Florida State Fair 2020 ride list

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List looks to be near identical to last year’s. No new coasters again- Super Cyclone, Jungle Twist, RC48, and Wacky Worm all returning, Mighty Mouse as of now is absent though. Haunted Castle from Gosetto, which was new this year, is returning, possibly best traveling dark ride I’ve been on. And Space Roller and Magnum are both returning- 2 of my all time favorites.

Air Raid
Must be 51" tall or taller.
Nobody over 75" tall can ride.
Alpine Bobs
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Artic Plunge
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Balloon Fiesta Wheel
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Beach Shack
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Bear Affair
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Bumper Cars
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Carousel
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** 150lb. weight limit per horse.
Charlie the Chopper
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Cliff Hanger
Must be 48" tall or taller.
** Max. weight per car: 540lbs.
Construction Zone
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Crazy Cars
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Daytona
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Delusion
Must be 54" tall or taller.
Downdraft
Must be 46" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Dragon Wagon
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Dream Wheel
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 56" requires adult.
Elephant Parade
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 50" tall can ride.
Enterprise
Must be 54" tall or taller.
** No single riders
F-5
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Fighter
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Firehouse
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Flying Dumbos
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Free Bird
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Giant Wheel
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No single riders
Grand Carousel
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** 150lb. weight limit per horse.
Granny Bugs
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Groovy Bus
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
** No adults
Happy Swing
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 73" tall can ride.
Haunted
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Haunted Castle
Must be 40" tall or taller.
Helicopters
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Himalaya
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Under 52" requires adult.
Hit in 2000
Must be 50" tall or taller.
Nobody over 78" tall can ride.
Hollywood Fun House
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No Sandals, Flip Flops, Open Shoes, Bare Feet
Hydroshock
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Jalopy Junction
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Jungle Twist Coaster
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 44" requires adult.
Kiddie Bumper Boats
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Nobody over 46" tall can ride.
Landslide
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Light House Dive
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Lolly Swings
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Magic Maze
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No Sandals, Flip Flops, Open Toed Shoes, Bare Feet
Magnum
Must be 55" tall or taller.
Marioland
Must be 40" tall or taller.
** No Sandals, Flip Flops, Open Toed Shoes, Bare Feet
Mega Drop
Must be 55" tall or taller.
Nobody over 82" tall can ride.
Midway Sky Eye
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Mini Dumbos
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Mini Paratrooper
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Monster Trucks
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Music Express
Must be 48" tall or taller.
New York New York
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Niagra Inflate
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Ninja Dragon Inflatable
Must be 44" tall or taller.
** No flip flops, sandals, bare feet
Orbiter
Must be 52" tall or taller.
Pirate
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Pirates Paradise
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Puppy Roll
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
RC-48 Coaster
Must be 55" tall or taller.
Nobody over 76" tall can ride.
Rock Star
Must be 60" tall or taller.
Silly Safari
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Silver Streak
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Sizzler
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Under 52" requires adult.
Sky Ride
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
** under 48� with paid adult
Space Roller
Must be 54" tall or taller.
Space Shuttle
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Speedway
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Spider
Must be 46" tall or taller.
Starship 4000
Must be 48" tall or taller.
State Fair Giant Slide
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Storm
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Street Fighter 360
Must be 55" tall or taller.
Nobody over 77" tall can ride.
Sun Wheel
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
** No single riders
Super Bumper Boats
Must be 44" tall or taller.
Super Cyclone Coaster
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Under 52" requires adult.
** 4 riders per car - no single riders.
Super Polar Himalaya
Must be 60" tall or taller.
Tea Cups
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Tea Cups
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Techno Power
Must be 52" tall or taller.
Tilt-A-Whirl
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 46" requires adult.
Tornado
Must be 38" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Typhoon
Must be 42" tall or taller.
Under 52" requires adult.
Umbrella 4x4 Quads
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Umbrella Farm Tractors
Must be 32" tall or taller.
Nobody over 54" tall can ride.
Undersea Adventure
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 48" requires adult.
Vertigo
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Wacky Shack
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
** No flip flops, sandals, open toed shoes, bare feet
Wacky Worm Coaster
Must be 36" tall or taller.
Under 42" requires adult.
Wave Swinger
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Wiggle Wurm
Must be 30" tall or taller.
Under 38" requires adult.
Wipeout
Must be 42" tall or taller.
** No single riders
Zero Gravity
Must be 48" tall or taller.
Zipper
Must be 52" tall or taller.
** No single riders

[CanobieFan]

Kinda disappointed. I mean, it's still an epic fair and I'll go at least once... but I miss when it was a more independent Midway and there would be one or two surprises each year. It's been pretty static the last couple of years.

