Chaos

Chance’s first Chaos was first produced in 1996, with just over 50 rides being built till production ceased in 2007.

Like Chance’s Turbo and Zipper, the ride movements involve the random balance of its cars on an axis. The ride consists of what Chance describes as “a three-dimensional rocking, rolling and rotating motion” as two-person bucket seats flip around freely, while attached to a main wheel with an electric, variable speed drive (holding 18 twin-seats), that varies in angle hydraulically.

The ride is very well presented with a good colour and light scheme. Unlike the Zipper, the seats are totally restrictive on body movement with an ‘over-the-shoulder’ restrain system.

Upholding Chance’s reputation for easy portability, the complete ride racks up on a single trailer.

59 Responses to “Chaos”

  1. I work a Chaos at my job so if you like I can provide a photo of the controls etc.

    Christian - July 5th, 2009 at 4:20 am

  2. That looks brilliant, where is this ride?

    Hannah - July 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 am

  3. hi there
    i want to rebuilt the chaos in scale 1:16
    but i can’t any blue prints of the chaos.
    can some body help me ?
    mvg ramses vink

    I’m sorry for the bad english.
    i’m dutch!

    ramses vink - September 7th, 2009 at 7:26 am

  4. This ride was fun. I know they took one out of Hershey Park, but I believe Cedar Point has one. Pretty cool Chance ride.

    Justin - September 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

  5. This is a pretty fun ride. I work at Valleyfair Amusement Park in MN and we have one there. Also I believe Cedar Point’s is for sale

    A.J. - October 8th, 2009 at 5:59 am

  6. eu gosto muito do mirabilandia

    davi ricardo - January 12th, 2010 at 11:53 am

  7. i remeber the first time i went on this
    it was chaotic

    Joe - February 20th, 2010 at 11:06 am

  8. Why did Butler sell theirs and Ray Cammack shows follow suit?? Where they unprofitable??

    Tim Hardesty - April 27th, 2010 at 12:19 am

  9. The rides where mechanical nightmares with numerous incidents and were too costly to maintain.

    Red M - May 5th, 2010 at 7:51 pm

  10. kentucky kingdom had one but they took it got 4 a new watercoaster about 5 years ago

    cman101 - June 21st, 2010 at 8:54 am

  11. I remeber Clementon Park had 1 of these wild rides

    mb - July 21st, 2010 at 12:24 am

  12. We had one for 10 years, was a trailer mount, but in a permanent location.
    I had great comments on the ride, but between the updates and frequent parts replacements, and that quite a few were being pulled out of service, we opted to do the same.
    Replaced it with a Moser Flipping Action Arm.

    seaside Amusements, Inc. - August 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am

  13. I rode this ride when it first debuted many years ago. It was a lot of fun and unique. Few years ago I rode it again. It aged a lot. Due to the age it wasn’t as smooth. It didn’t spin as fast either.

    This ride is more fun at night as the many lights on the ride provide eye candy.

    jt - August 29th, 2010 at 3:25 pm

  14. “Mayhem” seems Like a better name for this ride, and if you’re fan of “Thrillville: Off the Rails ” you’d know exactly what I mean. :)

    Unknown - October 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 am

  15. let me know if you have photos of mounting chaos in a semi trailer my mail ansuremu@gmail.com

    andreu - November 28th, 2010 at 5:14 am

  16. They have one of these in Belmont Park.

    Annonymous - December 20th, 2010 at 8:52 am

  17. I rode a ride like this before!!! except it was called the genie!!! it was so frickin awesome!!!

    Angel - December 21st, 2010 at 6:23 am

  18. ive never been on it but it seams fun. why do alot of websites say it confuses the mind though?

    Emily - January 19th, 2011 at 5:31 am

  19. I first saw this at the sydney royal easter show in 1996 I think it was… It was the last one at sydney showgrounds before it got moved??

    Rebecca - February 15th, 2011 at 4:25 pm

  20. Hello,

    We are the construction company in The Republic of Uzbekistan, Central Asia.
    Two years ago we took for reconstruction and development local park. By today we have renovated all infrastructure, built Aqua Park and brought some attractions. And now we are interested in further development of attraction business, not only in our Park, but in all parks interested in development.
    And if you and your company will help us in searching best deals and safe time and money, we will definitely have a very productive cooperation!
    We have a lot of friends and partners all over the world, who can visit places where attractions are located and maybe meet you or your partners, I personally have relatives in New-York and San Diego.

