel yup! And they famously designed their coasters using bent wires. B&M ate their lunches. But at least we got Alan Shilke out of the whole ordeal.