For nearly 27 years, the green Sea Dragon ride has swung back and forth on the Santa Monica Pier, but on Thursday, the 6,000-pound, two-headed metal beast made its last ride 250 feet across the Pacific Ocean.
The famous Sea Dragon ship in Pacific Park was decommissioned Thursday when a helicopter lifted it off the pier. captured bystanders Pictures And Video as the kite flew past Santa Monica.
“The original Sea Dragon has provided millions of Pacific Park guests with fond memories with family and friends over the past 26 years,” Nathan Smithson, Pacific Park’s director of marketing and business development, said in a statement.
The classic ride, which opened on May 26, 1996, was replaced by a new $1.5 million Sea Dragon that “gives riders the feeling of riding the Dragon across the high seas,” according to the theme park.
The ride will be installed in the same room as the original Sea Dragon and will have new features such as rocking chairs and a fog system to “recreate the stormy seas,” Pacific Park announced in a statement.
“Guest enthusiasm for the original Sea Dragon and its extreme popularity has led us to introduce the all-new Sea Dragon and reinvent the ride experience while offering the same classic swing ride that guests know and love so well,” said Smithson. called.
The light green dragon was originally 26 feet tall and has carried more than 12 million guests since it was installed in 1996, according to Pacific Park. For 10 days, the dragon was displayed right in front of the theme park for guests to take photos and share memories online.
But the great dragon is not going to the junkyard.
The dragon was lifted by a civilian Blackhawk helicopter and taken to the port of Hueneme for shipment to St. Louis. The dragon will spend the rest of its life at the City Museum in downtown St. Louis, where it is expected to be placed on the roof of the museum next to the Big Eli Ferris wheel.
Source: LA Times
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