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Set inside a giant barn, Silver Dollar City’s new Giant Swing is a fully-themed attraction fitting in with the Branson, Missouri, park’s 1880s era setting. The ride was supplied by S&S Power.
To complete the image, a traditional barn-top rooster weathervane was required. “We approached our coppersmith Rex Morton about making a huge rooster weathervane entirely out of copper,” says the park’s creative director Genesis Estes, “and he created this incredible 10-foot tall original work of art.”
The rooster body and feathers were completely hand-hammered, and then heat treatment produced a multi-coloured sheen on the feathers. Inside the rooster has a copper time capsule box containing a 2007 silver dollar, a scripture verse and a letter from Silver Dollar City’s general manager.
It’s thought the finished product, which weighs 300 pounds, may be the largest rooster weathervane in the world.
- 10 - 12 September, 2008
FUN EXPO - Las Vegas, USA - 23 - 25 September, 2008
LIW 2008 - Birmingham, UK - 23 - 24 September, 2008
TILEZONE - Lódz, Poland - 27 - 29 September, 2008
IAAPA SUMMER MEETING - Munich, Germany - 30 September - 02 October, 2008
EURO ATTRACTIONS SHOW - Munich, Germany - 16 - 18 October, 2008
SUREXPO - Warsaw, Poland - 29 - 31 October, 2008
INTERSCHAU / TECHNOFOLIES - Stuttgart, Germany - 29 - 30 October, 2008
WWA TRADE SHOW - Las Vegas, USA - 18 - 21 November, 2008
IAAPA ATTRACTIONS EXPO - Orlando, USA
