I love the way that you instead of explaining the ride you literally explane the whole entire history leading up to that right from the start of the park
I hope you do more Canada’s wonderland rides in the future because us Canadians who grew up close to this park know the amount of history involved here. The transition of paramount giving up ownership was a HUGE difference for us tbh I feel like the quality went down for a few years and they’re finally trying to fix things up and put in the work to make the rides and theming of the park great again
you are delusional Paramount was a shitty owner and Cedar Faire did so much to this park that an entitled individual like you wouldn't understand. What because the rides couldn't keep copyrighted names they did not own? Behemoth literally came in at 2008 with the park being treated with a bunch of flat rides, then two more B&M coasters added to the park. The drink plan, food plan and fast pass were great additions to the park especially the former with park food being like 18.00 a meal. Wonderland is literally labeled as a top tier park in the Cedar chain with King's Island and Cedar Point being the others. They spent MILLIONS upgrading this place as soon as they got it, but of course someone such as yourself will never appreciate that. smh
I'd love to see a video about legoland or any legoland attractions. I just haven't seen much about it in the theme park youtube circles and I think there's some story to be told there
i'd love to see that too! another kiddie park i rarely see many vids on is sesame place in pennsylvania. not sure if there's much history to comment on but i really loved visiting there when i was little.
Leviathan still ranks supreme when it comes to speed and air time, but Yukon Striker is a very, very close second when it comes to the overall fun factor. Though I do miss Skyrider. I'd like to see another stand-up coaster in the future. What Wonderland really, _seriously_ needs to get their act together with first though is tearing down Flight Deck and *_especially_* Time Warp, and giving us proper, modern versions of an inverted coaster and a flying coaster. In fact, I wouldn't be broken up at all if they replaced literally every non-B&M coaster with a B&M variant -- EXCEPT for Vortex, which is still amazing.
Fun Fact: The dive coaster was paid for in 2015 and was supposed to open in 2016 but instead Valravn opened at Cedar Point and they didn’t open it until 2019. I got this Information from Amusement Insiders and Canada’s Wonderland was supposed to open Roller Coasters every 2 Years so we might see a new Coaster as soon as 2021. I hope they get RMC Wilde Beast as there next roller coaster but I would be fine with a B&M Invert or Intamin Blitz.
I'm thinking it's probably a Mack Launch. Copperhead Strike was a success and it would fit in well with a more family centric wonderland (especially with the 2020 hotel)
@@asherraymond4430 They're not registered in Canada yet. It's the same case with the EU, although RMC has managed to get around that by distributing through Vekoma in Europe.
Canada's Wonderland is my home park and I had the opportunity to visit the construction site while Yukon Striker was being built. The structure is absolutely massive and it was amazing to see how they were able to assemble everything in such a small space. Trying to walk around the site was basically like going through a maze with supports, pieces of track, and construction equipment all over the place. That ride is an absolute beast! Thanks for the video!
@@ExpeditionThemePark Oh shit, didn't know that XD Just kind of assumed you were based in England (not just the accent, you have A LOT of videos on UK theme Parks and rides) XD. Didn't occur to me that you're an expat :P. Hope you like T.O though. And Wonderland. We may not have the best coaster selection (we have a lot but not all of them are good quality, but we have a really good variety of flat rides.
Nicely done. I'd like to see a video on cedar point famously blocking Wonderland from building a B&M invert, I'm still interested in details of how the SLC was built instead
@@ThemeParkLifeBack when the only park Cedar Fair owned was Cedar Point, they purchased a large-scale B&M Invert: Raptor. To make the sale, B&M agreed not to build any inverts at any nearby parks, including Paramount's Kings Island and Paramount's Canada's Wonderland. Canada's Wonderland got Flight Deck, a Vekoma SLC, as an alternative, and Kings Island got no inverted rollercoasters. My guess is they saw how bad Flight Deck was and didn't want to buy any more. Many years later, Cedar Fair acquired Paramount Parks. This meant the exclusivity deal no longer applied, since the company which made B&M agree to the exclusivity deal now owned all the parks it applied to. This allowed Kings Island to build Banshee. Cedar Fair built Yukon Striker at Canada's Wonderland instead of a B&M Invert because they already had Flight Deck and it would have been redundant. However, both Banshee and Yukon Striker serve the role of big, modern looping rollercoasters which are the longest of their kind.
I actually went on Skyrider on it’s last day. It was my first and only time on the ride and I quite enjoyed it. It was so cute, because the loaded you in a covered area, and when you looked up, you could see the ride operators in their booth, and for the last day they had put up a “happy retirement” banner.
I've been going to Canada's Wonderland since I was a kid, and over the last couple of years they've really beefed things up roller coaster wise! Ridding the front of Yukon Striker is like flying, and I love it so much! I miss Skyrider though. Thanks for doing a video about my park!!
The adverts of the Yukon Striker you show in this video are so much more fun than the ones of like Th13rteen and such from UK parks. Not everything has to be the scariest ever
Oh and just for an idea for future. There was a theme park called metro land in Newcastle which was I think the biggest indoor in Europe. It closed at least 10 years back but would love to see a video on that at some point!
