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Huss
Huss has a reputation of building highest quality flat rides in the business. Especially during the 90's they provided many of the best flat rides for amusement parks and funfairs. Some of Huss's original ideas are Breakdance, Frisbee, Rainbow and Top Spin. They are nowadays often copied by different manufactuers, but Huss still manages to stay as one of the market leaders by building high quality rides that last in use.
One of their most original and wildest rides - Booster - can be found at Linnanmäki, Finland.
- Airboat
- Booster
- Breakdance
- Condor
- Enterprise
- FlicFlac
- Frisbee
- Pirate
- Rainbow
- TakeOff
- Top Spin
- Troika
Too bad the links to some of Huss's classic rides have been removed from their official homepage. We did however store the links, so you can navigate all their classic rides from here.
Troika
Swing Around
Dreamboat
DiscoRound
Magic
Breakdance 2
Super Shute
Breakdance
Breakdance 3
Ben Hur
Flipper
TopSpin 2
Jump
Take Off
Flic Flac
Ranger
Speedy
Enterprise
Rainbow
Pirate Boat
Sky Lab
Tristar
UFO
FEATURED CLASSIC RIDES
Topple Tower
Shot'N Drop
Top Spin
Frisbee
Fly Away
Condor
Shot'N Shot
Booster
Sky Tower
| Height: | approx. 6.4m/21ft. |
| Number of gondolas: | 12 |
| Gondola capacity: | 2 persons |
| Approx hourly capacity: | 480 persons/h |
Airboat
The Huss Airboat is basically a new version of the classic ride Troika. It only has 12 gondolas, while Troika has 21. The base diameter is also smaller, so the experience is more tamed and Airboat is offered as a family ride.
Known Airboat installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airboat | Sweden | Skara Sommarland | 2004 | Thrill ride |
| Dillen | Denmark | BonBon-Land | 1999 | Thrill ride |
For true adventurers only! The thrill of this ride derives from whizzing around in circles at a lofty height.
Booster
From the outside the Huss Booster could look just like an improved version of the Break Dance, but it's much more. First you'll spin frontwards - then backwards going upside down many times. Each sommersault the feeling will be a different experience, as the board's movement pattern is multi-dimensional.
Known Booster installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kieppi | Finland | Linnanmäki | 2003 | Spectacular |
Booster's secret is the inimitable movement of its gondolas: an unpredictable change of position, coupled with pendulum swings, climaxing in thrilling loops around the gondola's own horizontal axis ‚ Wow!
The Booster at Linnanmäki.
Breakdance
The Breakdance is the most popular thrill ride ever built. Huss has built 4 versions of it, with different capacities in all of them. They can be fitted with regular cars, or with the bull or barrel cars popular with theme parks.
Known Breakdance installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snurretoppen | Denmark | Tivoli | 1988 | Thrill ride |
| Break Dance | Denmark | Tivoliland | Thrill ride | |
| Pop-Expressen | Sweden | Gröna Lund | 1996 | Thrill ride |
| Break Dance | Sweden | Liseberg | 1987 | Thrill ride |
Condor
Condor is an impressive classic ride, that combines gentle lifting movement and sidewards movement. It offers great views, but never really stops still for amusement park site admins to take photos. ;)
Known Condor installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lossepladsen | Denmark | BonBon-Land | 2000 | Thrill ride |
| Taifun | Finland | Tykkimäki | 1986 | Thrill ride |
| Hökfärden | Sweden | Liseberg | 1985 | Thrill ride |
Condor offers a relaxed and comfortable ride at a breathtaking height and excellent capacity.
Enterprise
Huss' version is fairly similiar to the Schwarzkopf's famous ride. They apparently use gondolas with six adjacent lights in the front, as in Schwarzkopf's Enterprise I and II-models.
Known Enterprise installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Denmark | Bakken | Thrill ride | |
| Enterprise | Norway | Tusenfryd | 1988 | Thrill ride |
| Enterprise | Sweden | Liseberg | 1976 | Thrill ride |
FlicFlac
FlicFlac is a quite original ride with great upside-down movements while rotating sidewards.
