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RollerCoaster! 1988 - 1993


RollerCoaster!
1988 - 1993

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Issue #24, Bonus Issue 1988 (Vol. 9, No. 1)
  • Coney, Compounce and Rye — Summer Con ‘87
  • New ACE Member Entrance Exam
  • A Century of Coasters at the CNE

no longer available

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Issue #25, Spring 1988 (Vol 9, No. 2)
  • Preservation Notes: In Praise of the Cyclone
  • The Terror of Taiwan
  • Maintaining the Mighty Le Monstre
  • The First ACE Conference
  • Coasting Lagoon Park
  • What’s Up at IAAPA

no longer available

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Issue #26, Summer/Fall 1988 (Vol. 9, Nos. 3 & 4)
  • Shockwave — the Big One
  • The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway
  • Riding Into a New Era (Shockwave)
  • The Game of ACE
  • A Primer on Roller Coaster Dynamics
  • The Avalanche (Kings Dominion)
  • Music to Coast By
  • Remembrances of DendeLion Park
  • Ten Years of Roller Coaster Enthusiasm — Have We Made a Difference
  • Swedish Ice Slides

no longer available

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Issue #27, Winter 1989 (Vol. 10, No. 1)
  • The Story Behind The Bobs
  • A Double Dose of Dinn (Raging Wolf Bobs and Wolverine Wildcat)
  • Ten Key Events — ACE’s first decade
  • 1988 Spring Conference in Virginia
  • Early Russian Ice Slides
  • Confessions of an Honorary Member and Retired Roller Coaster Expert
  • A Primer on Roller Coaster Dynamics — Part II
  • The ACE Tour of Japan

no longer available

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Issue #28, Spring 1989 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
  • Devilish Delight — Red Devil Soars at Ghost Town
  • The Roller Coasters of New Zealand
  • Hot — Coaster Con XI
  • Hullamvasut-ing in Budapest
  • Ninja Becomes Reality (SFMM)

no longer available

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Issue #29, Summer 1989 (Vol. 10, No. 3)
  • Opinions: Grizzly and Big Bad Wolf
  • A Star is Born — Space Center Phantasialand
  • Jack Kaster: America’s Forgotten Designer
  • Dorney’s Coaster: 66 Year and Still Running Great!
  • A Primer on Roller Coaster Dynamics: Part III
  • Fiction: Mrs. Petro and the Silver Flash
  • Summer Conference ‘88
  • Up and Down South of the Border — Carolina’s Grand Strand
  • Fun on the Pipeline Express

no longer available

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Issue #30, Fall 1989 (Vol. 10, No. 4)
  • The Biggest Little Amusement Park on the Planet — Grona Lund
  • Collecting Roller Coaster Postcards
  • Roller Coaster Art
  • The Greatest Adventure Yet — The Great American Scream Machine
  • Toomer on the Supercoasters — Is Bigger Better?
  • Magnificent Magnum
  • The Beast 10th Anniversary
  • Florida’s Kings of the Mountains — Space Mountain and Big Thunder
  • Roller Coasters at Disneyland
  • West Edmonton Mall: A Roller Coaster for the Senses
  • Focus on Fantasyland
  • Air Race — Europe’s First Suspended Coaster
  • What’s Up at IAAPA

no longer available

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Issue #31, Winter 1990 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
  • Wooden Coasters of New Jersey’s Past
  • Hercules — Man, Myth or Coaster?
  • Hercules Unchained in Allentown
  • The Coasters of Summers
  • Timber Wolf, World of Fun turns it loose
  • A Toast to the Little Guys
  • A Far East One-Two Combo
  • Coaster Anagram
  • Tennessee Waltzing
  • England by (Gravity) Rail

no longer available

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Issue #32, Spring 1990 (Vol. 11, No. 2)
  • Coaster Con XII (Dorney and Clementon)
  • A Technological Peek Behind Your Coaster Ride
  • Puritas Springs Remembered
  • Viking-Style Coasting (Denmark and Sweden)
  • The Roller Coaster Hotel (Fantasy)
  • Book Reviews

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #33, Summer 1990 (Vol. 11, No. 3)
  • The Arnold’s Park Rehabilitation Story
  • Big Bang Smurf’s Anaconda
  • Parc Asterix’s Goudurix
  • Continental Coasting: Part I (Hungary to France)
  • Special Effects on Magnum XL-200
  • 1989 Summer Conference (Valleyfair! and Arnold’s Park)
  • The Crystal Beach Thriller
  • A Steel Roller Coaster Is Just Like a VCR

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #34, Fall 1990 (Vol. 11, No. 4)
  • Georgia Cyclone
  • The Role of Rollers
  • Continental Coasting: Part II
  • 3-D Coaster Coaster Art
  • La Montaña Rusa
  • ACE 1990 Spring Con
  • Roller Coaster Rabbit
  • Elitch’s Wildcat
  • Magic Mountain’s Viper
  • Roller Coasters of Germany and France

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #35, Winter 1991 (Vol. 12, No. 1)
  • Texas Giant: A Most Un-gentle Giant
  • ACE Coaster Con XIV
  • The Darien Lake Predator
  • Ride Simulators. Coasters in the Movies: Part I Zippin’ Pippin
  • Opinions on Favorite Steel Inversion Elements
  • National Coaster Day
  • Rye Aeroplane.

