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100 relations: Ameri-Go-Round, Amusement park, Amusement Today, Anton Schwarzkopf, Arrow Dynamics, Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine, Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, Beverly Hills Cop III, Bolliger & Mabillard, Boomerang Bay (water park), Bumper cars, California, Carowinds, CBS Corporation, Cedar Fair, Chance Rides, Chicago, Columbia Carousel, Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio), Demon (roller coaster), Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Drop Tower (Cedar Fair), Ed Alonzo, Enterprise (ride), Fast Lane (Cedar Fair), Ferris wheel, Flight Deck (California's Great America), Floorless Coaster, Flying roller coaster, Flying Scooters, Freefall (ride), Geauga Lake, Getting Even with Dad, Gold Striker, Great Coasters International, Gulf and Western Industries, Gulf Coaster, Gurnee, Illinois, HUSS Park Attractions, Hypersonic XLC, Intamin, Inverted roller coaster, Invertigo (roller coaster), KBCW (TV), Kings Dominion, Kings Entertainment Company, KMG (company), Knott's Berry Farm, Knott's Scary Farm, KPIX-TV, ..., Larson International, Levi's Stadium, Lucy's Crabbie Cabbie, Macaulay Culkin, Marriott Corporation, Mass Effect, Mass Effect: New Earth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Narrow-gauge railway, Nick Jr., Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon in amusement parks, Nickelodeon Splat City, Nighthawk (roller coaster), Paramount Parks, Paramount Pictures, Patriot (California's Great America), Peanuts, Planet Snoopy, RailBlazer, River rapids ride, Rocky Mountain Construction, Roller coaster, San Francisco 49ers, Santa Clara County Superior Court, Santa Clara, California, Schwarzkopf, Shuttle Loop, Shuttle roller coaster, Six Flags Great America, Sky Whirl, Skycoaster, Stand-up roller coaster, Steel roller coaster, Swing ride, The Grizzly, Troika (ride), United States, Vekoma, Viacom, Viacom Media Networks, Von Roll Holding, Wave pool, Whizzer (roller coaster), Wipeout (ride), Wooden roller coaster, Woodstock's Express (California's Great America), Xtreme Skyflyer, Zamperla, Zierer. Expand index (50 more) »
Ameri-Go-Round
The Ameri-Go-Round was an antique carousel at Six Flags Great America, United States.
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Amusement park
An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.
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Amusement Today
Amusement Today is a monthly periodical that features articles, news, pictures and reviews about all things relating to the amusement park industry, including parks, rides, and ride manufacturers.
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Anton Schwarzkopf
Anton Schwarzkopf (8 July 1924 – 30 July 2001) was a German engineer of amusement rides, and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries Company, which built numerous amusement rides and large roller coasters for both amusement parks and traveling funfairs.
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Arrow Dynamics
Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design and manufacturing company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States.
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Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine
Aspirin/paracetamol/caffeine is a combination drug for the treatment of pain, especially tension headache and migraine.
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Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area
The Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area is a combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.
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Beverly Hills Cop III
Beverly Hills Cop III is a 1994 American action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places and Coming to America.
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Bolliger & Mabillard
Bolliger & Mabillard, officially Bolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers Inc., and often abbreviated B&M, is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland.
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Boomerang Bay (water park)
Boomerang Bay is a water park at California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California.
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Bumper cars
Bumper cars or dodgems is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor and/or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Carowinds
Carowinds is a amusement park, located adjacent to Interstate 77 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation is an American mass media corporation focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States.
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Cedar Fair
Cedar Fair, L.P., doing business as the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, is a publicly traded partnership headquartered at its Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Chance Rides
Chance Rides Manufacturing is a roller coaster and amusement ride manufacturer.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Columbia Carousel
Columbia Carousel (known as Carousel Columbia at California's Great America) is a pair of double-decked carousels at Six Flags Great America and at California's Great America.
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Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Coney Island is a small amusement park and waterpark located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Anderson Township, on the banks of the Ohio River east of Downtown Cincinnati.