Known FlicFlac installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragen | Denmark | Tivoli | 1995 | Thrill ride |
| Rock & Roller | Russia | Kirov Park | Thrill ride |
Frisbee
Frisbee is a best-selling ride by Huss and first of it's kind in the world. Later on almost every manufacturer has developed their own copy of Frisbee.
Known Frisbee installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisbee | Finland | Särkänniemi | 2000 | Spectacular |
| Frisbee | Sweden | Furuvik | Spectacular |
The Frisbee at Särkänniemi.
Pirate
It's quite hard to tell all the different pirate ship's manufactuers. The ones made by Huss often have a big mast in the middle and some kind of light blue sign on the top. But so do the ones by Fabbri and former SDC as well. Only the models known to be Huss-made are listed below.
Known Pirate Ship installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirat | Finland | Wasalandia | Thrill ride | |
| Pirat | Russia | Kirov Park | Thrill ride |
| Length of the gondola: | approx. 33ft./ 10 m |
| Gondola capacity: | 36 persons in 3 rows |
| Approx. Hourly Capacity | 720 persons/h |
Rainbow
Rainbow is a popular classic ride made by Huss. Its movement resembles a lot of a Miami ride, but rainbows go much higher.
Known Rainbow installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow | Finland | Linnanmäki | 1984 | Thrill ride |
| Rainbow | Sweden | Liseberg | 1983 | Thrill ride |
Rainbow at Linnanmäki.
TakeOff
TakeOff is quite similiar to the Superbowl ride. Passengers are seated in 4 long arms rotating around a disk which raises 45deg up in the air in the beginning.
Known TakeOff installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TakeOff | Sweden | Liseberg | 1994 | Thrill ride |
| Take-Off | Sweden | Parken Zoo | 2003 | Thrill ride |
Top Spin
The Top Spin is among the best recognized thrill rides in the world. 9 different automatic programs can be used. One delivers many spins, but doesn't contain anthing else really. One has a full loop without going upside down as a special feature, and it actually gives some airtime!
Known Top Spin installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Spin | Finland | Linnanmäki | 1993 | Spectacular |
| TopSpin | Sweden | Liseberg | 1993 | Spectacular |
| Top Spin | Russia | Kirov Park | Spectacular |
Top Spin at Linnanmäki.
| Number of gondolas: | 21 |
| Gondola capacity: | 2 persons, sitting one beside the other |
| Approx. Hourly Capacity | 840 persons/h |
Troika
Troika is a classic Huss ride, which already seems a bit dated. The only Scandinavian one I know of is in Särkänniemi. It's always good for a gentle refreshing ride, but not as thrilling as back in the 70's obviously.
Known Troika installations:
| Name | Country | Park | Year | Ride Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troika | Finland | Särkänniemi | 1975 | Thrill ride |
TROIKA is an ideal family ride, with its high capacity and harmoniously balanced ride patterns.
An amusement attraction for passengers of young and young at heart, TROIKA is manufactured with a central structure of steel, portable for mobile operation or for stationary operation on a concrete foundation.
Mounted onto the center structure bottom frame is a ball bearing rotary unit with 3 pivoting cantilevers, at the ends of which ball bearing hubs are provided for the suspension of the wheel.
Installed to the hubs of the cantilevers are 3 planet wheels, consisting of steel frames with supports, around the periphery of which swing 7 passengers gondolas pert wheel.
The lifting and the lowering of the planet wheels is effected hydraulically with the aid of a lifting cylinder in the cantilevers and of a hydraulic pump, having an oil tank of 106 gal.
Three-phase A.C. motors with reduction gears and pneumatic brakes are installed for the starting of the rotary movement. All electrical switch and control devices are installed as well as an attractive lighting of the cantilevers, the planet wheels, and the gondolas.
Furthermore the ride is equipped with 1 platform for the change of the passengers, 1 cab, and, if necessary, 1 front for additional decoration. The ride is arranged for selection of either manual or automatic operation.
Troika at Särkänniemi.