HUSS Park Attractions
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Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. HUSS have designed over 35 different types of amusement rides installed worldwide.
History
HUSS was founded in 1919 in Bremen and originally made new and replacement parts for shipShip
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engines. The company began to create amusement rides in 1969 and since 2006 the enterprise has focussed exclusively on the production of rides.
On August 1, 2006, the Bremen district court
District court
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declared provisional insolvency
Insolvency
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and an insolvency manager was appointed. Following this, a new company was created, Huss Park Attractions. The new company was created by a group of investors and the Hungarian factory 'Huss Gépgyár Kft'.
Ride styles
Breakdance (ride)
The Breakdance is an amusement park and fairground ride, designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1985. Upon release, the ride design proved to be an instant hit, with HUSS now producing four varying designs, all of which can be acquired in transportable, semi-permanent, or permanent forms.-Design and...
, Top Spin
Top Spin (ride)
The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle. The ride consists of a passenger platform suspended between two counterweighted arms...
, Shot'n Drop and Frisbee
Frisbee (ride)
The Frisbee is an pendulum-motion amusement ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. The term is often used to describe similar rides built by other companies.-Design and operation:...
. Breakdance was developed and built in 1985 by HUSS Rides and there are now four variants, of which over 100 have been installed worldwide - 46 of them in Germany.
HUSS also offer a range of "Giant Rides" which are aimed to fill the gap between thrill rides and roller coasters. At one time HUSS was involved with rollercoaster development as the Viper at Darien Lake theme park is labeled as a HUSS-Arrow construction.
List of HUSS-manufactured rides
HUSS has produced and distributed over 30 unique ride designs. These rides are in operation all over the world, and some have been in operation for 35 years. Below is a list of the different ride types produced by HUSS:- Airboat
- Ben Hur (no longer available)
- BoosterBooster (HUSS ride)Booster is an amusement park ride made by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. It is an evolution of the firm's Breakdance ride, and a competitor for Mondial's Shake and Fabbri's Crazy Shake rides. The basic movement is the same as these rides, but the car is pivoted so that riders are spun sideways. During the...
- BreakdanceBreakdance (ride)The Breakdance is an amusement park and fairground ride, designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1985. Upon release, the ride design proved to be an instant hit, with HUSS now producing four varying designs, all of which can be acquired in transportable, semi-permanent, or permanent forms.-Design and...
- Breakdance 2
- Breakdance 3
- Breakdance 4/Rodeo
- CondorCondor (ride)The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower"....
(no longer available) - Delirium
- Disco-Round (no longer available)
- EnterpriseEnterprise (ride)The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1972. The ride was an adaptation and improvement of a design produced earlier that year by Schwarzkopf, with an increased passenger capacity. Despite not owning the original incarnation of the ride, HUSS was...
- Skylab (Giant Enterprise—no longer available)
- Fly Away
- Megadance
- Flic Flac
- Suspended Flipper
- Fly Willy
- FrisbeeFrisbee (ride)The Frisbee is an pendulum-motion amusement ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. The term is often used to describe similar rides built by other companies.-Design and operation:...
- Giant Frisbee
- Giant Frisbee 55
- Frisbee
- Frisbee XL
- Jump
- Jump2
- King Kong
- Magic (no longer available)
- Ocean Motion
- Pirate Ship
- RangerRanger (ride)A Ranger is a HUSS manufactured inverting pendulum ride, first manufactured in 1981. Many of the design elements were later used in the HUSS Rainbow, and the term 'Ranger' has become synonymous with inverting pendulum rides...
(no longer available) - Rainbow (no longer available)
- Shot'N Drop
- Shot'N Drop MAXI
- Sky Tower
- Speedy (no longer available)
- Swing Around
- Top SpinTop Spin (ride)The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle. The ride consists of a passenger platform suspended between two counterweighted arms...
- Suspended TopSpin
- Giant TopSpin
- Take Off (no longer available)
- Topple TowerTopple TowerA Topple Tower is an amusement ride produced by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. The ride was designed by Mr. Theo van Orsouw of van Orsouw Amusement Rides Design Service , the Netherlands Patent Pended nr: PCT/EP2002/012698 Nov...
- TriStar (no longer available)
- TroikaTroika (ride)The Troika is an amusement park ride, designed and manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the mid-1970s. The ride is available in both transportable and permanent forms, although due to the total weight and size of the ride , transportable Troikas are unpopular and uncommon...
(no longer available) - UFOUFO (ride)The UFO is an amusement park ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1978, based on the company's Enterprise and Skylab amusement rides.-Design and operation:...
(no longer available) - BeeBee
- Swing Around
- Tasmanian Devil
- Land of the Giants