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Demon (roller coaster)
Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois in the Chicago area and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California.
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Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
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Drop Tower (Cedar Fair)
Drop Tower: Scream Zone, formerly known as Drop Zone: Stunt Tower, is the name of five drop tower thrill rides of varying sizes featured at five different Cedar Fair amusement parks in the United States and Canada.
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Ed Alonzo
Ed Alonzo (born July 26, 1968) is a Mexican American comedian, actor, and professional magician.
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Enterprise (ride)
The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Park Attractions and Anton Schwarzkopf beginning in 1972.
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Fast Lane (Cedar Fair)
Fast Lane is an optional, pay-per-person line queue system offered on select rides at Cedar Fair amusement parks.
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Ferris wheel
A Ferris wheel (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.
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Flight Deck (California's Great America)
Flight Deck is a steel inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Northern California.
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Floorless Coaster
A Floorless Coaster is a type of steel roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard where riders sit with no floor underneath them allowing their feet to swing freely just above the track.
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Flying roller coaster
A flying roller coaster is a type of roller coaster meant to simulate the sensations of flight by harnessing riders in a prone position during the duration of the ride.
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Flying Scooters
Flying Scooters, also known simply as Flyers, is an amusement ride consisting of a center post with ride vehicles suspended from arms attached to the center post.
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Freefall (ride)
The Freefall is an amusement ride developed by Giovanola and marketed throughout the world by Swiss company, Intamin.
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Geauga Lake
Geauga Lake was a theme park in Bainbridge Township and Aurora, Ohio, United States.
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Getting Even with Dad
Getting Even With Dad is a 1994 American comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson.
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Gold Striker
Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America amusement park.
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Great Coasters International
Great Coasters International, Inc. (GCI or GCII) is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides since its formation in 1994.
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Gulf and Western Industries
Gulf and Western Industries, Inc., (stylized as Gulf+Western) was an American conglomerate.
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Gulf Coaster
The Gulf Coaster was a small children's roller coaster that was built for both the Great America parks.
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Gurnee, Illinois
Gurnee is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
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HUSS Park Attractions
HUSS Park Attractions (legal name: Huss Park Attractions GmbH) is a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary.
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Hypersonic XLC
Hypersonic XLC was a roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.
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Intamin
Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland.
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Inverted roller coaster
An inverted roller coaster is a roller coaster in which the train runs under the track with the seats directly attached to the wheel carriage.
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Invertigo (roller coaster)
Invertigo is a type of shuttle roller coaster manufactured by Dutch company, Vekoma.
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KBCW (TV)
KBCW, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 45), is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as the West Coast flagship of The CW Television Network.
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Kings Dominion
Kings Dominion is an amusement park located in Doswell, Virginia, north of Richmond and south of Washington, D.C..
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Kings Entertainment Company
Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world.
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KMG (company)
KMG is a Dutch company manufacturing amusement rides, located in Neede, Gelderland.
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Knott's Berry Farm
Knott’s Berry Farm is a amusement park in Buena Park, California, United States, owned by Cedar Fair.
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Knott's Scary Farm
Knott's Scary Farm or Knott's Halloween Haunt is a seasonal Halloween event at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.
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KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 29), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Larson International
Larson International is a designer and manufacturer of amusement rides based in Plainview, Texas.
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Levi's Stadium
Levi's Stadium is a football stadium located in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Lucy's Crabbie Cabbie
Lucy's Crabbie Cabbie (formerly known as Taxi Jam and Hey Arnold's Taxi Chase) is a steel roller coaster at Carowinds and California's Great America.
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Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor, author, painter, podcaster, musician and president of Bunnyears.
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Marriott Corporation
Marriott Corporation was a hospitality company that operated from 1927 until 1993, founded by J. Willard Marriott and Frank Kimball as Hot Shoppes, Inc. In 1957, Marriott Corporation opened its first hotel in Arlington County, Virginia, United States as the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel (demolished 1990).
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.
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Mass Effect: New Earth
Mass Effect: New Earth is a theatrical amusement park ride at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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Nick Jr.
