Editing Ferris wheel (section)

===Eccentric wheels===
An '''eccentric wheel''' (sometimes called a '''sliding wheel'''<ref name="originald">{{cite web|url=http://www.originald.com/info/attractions/california-adventure/paradise-pier/mickeys-fun-wheel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509223639/http://www.originald.com/info/attractions/california-adventure/paradise-pier/mickeys-fun-wheel|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 9, 2009|title=Mickey's Fun Wheel|date=May 9, 2009|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> or '''coaster wheel'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intaminworldwide.com/amusement/GiantWheels/Coaster+Wheel/tabid/143/ProductNumber/Coaster+Wheel/language/de-DE/Default.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711135757/http://www.intaminworldwide.com/amusement/GiantWheels/Coaster+Wheel/tabid/143/ProductNumber/Coaster+Wheel/language/de-DE/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 11, 2011|title=Coaster Wheel > Giant Wheels > Amusement|date=July 11, 2011|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref>) differs from a conventional Ferris wheel in that some or all of its passenger cars are not fixed directly to the rim of the wheel, but instead slide on rails between the rim and the hub as the wheel rotates.

The two most famous eccentric wheels are [[Wonder Wheel]], at [[Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park]], [[Coney Island]], US, and [[Pixar Pal-A-Round]] (previously Sun Wheel and Mickey's Fun Wheel), at [[Disney California Adventure]], US. The latter is a replica of the former. There is a second replica in [[Yokohama Dreamland]], [[Japan]].<ref name="wwhistory" />

[[Pixar Pal-A-Round]] is {{Convert|48.8|m|ft|0}} tall<ref name="originald" /> and has 24 fully enclosed passenger cars, each able to carry six passengers. Each passenger car is decorated with the face of a [[Pixar]] character. Sixteen slide inward and outward as the wheel rotates, the remainder are fixed to the rim. There are separate boarding queues for sliding and fixed cars, so that passengers may choose between the two.<ref name="allears">{{cite web|url=http://allears.net/dlr/tp/dca/sun.htm|title=Mickey's Fun Wheel - Disney's California Adventure - AllEars.Net|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> Inspired by [[Coney Island]]'s 1920 Wonder Wheel, it was designed by [[Walt Disney Imagineering]] and [[Waagner Biro]], completed in 2001 as the Sun Wheel, later refurbished and reopened in 2009 as Mickey's Fun Wheel, and again rethemed as Pixar Pal-A-Round in 2018.<ref name="originald" />

[[Wonder Wheel]] was built in 1920, is {{Convert|45.7|m|ft|0}} tall, and can carry 144 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.denoswonderwheel.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080019/http://www.wonderwheel.com/rides/wonderwheel.html|url-status=dead|title=Deno's Wonder Wheel|archive-date=March 4, 2016|website=Deno's Wonder Wheel}}</ref>

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File:Ferris.jpg|Hermann Eccentric Ferris Wheel with sliding cars, from US patent 1354436, 1915; forerunner of the 1920 Wonder Wheel, there is no record of it ever being built<ref name="patents" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oceancountygov.com/history/seaside/page5.htm|title=Ocean County NJ History, Seaside|access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>
File:WonderWheelNewYork.jpg|[[Wonder Wheel]], a {{Convert|45.7|m|ft|0|adj=on}} tall eccentric wheel at [[Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park]], [[Coney Island]], was built in 1920 by the Eccentric Ferris Wheel Company<ref name="wwhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.wonderwheel.com/history.html |title=Wonder Wheel History |access-date=2011-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203175820/http://www.wonderwheel.com/history.html |archive-date=2011-02-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
File:ParadisePier2010.JPG|[[Disney California Adventure]]'s Pixar Pal-A-Round, an eccentric wheel modelled on Wonder Wheel, was built in 2001 as Sun Wheel and became Mickey's Fun Wheel in 2009 and currently [[Pixar Pal-A-Round]] in 2018<ref name="allears" />
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