33 amazing facts about the theme parks that will race your heart
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The best theme parks create a sense of magic. You feel transported to another world, with crazy rides and costumed characters (and no shortage of overpriced snacks). But like many work so hard to create fantastic vistas busy, it can be easy to forget thatThere are real facts behind the stories of belief, statistics of the jaw to jaw, totally strange quirks. Overall, this is another point that lifereal Life is the greatest magic.
1 False people injuries all the time
This may seem like a brilliant plan: go to a mountain russante, claim to have the whip and sue the owner of the amusement park for millions of people. You would not be the first to propose the idea, however. An employee of Six FlagsRedditer said about that,"Everyone thinks they can try to simulate an injury and try to sue, but they just start from nowhere. This happens too often."
Another worker theme park Chime with his own experience: "We were once a whole family (5 people), saying they were all injured on the bumper cars (they were driving in all same time) and would sue us.. They made written statements and all for it. I was quite amused to read them. "Better to just enjoy yourself.
2 Legweese is riskier than the rides
Theme parks must be careful to protect themselves from any legal action on the part of unhappy guests or injured. Part of this effort means instructer employees not to talk to the guests who mention to bring a lawsuit and simply connect to security. As a Six Flags employeeexplained on reddit"Do not talk of prosecution [sic] At any time if you want to have something. I can not stress this enough, because if you mention "Sue", "court" or "lawyer", all employees are trained to stop talking about you and call security. "
3 Pirates of the Caribbean used real skeletons originally
It's a move that would undoubtedly laugh Captain Jack Sparrow. When Disneyland opened the first opening, the creators of the pipe were not impressed by false skeletons available. They decided to have a true, touching the UCLA medical center close to the current human remains were found credible.
But as times and attitudes have changed, truths are replaced by fake and convincing "returned to their home country and have given proper burial", writes a former Disney producer Jason wrote Sarrellin his bookabout the ride,Pirates of the Caribbean: the magical realm cinema.
4 Disney banned selfie sticks parks
If only the world hadsuch wisdom.
5 Catherine the Great was behind the first roller coaster
The roller coaster coming back: the first rides where people boarded a vehicle and rolled sloping hills were introduced to the Russian imperial summer palace in the late 18eCentury. According toRoller Coaster Expert Steven J. Urbanowitcz"The person who designed this fun vanguard was the occupant of the palace, Catherine the Great." Although it is sure to add that she had the idea 16eCentury gliding gliding popular in the area during the colder months.
6 Tomorrowland the plants are edible
As somethingCharlie and the chocolate factory, Plants of Tomorrowland in Disneyland are edible reality. He grew up the theme of the age of the park, dating back to the first opening in 1959. It is based on an idea of the park planners called "Agrifuture". AsThe Disneyland website says"The Tomorrowland plants are supposed to be edible! The dual visionary landscaping as a potential farm, showing a green future where humanity draws most of its resources."
7 Disney Princesses must lie to children
While the masked characters are not allowed to talk to children who are so fascinated by them, princesses do, which creates many situations where they might have to take certain liberties with the truth - or risk poncturer fantasy. Peoplemental FlossspeakingWith a person who plays Mulan who was invited to speak Chinese: "She replied," I bet Mushu if I could go a whole day without speaking Chinese, he would feed the chickens for me tomorrow. "The same woman also played Silvermist the fairy. When the children asked him to fly, she would say," I save my dust of Pixie for later. "
8 Disneyland includes a super-exclusive club
CalledClub 33This semi-secret restaurant and lounge, located above the Orleans Park Café and French Market Restaurants offers meals and upscale experiences. The place is only invited - with a waiting list of a period of time of arrival - and has an initiation fee of $ 25,000 to $ 100,000, with annual fees of 30,000 $, according tocertain reports. If you do not, oh, a decade to wait, plus a spare water of 50 big, do not worry: the members regularlyreservation On Craigslist.
