This one worked by going both clockwise and counterclockwise during each ride cycle, and during each direction the turntable would start to rise in the back next to the backdrop. Once it reached its highest incline, you would hear the air release, and it would immediately come back down to its original position. This would repeat several times in each direction. At it’s highest incline you were up to the top of the backdrop next to where the letters C R A Z Y D A N C E and flags were.

A ride cycle would start in one direction, then build up speed, then rise and fall several times, then reverse direction, then build up speed again, and then rise and fall several more times before the cycled would end. A full cycle usually lasted anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes each with half of the time going in the starting direction and the other half going in the reverse direction. Each direction usually had 4 or more rise/fall repetitions.

I don’t know if this was a specific model/version of the Crazy Dance, but I feel fairly certain it was a Fabbri make. I can’t remember if it had 4 satellites of 4 gondolas each (32 rider capacity) or if it had 6 satellites of 4 gondolas each (48 rider capacity), but the turntable was very big around. I also can’t remember if it had the tall structure of 3 dice in the middle of the turntable or if it had the stacked disco balls.

What I do know is the years it was at the fair back in the mid to late 90’s was the only time I had ever seen this unique model, and when it stopped coming I never saw it again. I’m guessing it stopped coming because Kentucky Kingdom had gotten a Break Dance 3, and that last year both were there at the same time. The Crazy Dance blew Kentucky Kingdom’s Break Dance 3 out of the water because of the rising turntable feature the Crazy Dance had, and the spin action was much more intense with many more spins per ride cycle on the Crazy Dance. The turntable rising and falling was much like the prior Tip Top ride which also did that. The next year the Super Bowl/Touchdown replaced the Crazy Dance, and that particular one has never been seen since.

The Crazy Dance, especially that particular model/version was, and still is, my all time favorite ride, and I would love to see it come back if it still exists!

Thanks for the update, Charlie! Nice to hear that it will be on the road again.

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