| Decade | Most Popular American Roller Coaster Name |
|---|---|
| 1890s | Scenic Russian Mountain Panoramic Train Ride |
| 1900s | Drop The Dips Fairyland Lunar Cyclorama |
| 1910s | Figure Eight Speed-O-Plane Greyhound Flyer |
| 1920s | Racing Jackrabbit Zipper |
| 1930s | Swing Coaster |
| 1940s | Atomic Jet |
| 1950s | Comet Jet |
| 1960s | Meteor Jet |
| 1970s | Loop The Looping Loop Looper: The Bicentennial Looptacular |
| 1980s | Bobsled Ultragroove |
| 1990s | Laser Gunpuncher 2000max |
| 2000s | Death Kraken |
| 2010s | Steel Death Kraken |
Source: The Kind Of Motion We Call Heat: A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in the 19th Century, Volume 2: Statistical Physics and Irreversible Processes, Stephen G Brush.
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Ah, how I miss the “Loop The Looping Loop Looper” of my youth! The most thrilling part of it was that it was assembled by underpaid sociopathic vagrants with substance abuse problems.
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Oh, now, there’s no sense exaggerating. Every amusement park ride and carnival ride is inspected regularly and responsibly, by agents for the state Department of Agriculture, for reasons that make sense except when you tell people that’s so.
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I suppose even a dubious inspection is better than no inspection at all. The next time I stop at a sketchy roadside carnival in a small town in a remote backwater, I shall ride the Loopy-Looping Swirl of Doom with more confidence (and a lot of alcohol).
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Oh, yes, there’s good reason to be tolerably confident in these things.
Also to see the 1977 movie Rollercoaster, one of the few suspense-thrillers starring a buildings inspector, as well as a sequence with the band Sparks playing “Big Boy”, their slightly earworm-y hit about David and Goliath. There’s very little which explains that.
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