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Caterpillar
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Idlewild's Caterpillar with the canvas up.LOCATIONS: "Caterpillar"-Idlewild Park, Ligonier, Pennsylvania
"Space Odyssey"-Bland's Park, Tipton, Pennsylvania
RIDE TYPE: Caterpillar
CAPACITY: 40 (20 cars, two per car)
DURATION OF RIDE: About 2 minutes
A very interesting ride, Idlewild's is outdoors while Bland's is enclosed in a building. Bland's is opertaed in the dark with a strobe light show. Idlewild's has its own unique twist also, as when the ride begins, the ride is out in the open, once it picks up speed, a canvas top appears from nowhere and covers encloses the riders in semi-darkness! A very neat effect. The ride operates with a large fan blowing up underneath one part of the track. When these rides began to appear many many years ago in amusement parks, there was concern about the fan blowing young ladies' skirts up, but it did not seem to happen vey often.
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Idlewild's Caterpillar with the canvas down.Auto Race | Break Dance | Caterpillar | Chaos | Crazy Flip | Derby Racer | Drop Of Fear | Evolution | Flight Trainer | G-Force | Gravitron | Hellevator | Hi-Roller | Hip Hop | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Kangaroo | Loop On Top | Looping Star | Magnum | Mixer | Power Surge | Roll-O-Plane | Rotoshake | Skyscraper | Space Loop | Space Roller | Spin Out | Storm | Surf Dance | Time Warp | Top Scan | Topspin | Tornado | Turtle | Twilight Zone: Tower Of Terror | Venitian Carousel | Wonder Wheel | Zipper
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