MickeyLuv'r
Well-Known Member
While I can't confirm this personally, I recently saw that Roy visited a number of places/parks before Disneyland opened. He and Walt wanted to study the feasibility of their own park.
There's an excellent database for worldwide roller coasters (and that's pretty close to the exact name). More or less, many amusement park/theme park rides are clones or near clones of rides that are found worldwide.
The Vekoma Junior coaster is one: = Goofy's Barnstormer, Woody's coaster, and Flight of Hippogriff are all examples. I don't know exactly what you mean when you said heavily inspired by each other. Clearly these 3 have different theming, but the essential ride is very similar. While not 100% complete, the database lists important details, like top speed if you want to see the finer points of how each ride differs slightly.
A second example is the aerial carousel: Dumbo, rockets, One fish/Two Fish, Triceratops Spin, and many other parks. (See: Zamperla's Aero top jet)
A third example is the recently closed Primeval Whirl. It has many names, but is commonly called a Mousetrap/Crazy Mouse. A number of parks call it exactly that, or something very close to mousetrap or Crazy Mouse.
A fourth is teacup rides.
There are, or were, also numerous examples of race cars/go carts, carousels, and individual boat rides around the world.
Before the Animal Kingdom Safari, there was the Lion Country Safari. And there are (obviously) many walk through animal exhibits around the world. Look at the gate to AK and the gate of the Tampa Zoo. Certainly look at the Tampa Zoo. For that matter, the Seas' giant tank and swim with dolphins experience are copies of tanks that exist(ed) at multiple aquariums. Certainly, Sea World long predates Epcot's the Seas.
There's an excellent database for worldwide roller coasters (and that's pretty close to the exact name). More or less, many amusement park/theme park rides are clones or near clones of rides that are found worldwide.
The Vekoma Junior coaster is one: = Goofy's Barnstormer, Woody's coaster, and Flight of Hippogriff are all examples. I don't know exactly what you mean when you said heavily inspired by each other. Clearly these 3 have different theming, but the essential ride is very similar. While not 100% complete, the database lists important details, like top speed if you want to see the finer points of how each ride differs slightly.
A second example is the aerial carousel: Dumbo, rockets, One fish/Two Fish, Triceratops Spin, and many other parks. (See: Zamperla's Aero top jet)
A third example is the recently closed Primeval Whirl. It has many names, but is commonly called a Mousetrap/Crazy Mouse. A number of parks call it exactly that, or something very close to mousetrap or Crazy Mouse.
A fourth is teacup rides.
There are, or were, also numerous examples of race cars/go carts, carousels, and individual boat rides around the world.
Before the Animal Kingdom Safari, there was the Lion Country Safari. And there are (obviously) many walk through animal exhibits around the world. Look at the gate to AK and the gate of the Tampa Zoo. Certainly look at the Tampa Zoo. For that matter, the Seas' giant tank and swim with dolphins experience are copies of tanks that exist(ed) at multiple aquariums. Certainly, Sea World long predates Epcot's the Seas.
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