Enjoy some cool photos taken in 2009 of Tracy’s Head Slinger stunt a few years after it was retired from Trimper’s Haunted House in Ocean City, Maryland. Some history …
When Trimper’s Haunted House was expanded in 1988 to add a second story, the new space was inhabited by stunts from Ghost Ship, a defunct Bill Tracy dark ride located at Ocean Playland at 65th street in Ocean City, Maryland. The addition of the nautical-themed Tracy stunts made for quite an exciting ride experience and as a result made Trimper’s Haunted House arguably the largest Tracy ride in existence with a five minute ride time and nearly 30 original Tracy effects.
The Head Slinger stunt scared riders for about 15 years in Trimper’s Haunted House before being removed around 2003 (20 years ago already!) and replaced with a modern air-operated prop. The Head Slinger became a maintenance headache as riders would stand up in the car and reach for the head, damaging the mechanism that made it work. When Head Slinger was removed, it was placed behind a storage facility on Trimper property out in the elements. Today, the status of the stunt’s remains are unknown.
The video below depicts how the stunt originally looked and operated in Trimper’s Haunted House, circa 1996.
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