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Yeah, I agree. I mean it’s an awesome fair, I agree, but not much new recently. Luckily, Wade brings in a lot of independents (so glad Space Roller and Magnum are always there), but yeah, it was something else when it was all independents. The last few years the Strawberry Festival has been a little more interesting.

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I just drove past the fairgrounds on my way into Tampa. The giant Woods wheel is already set up. One of the Cyclone coasters is set up as well and the kmg crazy surf that was at IAAPA is also there (this

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Not sure how much I’ll like that Crazy Surf ride, but I’ll definitely give it a try. Who bought it?

South Florida fair ends tomorrow I think, so I guess a lot of other stuff will start to move in soon after.

[CanobieFan]

So I just noticed another ride not part of the original ride list posted here... Coming back from Port of Tampa today, I noticed the SDC Windstorm coaster that was just down in Miami at Santa's Enchanted Forest is now setup at the State Fairgrounds! (Steve Vander Vorste?)

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Yep! I’m happy to see that one. It’ll be it’s first time at the state fair as far as I know. Definitely the best of all the coasters they’ve had that I can remember. I like that this windstorm still uses the original t bar restraints. Between the Windstorm, Haunted Castle, Space Roller and Magnum, I’ll be doing a lot of riding this year at the state fair. Can’t wait.

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Visited yesterday, had a great time. Several new shows: I saw the XPogo stick show, which is a combination of pogo stick users and gymnasts. Show was almost 45 minutes long. Also saw the new Soar show, a show with free flying birds. Due to it being windy, some of the birds had some challenged flying. Very informative show. Also saw the returning Sea Lion Splash show, which is different every year.

Space Roller was running well (backwards only most cycles though). Magnum cycles were super short, which makes the rides very hit or miss with flipping. Windstorm was running well, very smooth rides. It’s great to see this ride still uses the original train/lap bar design. The new Crazy Surf ride was okay, but it was a one and done for me due to similar motions repeated too much. There was a new walk through called Storybook, it was okay. 2 new or redone/rethemed dark rides- the Haunted, and the Asylum. Haunted was pretty bad, Asylum was a little better but nothing super special. Haunted Castle, which was new last year was back and is definitely through best of the 3.
Fair only had 4 coasters this year- Super Cyclone (Wade’s this year), Windstorm, Mighty Mouse, and Wacky Worm. Well, technically 5, including the Dragon ride that had a 54” max height. Hard to believe just a few years ago there were 8 plus the Dragon one. No new credits for me since I’ve ridden Windstorm at Santa’s Enchanted Forest a few years ago.

[CanobieFan]

Was so there yesterday. I hate That space roller no longer change the program up, had a pretty basic ride on that. And yeah, magnum was terrible this year. My first ride ended without any flips and my second ride got a single flip, at the end.

Midway was noticeably smaller than in years past. No, spur midway near the far back, No second kid midway up front...

It's so weird to say such a massive an impressive midway was also lackluster based on previous years.

Some photos -
https://mobile.twitter.com/CanobieFan/status/1228064513326567424
https://mobile.twitter.com/CanobieFan/status/1228136707222056960

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The second kid area toward the back wasn’t there last year. Neither was the spur near where Super Cyclone is.

Magnum I rode 5x, with the first 2 alone and having no flips. The last 3 were with another rider and were both better.

Space Roller I did see one cycle where they went in both directions. All 8 times I rode were just backwards. I do wish if they ran just one direction that it’d be just forward. Space Roller have some really good hang time on all the rides I went on though, so I can’t complain too much.

I’m still surprised they replaced a good portion of the ride midway with games in that area, though it wasn’t as extreme this year.

Still a great fair, but I do wish it would go back to being independent. Luckily there are a lot of booked rides anyway even with Wade in charge.

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Canobiefan, those are some good photos. The night time shots especially are great.

Have you ever made the drive down to the Miami fair? Thinking of finally heading down there, never been to a NAME event. Would probably be doing the coasters solo, if you have been, do you know how single rider friendly they are?

[CanobieFan]

Miami Dade is an awesome fair. I've been twice. Way back when they still had Doppel Looping and then last year (where they had like 7 coasters)

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