Rollercoasters are expensive to design and build. There is a healthy market in 2nd hand rollercoasters. HUGE rides are carefully dismantled to make way for new thrills and most rides are relocated and enjoyed by a new audience. It's very admirable that very little is wasted in the theme park industry.
There was a short lived theme park in Florida in the 1970's and 80's named Circus World. The theme was, surprisingly, the circus. Their centrepiece was a huge wooden rollercoaster named The Roaring Tiger (for a very short period it was outrageously named The Michael Jackson Thrill Coaster!) and it had a classic out-and-back layout with steep hills and lots of out-of-your-seat thrills. I got to ride this coaster in 1982 and took this picture half way down the first drop:

As the ride reached it's furthest point I turned around in my seat and took this picture (which reamins to this day my favourite rollercoaster pic beacause of the sheer joy it captures):

This shot was taken from the top of the ferris wheel:

When the park went bust and closed in the late 80's The Roaring Tiger was bought by a Park in Arkansas for $10,000 and they spent another $900,000 transporting it and rebuilding it for the good people of Hot Springs (less than a million for a classy ride like this is an ENORMOUS bargain). Look how stunning it looks in it's new home:


That's my kind of landscaping.
The Arkansas Twister is it's new name and doesn't it look at home on those lush Ozark hills amid the still-living lumber.
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