Thursday, March 13, 2008

Amusement Park Ride Prices

I have gotten these from various sources including rcdb.com, Coastercrew.com, Noah's Ark.com, a King's Dominion Site, and a roller coaster video (I forgot the name.)

These are:

Huss Top Spin - 3.5 million
S&S Screamin' Swing - $6 million
Intamin Impulse Coaster (Vertical Velocity or Wicked Twister) - $10 million and 8.5 million for smaller versoin

Hydra the Revenge - $13 million
Max Air at Cedar Point was around 7.5 million

Bat at Lagoon Park in Utah (Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster)- 3 million
Spider Roller Coaster at Lagoon Park in Utah (Maurer Söhne / Xtended SC 2000)- 3 million

In 1999 a pair of new PTC's went for ~$800,000.
Wiggle's World costs 3 million.
Operation Spygirl Show set was 5 million.

New mouse coaster (Batman Dark Knight) was 7.5 million.
Superman Ultimate Flight was 15 million.
Joker’s Jinx at Six Flags America was 10 million.

Great Bear at Hersheypark was 13 million.
Magnum at Cedar Point was 8 million.

Griffon: 15.6 million
Corkscrew (Cedar Point): 1.75 million

Tony Hawk’s Big Spin: 6.5 million
Tatsu was 21 million.
Goliath @ SFOG was 20 million.

X ^ 2, they are spending an additional 10 million on new stuff for the ride.

Skull Island type of kids water playground area at waterpark This is the place that has slides in the complex, and water buckets.: 1.2 million
Expedition Everest- 100 million
Mission Space – 100 million

Radiator Springs at Disney’s California Adventure (Similar to Test Track I’m thinking) – 300 million
Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror (MGM) – 140 million

Spiderman (Islands of Adventure) – nearly 100 million (Each vehicle costs 100,000.)
Splash Mountain – 90 million
Indiana Jones Adventure – 100 million

Rolling Thunder: 5 million
Rhino Rally: 25 million
Drop Zone @ Kings Island: 10 million

Italian Job Stunt Coaster: 13 million
Flight of Fear: 17 million
Face-Off: 11 million

Rugrat’s Runaway Reptar: 4 million
Racer: 1.2 million
The Beast: 4 million

Son of Beast: 15 million
Vortex: 4 million
Firehawk: 10 million to install at Kings Island. It came with an initial cost at Gaugea Lak to begin with as being called X-Flight.

Adventure Express (Arrow Mine Train): 4 million
Delirium: 4.5 million (Max Air)
Tomb Raider the Ride: A site says around 20 million, but I don’t think that’s true. This is Huss Top Spin with fire effects.

Time Warp (Noah’s Ark Water park)- “over one million dollars to build”.
Black Anaconda (Noah’s Ark Waterpark)- 2.5 million dollars This is the watercoaster.
Hurricane Harbor waterpark at Six Flags Great America -25 million

As you can see, rides are really expensive! Thus, when you go to an amusement park remember that you are paying a lot of money because they are expensive to maintain, and buy.

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