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Postby coasterinsane on July 30th, 2005, 8:53 am
Does anyone have a skyirl video? I remember seeing the ride, but i never remember going on seeing it move... I just want to know it spun you fast i guess
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Postby greatamerica2003 on July 31st, 2005, 1:22 am
Go rent Beverly Hills Cop III. The Sky Whirl at the Paramount's Great America park is featured prominently in the movie. Same ride.
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Postby Coaster Alex0805 on August 8th, 2005, 1:58 pm
not a video but something interesting

http://www.italintl.com/detail_page.php?record_id=231
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Postby w00dland on August 8th, 2005, 2:45 pm
Maybe that was the 3rd Sky Whirl for the other Marriott park that never happened?
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Postby Timmy179 on August 8th, 2005, 3:01 pm
Correctomundo W00dland
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Postby haydawg149 on August 8th, 2005, 3:10 pm
i thought that thing looked weird . . .
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Postby RBull4life on August 8th, 2005, 3:47 pm
I've got Fright Fest footage that I took from 1999 that shows it briefly in the background. I will see if I can pull it off of DVD, and convert it to AVI for you to see. Its kind of strange to see the park 6 years ago compared to now.
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Postby Ilovthevu' on August 8th, 2005, 5:15 pm
w00dland wrote:Maybe that was the 3rd Sky Whirl for the other Marriott park that never happened?


The picture can't be of that 3rd one though because it is at a park somewhere. The spinning of the ride didn't go that fast. It was like a ferris wheel speed. Those trees look like the one at SFGAm even though it might not be.

Thanks for showing that site. I was looking for it. :D
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Postby SFGAmfreak4life on August 8th, 2005, 6:28 pm
From this picture it looks like the same triple wheel from Buenos Aires. Take a look http://members.aol.com/interama/wheel04.htm Plus there was another triple wheel at Hershey Park. The one that was at Hershey Park had blue arms as seen in this picture http://members.aol.com/interama/wheel05.htm Those are the only other triple wheels I know of but I doubt those other two are the third Marriott triple wheel.
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Postby FParker185 on August 8th, 2005, 7:07 pm
Could have been Hydra, though that was recently scrapped I'm told.
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Postby Timmy179 on August 8th, 2005, 7:58 pm
The pictures on that sight occasionaly are just stock photos.
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Postby Andrew on August 9th, 2005, 12:15 am
Ilovthevu' wrote:
w00dland wrote:Maybe that was the 3rd Sky Whirl for the other Marriott park that never happened?


The picture can't be of that 3rd one though because it is at a park somewhere. The spinning of the ride didn't go that fast. It was like a ferris wheel speed. Those trees look like the one at SFGAm even though it might not be.

Thanks for showing that site. I was looking for it. :D


Also if you look carefully at it people are visible in the cages.
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Postby steven on August 9th, 2005, 12:40 am
Hi,

The photo in that ad is of the defunct Sky Whirl / Triple Wheel at PGA in Santa Clara. The ad is out of date because the ride was scrapped is not available for sale.

Also, the rides at Hersheypark and in Buenos Aires were doubles, not triples. There were two other triples: one in Japan and one in Korea. Both are also defunct now.

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Postby m11stephen on August 9th, 2005, 6:03 pm
Its a shame that shockwave was never put on this site
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on August 9th, 2005, 8:57 pm
It is beyond me why anyone would want a video of intamin garbage
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Postby djvsuf on August 14th, 2005, 11:21 pm
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Postby Rusty888 on August 16th, 2005, 11:23 am
i got stuck on that when i was little! I called them the bird cages.
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