    Vladislav Suleyman at:
    “Shark Temir” LTD
    PO Box 100149
    Astrobadskaya 2, Chilanzar District
    Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    OFFICE: (99871) 279 4243
    FAX: (99871) 279 84 42
    MOBILE: (998 97) 155 11 23

    We are interested in 1997 Chance ‘Chaos’ spectacular ride (55000$), and would like you to calculate the freight and let us know as soon as possible, so we can estimate further steps. And please could you please divide pricing formation as follows:
    1. Attraction – $ …
    2. Dismantling fees $…
    3. Shipping costs (Volume) $ …
    and what have you, so we can better understand working principle at your company.

    Best Regards,

    Vladislav - March 6th, 2011 at 9:43 pm

  21. This ride is scary.I have been on it before & I felt like I was going to fall out (but I didn’t fall out).

    oliver - April 7th, 2011 at 6:57 am

  22. SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    oliver - July 2nd, 2011 at 8:32 am

  23. this looks fun btw

    sydney - July 5th, 2011 at 7:20 am

  24. Cedar Point does not have one Justin and A.J.

    Oliver Liell - July 10th, 2011 at 11:28 am

  25. tengo un caos a la venta mi correo ansuremu@gmail.com

    andreu - August 10th, 2011 at 4:38 am

  26. This ride just did the northern territory run. Its new owner is Charlie Gardiner. I think it may do Perth Show

    Geoff - August 17th, 2011 at 4:08 pm

  27. Hello.
    I would like to get ride “Chaos” where and how can I buy it?

    ruslan - September 2nd, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    1. where is this ride anyway?!

    Oliver Liell - September 28th, 2011 at 8:17 am

  29. everybody talks about rides work ,but nobody talks about "chances ride accident in 2001″…
    Ride collapses at Michigan’s Adventure; 31 injured (7/30/01)

    ridesaccidents... - October 5th, 2011 at 11:00 am

  30. As Red and many others pointed out, The Chaos was a mechanics nightmare. We had one for about 3 years and traded it in for the Chance Inverter. I think we spent more money on its maintenance than it actually made.

    Chuck - October 31st, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  31. i no unnown

    Oliver Liell - December 4th, 2011 at 10:53 am

  32. i saw it once in my country(costa rica) and it was very scary for my taste at that time, i was just 10 years old, but i got a crush on it, so i’d said next year i will ride it on, but unfortunately didn’t show up, such a pity, and since that year(1996) never come back again, i ‘ve been waiting for it, but never came, and now it’s worse cuz i cannot ride any funfair, anymore or i get really sick, for my positional vertigo problem, well it’s such a pleasure to share my history with you guys ciaooooooo, y saludos desde costa rica

    munich cmel - January 5th, 2012 at 6:14 pm

  33. I’m interested in this machine is its price as

    adriano - February 25th, 2012 at 10:16 am

  34. As a rumor as was informed that valleyfairs chaos lite on fire in the 2010 season and was demolished. Is that true?

    Bob - June 21st, 2012 at 10:57 pm

  35. “Cedar Point does not have one Justin and A.J.”

    They had one, but they sold it. I haven’t been to Circus Circus (Las Vegas) in a while, but I know they had one as well.

    BN - October 10th, 2012 at 5:24 am

  36. does any one have specs on this ride ?…or sales page

    chris - December 24th, 2012 at 5:05 am

  37. This was my favorite ride. I saw it at Ceder Point in 2008 on an 8th grade end of the school year trip and rode it a few times and loved it. Hadn’t gotten to go back since. My mom and I were planning on going to Ceder Point sometime this year with some family and friends and I decided to look and see if there were any new thrill rides added besides the Wind Seeker since I was there last only to see that Chaos was not on the list. I did some searching and found out that Chaos was taken out for good. I’m quite sad to see it go and am hoping someone makes a similar one that doesn’t wind up malfunctioning.

    Kiku - January 22nd, 2013 at 5:28 pm

  38. lol anyone know what the ride is like???????

    olliedude - February 2nd, 2013 at 5:26 pm

  39. lol anyone know what the ride is like???

    oliver - February 2nd, 2013 at 5:27 pm

  40. any body have paper work on this ride/ ride manuel

    chris - February 8th, 2013 at 4:16 am

  41. This ride played music @ the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. I think it played rap music. Didn’t it?

