{"id":95,"date":"2010-08-15T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/cliffhanger\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:13:18","slug":"cliffhanger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/welcome\/sections\/usasection\/cliffhanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliffhanger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<strong> Year Installed: <\/strong>\n\n\n1982\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Last Year Operated: <\/strong>\n\n\n2007\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Section: <\/strong>\n\n\nModern USA\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Manufacturer: <\/strong>\n\n\nIntamin\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Other Names and Nicknames: <\/strong>\n\n\nG Force\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> The Cliffhanger was a 128 foot tall \u201cL\u201d shaped tower built by Intamin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/parktimes.com\/sections\/modern\/cliffhanger\/mdcliff2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Side view of Texas Cliffhanger.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Riders sat in small gondolas which were lifted by an elevator mechanism 128 feet to the top of the tower\u2019s structure. There they moved forward, outside of the lift mechanism, onto an outside track. Once properly positioned, the units were released for a free fall ten floors straight down the tower. Near the bottom, the track gradually curved, changing directions 90 degrees, so that it was parallel to the ground. The car then ran down the parallel track with the riders on their backs until it stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of its kind ride cost the park 2.1 million dollars. A Six Flags press release for the ride notes that when riding the Cliffhanger, \u201cthe sensation is the same you would feel if you stepped off the roof of a ten story building.\u201d As with the Flume and the mine train, the Cliffhanger was immediately copied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/parktimes.com\/sections\/modern\/cliffhanger\/cliffhanger3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Front view of Cliffhanger after being renamed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, the Modern section was rethemed as an \u201cAir Force Base and Astronaut training center\u201d as part of the addition of the \u201cRight Stuff Theater\u201d. At that time the Cliffhanger was renamed as the \u201cG-Force\u201d, and themed as an astronaut training mechanism. Even later the ride was renamed as the Wildcatter and themed with the Boomtown section. Despite the fact that the ride became part of the Boomtown section, it was not physically moved. Its location was always on the border between the Boomtown and Modern Sections. Instead of moving the ride, the Boomtown section was simply expanded into the area around the Cliffhanger. The size of the Modern USA section was reduced accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ride was intentionally imploded in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cliffhanger was a 128 foot tall \u201cL\u201d shaped tower built by Intamin. Riders sat in small gondolas which were lifted by an elevator mechanism 128 feet to the top of the tower\u2019s structure. There they moved forward, outside of the lift mechanism, onto an outside track. Once properly positioned, the units were released for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/welcome\/sections\/usasection\/cliffhanger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cliffhanger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31,28],"tags":[32,60,66],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/1281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}