Best Ever Waltzer ?

This Danter's Waltzer is the best I've ever seen,it's like a spinning nightclub!
The Waltzer Ride has been travelling the UK since the 1950's, although it can trace it's beginings back to the 1920's. The earliest type of this sort of ride was called the Switch Back, this had the same sort of hill's as a Waltzer but had large car's for the public to ride in. These then progressed to animals (ark) and then to motor bikes before being fitted with spinning cars and hence the Waltzer was born.
The Waltzer is still one of the most popular fair ground rides and is rode by all the family, teenagers and adults alike.
The Waltzer perfectly blends traditional fair ground art work with the latest lighting effects and sounds.
The travelling fairground waltzer are controlled by an operator in the central booth of the ride. This operator controls the speed and the duration and also, some versions can rotate both ways where as traditional waltzers turn clockwise. Often, the assistants will stand on the rotating floor of the ride and spin the cars by hand. There will be no queue as such, with would-be riders gathering around the edge of the platform, and finding themselves a seat when the ride stops.
Waltzers, originally have 10 cars. However several ARK rides have been converted into a waltzer, therefore 9 and 11 car variations can be found. The cars on a waltzer can spin both ways, with the help of an operator pushing the cars around to enhance the spinning sensation. Sometimes, these cars have brakes that automatically come on when the safety bar is open. Some (more common in the Scottish region) waltzers have individual brakes in each car that is operated by an individual lever on the platforms. However some modern waltzers have a complex braking system that stops each car, automatically facing outwards for easy loading.
Waltzers are common at travelling funfairs, but less common at static amusement parks. At the latter, there are often differences in the operation, such as an organised queue system and ride controls located away from the ride platform. It is also unusual for amusement park Waltzers to have staff on the moving platform spinning the cars during the ride.
A Waltzer is typically a hybrid of a Musik Express (another fair ride) or Himalaya type ride and its more famous cousin, the Tilt-A-Whirl.
Filmed at The International Balloon Fiesta Ashton Court Bristol Aug 2010

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[riparato]

does this have a braking system on the cars when it starts up? they dont look to be free spinning?!

[mesmoland]

@riparato yes it does

[TheLeemaster101]

@mesmoland wikipedia much

[mesmoland]

@TheLeemaster101 yes

[mcgemini06]

bet its a bastard to ride when its wet

[fizzywizzy122]

@jordanjedwardedwards These Fair Trade Waltzers are becoming popular as everything is made out of metal. Yes, most Waltzers are being revamped, but being revamped to fit on one articulated trailer. John Birch is revamping his Waltzer to Fair Trade Waltzer.

[jordanjedwardedwards]

@fizzywizzy122 MOst of them are bought brand new. You'll start to see an awful lot of waltzers like this now. Because some of the old ones are not compying with Healt and safety standards. Within my family all of them have this type of waltzer somewhere! Abie. My cousin (that ownes this one!) <3 often does say that some of them are being 'revamped'.

[jordanjedwardedwards]

@dance1211rec Which company owned them? There should of been an emergency stop located on the ride somewhere!

[dance1211rec]

I went on the waltzers in 2011, The ride broke down and the thing didn't stop for 10 minutes -.-

For 2 minutes its fun, never anything long.

[fizzywizzy122]

@leevwe I agree with you. It's ok to walk Waltzers as long as the walkers can walk it. And Arks look to have dissappeared from the fairs....

[jordanjedwardedwards]

@FWSoundLight With the flooring wood slowly rots and needs to be replaced but with metal this is specialy amde not to rust! it hos no real difference being that they both rotate via wheels and platforms that are hinged together!

[leevwe]

Yes good old health a safety have ruined the atmosphere of the waltzer with the new safety regulations i used to travel with Albert Evans in the early 1990s when fairs in general was at there very best.the next thing will be all waltzer staff will be made to wear a hard hat / safety goggles / high vis jacket / and steel toe cap boots its pathetic,waltzers will end up few a far beetween in later years just like Arks A Speedways.Health&Safety killed off the ark by making punters sit down.

[FWSoundLight]

Nope, I thought the waltzer was about the people standing around on the platform on the walk floors watching you. today is crap, plus metal doe's not move as fast as wooden floors that the wheels are balanced on to move the cars up n down. and LED lighting is good if it's 10 25 or 50watt or above, not 1watt lol lol . The ride looks very slow and its too open

[suzanneB2010]

You cant compare this to the other fairtrade machines,the rest are quite different as this is a 10 car and ALL the others are 9 car.