Sky Treck Tower

[Cove26flags]

Is sky treck tower made by ride trade? And what model is it?

[FParker185]

in 1977 it was sold by Intamin it is a Super Gyro Tower 1200, this was before Ride Trade, the ride was designed/fabricated by Giovanola.

Side note: Giovanola sold their tower design to Intamin in the 80's, in the early 90's Intamin spilt into 2 companies, Intamin and Ride Trade, Ride Trade does towers and nothing else and they developed the Giant Drop from the observation tower design, technically Giant Drop is the first ride ever to be designed and built by Intamin proper(though technically Ride Trade)

[TwistedSTEEL666]

isn't Giovanola the company that made SFMM's Goliath and SFOT's Titan?

[Bradley Papas]

Yes, track for B&M coasters are also fabbricated by Giovanola.

[TwistedSTEEL666]

I thought that company stopped fabing track for B&M.

[Bradley Papas]

Don't think so.
Also Giovanola is a huge company, they make rides, tanks, hydro electric, and the list goes on.

[Mr. D.T.]

I might bring this out of topic. There is an anonymous narrator on the Sky Trek ride and you can hear his voice inside some of the coaster stations (Viper, Demon) as well as the train ride. Out of curiosity, does any of you know who he is? Could he be the park's president? I don't know.

[w00dland]

He's who I want to be when I grow up...

...Easiest. Job. Ever.

[FParker185]

Um, Giovanola went bankrupt a few years ago, they went under not long after Titan was built, they came back under the name GTec though right now they arent doing a whole lot at least not in the Amusement Industry. They had a website but it seems to have disappeared.

Most B&M coasters were fabricated by Gio until around the mid 90's. From then til about 02 Southern Ohio Fabricators in Cincinatti fabricated the majority of B&M rides exept for the bottom and top of the lift and the station track(on bull during construction, all the orange track/purple supports were from SOF and the unpainted sutff near the bottom of the lift that you could barely see from the highway came from Switzerland).

From what I hear now Southern Ohio Fabricators does all the work on all B&M's these days.

http://www.southernohiofabricators.com/

there is the link to SOF, some cool pics there if you hunt around.

[Timmy179]

Um, Giovanola went bankrupt a few years ago, they went under not long after Titan was built, they came back under the name GTec though right now they arent doing a whole lot at least not in the Amusement Industry. They had a website but it seems to have disappeared.

Most B&M coasters were fabricated by Gio until around the mid 90's. From then til about 02 Southern Ohio Fabricators in Cincinatti fabricated the majority of B&M rides exept for the bottom and top of the lift and the station track(on bull during construction, all the orange track/purple supports were from SOF and the unpainted sutff near the bottom of the lift that you could barely see from the highway came from Switzerland).

From what I hear now Southern Ohio Fabricators does all the work on all B&M's these days.

http://www.southernohiofabricators.com/

there is the link to SOF, some cool pics there if you hunt around.

Ive had that site in my favorites for awhile now, every once and awhile i go hunting fo coaster track pics.