Six Flags Great America rehabbing East River Crawler
This park is getting better by the year. They have kept (and kept-up!) Whizzer, 2 log flumes, Fiddler's Fling (a Huss Calypso I think?) and now they are making sure the old Lobster - now called East River Crawler, is here to stay for years and years!
I was very surprised they even put up a cool informative sign here.
East River Crawler (many of us locals still call it Lobster - it used to have orange cars and a giant Lobster painted on the ground under the ride - it still has it's lobster with red light up eyes on the center "hub") is a Schwarzkopf 'Monster II' (or 'Polyp'? I'm getting conflicting info) that opened with the park in 1976.
http://www.flatrides.com/Ride%20Index/SchwarzkopfPolyp.jpg
The Great America in California opened with the more standard Eyerly Aircraft 'Monster' model, but had the same giant Lobster painted under the ride: http://www.cardcow.com/images/set444/card00430_fr.jpg
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