Michael Goetzke's 'Rocket'

One of the greatest ideas Funtime has come up with!

Take their awesome StarFlyer swing tower... and add looping/flipping rocket ship cars to it, send you up 200 feet in the air... and flip you around a whole bunch!
Ah, the Rocket

200 feet of fun!
(How I wish Six Flags New England had gotten a 400 foot tower like this!)

Here you can see the Rockets are inverted.
Each rocket has a control that sets it to be able to flip or not to flip, the operator controls when the flips themselves occur.
(so if you wanted to be a baby and not loop, you could be seated on a non-inverting car... Just hope the Op turned off the rotation!)
Obviously we rode it with the flips......

Originally opening in July of 2010 in Düsseldorf, Germany for Michael Goetzke. The ride relocated to South Carolina in 2014, being setup at the Broadway at the Beach shopping complex in Myrtle Beach.

After handing over my $10 and insuring we would be riding a looping car.. we were seated in one of the five rockets.

And up we went!

Some 200 feet over Myrtle Beach.

Where we started doing roll after roll after roll.. Even doing an inverted pause :D

From the top, you could see all the way over to the beach itself and the Atlantic Ocean.
An awesome ride.. Although in an awkward location? It might do better had it been setup at the beach itself (or maybe in a better tourist location (Orlando would be nice!))

Uh, video?

And I've added an amazing video of the ride in action via YouTube with both on and off ride video from when Rocket was still in Germany! Worth a watch.

Oh yeah... and it was my Photo of the Day!

Also... Also!

DUCKS!
(and baby ducks!!!)
 
Woo, rides, and uh, ducks?