The Sol Spin ride that looks like a flying blender strands riders six stories in the air when it suddenly stops working.
Sol Spin thrill ride in the refreshed Fiesta Village themed land at Knott’s Berry Farm. Nearly two dozen thrill seekers at Knott’s Berry Farm got more excitement than they bargained for when a six-story thrill ride that looks like a flying blender stopped working and left them stranded in the air for more than two hours while crews worked to rescue them.
Four local television news helicopters circled over the Buena Park theme park to document the incident.The ride spins in three directions, sending riders flipping head-over-heels as their gondola whirls like a propeller blade and a support arm rotates like a second hand on a malfunctioning clock.On the carnival midway, traveling versions of these types of spinning, twisting and whirling attractions are known in carnie-speak as bucket rides because they tend to induce vomiting.
Sol Spin riders sit in freely rotating gondolas attached to a counterclockwise-rotating arm that makes an oval arc through the air. The floorless coaster-like seats with over-the-shoulder restraints allow riders to dangle their feet and arms as centrifugal force causes the gondolas to rock back and forth.
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