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Ride the Wooden Warrior

A new video of Wooden Warrior is now streaming from YouTube and Facebook.  This splendid wooden roller coaster that we designed this past year at Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, Connecticut may be smaller in size, but it is bigger on thrills than most rides out there.  If you have not been out to Connecticut to [...]

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Fortune Cookie says New Coaster in China Will Appear

Drumroll please… The Gravity Group will be designing another ride in China!  This next one will be at the same chain of parks (OCT) with this one in Tianjin, a huge neighboring city of Beijing.  Like the other rides in China, this one is also built by Martin & Vleminckx.

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Historical Pictorial: 10/2004 – Gee, what if…?

In late 2004, we began posing the question, “Gee, what if…?  Historically and even today our group has always embraced challenges.  At the time of this Amusement Today ad, much of Hades‘ structure was standing above – and below – ground at Mt. Olympus Theme Park.  Photos had not revealed the big surprise of the [...]

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Historical Pictorial: 06/2004 – Ramping Up

In our first three years as a company, we landed a variety of small and larger jobs.  We also began our first big new ride, Hades at Mount Olympus Theme Park.  By summer of 2004, its record setting underground tunnel started rising from its pit, soon followed by mystery of what surprises that tunnel may [...]

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A Healthy Dose of Gravity

The August Park World magazine highlights two of The Gravity Group rides of 2011.   The digital issue can be read online. Starting off is a fantastic review of Quassy Amusement Park’s Wooden Warrior on page 8.  Discussing “Quassy’s Big Little Ride” the article showcases how this smaller ride with huge thrills is also extremely cost [...]

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