Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Amusing Ads Archive - Morgan 1997


Morgan had the need for speed, and if you were one of several Cedar Fair parks in the mid to late '90s that was a really good thing. That was the period when Cedar Fair contracted with Morgan for three large hypercoasters, first Wild Thing at Valleyfair!, then Steel Force at Dorney Park, and finally Mamba at Worlds of Fun.

Each ride changed the landscape of their respective park like no ride had before, and for some really began a new era in attendance and revenues. Morgan went on to build the record smashing Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan, pushing the heights of coasters to over 300 ft.

The company itself eventually merged with Chance, and is now known as Chance Morgan. They haven't built many coasters since, but still have a full catalogue of them on their website. Just look at some of those never built hyper coaster ideas they have!


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Actually those "never built coasters" are Mamba from World of Fun, and below is Superman from Six Flags Mexico. Just want to let you know that...

NewsPlusNotes said...

If you read the "150 ft. Hypercoaster" .pdf you can see two layouts that were never used. That is what I'm speaking of.

Unknown said...

Oh okay, my bad.