Top Spin (ride)

The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Park Attractions, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle. The ride consists of a passenger platform suspended between two counterweighted arms. The arms are turned by motors, while the platform generally only has brakes that are engaged and disengaged at various points of the ride cycle. A typical top spin program runs the main arm motors while engaging and disengaging the platform brakes so that it will rotate in exciting ways. The minimum rider height requirement is 54 inches; maximum is 80 inches due to the seat and restraint design. The ride was debuted in 1990 with it proving an instant success with European fairgoers.

Ride experience

Huss has designed the ride so that park and carnival operators may choose one of 8 preset ride "programs." Most last no more than 2 minutes and consist of several moderate-speed loops, flips, and face-down gondola "hangtime" before unlocking the gondola hydraulics and swinging the riders back and forth. Some Top Spin rides have the added feature of water fountains which are mainly used at the end of the ride sequence soaking the riders as they are slowly lowered face first into the un-escapable water jets. Cycles can be customized to include more intense repetitive flips and also be under manual operator control. Cycles may tend to be longer at carnivals. A world record was set with over 100 gondola flips during a cycle with a theme park model in Germany.

Topspin

In ball sports, topspin is a property of a ball that rotates forwards as it is moving. Topspin on a ball propelled through the air imparts a downward force that causes the ball to drop, due to its interaction with the air (see Magnus effect). Topspin is the opposite of backspin.

Baseball

In baseball, the curveball, a type of pitch which usually has downward movement, is thrown in such a way as to put topspin on the ball. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to pitcher.

Cue sports

In snooker, pocket billiards and billiards, players use topspin to keep the cue ball moving, including after it hits other balls. They get top spin by hitting the cue against the top of the ball.

Cricket

In cricket, a top-spinner is a type of delivery bowled by a cricketer bowling either wrist spin or finger spin. In either case, the bowler imparts the ball with top spin by twisting it with his or her fingers prior to delivery. In both cases, the topspinner is the halfway house between the stock delivery and the wrong'un - in the wrist spinner's case his googly, and in the finger spinner's case his doosra.

Topspin (disambiguation)

In sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving.

Topspin or Top Spin may also refer to:

See also

Wreckers (Transformers)

The Wreckers are a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers franchise, functioning essentially as a commando unit. Depending on the universe the are seen in, the origins and exactly who they are can vary, sometimes they are a combiner subgroup, sometimes they lack the ability to combine, sometimes they are reformatted into Decepticons (as seen in Robots in Disguise), and other times they can just be a trio of Autobot cars (as seen in Dark of the Moon and Bot Shots). When they combined, their combined form is usually known as Ruination.

Transformers: Generation 1

They are the creation of Marvel UK writer Simon Furman, who introduced the Wreckers in the story arc Target:2006. With an ever shifting roster, they also appear in many of Furman's subsequent stories, as well as in many other Marvel stories, in Dreamwave's War Within: The Dark Ages, and in IDW's Stormbringer.

Marvel Comics

In the Marvel UK Transformers Universe, Wreckers first appear in the Target: 2006 arc (originally printed in UK #78-88). Individual members appeared in early issues before the team itself was revealed in #82. The Wreckers task was to destroy ten of the Decepticons' most potent killers in Operation: Volcano. This operation was planned to be the first major offensive in the Autobot retaking of Cybertron. The Wrecker team at this point consisted of the following characters: