HUSS Park Attractions
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Budapest, Hungary |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Amusement rides |
| Website | www |
HUSS Park Attractions is new company founded by a group of investors that specializes in the development and manufacture of amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary.
History of the original Huss Company
HUSS Maschinenfabrik was a German company founded in 1919 in Bremen and originally made new and replacement parts for ship engines.[1] The company began to create amusement rides in 1969 and continued until 2005.
In 1981 Huss Maschinenfabrik purchased Arrow Development from the Rio Grande Railroad, merging the two companies to form Arrow Huss. The company got into financial trouble partially due to heavily investing in Darien Lake theme park in New York and the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans.[2] Arrow Huss filed for bankruptcy protection in 1985, and 13 of the company's American officers negotiated a buyout. In 1986 the takeover was approved by the courts and the American company re-emerged as Arrow Dynamics.[2] The German company reorganized as Huss Machinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG.
On August 1, 2006, the Bremen district court declared provisional insolvency and an insolvency manager was appointed.[3] Following this, a new company was created, Huss Park Attractions. The new company was created by a group of investors who used the "Huss" name and began building rides at the Hungarian factory 'Huss Gépgyár Kft'.[4]
It must be noted that HUSS PARK ATTRACTIONS and HUSS PARTS AND SERVICE are newer companies and not the HUSS company that became world famous by building rides such as the Enterprise, Pirate, Troika, and others in the 1970s and '80s. HUSS Machinenfabrik was responsible for many of these rides. The companies of today are not the legal successors of the original HUSS MACHINENFABRIK company nor the builders of the original HUSS rides.
http://www.parkworld-online.com/news/archivestory.php/aid/50/Huss_returns.html
Ride styles
A few of HUSS' rides include the Breakdance, Top Spin, Shot'n Drop and Frisbee. Breakdance was developed and built in 1985 by HUSS Rides and there are now four variants, of which over 100 have been installed worldwide—46 of them in Germany.[citation needed]
HUSS also offer a range of "Giant Rides" which are aimed to fill the gap between thrill rides and roller coasters.[5] From 1981 to 1985, during its merger with Arrow, Arrow Huss built roller coasters. Darien Lake's Viper,[6] MarineLand's Dragon Mountain[7] and Busch Gardens Williamsburg's Big Bad Wolf are a few examples.
List of HUSS-manufactured rides
Several companies using the HUSS name have produced and distributed over 30 unique ride designs. These rides are in operation all over the world, and some have been in operation for 35 years. Below is a list of the different ride types produced by different HUSS companies:
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The Pendulus is a frisbee ride made by Huss Rides and opened at Pleasure Island Theme Park, Cleethorpes in 2003. It is a theme of a gondola and has the numbers printed on the bottom. It is located in White Knuckle Valley. Riders face inwards toward each other and the ride begins to spin and sway. The ride eventually gets higher and faster until its almost 90 degrees. Pendulus is the only huss frisbee ride in the uk, however, there are other versions such as the Flip Flop at Flamingo Land.
- Airboat
- Alakazam (Pleasure Island), a flyaway variant of Enterprise
- Ben Hur (no longer available)
- Booster
- Breakdance
- Breakdance 2
- Breakdance 3
- Breakdance 4/Rodeo
- Condor (Reintroduced in 2013 as "Condor 2-G")
- Delirium
- Disco-Round (no longer available)
- Enterprise
- Skylab (Giant Enterprise—no longer available)
- Fly Away
- Megadance (no longer available)
- Flic Flac (no longer available)
- Suspended Flipper (no longer available)
- Fly Willy
- Frisbee
- Giant Frisbee
- Giant Frisbee 55
- Frisbee
- Frisbee XL
- Max-Air
- Jump (no longer available)
- Jump2
- King Kong
- King Chaos
- Magic (no longer available)
- Night Mares
- Pirate Ship
- Ranger (no longer available)
- Rainbow (no longer available)
- Ripsaw Alton Towers A top spin ride
- Shot'N Drop
- Shot'N Drop MAXI
- Sky Tower
- Speedy (no longer available)
- Swing Around
- Top Spin
- Suspended TopSpin
- Giant TopSpin
- Take Off (no longer available)
- Topple Tower
- TriStar (no longer available)
- Troika (no longer available)
- UFO (no longer available)
- Bee Bee
- Tasmanian Devil (no longer available)
- Land of the Giants
Wanted back on by John Gostling and his thoughtfull ones
- Take off
- TriStar
- UFO
- Troika
The thoughtfull ones
- Spit-straw
- Suspended Bee Bee
- Shaker/Magma
- Mixer (A Enterprise and Breakdance mixed together)
- Hovership riders/Flying scooters/Scrambler
- XXL (Colors: Green, Yellow, Purple, Beige) (Levels: Purple is level 1, Green is level 2, Yellow is level 3 and Beige is level 4)
- The croods (Enterprise and Booster mixed together)
References
- ^ "About Huss: Since 1919". Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ a b O'Brien, Tim. Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry, Ripley Entertainment Inc., 2006, p:225
- ^ ""Breakdance" and "Top spin" built" (in German). August 2, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ "Huss returns". parkworld-online.com. 2006-10-01. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- ^ "Giant Rides". Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ "Roller Coaster Census: Viper". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Roller Coaster Census: Dragon Mountain". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
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