Hopkins Rides

Hopkins Rides

Industry	Manufacturing
Headquarters	Haines City, Florida, USA[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Amusement rides, roller coasters
Website	www.hopkins-rides.com

Hopkins Rides is an amusement ride manufacturer based in Haines City, Florida.^[1] The company has had experience in amusement rides for over 30 years.^{[citation needed]}

Manufacturing

The company mainly focuses on water ride attractions. Their three types of water rides are:

• Shoot-the-Chutes
• Log flume
• River rafting ride

For a short time throughout the 1980s and 90s, they also made roller coasters. Seven roller coasters were built by Hopkins Rides during this period, of which six continue to operate to this day.

In addition, they also re-fabricated the track to the Arrow Dynamics-built Canobie Corkscrew at Canobie Lake Park.

Installations

Ride	Park	Type	Opening date	Status
Cliff Hanger	Ghost Town in the Sky	Steel roller coaster	1988	SBNO	[2]
Daredevil Falls	Dollywood	Log flume	1998-04 !April 1998	Operating	[3]
Desert Storm	Castles N' Coasters	Steel roller coaster	1992	Operating	[4]
Dragon	Adventureland	Steel roller coaster	1991-05-12 !May 12, 1999	Operating	[5]
Log Chute	Nickelodeon Universe	Log flume	1992-08-11 !August 11, 1992	Operating
New Wild Mouse Coaster	Misaki Park	Wild Mouse roller coaster	1996	Operating	[6]
Patriot	Castles N' Coasters	Steel roller coaster	1992	Operating	[7]
Polar Coaster	Story Land	Family roller coaster	1987	Operating	[8]
Texas Tornado	Wonderland Park	Steel roller coaster	1985	Operating	[9]
Tidal Wave	Six Flags St. Louis	Shoot-the-Chutes	1991-05 !May 1991	Operating
Tidal Wave	Thorpe Park	Shoot-the-Chutes	2000-04-07|April 7, 2000	Operating
Wild West Falls Adventure Ride	Warner Bros. Movie World	Shoot-the-Chutes	1998-12-26 !December 26, 1998	Operating	[10]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Hopkins Amusement Rides". Hopkins Rides. http://hopkins-rides.com/. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
2. ^ Marden, Duane. "Cliff Hanger  (Ghost Town in the Sky)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/234.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
3. ^ "Interesting Facts About Dollywood’s Daredevil Falls". Dollywood. http://www.dollywood.com/upload/pdfs/factsddfalls.pdf. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
4. ^ Marden, Duane. "Desert Storm  (Castles n' Coasters)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/350.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
5. ^ Marden, Duane. "Dragon  (Adventureland)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/213.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
6. ^ Marden, Duane. "New Wild Mouse Coaster  (Misaki Park)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/2407.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
7. ^ Marden, Duane. "Patriot  (Castles n' Coasters)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/351.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
8. ^ Marden, Duane. "Polar Coaster  (Story Land)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/391.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
9. ^ Marden, Duane. "Texas Tornado  (Wonderland Amusement Park)". Database Entry. Roller Coaster DataBase. http://www.rcdb.com/254.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
10. ^ "Wild West Falls (Warner Bros. Movie World)". Database Entry. Parkz. http://www.parkz.com.au/parks/_/_/_/rides/20-.html. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 

External links

• Official website