* Big Dipper, alternative name for a roller coaster ride, especially in the United Kingdom.

** Big Dipper ( Blackpool ), a wooden roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

** Big Dipper ( Geauga Lake ), a wooden roller coaster currently Standing but not operating at Geauga Lake

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

* Cyclops ( roller coaster ), at Mt.

* Two world class roller coasters have been named after Earnhardt ; the Intimidator ( roller coaster ) at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Intimidator 305 located at Kings Dominion in Virginia.

* Arrow Dynamics, roller coaster designer

* Infusion ( roller coaster ), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, UK

* 1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens.

* 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

* 1885 – L. A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.

* 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the " coaster wars ".

* 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

* Nemesis ( roller coaster ), Europe's first inverted roller coaster opened in 1994 at Alton Towers, England-not to be confused with Nemesis Inferno, its sister roller coaster at Thorpe Park.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

In the next year, another children's area, known as Nickelodeon Splat City, opened near the Shockwave roller coaster, this was a product of Viacom purchasing Paramount in 1994.

A player may, for instance pretend to be a truthful person, a notorious liar, a constantly lucky roller, or one that usually tries to get at players beyond the next player.

Then the next locking tooth drops onto the ruby roller and stays there while the balance wheel completes its cycle and swings back clockwise ( CW ), and the process repeats.

The next ( and final ) large attraction to open would be " The Hangman " roller coaster in 1995.

In 1995, Viper, a wooden roller coaster with a layout based on a mirror image of the Coney Island Cyclone, was built next to Rolling Thunder, which was removed later that year.

If the roller wins the challenge, they can go again, but if they lose, the dice are handed to the next player.

When the train returns to the station, the floor is brought back up and the gate is closed as the next riders board the roller coaster.

There is one category of very simple figures ( 111 and 112 ) that are unique to roller skaters ; these are serpentines that begin with a half circle skated on one foot, then change to the other foot, for the next circle, then change back to the other foot for another half circle.

The roller coaster continued the following season as they were promoted back up 1997 – 98 only to be relegated straight back down the next season.

The next year saw the Scream Roller Coaster being transformed into the USA's first stand up roller coaster.

The most notable change in 1997 was the start of construction on the park's next roller coaster, Shivering Timbers.

Raging Bull sits next to Viper, one of three wooden roller coasters in the park.

The next course ( road base ) would be compacted using a smooth single drum, smooth tandem roller or pneumatic tyre roller in combination with a grader, and a water truck to achieve the desired flat surface with the right moisture content for optimum compaction.

Close up of an extra fine roller ball pen next to something written with it

Their next roller coaster will be constructed at Quassy Amusement Park for the 2011 season, this will be the company's sixth wooden roller coaster.

Birds that call this area home for at least part of the year include: vultures, marabou storks, secretary birds, hornbills, crowned cranes, ostriches, long-crested Eagles, African pygmy-falcons and the lilac-breasted roller, which is the national bird of Kenya.

This amusement resort hosts up to 1, 000, 000 visitors each year and is home to the Hoosier Hurricane, Cornball Express, Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain, Tig ' rr, Galaxi, and Steel Hawg roller coasters.

The year 1991 was a roller coaster year for Killeen.

The first roller coaster, Switchback Railway, opened the following year.

That same year, Kaneko produced Roller Aces, an early roller skating racer played from a third-person perspective, while Irem released MotoRace USA, an early partially third-person motorbike racer, where the player travels across the US and refuels at various cities along the way, while avoiding crashes that can cause a substantial loss of fuel, causing the game to end if the fuel is depleted.

From 1996 to 1999, Premier would also install a new roller coaster each year, Nightmare at Phantom Cave in 1996, Mind Eraser in 1997, Boomerang: Coast to Coaster in 1998, and Superman Ride of Steel ( the world's first Intamin hypercoaster ) in 1999.

In 1976, the park added the Wildcat compact steel roller coaster, and a year later the park added the Double Loop, a looping steel coaster.

A water slide complex known as Racing Rivers opened in 1987, and Avalanche, which remains the only Mack bobsled roller coaster in the United States, debuted the following year in 1988.

A new, looping roller coaster from Arrow Dynamics called Anaconda was introduced the following year in 1991 featuring the world's first underwater tunnel which travels under part of Lake Charles.

After six years off the road for a full restoration, the roller returned to steam in 2006, and was in action as part of the road-making demonstration at the Great Dorset Steam Fair that year.

It was purchased a year after it opened by Carl E. Phare, a designer and builder of roller coasters, who designed The Dipper, a roller coaster with of track and a maximum altitude of.

Every year since, the park has enjoyed much success and many millions of dollars in renovations and improvements including more waterslides, a couple high capacity water rides, a looping roller coaster, and in 2000, the Boulder Dash, which received the 2004 Golden Ticket Award for the # 1 rated Wooden Roller Coaster by " Amusement Today.

2001 was to be the year of three new roller coasters, but only one actually opened on time: Goliath Jr., a steel kiddie coaster.

The second phase was to double the size of the water park, add 4 new rides including a steel 8 – 10 million dollar roller coaster to replace Chang, and possibly a smaller coaster, to be built the year after Kentucky Kingdom opened.

On May 2, 1887, the year Reverend Goodwin retired from the church he had served for twenty years, he filed a patent for " a photographic pellicle and process of producing same ... especially in connection with roller cameras ", but the patent was not granted until 13 September 1898.

It opened only a year after the similar King Cobra at Kings Island did, which was North America's first stand-up roller coaster.

Designer Robert Brindle conceived of the idea behind Old Chicago after a visit to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, and wished to put an entire park-complete with roller coaster, Ferris wheel, and log flumes-indoors so that it could be open year round.

One year after opening in 1982, the Thunderbolt opened as the world's longest steel double loop roller coaster.