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loop. Despite the design improvements and substantial improvement in g-forces, however, the ride was reported to be unpleasant. This, paired with the ride's low capacity (only four individuals could ride the coaster every five minutes), meant that the Loop the Loop at Atlantic City was ultimately a failure.
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in Coney Island, Loop the Loop was a racing coaster with parallel tracks which each progressed through a single vertical loop. Another common factor was that both coasters incorporated an oval loop to reduce the g-forces produced by the earlier Coney Island Flip Flap Railway which utilized a circular
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Loop the Loop was designed and built in 1901 by Edward A. Green and Edwin Prescott on one of Captain John L. Young's piers in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was the goal of Green and Prescott to create a looping coaster which would not be subject to the same extreme
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The Loop the Loop attracted considerable attention, and was promoted in a number of ways by
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Loop the Loop (Young's Million Dollar Pier)

Atlantic City
Coordinates
39°21′14″N 74°26′03″W / 39.3538°N 74.4342°W / 39.3538; -74.4342
Steel
Edwin Prescott
Inversions
Loop the Loop at RCDB
Pictures of Loop the Loop at RCDB
dual-tracked roller coaster
Atlantic City
New Jersey
looping roller coasters
g-forces
Lina Beecher's
Flip Flap Railway
Coney Island
John L. Young
sister coaster
Flip Flap Railway
Loop the Loop (Coney Island)
Loop the Loop (Olentangy Park)
Olentangy Park
Columbus, Ohio
"Steamship Blown Ashore; The Clavordale Aground at Atlantic City -- Section of Young's Pier and the Loop the Loop Collapse"
ISSN
0362-4331
"Worst Over at Atlantic"
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