Arrow Dynamics
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| Industry | Amusement Rides |
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| Fate | Bankruptcy, assets bought by S&S Arrow |
| Predecessor |
Arrow Development Company Inc Arrow Huss Inc |
| Successor | S&S Worldwide |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Ronald Toomer Otis Hughes Brent Meikle |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Clearfield, Utah, United States |
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Key people
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Ron Toomer Alan Schilke |
| Products | Roller Coasters |
Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design and manufacturing company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States. Successor to Arrow Development (1946–1981) and Arrow Huss (1981–1986), which were responsible for some of the most influential advancements in the amusement and theme park industries. Among the most significant was tubular steel track, which provided a smoother ride than the railroad style rails commonly used prior to the 1960s on wooden roller coasters. The Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland was Arrow's first foray into roller coasters, in 1959. Arrow and their successors would continue to build trend-setting ride systems for the next 45 years.
In 1975, Arrow Development introduced the first corkscrew style track Corkscrew, at Knott's Berry Farm that sent riders through a series of barrel rolls. Though not the world's first inverting coaster, it was the first in modern times. Arrow created several other "firsts" over the years, introducing the first suspended roller coaster in almost a century, The Bat, in 1981, and the world's first "hypercoaster", Magnum XL-200, which opened in 1989 and built the first 4th Dimension roller coaster, X2, which was designed by Alan Schilke, who founded Ride Centerline, LLC in 2006 later joined Rocky Mountain Construction.
Arrow Development's ownership changed three times between the 1950s and 1980s. Arrow Dynamics would eventually survive two bankruptcies and spin off a sister company, Fabriweld, primarily to build track, by 1988. Arrow Dynamics eventually met its demise on December 3, 2001. S&S Worldwide purchased part of Arrow's remaining assets on October 28, 2002, and the remainder of the company was dissolved. Late in 2012, Sansei Yusoki Co., Ltd., of Osaka, Japan, acquired a 77.3% interest in S&S - Arrow. Signage at the 2012 and 2013 IAAPA Attractions Expos promoted the new company as S&S Sansei.
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