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #36, Spring 1991 (Vol. 12, No. 2)
  • The Roller Coasters of Anton Schwarzkopf
  • Germany’s Traveling Roller Coasters
  • An Unexpected Wild Mouse
  • Belmont Park and Giant Dipper
  • Riding the Red Flash (fiction)
  • What Every ACEer Should Know
  • Coasters in the Movies: Part II
  • Hercules Opinions.

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #37, Summer 1991 (Vol. 12, No. 4)
  • The Termite Backyard Coaster
  • Ron Toomer on Ron Toomer
  • Behind the Scenes at Disneyland’s Space Mountain
  • Great America’s Roller Coasters
  • The Discovery of Jeremy (fiction)
  • The Layman’s Guide to Coaster Terms
  • The 1991 ACEcar Awards
  • Frontier City Wildcat Naming Contest
  • The Ways of Preservation
  • The Wooden Coasters of Skegness/Billy Butlin: Part I

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #38, Fall 1991 (Vol. 13, No. 1)
  • Cliffside Mountains: The Roller Coasters of Palisades Park
  • Cincinnati’s Coney Island and the Shooting Star
  • Riverview Remembered.
  • Cedar Point Mean Streak
  • The Rebirth of Wildcat
  • History of Roller Coasters at Kings Dominion
  • Rollercoaster: The Movie
  • Magic Mountain Psyclone
  • Miracle Strip Starliner
  • The Wooden Coasters of Skegness/Billy Butlin: Part II

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #39, Winter 1992 (Vol. 13, No. 2)
  • Coaster Con XIV at Kennywood Park
  • ACE Day at Camden Park
  • Lakeside Park (CO)
  • Americana Park
  • Astroworld
  • A Day at the Races — Knott’s Soap Box Racers
  • Coaster Con XIV
  • Coaster Con Photo Contest Winners
  • Roller Coasters of Thailand and India
  • Roller Coaster: Our National Symbol

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #40, Spring 1992 (Vol. 13, No. 3)
  • Old World Coaster Questing: Sweden and Denmark
  • Preservation: Was the Crystal Beach Cyclone Saved?
  • Paris’ Foire du Trone
  • Interview: Dana Morgan — Morgan Manufacturing
  • Build a Working Model Coaster
  • Trop World’s Tivoli Plunge
  • ACE Eurocaravan 1991

Price $5.00

 

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Issue # 41, Summer 1992 (Vol. 13, No. 5)
  • On the Tracks and on the Playing Field
  • Idora Park in the Land of Oaks
  • Cedar Point: A Century of Roller Coasters
  • Meet Me in St. Louis: Westlake Park, Holiday Hill, Chain of Rocks, Forest Park Highlands
  • A Giant Among Coasters — Texas Giant
  • My Life As A Sandbag
  • Putting The Theme In Coasters
  • What Color Is Your Coaster?
  • A Roller Coaster Bestiary (Photo Feature)
  • How I Found ACE

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #42, Fall 1992 (Vol. 14, No. 1)
  • Arkansas Twister
  • Batman - The Ride
  • Fiesta Texas Rattler
  • PTC’s Tom Rebbie
  • Coaster Designers, Builders and Engineers: Part I
  • Dutch Wonderland’s Sky Princess
  • Coasting Through Time (Post Cards)
  • Cedar Point’s Magnum XL-200 Opinions.

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #43, Winter 1993 (Vol. 14, No. 2)
  • Coaster Con XV at Kings Dominion
  • ACE Day at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
  • BGW’s Drachen Fire
  • Willow Mill’s Red Streaker
  • Coaster Con XV Video Review
  • Coaster Designers, Builders and Engineers: Part II
  • Collecting and Preserving Park Memorabilia.

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #44 Spring 1993 (Vol. 14, No. 3)
  • Commemoration of Fred Church and the Banked Turn
  • Belle Vue Park Bobs
  • Coney Island Tornado and Revere Beach Cyclone
  • Roller Coaster at Joyland (Kansas)
  • Little Dippers at Hillcrest and Kiddieland
  • Santa Cruz Beach and San Diego Giant Dippers Opinions

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #45 Summer 1993 (Vol. 14, No. 5)
  • (15th Anniversary issue: 64 pages)
  • Dr. Cartmell’s Top-10 Historic Coasters
  • History of ACE’s First 15 Years
  • Growing Up With ACE
  • Roller Coasters Lost and Gained Since ACE’s Founding
  • Preservation: Should We Rate Roller Coasters?
  • History of RollerCoaster! Magazine
  • ACE’s Presidential Succession
  • ACE Files: Life on the Fast Track

Price $5.00

 


Issue #46
  • Due to a numbering error there was no issue #46


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Issue #47, Fall 1993, (Vol. 15, No. 1)
  • Busch Garden’s Kumba
  • Silver Dollar City’s Thunderation
  • Australia’s Orphan Rocker
  • Whalom Park’s Centennial
  • Jantzen Beach’s Dipper
  • Junior Steel Coasters in New England and Canada
  • Coasters at the 1939 NY World’s Fair
  • Coaster Banking

Price $5.00