9 People do not fall sick as often as you expect
While the Russian mountains seem to be the perfect conditions for someone to feel sick, the guests are not overcome by the rides as often as you could expect. According to a former employee of six flags,Talking as part of a AMA reddit, "People did not vomiting almost as much as you wait. Maybe I was lucky. I worked the majority of my time in a walk called Woming Woman Truth Lasso: a wheel that Flowing with the guest against the wall. Couple of people vomit. One of my colleagues actually played it ... who was weird but it did not bother me! "
10 There are codes for diseases
Getting sickness may not be as common as you expect, but six flags have a specific code to take care of a mess:10-38. So, it must arrive oftenquite. The Guest Disease Code is 10-5a. In Disneyland? The code for vomit is "V code."
11 There are codes for a lot of things, actually
The theme park giant has aTogether the list of codesfor possible situations. These go from the Mundane (10-17: Meeting Guest; 10-22: Do not consider) to the dramatic (10-57: HIT & RUN; 11-10: Stolen vehicle; 10-70: real fire).
12 There is aHello Kitty Amusement park
Sanrio Puroland, In Tama New Town, Tokyo,gives visitors the chance to enter Hello Kitty's House, Sanrio theme games and something called "Happiness bell. "In the sense of 1.5 million people visit the park each year.
13 The longest coaster in the world is in Japan
For those looking to do more bang for their fun-parking lot, JapanNagashima terrestrial spa, just outside Nagoya, offers the longest coaster you can drive: The Steel Dragon 2000. Since it was in an area that saw its share of earthquakes,Additional precautionshad to be taken. It took about $ 50 million - more steel than any other coaster on the planet - to make sure it was not just a long, but safe walk.
14 There is a theme park that allows children to claim to be adults
What is more fun than going to work? It's the idea behindKidzania,A global amusement park with two dozen locations - the first American locationArrives in Dallas in the fall-That gives children a chance to "learn more about different careers, the inner operation of a city andThe concept of money management."The" park "is a miniature city in good faith, with a hospital, fire station, a supermarket, and more, where customers can work, shop, open bank accounts and even pay paying taxes. The pleasure never stops!
15 Disneyland's haunted mansion includes a pet cemetery
Back behind the most morbid attraction of the park is a small plotdedicated to died domestic animals, with tombstones of animals, such a "lilac the skunk", "Rosie the pig" and the dogs named Fifi and my friend. It even includes Sparky's overthrown tomb - Disney's Deaths CanineFRANKENWEENIE.
16 Security systems are high-tech
According to six flags"All our rides have hundreds of sensors measuring and continuously monitoring all aspects of the trip, similar to the sensors in your car that flash an alert if you forgot to wear your seat belt or let one of your doors to your open car. "But, unlike your car, which continues to drive when sensors are activated (for a bad time for a vehicle next to an unlit seatbelt), when one of the line sensors is activated, everything stops.
17 The roller coaster of the world faster faster than a BMW
Formula Rossa at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi can hit a top speed of 149 miles per hour. But what is more impressive than the fast speed is the speed with which it accelerates. Using a hydraulic launch system that mimics the similar release rate of steam catapults on aircraft carriers, it hits a top speed after five seconds. It's so fast that riders are required to wear protective glasses as these paratroopers would use.
18 The roller coaster fastest wood are Dollywood
You can thank the Smoky Mountain Songbird for wooden roller coaster fastest in the world. The Dollywood theme park is home to Dolly PartonLightning rodDeceived to look like a hot rod in the 1950s and that rises to 76 per hour speed of miles along the runway 3800 feet. As the name of the park in which it is located, it is a little to throw returns embalent still a lot of thrills.
19 Spain is home to Ferrari Land
The car fanatics should go to the PortAventura theme park in Spain (one hour outside of Barcelona) to experienceFerrari Land. As you wait, the park includes fast rides, such as the red force (which ranges from 0 to 180 kilometers an hour five seconds), a "free fall tower" and Maranello Great Race running track, where visitors can race. against their friends and family.
20 The Matterhorn has a basketball court
The walk beloved theme Bobsled Disneyland hides a half court basketball court at the top. This is part of a rest area where "cast members" of the park can relax before reducing the mountain to the amusement park guests.According to Snopes"The basketball court has come to be when one of these mountaineers brought and installed a basketball hoop and a back panel for use as fun to pass the time when bad weather or other conditions prevented climbers to work outside of the mountain. "
21 The biggest roll caliber in New Jersey
It would beKingha Ka In six flags great adventure, based in Jackson, New Jersey. Reaching a height of 456 feet (36 feet higher than the highest mountain wrong rate to cover in Cedar Point), it then takes a drop of 418 feet as it takes riders along the of 3118 track long term feet. First opened in May 2005, he had the record since.
