It's not cooler by now, but at least I am home and find the time reading in my so beloved Kirmes Revue.
I found the history of the Megadance / Flic Flac story and I will try to give a short summary.
The article can be found in one of the earlier big editions.
Ruisinger, Karl:
Megadance - Ein Harlekin von Huss, in:
Kirmes Revue 9/1996, p. 14-20.
The Magadance is indeed a step further after Huss invented and launched the Magic.
In spring
1992 the premiere of the first version called "Megadancer" took place at Hamburger Frühlingsdom. The first version was owned and operated by showman Dreher-Zarnitz under the name "Megadancer". Interesting fact was that the same showman was also first in 1985 to buy a Huss-Breakdance and starting the Breakdance-mania that took Germany by storm.
Expectations were high thus five more versions were ordered the first year.
Megadancer - Dreher-Zarnitz, Bremen
Megadance - Kipp, Bonn
Megadance - Franz Goetzke, München
Rock'n'Roller - Oscar Bruch
Can-Can - Ewald Schneider, Bielefeld
Megadance - Ludewigt, Oldenburg
The ride came up the same year when there was the new Mondial attraction "Shake" and Nauta, Bussink & Bailey started their "Evolution" in Germany.
Two of the showmen ended their travelling with Megadance already at the end of season one:
Kipp changed their Megadance into the Huss-93-novelty "Take Off", Goetzke changed his Megadance in favour of a Huss Top Spin.
According to the ability of the Mondial - Shake to do
looping movements the remaining four showmen wanted their rides to be changed into a
looping "Megadance".
In the middle of
1994 the change was done and all the remaining editions returned as
looping flat rides.
Showman Ludewigt changed the name of his "Megadance" to "Flic Flac" and Schneider edited his version by adding "verschärft" to the name of his "Can-Can" (meaning "spiced up").
In autumn a fifth version appeared as "Flic Flac" under the ownership of showman Poetzsch, Munich (actually, this was the renewed version of the "Megadance" of showman Kipp). At the end of 1994 Bruch tried to sell his "Rock'n'Roller".
In
1995 there were four editions remaining and returning to german fairs:
- Megadancer - Dreher-Zarnitz
- Flic Flac - Ludewigt
- Flic Flac - Pötzsch
- Can-Can - verschärft - Schneider
In 1996 Ludewigt sold his Flic-Flac to Schneider-Hartmann from Münster, the Megadancer was sold to Koidl and Schreiber (FAB) and was installed at the Prater in Vienna where it was again put up for sale.
The Rock'n'Roller was meanwhile sold to Austrian showman Rieger from Wels.
So back in 1996 there were three versions still travelling in Germany:
- Flic Flac - Schneider-Hartmann
- Flic Flac - Pötzsch
- Can-Can - verschärft - Schneider
The history after 1996 might be added by others.
- one Flic Flac is dying in defunct Spree Park in Berlin
- I think Schneider sold their Can-Can in favour of Power Tower
- one version appeared as Dragen in Tivoli
- one is still operating at german fairs under the ownership of Peter Schrod.