    Dylan Salada - February 18th, 2013 at 8:11 am

  42. How much would it be to rent this ride for a school event?

    Torri - April 16th, 2013 at 9:12 am

  43. can i have all rides quotation please want to buy them

    roselyn - June 3rd, 2013 at 4:48 pm

  44. Yes, Dylan, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk had the same one Belmont Park had. They are Sister Parks. It was too much of a Problematic nightmare for whatever reason. Belmont & Seaside had no desire to continually replace her broken parts, How Sad. She was a great ride. I worked at Seaside (Or as you know it “Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk”) for a season. I was there when “She” was built.. til her Demise. R.I.P Good Ship Chaos!

    Adam - June 28th, 2013 at 7:23 pm

  45. this ride (chaos was removed from michigans adventure amusement park in muskegan ,mi after it broke of while spinning and injured more than a dozen people. it was removed from every amusement park after this happen.

    tara merlau - August 4th, 2013 at 1:28 pm

  46. I rode only one and that was at the CNE in 2011. I hadn’t seen one after that. One problem with the one at the CNE is that most of it’s restraints were broken.

    John Brooks - October 4th, 2013 at 9:05 am

  47. This is The best ride ever I love it Soo much and I know there is still one in Vegas inside the park it’s amazing went on it like 10 times ??????

    Kimmie - May 11th, 2014 at 4:39 pm

  48. I worked a trailer mount actually the one hooked to the truck above. This is a ride riddled with nightmares but when it works right it’s an awesome ride. I had harness issues for the longest time even had a girl fall out of the ride. We always opened the outer cage while the ride was coming to a stop and a harness released while the ride was still moving and the tubs were still rocking. I got to scrap parts off the park model that was sitting at the chance factory that the whole wheel came off and killed a bunch of people. Knowing what I know about the ride it’s good they are being removed and scrapped. They are fun when they work right but very dangerous when they are not and they seem to be in dysfunction mode more times than not.

    John - November 7th, 2014 at 2:14 pm

  49. they still have a chaos at calaway park Calgary Canada, but it wasn’t opened for half the 2015 season, they end it ended up opening it up with only nine carts instead of 20…they got this ride in 2006 and it felt smooth until this year and at the end of the ride sometimes it would feel like its bouncing up and down…….but its still my favorite ride at the park

    Jehad - September 25th, 2015 at 2:15 pm

  50. John, you worked for Farrow too? I was on their Banzai for a few year, then on the big orange giant wheel. Ya know, this Chaos STILL travels with them? And still makes it’s appearance at almost all of NAME’s southern spots. Just like, that ol’ tired Banzai haha

    Will - March 21st, 2016 at 1:40 pm

  51. Morning

    Kindly send your e-mail address so I can contact you regarding the rides I am interested in.

    Thanks

    David Moepeng - April 29th, 2016 at 3:07 pm

  52. I currently own two of these rides, hopefully will have them finished and refurbished one day in the future. It is a beautiful ride and a great thrill when running.

    Kimberly Cole Zemke - August 24th, 2016 at 3:32 am

  53. Hello?
    I’m interested this rides but i’m in trouble , i’m searching some sparepart gear of this rides chaos portable model..
    Please if have anything information for this ride contact me..
    Thank you

    I’m sorry for the bad english. i’m indonesian.

    Erick - November 9th, 2016 at 1:39 pm

  54. What’s the name of the font for the ride’s logo?

    Dylan Thomas Salada - January 20th, 2018 at 6:54 am

  55. I need the engine and differential of the mechanical game Chaos can give me the price thanks

    sam tapia - June 18th, 2019 at 4:53 am

  56. RIP Krypton Comet @ Six Flags America… I miss you, even though I’ve never been on it!!

    Danny - November 13th, 2019 at 6:35 am

  57. Be careful with these rides. They had multiple serious accidents and fatalities.

    Dave - June 14th, 2020 at 10:54 am

  58. nasty ride nsaty ride but fun

    DONALD RINGROSE - September 24th, 2022 at 6:31 pm

  59. Will the one at Keansburg ever operate again?

    Marcus - October 23rd, 2023 at 4:43 am

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