Learn from the People who work in the Amusement Industry
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Hard Rock Park
Steven Goodwin - CEO
Jon Binkowski - Chief Creative Office
Dale Katzel - General Manager
CoasterForce interviewed 3 of the men responsible for Hard Rock Park in May 2008. Includes lots of questions about how a park is started and some of the challenges that go along with it.
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Michael Graham - Gravity Group
Coaster Force caught up with Michael Graham, designer at the Gravity Group, at this years IAAPA amusement trade show.
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Chad Miller - Gravity Group
Read about what really goes on during the design of roller coasters and everything inbetween in this interview from June 2006. Chad Miller talks about how Gravity Group's coasters get designed and built.
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Nick Buckley - Flamingoland
Flamingolands' Operation Manager spoke to Coaster Force about the exciting developements at the park, speaks in deapth about Kuamli, the new coaster for 2006, and the reasons behind the removal of The Bullet and Magnum Force. Oh...and did somebody mention wood?
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Nick Laister - Save Dreamland Campaign
Take a look our at our exclusive interview from April 2006 with Nick Laister, founder of the Save Dreamland Campaign as he tells us about the campaign and the parks future after such a long struggle to keep the UK's oldest operating coaster, Scenic Railway, operating.
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Rob Griffiths - Paultons Park
In this interview from April 2006, the Marketing Manager from Paulton's Park explains why Paultons is such a unique day trip experience and what it has to offer to people of ages, including information about their new roller coaster, The Cobra, and what the plans are for further development in this previously little unknown park in southern England.
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Brian Ondrey - Consign AG
In our interview from 2002, Brian Ondrey explains to us the technicalities of working with Consign AG (now Consign LLC) on B&M roller coaster projects, such as Air at Alton Towers. The interview offers fantastic insight into the design process as well as the difficult troubleshooting sessions which often go on late into the night before a ride opens, and, in Air's case, often for weeks after it has opened.
This interview provides absolutely diamond information for any coaster enthusiast.
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