Category: Ride features

There’s a new ride on the block for Kurt Hill’s Northwest Funfairs as former amusement park Miami returns from Ireland and starts a travelling life. A recent addition to the ever growing collection of fairground attractions from Kurt Hill’s Northwest Funfairs is the ‘Stomp It’ …

This year sees the Razzamatazz Waltzer celebrate 50 years with JW Shaw Amusements after its purchase from new as a Speedway in 1974. World’s Fair caught up with the stunning and much appreciated (by ride enthusiasts and public alike) Razzamatazz Waltzer at JW Shaw Amusements’ presentation …

As his father Charlie takes more of a back seat in the business, Scottish Showman Christian Horne has this season assumed responsibility for all the rides travelled under the Horne’s Pleasure Fairs banner. Here he tells World’s Fair about those he’s taken care of until now. …

A set of Victorian Gallopers is finally entertaining the public once again after a long and painstaking restoration. In 2009 Malcolm Potts, a heating engineer from Cambridge, made what he describes as an ‘impulse purchase’ from Beamish Museum in County Durham, and in the process …

Midland Section Showman John Bagnall debuted his Apollo 13 Booster Maxxx ride last month on British soil in Manchester ahead of The Hoppings. The ride, named after the famous NASA rocket and lunar module that launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in April 1970, was …

Swingboats, chair-o-planes and a ghost train feature among the models from Robert Hooper. Robert Hooper is a relative newcomer to fairground modelling, having taken up the hobby during lockdown in 2020. His first model was Teddy Morley’s lorry (an Albion) and living wagon from the …

As Clacton Pier gets ready for the new season with its February Frenzy offers, the Twister has been sent for total refurbishment – but will be back soon. One of Clacton Pier’s most popular rides has been sent away for a significant makeover: Twister, which …

The Scottish Showman, who has travelled the UK widely, tells World’s Fair about the machines he’s had over the past 40 years. The Rotor I got the Rotor off my dad [Colin] when Joanne and I got married in 1984. We did Christmas at the …

Starting life out as a Speedway, Kurt Hill’s Supreme waltzer has seen a few owners and several refurbishments and is sparkling again after some sprucing up. At the recent festival fun fair at Bolton’s Leverhulme Park, World’s Fair came across the Supreme Waltzer from Kurt Hill. …

Central Pier’s Flying Bob didn’t quite get off to a flying start, thanks to a fire and Covid, but the ride is now attracting plenty of attention from visitors to the iconic pier. Blackpool’s Central Pier, owned by the Sedgwick family under the banner of …