Sierra Tonante - Mirabilandia 

Uno dei più incredibili wooden RC - giusto demolirlo se ormai non era più sicuro ma andava ricostruito - i wooden RC hanno un fascino e un rumore particolare e soprattutto purtroppo ormai sono rari - un wooden RC in un parco italiano dovrebbe essere assolutamente presente

Quanto era figa Sierra tonante. Ancora ricordo l’emozione del primo giro. Un vero lutto quando la smantellarono

When I was little we went to Mirabilandia once every two years (the other year we went to Gardaland) and I rode Sierra Tonante once, the earliest I could, in 2001 and then several times in the same day in 2003, it wasn't super smooth but it was perfectly beareable. I rode it in 2005 for the last time and by then it was clear maintenance was lacking and it wasn't a great experience, I rode it only twice that day :( with more and better maintenance it could have lasted a few more years while still giving a good experience, I loved its iconic skyline and the roaring sound it made...

Mirabilandia: Una montagna russa di legno è obsoleta, meglio se la sostituiamo con qualcosa di più moderno... Europa-Park: Oh, una montagna russa di legno è la novità perfetta per il prossimo anno, dobbiamo assolutamente costruirne una! :)

Bei ricordi :')

Ma quanto erano belle queste montagne russe? io ci sono montato in quattro anni diversi, quando ero un bambino e quando ero adolescente e prima che arrivasse Katun a detronizzarlo, l'ottovolante Sierra Tonante era il più bel roller coaster presente in Italia. Un vero peccato l'abbiano smantellato, non ho mai saputo il motivo di ciò. Molti sostengono a causa degli alti costi di manutenzione, ma io non ci credo.

Purtroppo È Andato In Paradiso Per Sempre 😩

It's fair to say that with both wooden and steel coasters there are great ones and there are really poor ones...it isn't a wood v steel argument, simply good versus bad....Sierra Tonante was one of those coasters that looked amazing but rode poorly...there are plenty of steel coasters you could say the same of!

"When it gets round wheels, it'll be better!"

Mi manca un casino era un must di mirabilandia

che peccato...proprio nel 2007 ci sono andato e stavo facendo la fila per entrare quando è cominciato a diluviare e l'hanno chiusa... :'( non ci sono potuto tornare perché è piovuto tutto il giorno....ed era l'ultimo giorno di vacanza.... :'( ...e poi l'hanno demolita.... :'(

Bellissimo.. l'avevo fatto nel lontano 1998 quando il parco aveva appena aperto.... peccato che l'abbiano rimosso.

Non c'è più questo coaster

Ways it could've lasted longer: -If it had PTC trains (it's hard to tell, but this ride ran with Morgan trains) -If Mirabilandia would've maintained it more from day 1.

it was really rough (like an italian mean streak) and the park had to make a choice: whether to keep the ride and waste millions to maintain it, or to build a new, bigger and better ride. guess which one they chose.

Ooohh...stunt work...sounds exciting :-)

Avrei voluto farla prima che andasse via 😭

Maybe someday Mirabilandia could bring this coaster back. Maybe have GCI build it so that the new incarnation will be smooth while maintaining its speed.

That's the one. I worked there during the summer of 1970. I ran the train ride and did stunt work there.

Thanks for the video, David! I remember this ride from when I was a kid, but I never got to ride it before it closed. I remember there being some sort of a restriction that kids younger than 12 can't ride back then (I was 8 at the time). I doubt it was enforced, but my parents didn't want to risk it with the queue being quite long.

There was a Lakeside Park at Salem VA, is that the one? It had two wooden coasters called Wildcat (closed 1967) and Shooting Star (closed 1986).

R.I.P

I think this roller coaster would have been better off with a rmc makeover

The chain lift sounds like a steel coaster rather than a wooden. I wonder if they will ever try again to build another wooden coaster

Love the old wooden roller coasters. Have you ever heard of Lakeside Amusement Park in Roanoke, Virgina? They used to have one much like the one in this video. Thumbs-up.

Excellent David ! I agree, round wheels definitely work best lol :-)

rip per chi come me non ha mai potuto provarla dato che nel 2007 avevo 11 anni. :(

erano veramente belle queste montagne russe interamente costruite in legno adesso al loro posto c'è high speed giostra moderna ma bella

E sembrava molto bello ma era scomodo

Semplicement il top

Why was this coaster removed..? Shame it did not last till 2012 as it could of had the "Topper Track" treatment to make it run smoother.

Wasn't this the coaster shut down by stricter building regulations?

it'd cost the same amount of money to either build a new one or to maintain it.

Wait Italy had a wooden coaster?

So on a scale of 1 to Mean Streak, how rough was she?

HAhahaha, "when they get round wheels it'll be better" seriously laughed at that, did see that coming. Although the ride did look painful, I know the feeling! You gotta love to hate wooden roller coasters.

piango

thats what i figured. but anyway im only judging by the way my sisters judged it when they rode it back in 2007 (the year before this closed). i was 8 and i couldnt ride even though i really wanted to, at first, but then i got scared and changed my mind. thank god i made that choice. anyway, if it weren't for the removal of sierra tonante, we wouldn't have the world's second intamin blitz coaster and the world's tallest and fastest water coaster (cuz they each take up some of sierra's space) :)

Sono andata i primi di agosto non c'era le ho fatte tutte

domani vado a mirabilandi😘😘😘😝😝

This has nice big sweeping hills, a thing of the past. Now wooden coasters are one big lift hill, and 20 cheap bunny hills at enormous speed with exhausting G forces. A roller coaster should slow down as it crests a hill, not make your eyes bulge out on each one like Boulderdash. Boulderdash is a one and done.

wow

Some guy said "if it had round wheels it'd be better" OUCH

L' Ispeed è moooooooooolto megliooo!!! :)

i tink they leave thi attraction... when i go at mirabilandia, 3 months ago, there wasn't :(

Basically, I got shot off the train by the bandits as they boarded it. Then the next time the train came around, I was one of the bandits and shot the other guy off. It was very simple stuff and I was very young man.

Potevano fare Ispeed senza toglierlo!! Era bellissimo!!

You... you didn't really understand what I was saying, did you?

Un mito

Fico!😃

Yes, wooden coasters are terrible. Boulder Dash, El Toro, The Voyage, and Phoenix sure do suck. Oh, wait, they're some of the best coasters on the planet.

Mirabilandia was better before

😅😅

C'è ne una identica a Parc Asterix.

Sonp italiano :-)

Belloa rispett al.katun fa cagare troppe.vibrazioni poi

100 volte meglio della cagata Ducati

I love you. :)

Cazzo

It's a death trap!!

It's a death trap!!