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When I was a kid, I rode a single rail Alpine in Austria. I think it had a green track, and it went around free running cows! Any idea where that one is?
I rode this when it first was built, before any revisions, or copies. This roller coaster walked so other flying coasters could run! I live very close to this park, but since this ride was removed so many years ago, my go to flying coaster is Tatsu at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Newer/better tech, and it's much bigger. Thank you Stealth for paving the way 🫡
With every new design there needs to be a prototype - which usually lead to bigger and faster rides of a similar design. I enjoyed this one. Of course B&M largely took over the flying coaster market from this Vekoma original design (the prototype B&M flyer opened in the UK where I live), but this coaster was fun and unusual.
@@davidjellis My only real gripe with this ride was that it started laying down looking at the sky, so the sun was in everyone's eyes on the longest/slowest part of the ride, the chain lift 🤣. Others, like Tatsu start face down, so it's not a problem, but again, that comes from other manufacturers/better versions etc.
Okay got this one checked off of my bucket list now. I had given up on it after Mexico, when I assumed it would be scrapped. But nope. Instead my home park bought it, restored it, and got it operational again. A great ride. Worth the 3 year wait. But man, those accordion restraints - OUCH! My riding partner tapped out after 2 rides. I tapped out after 3, but came back later for one more ride. Even the ride ops thought I was crazy for doing 3 rides in a row. Most Schwarzkopf's I've ridden are fairly smooth for the time they were built; and this one probably would be if not for the restraints. I cut my coaster riding teeth on Arrow, Summers/Dinn, CCI, and every RCCA built in the U.S. I'm talking original 1992 Rattler, original Texas Giant, Steel Phantom, Son of Beast, and so on. American Triple Loop isn't the roughest ride I've been on. But it's up there! Shockingly the smoothest ride today was LoCoSuMo. And I've never had a smooth ride on that in it's 22 years of operation, until my visit to Indiana Beach today. So major credit to the park and the maintenance crew for doing some great work on it. And I feel obligated to report that Cyclone at Indiana Beach is one of the better Galaxi coasters that I've been on.
I agree with the accordion restraints - worst invention ever...and whilst I was pleased to see the coaster had been saved, I have read some fairly scary stuff about the general safety levels on that ride since it was relocated...looks like they cut a few corners and made some odd compromises to the quality of the ride experience, so not a surprise to read it was on the rough side. I LOVE LoCoSuMo - such a fun ride idea, and quite unlike anything else. Yes, the Galaxy there was pretty decent from memory.
@@davidjellis I'm not as concerned about the Triple Loop's safety. But I do think the ride needs a complete overhaul, with new trains and a new control system, much like what Hershey Park did with their Schwarzkopf coaster (also a great ride).
All that riding must have affected your memory LOL. The ride experience varied I am sure...sometimes a coaster can be decent one season and poor the next depending on maintenance schedules etc. I wasn't a fan, mainly due to the trains rather than the ride design.
@@afridgetoofar1818 well, we all like different things - and roller coaster ride experiences can vary - oddly I never found Raging Wolf Bobs rough at all, just boring...Villain I found rough enough not to like...it was never in my 'roughest wooden coasters' list (and I have ridden 176 wooden coasters in total) but wasn't a favourite either.
@@afridgetoofar1818 you can also gauge by the amount of shaking in the footage that it wasn't the smoothest of rides...my old analogue camcorder struggled quite a bit to cope.
LOL - it didn't feel like floating though...strange feeling - but travelling at 125mph straight down for 35 seconds just felt like being in a wind tunnel but with better views 🙂
That should be fine...it's unlikely my MCN (Brave Bison) will claim copyright for a video with just 3.2k views - Please credit David Ellis and provide a link to the channel. Cheers.
That should be fine...technically I would normally need to check with my MCN (Brave Bison)...but as they only tend to monitor use of my most viewed videos, any third party use of this one (with just 89k views) is unlikely to be claimed by them. Please credit David Ellis and provide a link to the channel. Cheers.
Probably not - it's only a few minutes after all. What I found funny was when they did the safety drill before we went up - they explained what the process was if the plane had an emergency (which has never happened)...anyway, he explained that if we were at low altitude we would adopt the brace position, however if we were high enough we would simply "bail out using the parachutes and leave the pilot to figure it out himself" - I thought that was funny!
Wonderful jump David. I got to ask you. Would it rate next to some of the best coasters you have ever ridden? You are adventurous in every sense of the word Dave. Well done~ Rob/Boston
It's hard to compare to any roller coaster ride experience to be honest...very different feeling. What I can say is that this really got my adrenaline flowing and I was on a real buzz afterwards...I can't recall the last roller coaster that gave me the same buzz, apart from the no brakes alpine coaster at Mieders. This has been on my to-do list ever since I did static line jumping around 30 years ago, and I am sure I will do another...it can be addictive, adrenaline!
There were only three wacky worm coasters to feature a turntable and this is the only one left...we didn't see the turntable operate at this park. It was cool to ride a standard coaster model that had so many unique adaptations - quite a rarity!
I was there in 2002, aged 22 and saw this crash in person watching it again gives me the chills. Glad the pilot made it out alive and was subsequently rescued. The cause of the crash was pilot error loss of thrust due to selecting the wrong setting, forcing the pilot to eject.
Do you remember the walkthrough pirate ship attraction at this park? It was closed in 2005. I am looking for the lost photos that once existed on the lost website adventureislandguide
@@davidjellis Thank you for responding. I have been collecting a lot of old adventure island photos to help preserve them but this is an attraction which seems to have been lost in time sadly.
