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Holy Cow: This Amusement Park Ride is a Giant Rotational Molding Machine
Get ready to rotomold your lunch inside your stomach
This might be the world's first amusement park ride that resembles a product design production method. The engineers at Swiss outfit ABC Rides have developed the Tourbillon (a French word that is used to refer to everything from merry-go-rounds to whirlwinds and maelstroms), a literal stomach-turner that does, well, this:
You guys reckon they saw a rotational molding machine, then thought about loading it up with humans rather than kayak molds? Whatever the motivation, the machine took three years to develop and rang up a bill of 1.8 million Euros in development costs.
After being strapped in, the intern had second thoughts, but no one could hear his screamsThe footage above is of the Tourbillon being tested prior to being shipped to France, where it will be incorporated into an attraction that thrill-seekers can ride for three to six minutes. Unsurprisingly, it's not being billed as a rotational molding machine: Instead they're going with the Contact/astronaut training theme and calling it "Starlight."
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drop Jodi Foster down the middle in a sphere first, then I'd try it.
Le barf.
The Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride at Universal Studios in Orlando uses Kuka robotic arms on a moving track -- the same kind of robotic arms that I associate with assembling Teslas and other large products. Also, it's the most well-designed ride I've ever been on, and the most sick I've ever been from a ride.