Really love the themed approach to collections of episodes. You're keeping things fresh without betraying your format. Good stuff! I know we'll get to Valravn eventually ;)
Something gives me the feeling that you have been reviewing a lot of dive coasters recently? Wonder why that is?! *oh wait you have* No joke really enjoying these coaster expeditions!
I was First Rider 34 of 72 and I was the first to have a riders POV video using special sun glasses that had a built in 1080p camera. While hand held cameras are not allowed, these camera glasses with a restraint band were. I did a number of videos this past summer at Wonderland and rode Yukon Striker 105 times. I will be back at Canada's Wonderland next summer looking for my next adventure, but before next summer is Halloween Haunt and the new Winterfest to attend.
Finally rode Yukon Striker in July 2021, ten years after my last visit to the park. It was a blast and thanks to the single rider line I got on in under 15 minutes
I love ur videos, they are so interesting. I love roller coasters, and I am glad to see an awesome channel giving roller coasters the attention they deserve, thank you.
Yukon Striker is the real deal. I was able to ride it 3 times on the day I visited in June thanks to Fast Pass and it was easily the best experience at the park for me, even better than Leviathon. I can’t wait to go back and ride it again.
I’m so glad you talked about my home country! I love your videos, and you keep each one so interesting and fresh that I can’t help but come back for more!
Your videos are always my favourite to watch, and I’m so stoked you did one on my home park! Thanks for the great video and I can’t wait to see more Wonderland ones hopefully in the future 😁
Honestly I have a bit of a controversial opinion. On dive coasters, but oblivion will always be my favourite dive machine. It just has something to it that makes it so good and I really can't explain what it is, it just works amazingly
Another amazing fact filled video. Very interesting to watch. Your hard work is paying off. I’m addicted to ETP already. I watch your videos every meal time. 👍
You definitely have some awesome videos and I enjoyed watching all of them. You should do one on the Flying Turns at Knoebels Amusement Resort the only wooden bobsled coaster in the world.
Love coasters, especially ones that dive! It would be great to see the history of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA since it has the most roller coasters in one park. I’m sure it has an interesting backstory worth looking into.
Would you consider doing an Expedition Extinct on Ontario Place? You mentioned you live in Toronto so it might be something interesting for you, especially since it was a publicly owned and operated park rather than a privately owned establishment like most theme parks. It's fate is still up in there since the city and provincial government still haven't decided what do with the land, so there's been a lot of turmoil and scrutiny over it.
The bit about the tunnel having sumps made me realize this is probably why underground tunnels are relatively uncommon, and why a lot of tunnels go into lakes. if the tunnel bottoms out in a lake, you only have to pump against the inwards pressure of the lake, where if you're pumping out and up, there's a lot of static pressure to overcome to get water moving. I wonder if they use eductors, or just regular pumps.
Although I have never had the opportunity to go on any of the bigger dive coasters, I feel that they just don't have what Oblivion does, and that is a good tunnel. Sure Yukon has a tunnel through a lake but my problem with it is that the coaster pulls out so early that it looks like most the drop has been done by the time you pass through the tunnel. Oblivion is one of the only dive coasters which has the (nearly) vertical drop into the tunnel exposing none of it's pull out. Hopefully, some of the future dive machines will be able to match the incredible tunnel of Oblivion.
I love how you mention the designer of Frontier Canada was a historian and journalist of Canadian goldstrikers, but took his inspiration from Silver Dollar City, which is located in Missouri. Lol 😁
Just had a chance to ride this with my 9 year old son. It was his third roller coaster ever and he looked like he was going to faint watching it while waiting in line 😂 Ride was absolutely amazing though!
As much as I love Oblivion, The UK needs another Dive Coaster. I am hoping that Project 2020 for Thorpe Park will be a Dive :) but I will be happy with anything TBH.
I really love your channel, it’s really interesting to learn about theme park history! Have you ever considered making a video about Paulton’s Park? I went there last year, it was awesome and I’d love to know about the history behind its rides!
I'm from Buffalo New York so this was one of our hometown perks Canada's Wonderland and the other being Darien Lake Six Flags I like this place they keep it clean and modern often getting new rides yearly as well as water entertainment as well this place is worth the price of admission unlike Darien Lake anybody Remember The Days of Thunder ride Canada's Wonderland used to have the indoor simulation ride the thing was awesome I wish they still had it greetings from Buffalo New York go bills
well the only dive i ridden was valravn which i thought was one of the better rides at cedar point (not legendary but still fun) out of all 4 you covered this week i think i would want to try barron 1898 the most if only because of the theming
Angela .Rajic i live close to Efteling and know everything about it and in my opinies the atmosphere is 10 times better then at any Disney park ive visited
Amazing work as always! Have you looked into Riverside Park in Massachusetts, the only theme park in New England, which was eventually bought by Six Flags? The transition from one park to the next was really hard on locals and die hards and we’re interested in how the park grew from its humble beginnings.