22 Employees check the rides daily
Security remains a top concern for any theme park, which means constantly checking to ensure that they are supposed to.According to an employee of Six Flags"Every day, before opening the parks for you and your family, the six pavilions pavilions and attractions are fully inspected by maintenance personnel and skilled operations."
23 The sleeping beauty castle contains a time capsule
Disneyland's iconic castle contains a time capsule.In buried in 1995celebrate the park parkeanniversary, the contents of the capsule is mysterious, but they will dévoirés on 80 80eBirthday, July 17, 2035.
24 South Dakota is home to a theme park Mount Rushmore
It's not really in the Mount Rushmore, butRush Mountain Adventure ParkA lot of attractions, including the cavernous Rushmore Cave, recently opened mountain Rushmore Mountain and Zipline course.
25 One turn order is not necessarily a bad thing
You may think that Russian mountains blocked on the slopes are a sign of something very wrong. But six flags indicate that while waiting for a few minutes while a journey starts again not being ideal, it is in fact a reflection of the safety of the rides. "Although it may seem dangerous and generate media interests, these controlled driving judgments are proof that our driving safety systems work exactly as they should"says the company. "All our rides are designed to stop in a safe place."
26 The first American Russian mountains were in New York
Specifically,Coney Island, Brooklyn, who made his debut theSwitching railwayIn 1884, in which the passengers were sitting in a vehicle that came down a 600-foot track along the beach, up to a second round where the car was switched and made a return. This was soon followed by the Please Gravity Road at Coney Island in 1885, and soon the rides appeared throughout the country.
Nowadays, the switch is very closed, but Coney Island is always at home to another old tour: the cyclone (photo),who opened in 1927. It may not be as fast or tall as other more modern roller mountains, but we submit that it is the most terrifying the country because aGain,It was opened in 1927. Three people died on the cyclone.
27 The first underside of rollers were not very fast
The switching railway happened only on6 miles per hourlow his slope. At the time, this was considered a terrifying speed.
28 Visitors can feel like giants at Mini Europe
BelgiumMini Europeis exactly what it sounds like: a small version of some of the many architectural and historical attractions in Europe. It includes miniature replicas of Holland windmills, the Eiffel Tower of Paris and Buckingham Buckingham Palace from England. Viking ships and even the Berlin Wall make appearances.
29 There is a Russian mountain of 117 years still used in the United States.
The theme park Lakemont Park, in Altoona, the Pennsylvania, houses the wood coasters "Figure-8" open in 1902. It has been regularly restored and improved on this century and the change, especially during a hiatus of 14 years in the 1980s and 90s. Always,More than 70% of the original wood remains intact.
30 The oldest amusement park dates back to the 16th century
Dyrehavsakken(or just Bakken), in Klampenborg, Denmark, just north of Copenhagen, open in1583 Although it looked very different from that moment, the park is from "pleasure garden" of fireworks, games and live entertainment. But it was an early adopter of peak attractions, opening a wooden Russol mountain in 1932 - The Rutschebanen, which still works today.
31 Germany has an amusement park built in an old nuclear power plant
Real risk takers will want to make the way toWunderland KalcarAlso (terribly) known as "the energy plant", built on the site of an old nuclear power plant. We are children - the plant has never kept radioactive chemicals because it was mibillon before being completed. But this offers a number of family rides and even its own hotel.
32 A Mexican theme park offers a "border" attraction
It can be offensive to some, but there is a very real theme park in MexicoParque EcoalbertoIn El Alberto - who recreates the experience of what to try to cross the border in the United States without authorization. Although no real border is crossed, the totally immersive experience takes place at night - and lasts four to six hours.
33 There is an abandoned theme parks gazillion
OfAmusement Park Kingdom of Gulliver,where a giant Gulliver covered graffiti always rests, in Vietnam'sHồ thuỷ tên, which has empty waterlides and a giant and terrifying dragon, it seems more difficult than ever these days so that amusement parks maintain the coming crowd. As a result, you can find such pleasure targets in almost every corner of the world.Talk about fodder forA horror movie of real life!
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