Six Flags Darien Lake Location. Amusement Insider. Business Wire. This box: view edit. EPR Properties November - present. Mark Kane. Boomerang Coast to Coaster. May 16, Mind Eraser. May 17, Moto Coaster. May 3, May 15, May 25, Nightmare At Phantom Cave. Bear Valley Bumper Buggies. Junior Flying Carpet. Junior Ferris Wheel. Chucky's Mud Buckets. Junior Teacups.
Junior Jets. Grand Carousel. Grand Prix Speedway. Heinz Fahtz. Hornet's Nest. Larson International. Flying Scooters. Metallbau Emmeln. Pony Trek. Pirate Ship. Raccoon Rally. Junior Dodgems.
In , the campground of Darien Lake added a pair of water slides over the waters of Darien Lake known as Hydro-Force. This planted the seed for another thrill spot in the growing Northeast area of the United States. Paul Snyder founded the theme park and named it Snyder's Darien Lake. For the first era in the park, it was mostly country themed with ride names such as Silver Bullet , the Huss Troika Thrillbilly , and the Haymaker , and soon got the nickname Fun Country.
Throughout the years, more Huss rides were installed as a deal to make Darien Lake a U. But the park lacked something just about every successful park had: a roller coaster. That, however, would change when Darien Lake received a new record-breaking coaster. For a short time, the late Arrow Dynamics company was merged with Huss and designed their only coaster together. What was the ride? None other than Viper , a coaster boasting the record for most inversions at the time with five.
The coaster, of course, became a huge success and made the park a hot spot for enthusiasts, especially in competition with the traditional Seabreeze park and newly-opened park nearby, Canada's Wonderland. The Fun Country theme was dropped and the Snyder's name-dropped as well, so it was simply known now as Darien Lake. Though the ride names never changed, still brought another icon that would make it onto the park's logo, the Giant Wheel. The ride stood in the showcase of the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee and was manufactured by Vekoma.
Standing as the park's tallest attraction at feet, it provided a good view of the midway and lake, and also showed off a light display at night.
At the time, this Ferris wheel was the largest in the world. Throughout the 's, Darien Lake saw more improvements, as the park barely had shade from the former Fun Country theme. But the late 's would bring a major expansion. In , Darien Lake built Adventureland, a kids' area with many pint-size attractions, a big top circus, and a petting zoo.
Then, brought the park one of its signature family attractions, an Intamin River Rapids model which, like all of them, guaranteed to soak. This one proved no different as Grizzly Run Rapids opened to the public in Cinema 's spot and provided another wet attraction aside from the Thunder Rapids log flume now known as Poland Springs Plunge , its Rainbow Mountain water slides, and the slide that planted the seed for the park, Hydro-Force.
Along with that, modifications to the existing water slide area were made with new concession stands, lockers, bathrooms, and shops. But that year would also bring Darien Lake another hit coaster designed by a certain famous wooden coaster mastermind when the woods of Darien Lake spawned a creature in the midst of a stormy night. Boasting a twisted triple out and back layout alongside the shores of Darien Lake, Predator took the spot of Thrillbilly and began attracting more enthusiasts to the New York park.
With a height of feet and speeds of fifty miles per hour, riders were treated to a twisted course on a wild wooden coaster. The 's brought more beautification and improvements to the premier family park in New York as Adventureland got more improvements.
Darien Lake also became a premier entertainment venue for tours and concerts in upstate New York after building a 20,person Performing Arts center by Viper.
But to keep families in the park at night, another improvement included a Laserlight Reality show called Laser Blast by Predator that mixed laser designs to hit music of yesterday and today.
The Cuda Falls complex was built and featured four family tubed water slides located next to Rainbow Falls. The next year brought a revolutionary ride, a popular Sky Coaster model over one of Darien Lake's many lakes, Fun Lake. Next season saw those major changes transitioning from the Funtime Parks era to the Premier Parks era. The first brought an end to Adventureland, as all of the attractions were torn down or moved to the new Popeye's Seaport section, themed after the popular cartoon sailor.
Popeye's Seaport took the place of Treasure Island Golf , then the park's mini-golf course moved to a grassy area under Viper and under the new name Mountain Golf. Another big change came when the old Adventureland site became a part of an expansion of the rapidly-growing Barracuda Bay water park as Hook's Lagoon , a standard family water attraction featured at many Six Flags parks, was installed.
But the biggest event of for thrill-seekers had to be the arrival and re-theme of Starchaser from Kentucky Kingdom , a Schwarzkopf Jet Star that was enclosed again and became Nightmare at Phantom Cave. The season came and all of these changes became a huge success so that the next season did not slow down for Darien Lake.
The Mind Eraser is a standard Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster model that boasts a height of feet, a speed of fifty miles per hour, and five inversions. It debuted on May 17, , and then a kiddie coaster, the Brain Teaser , was built nearby to thrill the younger set that couldn't ride the twisted Vekoma creation.
Also for the season, the Barracuda Bay waterpark expanded even more with a million-gallon wave pool called Crocodile Isle for the families. Though not revolutionary, a clone of Vekoma's popular Boomerang model was built. The coaster opened as Boomerang: Coast to Coaster , but this ride had a unique charm as it was built lakeside.
Boomerang flips three times until rolling back on the reversing spike through the inversions again, for a total of six times upside down.
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