Negative-G - Worlds Of Fun - ACE Around the World 2022

Worlds of Fun
Kansas City, Missouri
ACE Around the World
May 28, 2022
Page Eleven

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ACE Around the World at Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri

An addition to ACE Around the World this year was a group get together down in one of the picnic pavilions at Worlds of Fun.

The Mamba roller coaster at ACE Around the World at Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, Missouri

As this year was all about Mamba they had one of the coasters cars out for all of us to take a really close look at.

Having this car here was a massive flashback to my first experience with a roller coaster. I was three and living in the Chicago Suburbs a few miles from where the Old Chicago Shopping Center and Amusement Park was being built. To promote their new park and rides they placed the lead car from the Old Chicago Loop coaster on some blocks at a local airport fly-in. My father took me to look at the planes but as soon as I saw that coaster car anything with wings was suddenly forgotten. Crawling up into the car I locked myself in and then asked for people to release me.

I then crawled underneath the car and played with everything that I could from the rides restraint system, to the chain dog...

...to spinning the wheels. Where there is a connection to getting under Mamba's train to play and my first experience crawling over the Old Chicago Loop car was that they both related. The Old Chicago Loop was a production model "Corkscrew" coaster by Arrow Dynamics. Arrow was founded by Ed Beacon and Carl Morgan. Carl's son Dana got into the family business and eventually left to found his own company D.H. Morgan Manufacturing. D.H. Morgan is the company that built and designed Mamba.