Nick Jr. (also known by its full title Nick Jr. Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is run by the Nickelodeon Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom, the channel's ultimate owner headquartered in New York City.
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.
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Nickelodeon in amusement parks
Since the 1990s, Nickelodeon, a worldwide children's television network and franchise, owned by Viacom, has had an involvement in the creation and theming of amusement parks rides.
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Nickelodeon Splat City
Nickelodeon Splat City was a themed area inside of California's Great America (1995–2002), Kings Island (1995–2000), and Kings Dominion (1995–1999).
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Nighthawk (roller coaster)
Nighthawk is a steel flying roller coaster from Vekoma located at Carowinds amusement park.
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Paramount Parks
Paramount Parks was an operator of theme parks and attractions, which annually attracted about 13 million patrons.
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.
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Patriot (California's Great America)
Patriot is a steel floorless roller coaster located in Celebration Plaza at the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.
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Planet Snoopy
Planet Snoopy is a Peanuts themed area for children at several Cedar Fair Entertainment Company amusement parks.
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RailBlazer
RailBlazer is a steel roller coaster at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California.
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River rapids ride
A river rapids ride (or river rafting ride) is an amusement ride that simulates whitewater rafting.
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Rocky Mountain Construction
Rocky Mountain Construction (also abbreviated as RMC) is a manufacturing and construction company based in Hayden, Idaho, United States.
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Roller coaster
A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.
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San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Santa Clara County Superior Court
The Superior Court of Santa Clara County is the California Superior Court for Santa Clara County, California, which includes the city of San Jose.
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Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California.
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Schwarzkopf
Schwarzkopf ("black head" in German) refers to.
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Shuttle Loop
A Shuttle Loop is a type of steel launched shuttle roller coaster designed by Reinhold Spieldiener of Intamin and manufactured by Anton Schwarzkopf.
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Shuttle roller coaster
A shuttle roller coaster is any roller coaster that ultimately does not make a complete circuit, but rather reverses at some point throughout its course and traverses the same track backwards.
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Six Flags Great America
Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois.
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Sky Whirl
Sky Whirl was the name of two Triple Tree Wheel amusement rides that debuted at the California's Great America (in Santa Clara, California) and Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, Illinois) amusement parks in 1976.
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Skycoaster
Skycoaster is an amusement park ride, produced and managed by Skycoaster, Inc., owned division of Ride Entertainment Group.
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Stand-up roller coaster
A stand-up roller coaster is a roller coaster designed to have the passengers stand through the course of the ride.
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Steel roller coaster
A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel.
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Swing ride
The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, Chair-O-Planes or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel.
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The Grizzly
The Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California.
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Troika (ride)
The Troika is an amusement park ride designed and manufactured by HUSS Park Attractions in the mid-1970s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vekoma
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing is a Dutch amusement ride manufacturer.
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Viacom
Viacom Inc. is an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in film and television.
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Viacom Media Networks
Viacom Media Networks, formerly known as MTV Networks, is an American mass media division of Viacom that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands.
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Von Roll Holding
Von Roll Holding AG is a Swiss industrial group that operates worldwide in 20 sites (15 production sites).
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Wave pool
A wave pool is a swimming pool in which there are artificially generated, reasonably large waves, similar to those of the ocean.
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Whizzer (roller coaster)
Whizzer is an Anton Schwarzkopf Speedracer roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.
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Wipeout (ride)
The Wipeout is a newer form of the Trabant.
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Wooden roller coaster
A wooden roller coaster is most often classified as a roller coaster with running rails made of flattened steel strips mounted on laminated wooden track.
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Woodstock's Express (California's Great America)
Woodstock Express is a steel kiddie roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California.
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Xtreme Skyflyer
Xtreme Skyflyer (known as RipCord at Carowinds) is a Skycoaster at several Cedar Fair parks.
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Zamperla
Antonio Zamperla S.p.A. is an Italian design and manufacturing company founded in 1966.
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Zierer
Zierer Karussell- und Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH & Co.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California's_Great_America
