New spin on excitement

in city Silverwood Theme Park’s newest ride, SpinCycle, has the nauseating – er, thrilling – trifecta: It goes backward, upside down and it spins. Sometimes it does all three at once, and sometimes it does all three at once more than 100 feet in the air. “Expletives came out of my mouth a couple of times,” the park’s training manager, Nicole Walker, said after a test run on Friday. “But I liked it.” The $2 million thrill ride is the park’s first new ride since 2008.

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