The 4th issue of the Journal of Ride Theory covers the World's Fairs of the 20th Century, and includes a long article on the... More > 1939 New York Fair's "Futurama" ride. < Less

Reprint of the first issue of the Journal of Ride Theory. Rex Everything of Negativland on the Haunted Mansion, etc.

Issue 3 of the Journal of Ride Theory. Covers Universal Studios Hollywood, including Jurassic Park, E.T. and Back to the Future.

A reprint of the Journal of Ride Theory #5, The BAD IDEAS Issue. Includes Flying Saucers at Disneyland; the Cyclodial... More > Chariot (a cross between a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster); submarine busses; Freedomland and much more. < Less

Chapter 6 of the Journal of Ride Theory Omnibus. Originally intended as a zine, this first saw print as a bonus chapter in... More > book form. Now available as a free download. < Less

Reprint of the second issue of the Journal of Ride Theory. Tiger Balm Gardens; Power to the People Mover; the American... More > Carwash; the Pep Boys; Ride Brut; Roger Rabbit's Car-Toon Spin; and a Toy Auto-Gyro. < Less

This is a story of honest mistakes, bad design, hubris, stupidity, greed, corruption -- but above all, it’s a tale of... More > something so monumentally awful that it takes on a sort of soggy grandeur. It's the story of the Dome, a World’s-Fair-like exposition in London, created to celebrate Britain and the new millennium. It was a disaster from start to finish, and almost everything that happened was funny. Designers of amusement parks and expositions can read "Dome and Domer" as a sort of "How-Not-To" guidebook. Everyone else can just sit back and enjoy reading about something going gradually and completely wrong. < Less

(HARDBACK EDITION) This is a story of honest mistakes, bad design, hubris, stupidity, greed, corruption -- but above all,... More > it’s a tale of something so monumentally awful that it takes on a sort of soggy grandeur. It's the story of the Dome, a World’s-Fair-like exposition in London, created to celebrate Britain and the new millennium. It was a disaster from start to finish, and almost everything that happened was funny. Designers of amusement parks and expositions can read "Dome and Domer" as a sort of "How-Not-To" guidebook. Everyone else can just sit back and enjoy reading about something going gradually and completely wrong. < Less

(HARDBACK EDITION) This is a story of honest mistakes, bad design, hubris, stupidity, greed, corruption -- but above all,... More > it’s a tale of something so monumentally awful that it takes on a sort of soggy grandeur. It's the story of the Dome, a World’s-Fair-like exposition in London, created to celebrate Britain and the new millennium. It was a disaster from start to finish, and almost everything that happened was funny. Designers of amusement parks and expositions can read "Dome and Domer" as a sort of "How-Not-To" guidebook. Everyone else can just sit back and enjoy reading about something going gradually and completely wrong. < Less

Hardback
A compilation of issues 1 through 5 of the Journal of Ride Theory, the zine about amusement parks, rides and... More > strange forms of transportation. WIRED called it "...Singularly charming and witty," the Willamette Week named it one of Portland's "Best 'Zines for Inducing Bafflement and Awe" and Cory Doctorow said it was "one of the best zines I ever subscribed to in the golden age of zinedom."Articles include: Rex Everything of Negativland on the Haunted Mansion; Teresa Bergen on the Tiger Balm Gardens; "Power to the People Mover"; Jacques Bouchard on the American Carwash; the Pep Boys; Carl Houston on Ride Brut; Roger Rabbit's Car-Toon Spin; Universal Studios Hollywood; World's Fairs of the 20th Century; the 1939 "Futurama" ride; Flying Saucers at Disneyland; submarine busses; Freedomland. < Less