HUSS Park Attractions (

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: Huss Park Attractions GmbH) is a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary.

History of the original Huss Company

HUSS Maschinenfabrik was a German company founded in 1919 in Bremen and originally made new and replacement parts for

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engines. The company began to create amusement rides in 1969 and continued until 2005. In 1981, Huss Maschinenfabrik purchased

Arrow Development Arrow Development was an amusement park ride and roller coaster design and manufacturing company, incorporated in California on November 16, 1945, and based in Mountain View. It was founded by Angus "Andy" Anderson, Karl Bacon, William Hardiman ...

from the Rio Grande Railroad, merging the two companies to form Arrow Huss. The company got into financial trouble partially due to heavily investing in Darien Lake theme park in New York and the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans.O'Brien, Tim. ''Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry'', Ripley Entertainment Inc., 2006, p:225 Arrow Huss filed for bankruptcy protection in 1985, and 13 of the company's American officers negotiated a buyout. In 1986, the takeover was approved by the courts, and the American company re-emerged as

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. The German company reorganized as Huss Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG. On August 1, 2006, the Bremen district court declared provisional

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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 who used the "Huss" name, created a logo similar to the original used by HUSS, and began building rides at the Hungarian factory 'Huss Gépgyár Kft'. Huss Park Attractions and Huss Parts and Service are newer companies and not the HUSS company that became world-famous by building rides such as the Enterprise, Pirate, Troika, and others in the 1970s and '80s. HUSS Maschinenfabrik was the company responsible for these rides. The companies of today are not the legal successors of the original HUSS MASCHINENFABRIK company nor the builders of the innovative HUSS rides.

Ride styles

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''. 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 offers a range of "Giant Rides" which are aimed to fill the gap between thrill rides and

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. From 1981 to 1985, during its merger with Arrow, Arrow Huss built roller coasters.

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, Marineland's

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, and

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are a few examples.

List of HUSS-manufactured rides

Several companies using the HUSS name have 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 different HUSS companies: ASR = Advanced System Rides ** ASR Airboat ** ASR Bee Bee ** ASR Breakdance 4/Rodeo ** ASR Crazy Pineapple (no longer available) ** ASR Fly Willy ** ASR Locomotion (no longer available) * Ben Hur (no longer available) *

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** Breakdance 1 (no longer available) ** Breakdance 2 (no longer available) ** Breakdance 3 (no longer available) *

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**(Reintroduced in 2013 as "Condor 2G/2GH") * Delirium oncept, never realizedno longer available) * Disco-Round (no longer available) *

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**(Reintroduced in 2015 as "Enterprise 2G/2GH") * Dream Boat (no longer available) * Flic Flac (no longer available) * Flipper (no longer available) * Fly Away (no longer available) * Flying Theatre *

(no longer available) ** Frisbee 34 (no longer available) ** Giant Frisbee 40 ** Giant Frisbee 50 ** Frisbee XL (no longer available) * Jump (no longer available) ** Jump2 * King Kong * Land of the Giants

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History of the original Huss Company

Ride styles

List of HUSS-manufactured rides

References

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