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unusual facts about Banksia 'Roller Coaster'


Banksia 'Roller Coaster'

Banksia 'Roller Coaster', sometimes referred to as Banksia 'Austraflora Roller Coaster', is a registered Banksia cultivar bred from Banksia integrifolia subsp. integrifolia.


Arrow Dynamics

Arrow made dozens of coasters throughout the decades, including several Corkscrew-style coasters, many "runaway mine train" coasters like Cedar Creek Mine Ride and Adventure Express, custom-designed coasters like Loch Ness Monster, and Carolina Cyclone.

Banksia 'Giant Candles'

It is a hybrid between the Gosford form of B. ericifolia (Heath-leaved Banksia) and a form of B. spinulosa var. cunninghamii.

Banksia 'Lemon Glow'

cunninghamii 'Lemon Glow', is a form of Banksia spinulosa var. cunninghamii with lemon-yellow flowers.

Banksia 'Limelight'

It arose as a sport from a mature plant found growing near an expressway at Kariong, New South Wales in 1986.

Banksia 'Stumpy Gold'

Banksia 'Stumpy Gold' is a dwarf cultivar of Banksia spinulosa var. collina that was selected by Richard Anderson of Merricks Nursery in Victoria from material collected at Catherine Hill Bay on the New South Wales Central Coast.

Banksia 'Waite Crimson'

A selected form of B. coccinea (Albany or Scarlet Banksia), it flowers late in the season.

Banksia 'Waite Flame'

A selected form of B. coccinea (Albany or Scarlet Banksia), it flowers early in the season and has a more orange-hued bloom than its parent species.

Banksia 'Waite Orange'

A hybrid between B. hookeriana (Hooker's Banksia) and B. prionotes (Acorn Banksia), it is generally intermediate in morphology between those two species.

Banksia 'Yellow Wing'

It is a hybrid between Banksia 'Giant Candles' and Banksia spinulosa var. collina from Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland.

Boomers! Parks

Parks is a chain of family entertainment centers which feature indoor activities such as carousels, kiddie swings, restaurants, musical shows, and amusement arcades, and outdoor activities such as miniature golf, kiddie rides, bumper boats, batting cages, go-karts, kiddie roller coasters, laser tag, and in the case of the Dania Beach, Florida location, a wooden roller coaster called the Dania Beach Hurricane.

Chili pepper

Psychologist Paul Rozin suggests that eating chilis is an example of a "constrained risk" like riding a roller coaster, in which extreme sensations like pain and fear can be enjoyed because individuals know that these sensations are not actually harmful.

DelGrosso's Amusement Park

After the 2003 season, the park sold its Pinfari "Zyklon" roller coaster, installed in 1987, to Blue Diamond Park (which closed In 2008).

Dinn Corporation

Dinn Corporation was a roller coaster designing and manufacturing company established in West Chester, Ohio in 1983 by Charles Dinn.

Charles Dinn served as Kings Island's Director of Construction, Maintenance and Engineering, where he designed and built The Beast with a team including Al Collins, Jim Nickell, William Reed and Curtis D. Summers.

Great Coasters International

(GCI or GCII) is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides since its formation in 1994.

Grimsby, Ontario

In 1910, the park's new owner, Harry Wylie, modernized the park with carousels, a motion picture theater, and a "Figure 8" roller coaster.

Gulf Coaster

The Gulf Coaster was a small children's roller coaster that was built for both the Great America parks.

Gwazi

Due to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company designed trains, which have been known to deliver rough rides on GCI designed coasters, Gwazi was previously known for giving rough (and at some points, painful) rides, similar to ROAR! at Six Flags America.

Heide Park Resort

One of the main attractions is Colossos, a wooden roller coaster, which until the opening of Balder, on 12 April 2003 in the Swedish amusement park Liseberg, was the steepest wooden roller coaster in the world.

Is It Possible?

The first episode aired on March 24, 2010, and included a contortionist, a blind man who uses echolocation, microscopic art by Willard Wigan, the fish Macropinna microstoma, a lyrebird, a man who roller skated on a roller coaster, and several other subjects.

Motorbike roller coaster

Pony Express Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California, in a twist on the once famous Motorcycle Chase of Indian Motorcycles on a Steeplechase roller coaster, now sports a Zamperla Motocoaster styled as horses.

Phantom's Revenge

As of 2012, Phantom's Revenge is in a three-way tie for 10th place of the world's fastest steel coasters, along with Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and Titan at Six Flags Over Texas.

Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad provides the theme for Sindbad's Storybook Voyage at Tokyo DisneySea, for a roller coaster at the Efteling theme park at Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, and for an elaborate live-action stunt show, The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad, at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.


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