RE: Project 2015: Premier Rides Coaster for Festa Italia
Well...I think I may have stumbled across a few clues to the possible theme of this ride!
If this is the inspiration and direction that they are taking this ride!! I love it! Such an original way to incorporate something complimentary to the park's European theme and the hamlet itself.
– Conn Baker of Columbus, Ohio, known as “Diavolo,” Italian for devil, was said to be the first person to perfect a “loop-the-loop” using a safety bicycle for the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus, which called the stunt “the veritable cap-sheaf of all hazardous exploits.” Baker, who used the stage name J.C. Carter, aka Diavolo, honed his skills as a bicycle racer as a teen-ager in the 1880s before perfecting his signature stunt, the loop-the-loop, which entailed speeding down a long incline into a 360-degree loop, counting on his speed and centrifugal force to keep him from dropping from the top of the loop. He joined the Forepaugh & Sells Circus in 1901 and later toured Europe and Asia.
So this ride totally fits into the Festival/Circus/Italian theme. Now I understand the different posters that show the ride in different countries...it's because the actual act toured throughout the world in carnivals and circuses.
I have attached images
Well...I think I may have stumbled across a few clues to the possible theme of this ride!
If this is the inspiration and direction that they are taking this ride!! I love it! Such an original way to incorporate something complimentary to the park's European theme and the hamlet itself.
– Conn Baker of Columbus, Ohio, known as “Diavolo,” Italian for devil, was said to be the first person to perfect a “loop-the-loop” using a safety bicycle for the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus, which called the stunt “the veritable cap-sheaf of all hazardous exploits.” Baker, who used the stage name J.C. Carter, aka Diavolo, honed his skills as a bicycle racer as a teen-ager in the 1880s before perfecting his signature stunt, the loop-the-loop, which entailed speeding down a long incline into a 360-degree loop, counting on his speed and centrifugal force to keep him from dropping from the top of the loop. He joined the Forepaugh & Sells Circus in 1901 and later toured Europe and Asia.
So this ride totally fits into the Festival/Circus/Italian theme. Now I understand the different posters that show the ride in different countries...it's because the actual act toured throughout the world in carnivals and circuses.
I have attached images
