Top Spin (ride)

The arms are turned by motors, while the platform typically 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.

A world record was set with over 100 gondola flips during a cycle with a theme park model in Germany.

[1] There are also numerous other Top Spin rides that were later developed by other companies as rivals to the Huss versions.

In addition to this, various manufacturers such as Mondial, Moser, Vekoma, and Zamperla make an improved version of the Top Spin where each individual arm is controlled separately; this results in diagonal gondola inversions.