Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amusement Park Oddities & Trivia [Paperback]

Tim O'Brien (Author), John Graziano (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! | Publication Date: June 29, 2007

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amusement Park Oddities & Trivia is an uncanny journey through the weird, wacky, and absolutely true world of amusement parks, rides and attractions! Tired of the traditional ho-hum trivia book? Rejoice, here's one that's unique, enjoyable, accurate AND edgy! With a bit of history, a bit of trivia and a lot of totally unbelievable facts, this is a first of its kind book for the amusement industry. With more than 350 Believe It or Nots! inside its pages, and 50-plus original illustrations by Ripley's official cartoonist John Graziano, nearly half of the book is dedicated to the bizarre, colorful and entertaining universe of amusement parks, rides and attractions. The other half features chapters on the Walt Disney parks, roller coasters, Ferris wheels, carousels, entertainers and park food! Nearly 100 different amusement and theme parks, waterparks, attractions, zoos and aquariums are represented in these colorful pages, not to mention the 14 pages packed with astounding roller coaster Believe It or Nots! A comprehensive index permits readers to quickly discover the oddities of their favorite park.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Ripley Entertainment (June 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893951251
• ISBN-13: 978-1893951259
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,097,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was hoping for, July 27, 2009

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I didnt like this book. It is in list format (which I expected) ...it has facts on tons of different amusement parks from all over the world, but it only names them...only in the back of the book does it let you know where the certain park is, which means unless you wanna flip constently to the index, you have no idea what you are reading about. (It almost makes it feel like half the stuff is made up and not truth, Like "The Great White Roller Coaster in Adventure Amusement Park is the first to go 100mph"...really?? I dont understand why they couldnt have just put at least what state the parks are in, it seems if they can do it in the index why not in the body of the book??). That is the main reason I am giving this ony 2 stars. It also only has black and white hand drawn pics, no pics of any of the parks. This book is totaly not what I was expecting. I scanned through it for a little bit, but was very bored and ended up putting it up on my shelf to never be looked at again.

Great premise, poorly exicuted.