Over at Gorillas Don't Blog, the Major posted some very rare and cool Freedomland photos. In the comments section, I mentioned that I rode the former Freedomland ride Tornado at Great Escape a number of years ago and paid the operator $20 to let me ride it twice with the lights on so I could take some photos. At any rate, here's the link to my photos, which I provided to Laff in the Dark, a very cool site about dark rides.
The photos are not great. First of all, I was moving at the time. Second, they were shot on something called....what is it again?...oh, yeah: film. I did not have a digital camera back then, so these are scanned snapshots.
Thought you might enjoy...
http://www.laffinthedark.com/articles/tornado/tornado.htm
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Thank goodness you took these photos, probably the only ones that exist showing the interior! It's hard to get a feel for how it was in its "dark ride" state, with the blacklights on. Lucky you to have those memories!
I'm so glad you documented this - probably the only one to do so! Ahhhh - for a video....
Wow - looked at your photos agai - even with all the funky & damaged figures - you can see that this had some pretty unique effects. I would have loved to have seen it in it's heyday!
Thanks for the kind words. The one thing I would have liked to have seen was the talking horse at the end. By the time I went on the ride, that gag was long broken. Still, it was a very windy ride...the fans worked great.
Very interesting---Glad you documented before it went away.
Sure looks like it had seen better days...
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