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This junior train ride goes through a mini town. This ride takes junior riders in small motorboats slowly around within a water-filled ring trough, with a mini lighthouse as its centerpiece.Ī junior sized bumper boats ride for younger junior riders.Ī kiddy ride consisting of mini cars, trucks, buses and bikes. These mini copters go up-and-down by controlling the handlebars. An enforced limit of 2 trips per rider on this attraction is in place. The Grand Prix Racers are gas-powered go-karts that race along a winding paved track. This junior-sized version of a drop tower ride. The Flying Trapeze takes riders up high and around. The Excalibur is Maine's first wooden roller coaster since 1948. Following a brief freefall, the ride uses hydraulics to bounce riders back up and down until the carriage eventually returns to ground level. This Trabant ride looks like a roulette wheel, taking its riders on a wild spinning, rising, and dipping journey.Ĭactus Canyon takes riders in mini canoes along a water-filled trough track, and through a teepee.Ī drop tower ride that stands 220 feet (67 m) tall.

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Vintage roadsters ride along on a railed paved track through the section.įamilies rock and bump along on full sized bumper ring boats in a pool inside a pavilion. Ī small-fry family sized Ferris wheel with 8 balloon seats gently go around up-and-down. The light and sound show was also upgraded to include new video projectors that brought back many of the original photo slides. In 2019, the Astrosphere attraction was outfitted with a new dome made out of concrete. The Astrosphere is an indoor dark Scrambler ride (inside a dome) with a choreographed music and lights show theme song is Fire On High (The Astrosphere Mix) by ELO. Rail-tracked vintage Tin Lizzys chug along a center-railed paved track. An additional expansion in 2012 added another 6 thrill slides to Splashtown.Ĭurrent attractions Funtown USA Rides Height Requirements For the 2007 season, an expansion was built that doubled the size of the waterpark and added two new thrill slides, Tornado and Mammoth. The Splashtown segment features Pirate's Paradise, a large interactive waterpark playground which dumps hundreds of gallons of water onto its guests every few minutes. One of the park's most popular rides is the Astrosphere, which is an indoor Scrambler which features a state-of-the-art laser and light show while playing ELO's ' Fire on High.' It also has a 220-foot-tall (67 m) Drop Tower called Dragon's Descent. The park features Northern New England’s tallest and longest wooden roller coaster, Excalibur, as well as New England's longest and tallest log flume, Thunder Falls. In 1996, Cormier bought out the remaining Dallaire interest at the park and renamed it to Funtown Splashtown U.S.A. Over the next few years, Funtown added a Zipper, outdoor bumper cars, and a Bayern Kurve named “Luv Machine”. In 1967, Cormier and Dallaire formed a partnership and Funtown U.S.A. Over the course of the next few years, Cormier and Dallaire added several kiddie and carnival-style rides including SkySlides and Swinging Gyms.

In 1963, Andre opened a go-kart track behind his mini golf course, and in 1964 Ken added batting cages and an archery range in 1967 behind Marvel Drive In. Ken’s brother-in-law, Andre Dallaire opened a mini-golf course that previous year next to Marvel Drive-In. In 1960, Ken (OctoJanuary 8, 2013) and Violet Cormier opened Marvel Drive-In, a drive-in restaurant. 'Where the Great American Family Comes to Play' 'Create memories that will last a lifetime!'įuntown Splashtown USA (commonly referred to as just 'Funtown') is a family-owned amusement park located in Saco, Maine, in the United States.

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